But I don't think that product placement is nessacarily a new thing really. I mean how many shows have you seen where they are drinking "Coke" or eating at a certain resturant, etc. Brand awareness, product placement, it started in Radio and continued in the early days of TV, I mean heck I even did a spoof myself on it, back when I first started.
Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personally, I am way more bothered by product placement than outright > > advertising. If I'm going to be fucked with - excuse me I mean "targeted" > > by marketers willing to exploit weaknesses in my human nature to get me to buy > > stuff I don't need with money I don't have before discarding the packaging > > onto a planet that can't take it, I prefer the tactics to be overt > > and conspicuous. And as a maker, the idea of a sponsor dictating what goes > > in the frame is even worse than that of some network hack telling me to cut > > the best material in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator. > > There have to be other ways to make work sustain-ably. > > yeah....didnt Quarterlife have a whole story line where they just hung > out in a GM car lot...so they just talked about new GM cars? > I think in the end its all about good stories. > If the advertising/product placement gets in the way of that...snooze. > > As Mr Lynch classically says: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=F4wh_mc8hRE > > But i guess the dream is getting a sponsor who gives you creative > control....hoping your creativity will be enough. > The company gets attention because they fund creativity. > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 >
