Postkiwi Duncan Macleod

Over the past week I’ve posted on the following television commercials at Duncan’s TV Adland.

Radiohead Fan
At a Melbourne railway station there’s a guy in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy. He’s singing some very strange words – something about chicken voices in his head. He’s getting strange looks from a girl standing nearby. What she doesn’t know is that he’s listening to Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” on his MP3 player. The text: “Relax. It’s just another Radiohead fan”. We’re encouraged to see the person, not the disability. It’s an ad produced free for Scope.

Science World Boardroom Kisses
In a Vancouver boardroom men and women are introduced to each other before a board meeting. Instead of shaking hands they kiss passionately. The scene gets more and more absurd. The text: “Shaking hands spreads more germs than kissing.” We’re encouraged to go to Science World.

Honda Impossible Dream
Filmed mostly in New Zealand this ad for the Honda brand features British comedian Paul Day driving/riding a number of Honda vehicles while lip syncing the song, “Impossible Dream”.

Starbucks Red Cup
A series of ads prepared by Starbucks for the holiday season. Two of them feature the red cup in which Starbucks serve their drinks over Christmas. One cup goes for a taxi ride, on the roof. Another heads through the airport.

Mercedes Sleigh Ride
An effects-intense ad promoting the Mercedes Winter Event. A convoy of Mercedes vehicles escorts Santa in his red coupe through a snowy forest.

National Bank Ballet Discus
An athlete trains in a ballet school, perfecting his twirl in preparation for throwing the discus at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. The ad’s only available in Vividas at this point.

Ampd Mobile Senator & Rockstar
Two scenarios in which dying men are urged to stay alive so they can experience the new multimedia broadband-speed mobile phone network being launched later in December in the USA.