Due to a request I have gotten recently, I have decided to do a advert from a different country.
Ah, the Japanese with their crazy adverts and random products that people like you and me can only dream about understanding what they are.
So to be honest there isnt alot about this advert I can realy comment about. And I dont want to go ripping the company down about how obvious the dog suite is, or why they have deceided to put a dog doing a handstand in their advert. All I am going to say is: Would you buy off this company?
Sunday 24 October 2010
Be sure to watch the advert before reading the post!
So specsavers are well know for their catchy adverts a few spring to mind like the crop circles one or the cutting down the telephone pole because it looked like a tree. But this advert took a totally different take on the normal format of a specsavers advert. Personally I think that the whole Mr Men gives the advert a very good sort of feeling, like it would appeal to many age groups. Little Kids: Check Teenagers: Check Adults: Because it is kind of comic and childish, Check.
Ahh, Happy land, a place that every person has been in a dream (don't deny it!). And wow even the worms are happy, that must make it the best place no earth. Anyway, did you notice that Mr happy also doubles up as Mr Dumb and Mr abusive?
Mr Dumb: He pulls his broken glasses from under his bed sheets. Us, the viewers assume that he has sat/slept on his glasses. How can you sleep on your glasses? Glasses are usually made of metal or hard plastic each very sharp and hard. It is truly a very hard feat to get to sleep laying on a pair of glasses. The only way I can think of that you would be able to get to sleep on your glasses, is if they were the super-flex type, you know, the ones you can tie in a knot. If you know of any other ways you can sleep on your glasses accidentally, please leave it in a comment.
Mr Abusive: Pretty self explanatory really! Lets start with a thing I like to call : MR HAPPY'SCASUALTY LIST.
1: He viciously assaults the purple Mr man by slamming a cake into his face. But what if the cake had very hard icing, slammed into a cartoons face could cause stars to appear around its head.
2: Mr Happy kicks a metal bin full off usual rubbish and it soars through the air and lands on the pink Mr Men's head! Surly that would cause brain damage?!
3: He tortures Mr Tickle by tying his own arms around him in a attempt to strangle him! Please lock this cartoon away for life for the cartoon worlds safety!
4: Shudder... I can hardly watch this one.. he unravels Mr Bumps bandages.... look away if you are of a nervous disposition.
Thanks for all the views guys, I'm sorry for not posting in a while, lots of things got in the way.
Be sure to watch the video before reading the write up.
Wonga! such a brilliant word to say, and the company doesn't sound that bad either! Now, this may be just me but I really enjoy this style of advert. No fail lip syncing, no overly paid bad teenage actors, just nice clean comic style format. Good choice. Although if there is one this that is bad/annoying about the comic style, is that the makers or the advert seemed to think it was a good idea to put nearly everything the voice over man said into a different text. Alot of stuff is happening on the screen at the same time, so you don't know where to look. Not a good choice.
Now watch the advert again. Notice anything that seems to be trying to tell you a message? No? well then watch from 0:13 to about 0:15. Still no? well it might be just me, it usually is, but the makers of the advert have tried to put in a crap subliminal message. YOU WANT TO BORROW. Er.. no I don't maybe I was just spammed with this advert while relaxing in front of the T.V. No offence to the people who did go on Wonga.com after they saw this advert (suckers) but did the company really mean to put that in as a message or was it just a coincidence? Everyone has their own views, please leave feed back on this post/Subliminal question.
Also when it says borrowing £120 for nine days will cost £16.64, it makes you think that you only have to pay £16.64 not £136.64.
Before you read this post, be sure to watch the advert first, so you get an idea of what I am talking about.
So a high-tech, sleek design no touch handwash dispenser sounds like a very grand title. Built in motion sensor, its got the lot! So with a product seemingly so high-tech as this, you would have thought Dettol would of spent abit more time on their advert.
For starters, who lets two young children play with a frog unsupervised? Touching a frog isn't a good idea at the best of times, but letting two kids who are likely to put their hands in their mouths straight after the event, thats just sheer madness!!
Oh those nasy germs, looking for any way to make us ill, and oh, whats this! The germs have formed a new plan of attack! Hide on our soap pumps! sheer genius. Just a small problem with that though. Lets say a person with dirty hands touches a soap pump, then washes their hands. They have clean hands, but the dirt/germs have stuck to the pump. The next person comes along to wash their hands, so they have to touch the dreaded soap pump of doom. Person B has both their germs and person A's germs on their hands. But person B washes their hands straight away, so no matter how many people touch the soap pump, as long as you wash your hands straight after, (assuming you dont lick your fingers) then you can't be infected by the nasty germs. And that's a FACT. Humans-1 Germs-0
So you see the need of a no touch handwash system is simply not there. Unlucky Dettol, better luck next time selling us a product we actually need. Looks good though.
