Product placements may be added to classic films
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A film is supposed to be an experience, and the products/brands within it (whether "organic" or "placed" with the approval of the cast) is part of it. I don't like how they're planning to change it dynamically.
Imagine a wiki page that skipped all the stuff you know and focused on things in your ZPD. You'd save a lot of time and have a much more positive view of learning.
Companies could have their products or services featured in a movie but set the context depending on some demographic feature of the viewer. And just like that you can give a positive impression of your company to two groups holding opposite positions. An example could be having the protagonist driving an electric eco-car in one version and a gas-guzzling 4WD in another; just make use of cheaper and cheaper CGI.
1. https://www.michaelwest.com.au/two-faced-facebook-how-the-di...
Otherwise it'd be a lie just like all the other fictional verbal narratives that aren't prefaced with a warning.
No, I think this technology is much simpler. It means that product placement contracts can now generate annual recurring revenue, instead of once-off revenue.
Movies and TV shows could be shot and distributed with exposed 'source code' (eg. visible green screens) which the client or local distribution network then seamlessly overlays with an appropriate brand.
Advertisers can be rotated in and out depending on who pays the most, and multiple advertisers can be signed up based on a segmented viewer base to maximise revenue.
Its also a long-term source of work for advertising agencies and video technicians, I guess.
One of the central themes is how you are controlling the character, making the character feel a lack of agency. It's far far too Charlie Brooker to be as simple as you describe.
This is only possible if sharing and copying is made impossible. History is on the side of the sharers. I'd rather miss the cultural experience of the millennia than buy into shenanigans like this.
The film was disgracefully meandering before the studio made this crucial addition.
From my experience, somehow a decentralised illicit industry manages to hold better standards than the legal alternative.
I remember the thing that first drove me to piracy: previews. Nothing like trying to watch a VHS or DVD rental and being subjected to 10 minutes of ads. DVDs were the worst perpetrator, with bullshit unskippable ads before you even got to the menu.
A marketing lecturer warns brands that they might end up in a bad PR situation due to something something scandal.
A film critic says it raises some questions about copyright, and that it might intrude on the work of the production designer.
Not a single word about how the heck this will affect the audience.
Things are gonna get much weirder, and it'll be soon. We went from "what's a smartphone?" to "you basically can't function in the modern world without a smartphone" in, what, a little over a decade? We'll see how long this one takes.
"Fred Astaire’s daughter, Ava, says she is “saddened that after his (Fred’s) wonderful career he was sold to the devil.” The “devil” in this case is the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner. Fred is appearing in commercials in which his dancing props (a mop from “Easter Parade” and a coat rack in “Royal Wedding”) have been computerized and substituted with vacuum cleaners. The blurbs have already appeared in (very costly) spots on the Super Bowl and more are to come"
(the reason it was permitted is because his widow was ok with it - she drew the line at "putting words in his mouth", but a vacuum cleaner in his hands was ok by her)
https://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/astaire-won-t-deal-w...
Doing this on a gameshow seems strangely acceptable, but don't touch the old films please. Even though old films themselves have product placement (continuing with the Marx Brothers - you can see an old cartoon-style flit gun in Animal Crackers (1930), which was used for one of the earlier product tie-ins), manipulating them seems wrong. People want to experience the movie as it was intended to be...
"Ah, time to sit down for a relaxing film this evening. Shall we watch the romantic comedy where Coca-Cola paid $20,000 to place a can of Fanta in a sex scene -- everyone's talking about it -- or perhaps this independent science fiction film; it's a new director, no product placement?"
- Online privacy is basically dead because of it.
- Consumer manipulation is so well developed that it either borders on, or tips right into mind control territory.
- Targeted for political advertisement, it fractures the society and lets demagogues/morons like Trump and Boris Johnson get elected.
- It's nickling and diming us out of our attention on our smartphones and websites, assuming no countermeasures taken by the end user
- Now, it's threatening to affect artistic and historic integrity of our recorded media by turning into a for-profit Ministry of Truth.
What else is it going to destroy?
Advertising is the most frictionless way to monetize content. If you own content and want to make money, advertising requires your consumers to pay nothing and install nothing except what they already have.
Everything else is harder to use and less effective. People keep trying and nothing works as well. Users ignore tip jars. They circumvent paywalls. They share passwords. Micropayments cost too much and have too much overhead.
We'd all love a good alternative, but nobody's found it yet. We all think that privacy is the worst, except for all the others. As with cancer, we wish it didn't exist, but that's not effective. We need to research cures.
The problem of monetization is now every single person with access to a keyboard or camera can post something identical to the content produced by a few hundred thousand other content creators and think they deserve to get paid for it. Nobody seems to be running the Washington Post or the Economist out of business. HBO isn't going anywhere. Whenever James Cameron gets around to finally releasing something again, he'll make another billion. It doesn't mean anyone who can put a camera in their bedroom and post their personal thoughts about life on YouTube deserves to make a living doing that.
The answer to how to monetize content is the same as it has always been for any business. Make a sufficiently valuable and differentiated product that consumers are willing to pay for it.
1. Puts ads into old movies, or 2. Fix climate change
what what you do?
I know what humankind would do.
1. Start WWI&II, or 2. Make human interplanetary, AFAICT human only accomplished one of them. Make a more biased point.
now this.. :(
omg, we will need a movie AdBlocker :(
Scorsese lamenting the lack of Fellini magic today, and the increase in commercialism:
"“Content” became a business term for all moving images: a David Lean movie, a cat video, a Super Bowl commercial, a superhero sequel, a series episode."