Creative TV advertisements

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRD1wmvwUc&feature=related

Not work safe unless you have headphones...

FAIR warning..

Ha, I saw the opening scene and remembered it from my days as an ESL teacher. I believe it's one of those banned commercials. A whole thread could be done on the edgy commercials that aren't approved, there are a lot of real funny ones.

Here's another simple creative ad:

Hehehehe..... that one <points up> reminded me of this one <points down>

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vS9KHx35S6w
This one is funny on TV. Might be hard to follow on a small screen, so make it as big as you can.

Good one:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fitxofd7kOA&feature=related

That's one of the great ones. I've seen it before, but it still makes me laugh.

That's another of those ad that didn't make the cut and is circulating on the net (too much) as a "banned ad". Durex did one along that theme that I liked a lot better.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jtjW78IUgOQ&feature=related

This one's so bad it ended up being good. It was a local flea market ad that got nationwide exposure for being so damn horrible.

The yellow snow...

I have long said that, generally speaking, commercials are more entertaining than the programs built around them.

These were good enough for their own thread:

Centraal Beheer Achmea Ads: Even Apeldoorn Bellen

This Advertisement for the new Honda Accord was shot in real time with no CGI involved in the sequence. It required 606 takes and cost $6 million to shoot and took 3 months to complete.

The equipment was so precisely set up that the crew literally had to tip toe around the set for fear of disturbing things, which led to some unexpected problems. "As the day went on, the studio would get hotter," says Steiner. "It meant that the wood would expand and the cog or exhaust that spins around would move slightly faster." These tiny changes made big differences to the precision set-up of the equipment......

.....The sequence where the tires roll up a slope looks particularly impressive but is very simple. Steiner says that there is a weight in each tire and when the tire is knocked, the weight is displaced and in an attempt to rebalance itself, the tire rolls up the slope

http://www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm

That one is a classic, I don't even have to watch it to remember it in detail.

Honda made another good ad where a choir made all of the sounds of the car. Pretty impressive:

Nokia ad featuring Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks


(fake but cool)