Good day, oh yes.

[taimatsu]

I didn't go to Typography practical this morning as they are are at a late stage in a project I have hardly started, and I felt odd about it. But I *did* go to see the tutor afterwards, to confirm what work I have missed and a plan for catching up, and that was very positive. Then I went to see one of my English tutors, and had a fantastic meeting with him checking through this term's work; I managed to accidentally enthuse about his specialism (his thing is Victorian sensation novels, which I absolutely adore and read lots of) which was great. He told me his seminar this afternoon was on A Clockwork Orange which is the one set text I don't own, so I went off to the library, found it and read it (all of it!) before the class at 3. And then I came home, via the shops, as my father has (under protest) given me more money. I am eating food with, like, vitamins in, and drinking fruit juice. It's very good.

TOMORROW is a deadline for a Linguistics project, and for that I need YOUR HELP. I need to analyse a multi-modal text - ie. something with a message in mediums other than just text/speech. I have some fallbacks if I can't find anything suitable, but I would like your suggestions for a television-type advert which is available online. Preferably something a bit interesting/memorable - like, you know that ad with the dancing car? That's the one they describe in the seminar notes, so something equally memorable would be cool. Got any suggestions?

Comments

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Why not hit up YouTube?

[taimatsu]

It scares me! Well, no, but I haven't tried navigating it before - just looking at links other people have sent me. I'll try :it :)

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't have to be a UK advert, how about the (rather cute) cat-herding advert that EDS had in the Superbowl a few years back? Here's a link. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6572941025419743765)

[simont]

http://www.bravia-advert.com/ was fun. Mind you, it hardly has any text or speech in it, so I'm not sure if it'd count as multi-modal enough for you.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's my favourite. Here it is to get you going on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcM_KooYws&mode=related&search=

[thinkstoomuch.livejournal.com]

First thing that came to mind for me, which must be online somewhere, though I didn't look for it, is, at the end of this unwieldy sentence, that Guinness ad where everything is animated guinness bubbles and it keeps zooming in until it loops. With Louis Armstrong music.


Oo, finding a link for it got me possibly a great page for you: <a href="http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/>stacks of downloadable UK ads</a>. Guinness one is called "fly through twice".

[taimatsu]

Ooh, I may consider the BT "Broadband Has Landed" one. Thing is, I've got to transcribe the whole thing, so the less dialogue/characters/complicated images it has, the better. The cat-herding one suggested above would be perfect if I hadn't got to write down all the dialogue! People can say a lot in a minute...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's multi=modal, but I nominate that surfing toddler (http://www.throng.co.nz/ads/hyundai-santa-fe-4wd-ad) !

[clupea-rufus.livejournal.com]

http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/

Not sure if it is exactly what you want, but it is a series of adverts available online, on TV and in traditional poster form.

[dave [earth.li] (from livejournal.com)]

How about the really cool Renault Clio ads with the cute girl arguing over why France is better than england with Nina Simone's Sinnerman as the soundtrack.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Me8y10fKuZ4 is part 2

and http://youtube.com/watch?v=T2YV3Svdk3g might be the first one (flash isn't working here)

David

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

check out http://www.visit4info.com/ for ads. I lthe sony one about the TV with the council estate with exploding paint

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

This is the one I was going on about - well worth a watch - http://www.visit4info.com/preview-flash.cfm?type=3&vm=1&adid=41418

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Seconded - the council estate with the exploding paint was fantastic.

[wormwood-pearl.livejournal.com]

Cog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGngcQb_0qg). Simply incredible stuff. I've seen it innumerably many times, and I still find it breathtakingly cool. You know it took over 600 takes to get right? Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28television_commercial%29).

Or, y'know, the one with all the paint bursting out of the tower blocks, or all the balls bouncing down the street.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Hurrah - I suggested the paint one - linked to above. Visit4Info also has the bouncy balls one.

I love the Honda ads - the 'Hate Something, Change Something' one was fab. I'd forgotten Cog, but watching it again wsa lovely.

[angeoverhere.livejournal.com]

Well done you! And the assignment sounds really cool - I'd have loved the chance to do something like that at uni.

[pointyhairedone.livejournal.com]

Another Honda ad (http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=21964) (those guys at Wieden & Kennedy sure know their shit).

[igniscience.livejournal.com]

yay Clockwork Orange ! that book rocks. mmm, vitamins. well done on academic stuffness <hug>
have been mostly off lj in a drive to Get Stuff Done. which actually seems to be working, yay !