The ad below screened on TV years ago, but the other day it popped into my mind again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9VWF1DXQ8s
In particular, it was the part that says, “in the last five metres of braking, you wipe off half your speed”.
See, I’d just taken a brief with very tight timings and the accounts person was trying to schedule a review. They suggested that they check in at the half-time mark and see how the work was looking. I told them that wouldn’t work (in fact, I knew it would only make them panic).
Put simply, at the half-way mark, you’re not going to have half the ideas done. It just doesn’t work that way. That’s why most pitches come together right at the last minute (usually over cold pizza, at 3am, while sitting in the agency wondering how you can function on so little sleep).
Instead, the creative process can be a little bit like bacteria, like this video below shows. (After 91% of the time had passed, bacteria fills only 3% of the bottle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OYmRyfXBY
So, don’t stress when a lot of the allocated time has passed and there’s not much work to show yet. It’s normal.
DUSTIN LANE
Brand Strategy | Advertising Concepts | Copywriting
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