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3,000 Miles of Bad Decisions

3,000 Miles of Bad Decisions

Client
Turbo Group
Category
B2C / Car Transportation
Deliverable
Social video campaign
The Problem

Most people shipping a car for the first time think the same thing: how hard can it be? I'll justdrive it myself. Save the money. See some of the country.Then reality hits somewhere around mile 400 of a 3,000-mile trip.Turbo Group needed to reach that person before they made that decision, not after. Thechallenge was making someone feel the pain of a choice they hadn't made yet.

The Insight

Fear of the unknown is a weak motivator. Lived experience is a strong one.We couldn't give the audience a bad road trip. But we could give them someone who already hadone. A real-feeling story, told directly to camera, from a person who tried to do it herself andlearned exactly why that was the wrong call.The audience needed to laugh, wince, and then quietly decide they weren't going to make thesame mistake.

The Approach

Shot in a direct-to-camera confessional style with comedic undertones and moments of deadpanpoetry. Honest, a little self-deprecating, and just specific enough to feel completely real.The protagonist is a woman who decided to drive her own car cross-country instead of shippingit. She tells the story after the fact: the optimism at the start, the mounting chaos somewhere inthe middle, the point where it stopped being an adventure and started being a problem, and thequiet realization that there was a simpler option available the whole time.Comedy was the vehicle. The pain points were real. 3,000 miles is not 400. That distance hasconsequences, and the film made sure the audience felt each one before the solution appeared.

The Work

Social video campaign produced for digital distribution across Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.Shot and edited in-house, 2022.

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3,000 miles is a long way to learn you should have called.
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Turbo Group

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