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Come on down to Uncle Sugar's Auto Mall! It's the CASH FOR CLUNKERS EXTRAVAGANZA and Uncle Sugar has gotta deal for you, courtesy of voiceless posterity (at the intersection of unsound policy and political expediency). Because concentrated benefits and dispersed cost is the NEW AMERICAN WAY! YEE HAW!
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Voiceless Posterity|8.10.09 @ 10:49AM|#
Laugh while you still can.
Sizzlechest|8.10.09 @ 10:50AM|#
Star Trek font? Can Reason leave the satire to The Onion? They have much higher production values and senses of humor.
The Angry Optimist|8.10.09 @ 10:52AM|#
I thought it was funny. A hit among a sea of misses. good job.
I, Kahn O\'Clast|8.10.09 @ 11:15AM|#
Excellent. Ugly, but excellent. Voiceless posterity indeed.
hmm|8.10.09 @ 11:59AM|#
I chuckled. And not on the inside.
semm|8.10.09 @ 12:15PM|#
I laughed...a lot. I admit it
Sean W. Malone|8.10.09 @ 1:23PM|#
I know this is *supposed* to be a rip on badly made local TV ads... and maybe it's just cause I have my 'spensive studio headphones on, but why oh why can't we get some media with decent audio up in this joint?
It's all clipped in the recording & compressed after the fact... buh.
Anyway, I don't have time to do a lot of media like this myself but if anyone wants to jump in and join my group here: http://fr33agents.ning.com/group/mediaprofessionals, please do so.
I'd love to help make (better) versions of this kind of media, but it helps to have a larger number of people brainstorming and working... especially when we aren't getting paid.
Uncle Sugar|8.10.09 @ 1:47PM|#
For all the complainers out there complaining about graphics, audios, compressions, and other technical nonsense - pound for pound, my video is of the highest quality out there. 100% American made, too. Let's face it, us dealerships are strugglin' out here. I don't have an ad budget so my teenage step-son shot it for a sixer of meisterbrau. He got plowed so I edited it myself, thank you very much. Last time I checked Star Trak got cash money at the box office, man, so yeah that was my inspiration for the letters and what not. Anyway, my inventory is flyin' off the lot so, I must be doin' somethin' right!
hmm|8.10.09 @ 1:53PM|#
Malone is onto something. I don't think anyone discounts the content of the spoofs and interviews. But the technical quality does imply a more amateur nature. Maybe a loose knit group for production. This seems like a bit of a tricky endeavor, but I can't come up with reason it won't work. Turnaround would be one of the biggest issues since people have lives, well some of them.
hmm|8.10.09 @ 1:57PM|#
What does reasons production staff and equip look like?
Not that I will understand an answer until I ask my wife about the technical jargon. I was just curious on scope.
Sean W. Malone|8.10.09 @ 2:26PM|#
Reason's production staff is pretty minimal, and I think that's pretty understandable (I've contacted them on more than one occasion about joining/contributing, etc.) but look at this... The audio is clear, the camerawork is well framed & lit/colored properly and there is a subtle but patriotic score mixed relatively low so that you can hear Obama's voice (which is also rolled off on the high end in the EQ like an NPR host).
And it has the one thing that it seems is prerequisite for any political media: emotional & anecdotal arguments spoken in an earnest, concerned but leader-like tone.
The reality is, production quality is what lets people know, subconsciously, that the message is important. As much as I want to say "the message is the message", for most people, that's just not true. If Walter Cronkite had said "hey everyone, let's take a look at ending the drug war", people would stop and take note, but when you hear most people say stuff like that - even if they're non-drug users like me - the response is invariably "psh, you're just a hippy who wants to smoke dope". The medium is often the message, and I would love it if "ours" would stand out more.
dennis|8.10.09 @ 3:34PM|#
Now I will yell "Clunk it!" every time I drive by a dealership. My wife will be so confused.
|8.10.09 @ 4:05PM|#
Because everybody knows that local car commercials are MUCH higher quality than this one...NOT!
WAY TO GO, SUGAR!
|8.10.09 @ 7:10PM|#
You all need to watch Degrassi: The new generation to see really awful car dealership commercials.
It made its point. Enuf said.
deja moo|8.10.09 @ 10:49PM|#
Why am I reminded of China's program when every village had an iron mill? They were melting down perfectly good, usable machines to produce low grade iron.