Gruen Transfer returns Wednesday – NSW and Victorian Youngbloods do battle on conscription
August 23 2010, 6:38 pm | | 8 Comments
The Gruen Transfer returns this Wednesday – but instead of two ad agencies, The Pitch features the Victorian Youngbloods versus the NSW Youngbloods, whose task is to sell us conscription.
The Gruen Transfer, this Wednesday @ 9 pm on ABC1 and Thursday @ 8.30 pm on ABC2
8 Comments
Funny, but formulaic and no real idea. Come on young guns..think harder..
Mmmyeah, saw the idea coming a mile off. And it doesn’t feel true: married couples don’t really have sex. Just ask my wife.
Don’t know what the first comment is on about… Formulaic would have been to target the audience of the population that would actually be conscripted.
Targeting the parents was a great angle and this was incredibly well produced. Most of all, who would have thought an ad on conscription could be so positive and make you actually laugh
great work guys
Where’s the NSW one?
Gruen getting a bit samey.
Tired of Todd’s ironic t shirts. Tired of Russell’s old school tie.
I hope it finishes up this season. Otherwise it will dwindle. And Andrew Denton never lets his shows get canned. He always finishes at the just the right time.
I reckon this season may be the time.
And bessides isnt the industry tired of looking like undergrads putting on a uni revue? And woerst still uncommercial because they surrender ownership of their content?
Ooops. The Youngbloods should stick to advertising.
Or, at least, try to master advertising before they try comedy.
Their attempts on last night’s Gruen were clearly not ads – they didn’t make any attempt to seriously answer the brief – but as comedy, they were downright embarrassing.
At least during Gruen Nation the competitors made a serious attempt to do an ad that answered the brief. Now that we’re back to Gruen Transfer, it seems everyone thinks they’re Seinfeld.
No one would ever seriously consider using the two Youngbloods ads in a campaign to support conscription. No one.
If the Youngbloods want to be comedians, they’ve got a lot of work to do because neither concept was funny.
But if they want to be in advertising, they’ve got even more to do, because the concepts were irrelevant.
I hope the panelists were just being kind. I think in real life, they’d tear strips off any junior who tried to sell that stuff to them.
But if Samson, Howcroft and co were serious…well, it probably explains a lot about Australian advertising.
PS: I was, though, pleased that Wil Anderson bagged the Carlton Draught Tingle spots – they’re rubbish (and probably the kind of stuff that inspired the Youngbloods to do the rubbish they put together).
Does anyone actually approach a Gruen brief and try and do it seriously? Not really.
I think the Youngbloods made their ads and stuck to the format of previous pitches. If anyone’s to blame, it’s the rest of the industry.
But Victoria’s effort was terrible. At least NSW directed theirs better.