Puzzling notice on TV

TVOne used to be rather like the BBC, when it was the only TV station.
Now it is just another station in the clutter.

 

It isn't really new to the mid-20th century, although it is far more
abundant and easy to obtain in the past 100-200 years or so. In "ye
olde days" before TV they used to have radio, books, cinema, plays,
wandering minstrels, etc. even caveman Ugh telling his mates back at
the cave about "the big one that got away".

 

Likely because some greedy management moron wanted more dosh in his
pocket and/or some idiot politician decides they had to make massive
profits. :-\

 

Discerning viewers have other things to do during the ad breaks.
But whoever chose the music for that lovely train advert deserves a medal,
though I wonder what it has to do with trains.

Here's a great website, with various recordings of the song. Even Caruso!
http://medicine-opera.com/2012/03/the-pearl-fishers-duet/

 

*Discerning* viewers record the few shows they want to watch and then
skip past the ad breaks ... that's why the greedy morons in charge
started putting adverts over the top of shows and squashing the closing
credits. :-(

Probably at least half the adverts on TV have little or nothing to do
with the product they're supposedly advertising.

 

Yes, how many people watching the winning wedding advert have any idea what
is being advertised?

At least in the old black and white days, and the radio morning serials, the
product had pride of place.
And we could sing along to the jingles. "Use Ajax, the foaming cleanser..."
I still whistle the Adams clothesline ad sometimes hanging out the washing.

Perhaps advertising should be judged by the increase in sales, not the
entertainment value of the ads.
But that is an old fashioned idea.

 

I'm guessing you mean the winning FairGo advert last night. I certainly
had no idea it was for a particular credit card company. I simply
thought it was advertising the silly new "wave to pay" system various
credit card companies are forcing on their customers.

They make the "entertaining" (as if an advert ever is anything but an
annoyance) so that people remember them ... the problem is that they
have so little to do with the product that the people never know /
rememebr what the product is anyway. That's what you get when you let
arty-types run the business. ;-)

 

Advertising is to promote brand awareness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand#Brand_awareness

 

So why don't they make it clear what the brand is?
Perhaps have the brand name clearly displayed somewhere while the whole ad
is playing.

"I've seen a lovely ad for a car"
"What make of car?"
"Dunno".

 

That's the one.
So that is what it was for. Who would have known?
I thought it was for some bus company or perhaps an airline.

 

You're lucky if you even know the advert is advertising a car ... most
of the time you can't what the advert is supposedly advertising at all.
They often just an arty load of rubbish that made the makers feel like
they're making feature films ... and tell the customer absolutely
nothing about anything.

 

Supposedly it was advertising MasterCard (according to the silly woman
receiving the trophy) ... I just thought it was advertising that rugby
players were too dumb to use a credit card in the sensible way and so
lazy they leave their shopping to the last possible second. ;-)

 

If they design their car like they design their advert, then I don't
WANT to be driving their car ... no doubt the steering wheel is in the
boot, the indicators on the roof, the driver facing backwards, it's got
only two wheels, runs on rails, uses synthetic snow as fuel, looks like
a large pink possum, ... ;-)

 

But I still like the train ad with the Pearl Fishers duet.

I still remember a lovely ad where keas vandalised a car. But I have no idea
what they were advertising.
Apart from "Don't park your car where there are keas" of course.

 

Ahh, that'll be the good ol' Crunchie train robbery advert. ;-)

From memory I think it was some insurance company, but I have no idea
which one ... BUT, choosing to park your car where keas can destroy it
would probably mean the greedy insurance company wriggles out of paying
anything anyway.

 

That was a great ad too, but I'm thinking of the modern one where the train
is going somewhere in the South Island, I think,
with the great opera sound track.
What that has to do with pearl fishers and a goddess appearing is a bit of a
mystery though.
Isn't it the train trip that is being advertised?
(Why not follow up with a bull being chased off the track to the Toreador
song from Carmen?)

At least with the old Crunchie and Milky Bar ads it was quite clear what the
product was.

I wonder. If there is a warning notice, I suppose they could.
But it isn't something an overseas tourist might expect. "Attacked by
parrots".

 

They more usually told you what the product was, but many still told
you nothing about the product. The old Chrunchie advert for example
basically told you not to eat your Chrunchie in public because someone
will try to steal it ... absolutely nothing about the bar itself: what
it's made of, what's in it, how much it cost, etc.

I've never been there, but I vaguely remember reading that the main
carparking areas do have warning notices (at the skiing areas for
example).

Even in many normal carpark areas there are signs saysing parking is at
your own risk and the owners of the property / business are not
responsible for any damage or stolen cars / items.

 

It's the laziest of cop outs. Try "Land of the Mountain and the
Flood" (If you wish, start about 1m.15" in for the big tune depicting
the title of the piece):



Better still, forget the silly ad and enjoy "The Little Train of the
Caipira," a Latin-American genius's extraordinary musical evocation of
an old-world trainride. The accompanying pictures are worth a look,
too. Remember to click for the full screen view!



The expansive "big tune" starts at 0'.56"

The brave little engine gradually gets up steam and departs after some
effort, to wind its way through Brazilain forests and valleys. Then,
with cranks and valvegear clanking and hissing, it labours its way on
and up to the mountaintop station where it gratefully slows to a halt
and takes a well earned breather, all mechanicals stilled and
silenced, the only remaining sound being spasmodic wisps of steam.

The entire score was penned by Villa-Lobos using nothing but standard
orchestral instrumentation and a whole array of cross-rhythms.

 

There are many partial tunes used in adverts and TV shows that sound
good ... but then when you hear the entire tune the rest of it sounds
awful.

 

Which ad are you talking about ?
Telling you what a car is like in 30 seconds would just be telling you
what you already know.
So they give you a story or song or tune to make an impression.
I can't believe this is new information to you.