Apple 1984 Clips
September 4, 2007
In Chantal’s lecture on audiences, she played a couple of media clips, the first of which was the famous Ridley Scott 1984 advertisement which was broadcast only oncem during the 1984 US Superbowl:
[Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8]
Also of interest is the fact that Apple updated this advertisment for their 20th Anniversary in 2004 (can you see what’s different in this version?):
[Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zew1bb5Sxk4]
Finally, a recent mashup of the 1984 ad with images from contemporary US politics caused a stir earlier this year when supporters of Barack Obama created this clip which features Hilary Clinton in the role of Big Brother:
[Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo] If you’d like to know more about this clip, read more here.
Also played in the audiences lecture was this EPIC clip:
[Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dKWK3xfvs-k] This was originally a Flash animation – how well do you think they used Flash for this clip?
Remember, you can use Vixy.net to convert any of these YouTube files into an .mp4 file to play on your video iPods!
