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Tuesday 22 March 2011

Volswagen Commercials

The other day I saw a Louis Theroux documentary advertised on television which reminded me that I hadn't done any research into documentarists in a while. Unfortunately, as the advert i saw was on a program i had recorded i actually missed it but when 'googling' some documentarists i studied at the start of my course, i found out this...
In 1999 Nick Broomfield did a series of 5 television adverts for Volkswagen in his unusual style of documentation whilst holding the sound boom with him. They are designed to be amusing and light hearted and as if Broomfield is trying to find out imformation.


http://projector.tv/MediaPage.aspx?MediaID=84413 - Nick Broomfield visits a technology lab in Kyoto where one man is designing a new CD eject mechanism


http://projector.tv/MediaPage.aspx?MediaID=84412 - Nick Broomfield goes to a military testing site to check out their ejector seat technology


http://projector.tv/MediaPage.aspx?MediaID=84330 - This time, Nick Broomfield is on a mission to find out about the chemicals one can find in the dead sea


http://projector.tv/MediaPage.aspx?MediaID=84329 - Nick Broomfield tries to find out some alternative uses for the bulletproof glass used to protect the president of the Unites States


http://projector.tv/MediaPage.aspx?MediaID=84321 - Nick Broomfield has pursued VW engineers around the world in the search for some top-secret technological breakthroughs. This became the basis for the now famous VW ad campaign ‘German for Detail’.

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