NCEL BACKSCRATCH

CREDITS:

Client
agency
Prod. Company
EXEC. PRODUCER
DIRECTOR/dp
CAM OPS
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SOUND
HMU
PA
POST
North Carolina Education Lottery
MullenLowe
remedy
AUSTIN SIMMONS
JOSH SLIFFE
ALLEN BAKER
MARK KAMMEL
JEREMY CHILDERS
dEIDRE MATTINGLY
JEFF BUCKNER
REMEDY
A man with his arm in a sling bends over to receive a back scratch while standing in front of a large cow statue during the North Carolina Education Lottery's "Back Scratch" campaign.

NC Education Lottery has worked with MullenLowe for a while now and we’ve seen a ton of really great ads they put out, so when they asked us to help them out with one we were all over it!

A man in a blue shirt and a sling leans back with his head up, appearing relieved after receiving a back scratch during the North Carolina Education Lottery's "Back Scratch" campaign.
A close-up of a man holding the "1,000,000 Back Scratch" lottery ticket, featuring the slogan "Scratch the back for more chances to win," from the North Carolina Education Lottery commercial.
The only thing this project had in common with most of our other projects, was that it was nothing like our other projects.  The task was to have a genuine hidden camera experiment where our talent asked surrounding passerby’s to scratch his back, to then reward them with the NC Education Lottery’s Backscratch Ticket.  We needed to be hidden enough to where the reactions were genuine and not fed by a noticed camera, but close enough to get a few good angles no matter where the talent walked or what obstructions came into play.

The public enjoyed the experiment, got quite a few laughs out of it, and we walked away with plenty of good reactions to choose from for the edit.  It was pretty different than most of the other projects we do which in the end, made it a pretty fun one!
A man with an arm in a sling leans back while a woman laughs beside him, holding a drink and pamphlets, during a humorous scene from the NC Education Lottery "Back Scratch" commercial.
A passerby scratches the back of a man with an arm in a sling as part of the NC Education Lottery commercial, where the man offers a lottery ticket in return for the favor.
A man with an arm in a sling holds up a scratch-off lottery ticket titled "1,000,000 Back Scratch" from the North Carolina Education Lottery commercial, where he offers the ticket in return for a back scratch.