Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Changing What it is.

Listening to people views and opinions from people can really be down turning on some occasions and yet on others can be really true, funny and even bad that it is true. This I am applying to peoples description on things.

Watching the series The Naughties - Was That It. The Naughties is a series which is a count down to many different things. Was That It was a just a count down of the Decade and in this count down the a match between the PC VS MAC.

The thing which had me Laughing and waking everyone up was a very accurate truthful description of the MAC and not only MAC but all Apple products was described as:-
'Techno Porn'
The stylish and simplistic designs of there product makes this so true. Everyone wants an Apple product, everyone loves them and if there is for example a choice between an MP3 Player and a iPod, most smart people would go for the Apple. It is just better in every way and having Apple anywhere on your or if you own Apple then you are cool

P.S. The only reason I haven't got a MAC is because I can't afford it, and on my defence they said that many people haven't got them because of the price tag.

Monday, 5 October 2009

The joys of V+ (and also SKY+)

Me, personally think its great when you discover something new, but it even greater when you discover something and you have a real great laugh doing it.
What I am talking about is TV, but not just TV, Virgin + if you haven't guessed by the title. if you don't know what it is, LOOK IT UP
In my house I have Virgin Media, but also have got a V+ box which pauses, rewinds and records upto 80 hours of TV. What my brother found out though is that it can go in slow motion.

When you use this feature in the right places and times, you can have a great laugh with it. For example, watching You've Been Framed or some otther funny TV show some clips look awasome when going in slow motion, when someone if falling over. I am not exactly sure but I think you can do it with a SKY+ box as well.

From the great laugh me and my brothers have had from it, if you are on SKY or Virgin Media, get a SKY+ box or V+ box. Personally I think Virgin is the best as it offers you more and don't need to pay if it breaks.

Sunday, 17 May 2009

The Things Which Annoy us Most?

TV always feeds you loads of mostly useless information, but the information that will impress your friends and at the same time make you look like a idiot. "Next up it's the Top 2o Best Ever ITV Ads." 

Not sure if it was me or the TV screamed out BLOG. Note pad and pen at the ready with V+ box to rewind if I miss anything. For your pleasure (I'm sure) here are the top 20 Best Ever ITV Ads. [Warning] Younger readers might not know many or even any, there is always YouTube. All he a have links so that you can view them. 

Described by Celebrities as a 'Mini Soap Opera' and was compared to Dallas (i.e. Sexual tension). In other words an advert which tries to avoid promoting the product and ANOTHER sex sells ad. 

There was 13 different Milky Bar Kids and all went for the part for the years supply of chocolate, in the end the one Milky Bar kid did so many takes that when he bit off the chocolate, at the end spat it in a bucket. But here is something you most properly never thought of, white albino kids eating white chocolate featured in a western town. Some people need to proof read their ads just as I need to proof read my blog posts.

After the one day of shooting the ad and seeing it on TV for just a year, 30 years gone she still remembers the song. In result of doing the advert another household name was born. Sure, anyone who could dance like she did and clean shouldn't be a household name but be a lesson to not become a house wife and do something.

Well, if it was me doing the ads then I would have got tried of eating Walkers Crisps years back. Surprisingly the concept of the ad was 'No more Mr nice guy.' Was it me or again did anyone else miss that concept. 

This classic and amazing ads was ITV's longest running ad chimpaign (Campaign, funny) inspired by the London Zoo's Chimp tea Party, that's one weird thought. Over 100 monkeys appeared in the ads, this means either some of them got fired for not behaving, they retired or they died. I know which one I am picking. 

This advert featured a load of people coming together and forming a image. Each person must of got a big chunk of money for the ad to cost a million pounds. I can name a million ways I can spend a million pounds. Just a waste of money.

This is your typical Nike advert where casually people are playing football and professional football players appear to come onto the pitch and start playing football. Then they had an interview with some of the players years after and they said that they knew nothing about it. If that is true then all the other Nike adverts with professional players appearing are all fake. 

It was shocking to find out that they used a real employee to play the part and in conclusion to the ads, he released his own single (first time I have heard about that) which reached the top 20s and yet is still working in Halifax (must not be getting much for the single and the ads if he is still working there).

All the advert is that they people do things which makes people think that they drink Carling. Simple and yet funny and effective.

'This was a fantasy figure like a James Bond in an advert' 6 different men played the fantasy man (sex seriously does sell) One the last ad they showed the face and voice of the woman in 2000. And now all is left of the ad is fancy dress at a Christmas party Jongudmund

Top 10
The first person shown was never with everyone else as all the other people were filmed in Rome. FAQ WHY.

Happiness is when you have a Cigar, Can't really comment but when it comes down to it, I don't need to as it was BANDED.

I would want to direct an advert with a Cat, a Mouse and a Dog. But when the dog like 'Dolly Mixtures' the cat likes 'prawns' and the mouse will follow a mouses urine, it does become easier when you work with something they like and very strange animals.

Staring Peter Key and when an advert has Peter Key in you can only expect one thing, Comedy.

Now please leave a comment if anyone has ever seen horses up over 10 foot waves and bigger with a surfer who didn't want to do the advert riding a wave. Just shows that not everyone will do something for fame.

Who would just want to watch an advert with people talking over the phone. And even worse it's a typical conversation about a mother nagging their son, what else to do an advertise BT, and they are talking about exam results. Rubbish.

This is the creature comfort country side advert but talking about electricity. Yet it can be so entertaining watching people who had been interviewed and turned into animated animals. Another fact, they didn't turn the TV series into adverts but turned the adverts into a TV series. 

Again, another sex sells advert with a supposed good looking guy (not) going into a launderette and taking off his Levis and washing them, waiting for them in his pants. Realistically, who would do that. 

This is what an advert should be, but maybe slightly changed. Just telling us what the product is and that simply it. All the information and something funny at the end making it GOOD. 

And ITV number 1 advert is
Celebrities thoughts "It is like a cult classic", "They absolutely riped the pea out of the human race", "British humour at it's best and still funny", "Loved smash adverts fantastic and made me laugh." I think what made it funny is that people liked to do the voice of the Martians and if you stickied a different voice on the Martians, they just wouldn't be funny. And not to forget the laugh. An idea like this could only come from a night out at a Pub. 

There you go 'Top 20 best ever ITV ads.' Conclusion, you can't get many good ads, you can get a lot of information out of nothing, I have nothing else better to do with my time and Blame ITV for advertisements if you get sick of them as they were the first broadcasting channel to air an advert. 

Saturday, 4 April 2009

How to Advertise

Advertising on TV recently has become a bit dodgy. All these new techniques (this is what I am calling them) of advertising. Next thing we will know all adverts will be copy follow the Shepard and eventually we will have no idea what is being advertised on our TVs.
Techniques which could well catch on for companies is

Produce an advert which doesn't relate to what the company produces at all. This has been done by Cadbury's, THREE TIMES (which comes to no surprise). Seriously what is the point of having kids raising there eyebrows to some techno music and Aeroplane vehicles racing down a runway and driving over luggage bags, Someone tell me what has this got to do with chocolate. Unfortunately I have a very strong feeling that this will catch on.

Animation is a good way of advertising as it is cheap and you can also add funky music in the background. Done by 118 247, such a great advert which can make you laugh. Put a rhythm in with the words and you have a funny advert. This is a technique I hope that will catch on. Great.

Make adverts SEXY. Add anything which is sexy in an advert and it will sell and fly out of the store. This technique of advertising has already been used in many adverts, Birds eye Fish Fingers, all make up adverts and also I saw one the other day which actually looked like a porno but was an advert for Kiss FM (I had to check I wasn't watching the American Super Bowl for a second). 

There are many ways to advertise and some of these can be great, some of them can be really rubbish an also disturbing. I know which types of advert I want to see on my TV from now on.