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Giant Nerf Edition | Dude Perfect

What to study

Scale & Specificity

  • Everything in frame is the wrong size, a hoop and ball scaled up like the toy grew.
  • The clean blue sky makes the giant kit read instantly, one glance and you get the whole idea.
  • Familiar toy, silly scale, no text needed.
How the packaging works
Title

The title names the toy brand and the giant twist in three words.

Thumbnail

The mid-air dunk on a giant hoop shows the scale gag instantly.

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Use this when one exaggerated feature is the whole concept. Shoot the oversized thing against an empty background so the scale reads at feed size, and let the title just name the edition.

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The transferable lesson

Make the one exaggerated feature instantly visible

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