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How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief, 3rd Edition
A creative's advice on the first step of the creative process
Howard Ibach
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How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief, 3rd Edition
A creative's advice on the first step of the creative process
Howard Ibach
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Fundamentals on thinking about and writing the creative brief, the first step in the development of advertising creative. The document, and the process of briefing with the creative brief, can make the difference between mediocre creative solutions and work that measurably improves ROI.
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1Build a better box.
When I began my career as a copywriter, I viewed rules with disdain. I wanted nothing to interfere with the creative process. Nothing to stand between me and a big idea. You know, the whole âlive free or dieâ thing. Itâs a philosophy the young and inexperienced find especially appealing.
Now, 30 years into my career, I have a different view.
Itâs not that Iâve become a conformist. Hardly. Itâs that I understand the liberating nature of constraint. The tighter the box in which you force me to work, the more likely it is that Iâll find a way to produce a big idea.
I was reading an article somewhere, I no longer remember the publication, when I came across the following three words:
Rules inspire creativity.
They got me thinking about the creative brief. Because the brief is a document filled with rules. You might even say constraints. These constraints are imposed on the brief writer for a reason. The brief is designed to be an act of reduction, of summarizing as succinctly as possible, the very essence of a product or serviceâs most desirable attributes.
You, the creative brief writer, are forcing your creative team to live inside a box. The size of that box, big or small, is in your hands. No matter how you look at it, youâre a box builder. Youâre creating rules for the creatives to follow (and, one hopes, about which they feel liberated not constrained).
Many creatives know this. Thereâs a principle at work here. Itâs called Liberating Constraint. Itâs an ancient concept. For centuries, artists, scientists and thinkers in all fields understood that by creating limits, by being constrained by self-imposed walls, oneâs imagination rebels and expands. Without those restraints, the mind flounders. We need boundaries. This describes the role of the creative brief.
So why not approach the task with the sense of possibility?
To write an inspired creative brief requires you to bring creativity to the task. It requires you to dig a little deeper, research a little more, ask pertinent questions (maybe even impertinent questions now and then). In short, to write an inspired brief requires the same things of a brief writer that creatives need to produce great work.
Rules may seem like speed bumps, but only to the uninitiated and inexperienced. The challenge of identifying to whom you are addressing the communications can either be phoned in, and the result is a list of bullet points that mean nothing. Or you can be inspired and create a persona, a word-picture of Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. Brand User with the same attention to detail as a short-story writer or poet (more on this up ahead). Itâs up to you.
You can cut and paste the clientâs suggestion for the key message and let the creatives figure it out. Or you can put your mark on the project from the beginning.
Creatives, the really good ones that is, use rules to help them. To inspire them. To liberate them from perceived constraints.
Brief writers have the same opportunity. You can let the apparent constraints of a brief template smother your creativity. Or inspire it.
I think you know which option I recommend.
âDo not pass Go. Do not collect $200.â
2Strategy first, creative brief second.
The creative brief is the first step of the creative process. Itâs not part of the strategic process.
The strategic process is where you develop the, you know, strategy.
So, no strategy on your creative brief?
Speak up.
Complain.
Then take an early lunch.
âWhen all else fails, read the directions.â
3Five reasons why you donât need a creative brief. (uh-huhâŠ)
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, this is my way of introducing you to some real world attitudes toward the document we call the creative brief. Iâm not making this up. Iâve heard these reasons spoken out loud by real, flesh-and-blood, breathing people who claimed to be alive.
5
âThe creative team is brilliant. Theyâll figure it out.â
Maybe. If youâre lucky.
But experience tells me that very few people can just âfigure outâ a creative brief that inspires the desired results.
And even if you are lucky, thatâs still no guarantee.
Your creative team may be very good at what they do in terms of creative ideas that sell. But passing the buck on the creative brief sets you up for problems, including wasted time and money.
4
âEveryone knows what we want to do.â
Yeah, your people are all clairvoyant, too.
Your company consists of good people and theyâll have disagreements. Youâll discover this as soon as you write a draft of a creative brief.
The time to learn about those disagreements is before you assign the project. Not after the ideas get...