It’s hard to imagine a shopping festival of Double Eleven proportions anywhere else but China. And it’s even more impossible to imagine it now in our pandemic-stricken world. But again, only in China can this be a reality. And with it comes the onslaught of commercials from brands promoting their products. This year’s hilarious commercials by the e-commerce giants Tmall and JD would feel tone-deaf anywhere else, but humor seems to open wallets better in this country, which is seemingly pandemic free. With China’s economy still recovering from the virus, advertising for the world’s largest shopping event also reflect its changes. One e-commerce platform is even going as far as voicing the “anti-consumerism” message in a satirical attack on advertising at large.
放眼全球，似乎只有中国会轰轰烈烈地庆祝“双十一”购物节。而今年新冠的肆虐使得人们更加难以想象除了中国之外，还有哪里能有什么购物节。的确，只有在中国，人们才能继续每年的狂欢。和往年一样，随着双十一的临近，大大小小的品牌都牟足了力气，投放铺天盖地的广告，以求为自己的产品做足宣传。而今年电商巨头天猫和京东的搞笑广告，虽然对其他地区的朋友们来说可能看不懂，但在目前疫情控制得极佳的中国，人们似乎总是更愿意为幽默买单。经历了疫情，中国的经济仍在恢复，而世界上最大的购物活动广告也反映了这一变化。某电商平台甚至以“不要消费主义”为主题，讽刺了一众买买买的广告。
2019 Tmall Gala 天猫狂欢夜
“Every year at this time people are telling me how to spend money” starts a commercial film of NetEase online shopping platform. In 95 seconds, a spot that’s brought to life by Hangzhou production house GetBigStory, shifts from a subtle mockery of advertising that overpromises to bidding farewell to consumerism. One by one, the female character contradicts the famous slogans from the first part of the ad: “It’s not the sneakers on my feet that make impossible possible, it’s the path underneath my feet” ; “It’s not the appearance that changes destiny, but passion”. The protagonist’s life is portrayed rich with experience, not things: she prepares for important meetings, plays sports, travels, cooks. Playing well into the young generation’s desire to be special, the commercial concludes with a message that life should be defined by a unique you, not consumerism.
“每年这个时候，都有人告诉我，你应该这样消费” 网易严选的双十一广告以这句话展开。这部广告，由杭州的制片公司大事儿GetBigStory制作，在时长95秒的篇幅里，从对嘲讽华而不实的广告，逐步转变为对消费主义的告别。女主则击破了一个又一个虚浮的广告语，告诉我们：“让不可能变成可能的，不是脚上的鞋，而是脚下的路”；“改写命运的，不是外在，而是热爱”。而女主的生活镜头则聚焦在她丰富的体验，而不是物质：她去参加重要的会议，她运动，旅行，烹饪。影片的结束语则充分反映了年轻一代渴求不同的心理，告诉观众，生活由独一无二的你定义，而不是消费主义。
Client 客户：网易严选
Agency 代理商：大事儿GetBigStroy
Production 制作方：大事儿GetBigStroy
Director 导演：邵云龙
Unlike NetEase that refused to play by the rules of Double 11 this year, two of the biggest e-commerce rivals JD and Tmall continue the race. In tune with this year’s higher stakes to stimulate the economy with consumption, both platforms’ commercial films return to simpler, down-to-earth messaging of instant benefits. Humorous short-videos united by one theme might be the common denominator, but Tmall approaches the task with more imagination.
与打破双十一规则的网易不同，中国最大的两家电商京东与天猫，今年依旧打算决一高下。为了响应刺激消费振兴经济的主题，两家平台返璞归真，简化规则，承诺让实惠来得更快更多。虽都采用了同一主题，同一系列幽默短片的方式，但天猫在想象力上更胜一筹。
A series of 20-seconds videos belong to a familiar genre of Chinese advertising, that packages the main promotion points into various humorous situations. Between the shorts about this year’s “Double 11 gameplay” and “good products”, the series amounts to 11 scenes. From classroom and basketball court to film set and bomb squad in the subway— STARTFilms navigated between various locations. As the production house explains in the article, finishing the shoot at 5 a.m in the subway, then rushing to the location of rice paddies, sending the team to Anji 4 times during Golden Week just to shoot the film set scene in Shanghai in the end—this gives you the idea of how intense the production for this commercial was. Against tight deadlines, and on the verge of exhaustion, the result justifies the means, as Tmall has a series of shorts prepared and well-executed with, perhaps, more effort than some longer commercial films require.
中国广告常用的一种形式，是将宣传的要点分散到一系列的20秒短广告中，以不同的幽默场景呈现。而天猫今年的广告，将“双十一玩法”和“好物”，编绘到了11个不同的场景中。从教室，篮球赛场，到电影片场和地铁中紧张拆弹的小队，STARTFilms带我们看遍各种不同的场所。片方在官微中也透露，影片的拍摄紧凑，凌晨5点刚刚结束地铁篇的拍摄，就得火速赶到稻田篇的拍摄现场，他们在国庆黄金周期间就跑了四次浙江安吉勘景，最终因为条件的限制，改回上海搭景拍摄 —— 由此我们可以一窥这部广告的拍摄是多么紧张。制片团队赶着进度，在疲惫中坚持，最终这些辛苦与努力都反映在了优秀的广告片中，天猫的这一系列短片广告准备充分，呈现完美，投入的精力不亚于部分长篇商业电影的标准。
Client 客户：天猫
Agency 代理商：新意互动
Production 制作方：STARTFilms
Director 导演：林哲乐
Finally, JD also already started its Double Eleven advertising in October to catch up with Tmall’s efforts to extend this year’s shopping spree. To counteract Tmall’s two-phase preorder windows that allowed shoppers to get into the shopping festival earlier, JD offers their own benefits— insurance against heightened price, preorder, and instant delivery among others. This is reflected in one of the early ads of the e-commerce platform, brought to life by Mera production house. Set in a classroom where famous teacher/entrepreneur Luo Yonghao explains to the students that “preorder and in-stock” are not contradictory ideas, as well as the math of saving if you buy on JD in a series of exaggeratedly humorous shorts.
最后，京东也在10月份开始了双十一的宣传，以赶上天猫今年升级扩张的购物狂潮。为了抵消天猫分两段预购，允许购物者提前进入购物节的政策影响，京东也拿出了自己的杀手锏 —— 膨胀价保、现货预售，即时配送以及其他优惠利好等等。而这些利好由美啦美啦Mera制片为京东这一电商平台打造的广告片中，为观众们划好了重点。广告由著名企业家罗永浩领衔主演，以不同科目幽默课堂的形式呈现，而罗老师在片中向学生们解释了“现货与预售”其实不矛盾这一知识点，还带着大家计算了在京东购物可获得的优惠。
Client 客户：京东
Production 制作方：美啦美啦Mera
Director 导演：林宇昂Kino
The Double Eleven shopping festival has reportedly broken the previous year’s record since its inception in 2009. How much sales the first post-pandemic major shopping festival will generate this year is yet to be known. But the voices criticizing the overconsumption trend that this festival stimulates are also growing louder each year as well. Coming from opposite ends, the commercial with an anti-consumerism message and the more down-to-earth short ads about shopping benefits, are allowing both the big e-commerce players to stay relevant and in tune with the current situation
据报道，双十一购物节打2009年开始以来，每一年的销售额都会打破上一年的记录。那么，今年受新冠疫情影响，这次年度购物大狂欢的销售额究竟会是多少？我们还在拭目以待。同时批评购物节引发过度消费趋势的声音也在逐年增大。从另一的角度来看，这些带有反消费主义信息的商业广告和更接地气，规则明了的短广告，也帮助了两家大型电子商务公司，与时代一同进步。
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