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Sunday, March 8, 2009

“What else does the box say? ... Um, don’t swap out our voices?”



With ALL the shit on YouTube, literally and figuratively, someone finally put up a clip of the Cheerios spot from hell. The one where under the guise of product benefits and witty relationship banter, brother husband makes comment in passing which sister wife takes the wrong way, forcing said husband to duck and cover... his ass. ENNYway, turns out, the spot was originally done for the UK. For the American version, they swapped out the voices and Photoshopped in a box at the end. Sorry Steve, busted.

3 comments:

HighJive said...

bet the american creative team that dubbed over the new voices put the spot on their reels.

Anonymous said...

Creative brief:

Objective
* Adapt UK spot for American audience

Considerations
* Accent??? Will target relate to current talent? New VO?
* Box??? Need to update with current US packaging. Can we work some movie magic?

Budget / Timing
No money for shoot. Client wants this in market in two weeks.

Anonymous said...

@anon - Creative brief for original still has same problems though. Husband and wife who look like brother and sister, and wife or sister, that’s one annoying woman.