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Friday, May 05, 2006

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Josh Lancaster said he couldn't believe this and neither can we.

http://www.firstscene.co.nz/viral4/

http://www.firstscene.co.nz/viral1/


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39 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's James Hurman!

10:04 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Which agency did it? I had a chuckle at the M. Jackson one. It reminds me a lot of that campaign that Penny Buck and Jane Shearer did for a costume shop while at Colenso in the late 90s.

10:05 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If thats the state of the creative industry - god help us.

10:17 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, they're quite funny.

Nice one.

10:40 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I quite like the pig one.

10:58 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I prefered the ones Penny Buck and Angry Jane Shearer did ages ago.

11:02 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.firstscene.co.nz/viral2/

http://www.firstscene.co.nz/viral3/

More "genious"

12:19 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One word - 'student'.

12:22 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

another word - 'bitter'

1:44 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Joshua Moore & James Hurman. Lowe.

2:07 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I liked the Michael Jackson spot. Ashame that mum was there...

2:22 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ben Pegler. They were a favour for a mate.

2:23 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whoever did them needs to read a lot about how to finish an ad professionally. I've seen some ads shot on digi-cam that look very polished. These ads however look like they were filmed and sound edited by someone who graduated in 'film studies' from Southland Polytechnic.

2:29 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good point. There are even a few free filters for iMovie that produce a better result.

In fact - an interesting way of grading if you don't have any cash is to master straight to VHS then suck it back into your mac and spit it out as your quicktime viral. At the very least you won't get that cold unfriendly dv feel.

S.

2:47 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with 'S', whoever he/she is.

All they need is a good grade, a proper sound job, and a long session on the edit machine.

3:01 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks Jello, I know who YOU are.

S.

3:05 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Should have used a director at least.

3:05 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought it was the child snatcher from chitty chitty bang bang

3:12 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does Hurman really need a costume to scare kids?

3:21 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

kinda funny, the line could be better, shite production. looks like lowe are trying to find scam clients to do half decent work for. by the way, anyone know those two catmur hired? the ginger looks like a 'classic' bugger.

4:02 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Er, they did use a director...

4:22 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like it. Rip me to shreds.

5:33 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, who did it again? It's one of the worst cases of scam I've seen in ages. Close to the all time worst scam done by McCann's with Neil our IT guy dressed up as a pedo vicar in some guys' bedroom.

5:55 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's just so rubbish when agencies like Lowe, Saatchis, Mojo, Colenso, MTC, Ogilvy, Clemenger, Y&R, JWT, DDB, Grey, WRC and M&C do this sort of scammy thing.

6:12 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is one of the worst cases of spam I've seen in ages: http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk/images/photos/mobile/Spam.jpg

6:22 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They're funny and if they looked polished we'd all say how could a costume company afford it bla bla.

You get the ideas and they make you laugh. Job done.

Beats that well polished predictable butt cheek thing from a while ago hands down.

10:57 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

jesus, were those done by the stock boy at the costume shop? sorry, but those are embarassingly bad.

2:35 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

dont insult the stock boy.

by far the worst commercials ive seen from New Zealand all year!!!

4:34 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The pig and the exorcist are bloody funny. The other ideas are better than the executions.

6:48 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can you explain how making viral ads for a costume companie's website will destroy NZ advertising.

Go on elaborate. Seriously.

11:15 am NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

jesus, were those done by the stock boy at the costume shop? sorry, but those are embarassingly bad.

2:35 PM NZST
Anonymous said...

dont insult the stock boy.

by far the worst commercials ive seen from New Zealand all year!!!

4:34 PM NZST

Anonymous said...

hey shitwits who made this crap - this sort of shit gives nz advertising a bad name. Stop doing it. you'll kill the industry. serious.

10:54 AM NZST

Dear whoever you are, you should realise that your consistant lack of capitalisation reveals that you're just having a conversation with yourself.

5:02 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Whoever YOU are. I wrote the stockboy comMent and DIDn't wRite the oTher two. MAYbe now that I am USING some Caps you will beliEVE that I genuinely think YOUR ads suck.

Nice one sherlock.

10:51 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't get it. If I was with my kid and saw MJ, I would be like:

"Hey MJ, have you met my son? Check out his blonde hair and big blue eyes."

Ka-ching! Next thing you know, I'm fucking rich, my son might be a little fucked up, but I can afford the therapy anyway.

It's so lame that people don't look for opportunites in situations like this. That would have been gold mother fuckers.

2:32 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, fair enough.

I also wonder why the priest isn't molesting the child. Now that would be real.

2:37 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what ever, I really 'got' this, then I really 'got' AIDS

5:31 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I went to a couple of ddb's Friday meetings. James rammed very expensive international ads down everyones throats for wayyyyy too long. If this was you James, now you know it just isn't that easy, even a million dollar production budget wouldn't save these. David Bell would have given us the strap for this.

9:08 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maddocks?

12:18 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm glad they don't do ads like that for me.

8:13 pm NZST

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To make crap. Take an average junior planner, add an average agency and a creative trying desperately not to disappear down the gurgler. Not exactly a product truth either, First Scene outfits are complete pants.

Try doing good ads, for real clients.

1:37 pm NZST

 

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