Good new ad for virgin media
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Directed by Seb Edwards @ Academy.
I went to school with someone called Seb Edwards, but it’s not him.
I think this has been well shot, and is nicely observed.
Not that keen on the VO artist, though – seems a little bland for the visuals.
But never mind me.
What do YOU think of it?
Dreary, dreary, dreary
madness
The VO hardly makes his house sound like an exciting place to be.
Makes me want to get Sky. And I have Virgin.
I agree, it’s nicely shot. The line’s a bit crap though, isn’t it?
RUBBISH.
This came on TV yesterday and the whole room (many non-advertising people) went silent in a “fuck me that’s shit” way.
Shit VO. Shit VO artist. Shit Idea. Ok visuals.
Stop with the fucking “take a poem/song and get a faux performance poet to read it out” already.
It makes me want to shit on my own head.
So, Naughty Creative, just to be clear ‚Ä쬆you’re saying you DON’T like it?
Take out the VO. Now watch it again. Still makes as little to no sense as before. 3/10
Can only agree with naughty creative. This is really really bad. Not even nicely shot. Wonder if it even had a director involved or if it was just the creative team and a DoP.
I’m sure Suggs is in there somewhere. In a ‘Where’s Wally?’ kind of way….
It’s rare that lyrics work as poetry. These certainly don’t.
This isn’t nicely observed. Just pure shit. I hate this whole “oh, let’s look at peoples lives without them noticing” bullocks. The vo is shit. The music is shit. The idea is shit. The execution is shit.
It’s nicely shot generic tosh.
The idea remained under the surface, too cool for school.
There’s no lasting impression.
Where is the shot that will burn in my memory of a toothless skanky boy holding his finger to his head.
Or a couple of wolves devouring a chicken carcus from a bin.
You know? Tony Kaye like.
Anon 11.
Stop sitting on the fence.
It’s okay. But it doesn’t feel like an ad.
No entertainment value.
This ad could have been for anything. Its a shit ad and then they stick virgin on at the end, it could have been for spam or whiskas
Bored now of people of Britain montage + poem.
Cathedrale city…McDonalds…Evening Standard…Virgin mobile…
A couple of people have already pointed this out in the comments but I scrolled down to add my tuppence worth, so:
How could the agency and client sanction this idea when at least 3 other brands have used it? Apart from it being theft from the McDonalds ads, every subsequent brand to jump on the bandwagon only confuses the viewer further, conjuring up images of fast food, cheese, newspapers… before finally arriving at the product in question, which is only revealed by the appearance of the logo.
I guess we need someone to do an ad like Tesco Mobile and parody it to such an extent than no one can use it any more.