Posted on 04/02/2014 8:19:25 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Based on a satirical piece on the McSweeney’s website, the video perfectly pans the ad campaigns and internal corporate videos filled with cliché stock footage. Images of wind farms, diverse groups of smiling people and stop-motion city landscapes are accompanied by narration with indistinguishable pablum about innovation, the environment and the global economy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M
I will totally buy $300 dollars of whatever they are selling.
So spot on. From the background music to to the narrative. Every branding cliche covered.
“Here’s a picture of DNA.”
“Like this guy pointing at a skyscraper.”
LOL!
I love it! That type of commercial totally deserves to be ridiculed. I hope this makes the job tougher for those advertisers that keep coming up with this type of ad.
The only thing missing was the list of possible side effects! LOL!
ahaha INDEED
I came by this on the forum at my favorite Photography website
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/index.shtml
Thank you.
ahahaha it was spot on wasnt it.
ATMOSPHERIC Advertising I’d call it.
All Sizzle and No Steak!
Ha!
I really enjoy your pictures, MeshugeMikey.
read “save the cat” it is the standard in script writing in hollyweird. ALL movies follow the formula right down to the minute.
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