CANNES, France—The brightest younger minds of the promoting world come collectively annually for the Cannes Younger Lion Competitors. This yr, we requested the 2 individuals representing Group USA, Rachel Findlay and Jessica Nugent, to share their expertise.
Day 1: We’re in Cannes
Between the new solar and the fantastic thing about the Croisette, the Cannes Lions expertise is thrilling and overwhelming. However that’s to be anticipated as reps of Group USA within the Digital class of the Younger Lions Competitors. We’ll have 24 hours from the briefing to idea a solution with a one-page visible abstract and, later, a presentation.
Whereas there are such a lot of talks and occasions we need to attend, our Younger Lions tasks takes priority. We had a full day scheduled, first with some competitors programming, an NCM welcome social gathering and our briefing to kick off the occasion.
Our subject: the local weather disaster. Our confidence degree: excessive. Nevertheless it didn’t keep that manner. We spent a while marking the temporary to make sure we understood precisely what we wanted to make. The clock was ticking, and our work was simply starting.
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Day 2: An object in movement
It’s 4 a.m. and we’ve been at it for 12 hours tossing round concepts, questioning why and the way and is it adequate. Two Crimson Bulls in and we’re fading quick. One in every of us needs to push via till the morning. One in every of us needs to sleep. We toss “I do know you’re going to hate this however….” and “What if we have been the primary to…” forwards and backwards, however nothing is sticking. We begin regretting our lives, the alternatives that introduced us right here.
Jess takes a sleep break round 5 a.m. and Rachel powers via on creating the visuals for the one-pager. At 6 a.m. Rachel determined to put down, however being an object in movement (tending to remain in movement), her eyes have been extensive open and her thoughts was nonetheless on the temporary.
9 a.m. rolls round and we’re locked in on the Adobe competitors space (actually and figuratively). Groups of two from each nook of the world have been doing precisely what we have been doing. The sensation inside was acquainted; it was the identical form of stress that exists in company life when each workforce is slammed and deadlines are approaching quick. It was comforting that this felt like a standard scenario, besides this time we’re up in opposition to 50 groups with very completely different backgrounds and far more factors of view.
