Commercial Breakers TV Spot
Music by Remano Eszildn, motion graphics by Alex Kurina.
We're continuing our campaign for media democracy with a series of subvertisements aimed at disrupting the promotion of overconsumption and attacking the legitimacy of advertising. We want the right to broadcast these subverts and we're willing to pay, but the major networks aren't willing to air them. So far FOX has officially rejected our first spot, COMMERCIAL BREAKERS, and MTV has cut off communication entirely.
The idea behind COMMERCIAL BREAKERS is simply to sabotage the meaning of advertising and undermine the power of brands. The average TV ad presents the consumer with a crisis: a crisis of identity, a crisis of hunger, a messy floor, an unsightly blemish or erectile dysfunction. The crisis is always a crisis of choice, but there is only one choice: the product being advertised. Each ad expresses an individual brand's vision of utopia; a perfect world constructed around a singular message: if you buy the product being advertised, you will be happy and content ... if only for a moment.
This consumer utopia – beamed into our consciousness 24/7 – is a distraction from our real crisis, be it existential, spiritual, environmental, economic or political. And so rather than interpret advertising as a choice between colas or a choice between brands, we seek to reinterpret it as a choice between the real and the artificial. It's not Pepsi vs. Coke, it's Cool Diet Cola vs. Climate Doom.
After a string of legal victories against Canadian television networks, we are now determined to take on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and MTV in American courts. In order to make this happen in the near future, we need our legal war chest filled. It's a tough and expensive game going head to head with these giant corporations in court, but we refuse to back down.
How else can you help? Agitate FOX and MTV and help us spread COMMERCIAL BREAKERS on the web. If you're a twitter user, throw a #fuckfox hash tag on your tweets. Make your own viral subvertisements, memes or mindbombs and launch them anywhere and everywhere you see fit.
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Cornelius
Seriously? This is the best you can do?
Maybe the networks won't run it because they're convinced it was someone's high school art project.
Why not just broadcast a fart? Probably just as effective as this.
Cornelius
Seriously? This is the best you can do?
Maybe the networks won't run it because they're convinced it was someone's high school art project.
Why not just broadcast a fart? Probably just as effective as this.
Anonymous
I agree every aspect feels like a high school media project.
Anonymous
I agree every aspect feels like a high school media project.
Timb
Y'all might start with a font that is legible. And ad whose message can't be read isn't subversive it is just ineffective.
Timb
Y'all might start with a font that is legible. And ad whose message can't be read isn't subversive it is just ineffective.
Anonymous
great idea, hope you have success.
Anonymous
great idea, hope you have success.
sea3d
I truly don't understand why, with the quality of concept present in your magazine, this commercial was your choice to carry a message. It is an unclear message with no impact. You might also try attacking the root problem is society rather then attacking symptoms, i.e. the corporations (icons) in your ad. The company's have some blame to be sure, but putting them in an ad like this is like whining about the big bad bully instead of helping the bully to be nicer, and more importantly remedying the route cause of the development of the bully. Do you honestly think that a blatant attack on corporations is going to be allowed to play on a corporate television station. I know your better at this game then that, or at least you used to be. Finally a "subvertisements" would to me denote a subversive advertisement. If that is what your really after, I would look to the dictionary, and you'll see where this ad went wrong.
sea3d
I truly don't understand why, with the quality of concept present in your magazine, this commercial was your choice to carry a message. It is an unclear message with no impact. You might also try attacking the root problem is society rather then attacking symptoms, i.e. the corporations (icons) in your ad. The company's have some blame to be sure, but putting them in an ad like this is like whining about the big bad bully instead of helping the bully to be nicer, and more importantly remedying the route cause of the development of the bully. Do you honestly think that a blatant attack on corporations is going to be allowed to play on a corporate television station. I know your better at this game then that, or at least you used to be. Finally a "subvertisements" would to me denote a subversive advertisement. If that is what your really after, I would look to the dictionary, and you'll see where this ad went wrong.
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