Indian digital agency Chimp&z has figured out who each Game of Thrones character would be if they were advertising professionals. As a bonus, they even imagined who the clients are. With perfectly selected quotes and adorable vector graphics, they make the best case I’ve seen for a Mad Men GOT crossover series. I mean, I’d watch it.
“Dumb Ways to Die” could be the theme song of Game of Thrones. And now this parody, from Egor Zhgun, brings them together in celebration of the various gory, untimely deaths through the show’s first four seasons. Spoilers, obviously.
The HBO show’s fifth season premiered Sunday.
Your life might not be quite like Game of Thrones, but you can still feel like a boss power broker if you drive a Chrysler, says a new ad from the automaker.
“Kings and Queens of America,” voiced by actor Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister on the hit HBO show, is launching just ahead of the fifth-season premier this Sunday.
The commercial, created by Wieden + Kennedy, builds on the great American myth that wealth and power are not a birthright, but rather simply there for the taking. That may be true, insofar as Justin Bieber, the Joffrey Baratheon of our time, didn’t inherit his fortune from his dad (even if both of them invaded from the North).
The 60-second spot even sports a soundtrack that references the theme music from the Game of Thrones’ opening credits.
On screen, a series of modern-day, ostensibly self-made warriors gird themselves for battle in designer glasses, high heels and blazers, and climb on their horses … or rather, into their Chrysler 300s. (Grand Maester Ron Burgundy can offer some wisdom on how many horses it would take to equal a Chrysler engine.)The faces featured include San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon; Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian; pro poker player Phil Ivey; photographer Kwaku Alston; and Los Angeles restaurateur Caroline Styne. They, and others, will appear in 30-second spots airing later this month.
Nobody, though, is shown viscously murdering his or her father, son-in-law, wife, brother or random stranger, for that matter.
CREDITS
Client: Chrysler
Spot: “The Kings & Queens of America”
CMO, FCA Global: Olivier Francois
President and CEO, Chrysler Brand: Al Gardner
Director, Head of Global Advertising, Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram: Marissa Hunter
Head of Advertising, Chrysler Brand: Melissa Garlick
Chrysler Brand Advertising Specialist: Danielle DePerro
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore.
Creative Directors: Aaron Allen / Kevin Jones
Copywriter : Alex Romans
Art Director: John Dwight
Broadcast Producer: Endy Hedman
Art Producer: Grace Petrenka / Amy Berriochoa
Strategic Planning: Cat Wilson / Sarah Biedak
Media/Comms Planning: Alex Barwick
Account Team: Cheryl Markley / Lani Reichenbach / Stephanie Montoya
Business Affairs: Karen Murillo
Project Management: Jane Monaghan / Annie Quach
Executive Creative Directors: Joe Staples / Mark Fitzloff
Head of Production: Ben Grylewicz
Production Company: HSI
Director: Samuel Bayer
Executive Producer: Roger Zorovich
Line Producer: William Green
Director of Photography: Samuel Bayer
Photographer: Samuel Bayer / John Clark
Editorial Company: Joint
Editor: Nicholas Davis
Assistant Editors: Kristy Faris
Post Producer: Leslie Carthy
Post Executive Producer: Patty Brebner
VFX Company: Joint
Lead Flame Artist: Katrina Salicrup
Flame Artist: David Stern
Smoke Artist: David Jahns
VFX Producer: Alex Thiesen
Songs: “Blood and Stone”
Mix Company: Joint
Mixer: Noah Woodburn
Producer: Sarah Fink
Que Mac que nada! George R. R. Martin é um cara ‘roots’, e não precisa de mãozinha nenhuma para ser criativo.
Em entrevista no talk show americano Conan, o escritor contou que usa o WordStar 4.0, um processador de texto antiguíssimo, para escrever a saga de “Game of Thrones”.
Para você ter uma ideia, o WordStar era um conhecido editor de texto do começo da década de 80 (!), e que perdeu seu posto para programas mais robustos e eficientes a partir de meados de 1985.
Isso, contudo, não significa que Martin ficou parado no tempo. Além dessa máquina DOS com WordStar 4.0 rodando, ele possui um outro computador para usos mais tradicionais, como conferir emails ou navegar na web. A escrita, contudo, é feita exclusivamente na máquina mais arcaica. Como ela não se conecta à internet, isso também ajuda a manter o sigilo do desenrolar da história, já que é praticamente impossível algum hacker invadir um computador fora da rede mundial de computadores.
Além de não ter a irritação de um corretor de texto tentando corrigir a grafia de Targaryen, como brinca Conan, Martin provavelmente consegue ficar mais concentrado na história, já que evita as distrações com que nós, meros mortais, precisamos conviver ao digitar em nossos editores de texto moderninhos.
A propósito, se você quer ter a experiência de uma redação imersiva, mas não quer ~investir~ em um computador com DOS, existem programas interessantes, como o Ommwriter, FocusWriter, WriteMonkey, Q10 e WriteRoom.
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La designer graphique et artiste russe Sasha Vinogradova, basée à Los Angeles, a fait de nombreux posters pour la saison 3 et 4 de la série Game of Thrones. Elle livre un vrai travail sur la typographie en faisant références à des scènes et à des répliques cultes des épisodes. A découvrir en images.
The inventive chefs over at PornBurger have created another masterpiece: the Kaleesi, a slightly misspelled homage to Game of Thrones dragon mother Daenerys Targaryen.
Known as Khaleesi to her Dothraki followers in the HBO series based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Daenerys famously had to eat an entire raw horse heart without vomiting, which might explain why the patty on this culinary beast is made from dinosaur kale formed into a patty and rubbed in the Ethiopian spice mix berbere.
Other ingredients include shiitake mushroom "bacon," beet gratin, Red Dragon cheese, heirloom tomato and sumac aioli. It may not have any meat, but now I'm hungry enough to eat a horse. Uh, hold the heart, though.
Via Design Taxi.
Direcionada aos espectadores mais jovens, a campanha ‘Awkward Family Viewing’ para a HBO Go consegue ser divertida e ao mesmo tempo pontual. Os spots destacam trechos de séries como “True Blood”, “Game of Thrones” e “Girls”, nas quais algumas das cenas talvez fossem desconfortáveis demais para assistir rodeado pelos pais no sofá da sala, e destaca a grande vantagem de assistir esses seriados via HBO Go – você pode fazê-lo bem longe dos seus pais.
Em geral, os vídeos brincam com as cenas mais ‘explícitas’ dos seriados, mostrando quão incômodo pode ser apreciar esses momentos ao lado do seu pai ou da sua mãe. No entanto, os spots mais divertidos retratam também aquelas enervantes situações com gente perguntando quem era mesmo aquele personagem, se aquele ator era o mesmo de um outro filme que assistiram recentemente, ou quando os pais parecem querer aproveitar o momento do seriado para dar alguma lição de moral ou se mostrar ‘prafrentex’.
Os spots vão circular no BuzzFeed e nos canais do Twitter e do YouTube da HBO.
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O seriado “Game of Thrones” tem batido um recorde atrás do outro. O mais recente aconteceu com o 2º episódio da 4ª temporada, no qual acontece o casamento apelidado pelos fãs de Purple Wedding. Segundo dados do The Wrap, foram mais de 6,3 milhões de pessoas com as TVs ligadas para assistir o episódio na noite de domingo, um aumento de 48% se comparado com a audiência da temporada anterior.
Na web, a procura também foi alta. Mais de 1,5 milhões baixaram o episódio através do serviço BitTorrent, com um recorde de mais de 193 mil usuários compartilhando o mesmo arquivo de torrent (que contém os indicativos sobre onde baixar o vídeo pirata).
De acordo com o TorrentFreak, esses números são inéditos.
“Nunca um mesmo arquivo tinha sido compartilhado por tantas pessoas simultaneamente”,
explica o site, lembrando que o recorde anterior tinha sido de mais de 170 mil pessoas distribuindo o mesmo torrent, também para um episódio de Game of Thrones – na ocasião, era o último da 3ª temporada, conhecido também como ‘season finale’.
Com números tão surpreendentes, um redditor chegou até a fazer um interessante questionamento: imagina só se a HBO se dispusesse a vender o próximo episódio de Game of Thrones por cerca de 5 ou 10 dólares na iTunes!
Seria um experimento e tanto.
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Beautiful Death, représente une série d’illustrations réalisées par Robert M. Ball et le studio 360i pour HBO. Ces posters représentent toutes les morts de Game Of Thrones, de chaque épisodes au cours des 4 dernières saisons. Plus de détails et d’images dans la suite de l’article.
It's always hard to find the best goat scream for the occasion (Doritos devoted a lot of effort to the task). But sometimes, with what sounds like a little bit of AutoTune and some well-chosen goats, and also what appear to be a sheep and and ibex, you can, for example, record the entire theme song to HBO's popular fantasy series Game of Thrones exclusively in goat voice.
This is the work of Marca Blanca, the Spanish-language comedy company responsible for such masterpieces as the opening sequence from Friends reworked with stock footage of high-ranking Nazis, and this amazing video of live-action footage substituted for Grand Theft Auto V gameplay. The latter is in Spanish, but it doesn't matter.
Game of Goats, however, knows no language, race or creed. It is simply there for you, on the cold nights, when the only thing that can cure your loneliness is a furry omnivorous quadruped shouting in a voice that reminds you of your fourth-grade teacher.
To all other parodies of Game of Thrones, I say: "Bah!!!"
If you love nerding out about social media almost as much as you love nerding out about Game of Thrones, then have I got the video for you.
Social media management service HootSuite created the astoundingly well-produced promotional clip below, called "A Game of Social Thrones" and crafted in the style of HBO's opening sequence for the fantasy epic, returning to TV this Sunday for its blood-drenched fourth season.
In HootSuite's version, the Seven Kingdoms are reimagined as the major social networks, with Facebook's high walls and Twitter's tower encircled by chirping fauna. Digital wonks will especially enjoy how each company's related services (YouTube for Google, Instagram for Facebook, etc.) are arranged like nearby bannermen.
Most self-promotions are works of attention-seeking desperation. This one's practically a work of art.
UPDATE: HootSuite tells us the video was largely an in-house production, with the help of an outside motion designer and composer.
CREDITS
Producer/Director: Evan Aagaard, HootSuite
Lead Animator/Motion Designer: Clément Morin
Music Composer: Etienne Forget
Executive Producer: Cameron Uganec, HootSuite
Concept: Evan LePage, Hootsuite
Also worth checking out again: HootSuite's "Social Media Winter Is Coming" infographic from last year—"a visual representation of the quiet battles being fought between many social networks, who were building walls and blocking access between their respective sites and apps." That's posted below.
In today's installment of making new things look old, Game of Thrones gets retrofitted into a 1970s sitcom, complete with overly long exposition and freeze-frame introductions for each actor.
The idea isn't exactly revolutionary, as you can see from the previous mashups we've collected below, but there's still something entertainingly jarring about the contrast of murderous, Machiavellian schemers and an aw-shucks title treatment reminiscent of Little House on the Prairie.
Below, some of our previous favorites from the show's rapidly growing pool of parodies.
Game of Thrones as a 1990s HBO show:
Game of Thrones as a Seinfeld episode:
Game of Thrones as a zany Hollywood comedy:
The Game of Thrones intro if it took place in the video game Skyrim:
And, of course, Game of Thrones as a Little Golden Book:
The buzz is heating up for Quiznos, who has scored a hit with its House of Cards/Game of Thrones mashup called House of Thrones.
Machiavellian Congressman Frank Underwood is transported to the Seven Kingdoms, where he eliminates characters as mercilessly as George R. R. Martin himself—though he avoids killing fan favorites like Tyrion Lannister, settling instead for a merciless teasing.
Hindered by a script that is only mildly funny, the spot is held aloft by an exceptional Kevin Spacey impersonator and a spot-on concept: crossing two of today's hottest properties for maximum viral effect. They even give a few spoiler-ish nods to the fans who've read all the way up through A Dance of Dragons.
Windowseat in Los Angeles created the video, which is part of Quiznos' new content strategy for its recently launched Toasty.tv site—an interesting ploy, considering that Quiznos has just filed for bankruptcy and people are questioning whether this kind of buzz will actually sell sandwiches.
Given the target market, this kind of advertising is great for the brand. But before they invest in entertainment, they should probably focus on making subs that aren't substandard.
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Les étudiants en animation à l’Atelier de Sèvres Mathilde Loubes, Jory Bertrand et Alison Dulou ont réalisé cette superbe vidéo en l’honneur de la série Game of Thrones. Une vidéo rendant hommage aux différentes familles et environnements de cet univers passionnant, sur la musique de Ramin Djawadi. Plus dans la suite.
If there's one good thing to come out of the recent lunatic-fringe freakout over Coca-Cola's multilingual Super Bowl ad, it's definitely this parody featuring languages that didn't quite make the original cut.
Comedy troupe Garlic Jackson, which previously (and brilliantly) mashed up "Blurred Lines" with The Cosby Show intro, have dropped a new audio track on the Coke spot, "America Is Beautiful." The parody's additions include the dulcet tones of Star Trek's Klingon and Game of Thrones' Dothraki. I'll let you hear the rest for yourself.
Here's the original ad:
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It was a mixed bag for TV generally in 2013, but not a bad year for TV promos—in fact, some of the most inventive ads on the dial (or the Web) were from folks promoting new or returning shows.
For the most part, good marketers eschewed parades of "Our show is so great!" quotes, cliffhangery snippets of dialogue and trying to unironically mimic movie trailers—and just let a few powerful images, or sometimes a single powerful image, speak to the viewer. Sometimes it was a clever in-joke, sometimes a stylish montage, sometimes the sheer chutzpah of the idea. But we picked 10 of the promos that wowed us the most from a surprisingly large pool of good creative.
From edgy cable fare like Archer to a broad network series like Community, there was plenty to love before the show even started. Tell us what you think (and what we missed) in the comments.
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O Bad Lip Reading é um canal do Youtube que ficou famoso nos USA durante os debates presidenciais de 2012. Os autores retiram o som das falas nos vídeos e substituem por uma dublagem praticamente perfeita. Aproveitam o movimento exato da boca dos interlocutores mudando palavras e o contexto das frases.
Depois de versões hilárias de “The Walking Dead” (The Walking and Talking Dead) e dos filmes da série “Crepúsculo” (Edward & Bella), agora o alvo é a série “Game of Thrones”.
O BLR criou o Medieval Land Fun-Time World. O vídeo é um trailer de uma comédia fake movie usando cenas de “Game of Thrones” onde Ned Stark é dono de um parque temático medieval e os outros personagens da série são seus empregados.
Além do lip-sinc modificado, alguns elementos são inseridos digitalmente nas cenas para dar um ar de parque de diversões às ambientações.
Para fãs da série (ou seja, metade da humanidade) é uma boa diversão enquanto o inverno não chega.
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A year after it became one of the comedy highlights of the 2012 election, you'd think the Bad Lip Reading schtick would be getting old. But you'd be wrong. The series' newest clip, which recasts HBO's ultra-serious Game of Thrones as a comedy film about a medieval theme park, might just be the funniest video the BLR crew's ever made. Be sure to watch it a few times so you'll catch the subtle theme park puns edited into the original show footage. My favorite is at the 40-second mark, where a directional sign points visitors to park areas like Serfin' Safari, Charlemagnia and The Tossed Saladin. But then again, there's never anything funnier than watching Joffrey get punched in the face.
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Atenção: o link abaixo contém sutis spoilers para quem ainda não assistiu todos os capítulos de Game of Thrones. Entretanto uma rápida olhada superficial não vai entregar o jogo.
O designer e ilustrador americano Nigel Evan Dennis fez de graça o que poucos profissionais fariam sendo muito bem pagos pela HBO: um incrível site-tributo à série Game Of Thrones. Ele desenhou todos os principais personagens da história, criou belos infográficos, mapas, linha do tempo… tudo com um louvável capricho minimalista.
Se você achava que era o maior fã de GOT, seu mundo acabou agora. Nigel Evan Dennis é o cara. Um verdadeiro tapa na cara de todos aqueles designers que entraram na moda de fazer “posters minimalistas de filmes e música hipsters”.
Você curte a série? Então babe agora mesmo com o belíssimo “Where Have All The Wildlings Gone?”.
Uma salva de palmas pro Nigel 🙂
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Afin de célébrer l’arrivée de la nouvelle saison de la série HBO Game of Thrones sur sa plateforme streaming, Blinkbox fait construire une tête de dragon de 3 mètres de haut et 12 mètre de long. Déposée sur la côte Jurassic, elle étonne et fascine les passants à la recherche de fossiles d’animaux disparus.
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