10.12.07
Chaser boys in trouble again over bomb stunt
The Chaser are being investigated yet again for another one of their stunts, this timee involving a faux bomb.
In the stunt, Craig Reucassel, dressed up as a courier, delivers a package that is making a loud ticking sound, akin to bombs in the movies.
Craig Reucassel
The same stunt included Reucassel delivering a live sheep, snake, a little kid and a corpse in a body bag. The corpse however is actually a live person, which is uncovered when the bag stands up and walks away at the end.
It is an offence to leave or send an article with intent to cause alarm. The maximum penalty for this offence is five years jail.
“The Chaser chose the loudest and most deliberately comical ticking to ensure the people involved in the filming could not think there was any real threat,” a spokesperson said.
I just love it how the Chaser seem to be in the news every second day for one thing or another. Is it political correctness gone totally overboard? Are the media just fishing for stories? Or are the boys pushing the boundaries a little bit too far and crossing some lines that they deserve to be punished for. How long until a judge gets fed up and locks one or two up for a little while?
Ride the eBay luge..
Everybody seems to be doing the eBay thing these days. Once upon a time it was sort of some nerdy way of swapping computer games.. but now it’s totally mainstream. And good on eBay.. they have a nice little monopoly going here on a large and fledgling internet market. When I say monopoly I mean more of a Western monopoly (Taobao has 65% of China market).
Their latest advertisement for Australian audiences focuses on the theme that shopping on eBay is just like a rollercoaster ride – exhilarating, exciting, <insert similar adjective here>.
The 60 second spot begins with a stack of people walking across snow fields, before our focus is diverted to one young lady grabbing a trolley and going for a bit of a ride luge-style.
After whizzing through the course she emerges out the end looking very excited with a coffee maker in hand. The caption follows - ‘Make Shopping Exciting’.
Slow motion is used exhaustively throughout the ad to heighten the excitement and everyone’s favourite Apple iPod superstars Feist provide the backing track with that chart climbing ditty ‘1234′. Personally I would have gone with a little bit more uptempo track or at least something with a little bit more tension in it than the laidback nature of 1234. But it’s still a really good concept.
The advertisement was developed by Tequila Digital with a crew of 60 and a stack of extras on board to climb the mountain and spectate the luge. The ad was shot both on the mountain and inside an ice rink fitted out with a mini luge course (green screened)
There’s some really good behind the scenes movies here that show exactly how the advertisement was put together. Definitely worth a look.
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