The funding to produce the media people want to consume has to come from somewhere. If it’s not baked into the video stream, it will be baked into the video itself, aka product placement.
Watch any new movie or TV show, and it’s unbearable to see the videography just to catch a car logo or drink logo. Shame. There’s even been full on descriptions by the actors of a car’s features, basically a commercial within the dialogue of the media.
My solution is to stop consuming it, not that I consumed a lot to begin with, but there’s no other option.
banners and logos obscuring the view, and often mantling plot critical visual details are what turned me off cable and satellite feeds. i just wait until the disc is being sold and enjoy it sans banners. thats not available with the net.
here the state law defines ANY unauthorized access to any computer system as felony, that includes snooping unsecured systems or MANIPULATING FUNCTIONALITY.
You know it's funny, I was watching horrible bosses last night, and was thinking just this. Some fairly blatant product placement for a major car manufacturer.
It didn't spoil the movie though, and in fact the bare-facedness of it even added some humour (-:
I don't think product placement is soooo bad. It's up to you if you're making a movie to make it fit. If you don't it detracts from the quality of your movie which to me seems a good enough motivator to get it right.
Watch any new movie or TV show, and it’s unbearable to see the videography just to catch a car logo or drink logo. Shame. There’s even been full on descriptions by the actors of a car’s features, basically a commercial within the dialogue of the media.
My solution is to stop consuming it, not that I consumed a lot to begin with, but there’s no other option.