Coca Cola Ad - Strange

DuFF-MAN

hey everybody!

I just want to let you know of a recent discovery of mine. I had my little cousin down over the weekend, she is a handful and is always active and running around, except on one fifteen second occasion!

The "Coke" ad appeared on the screen(The one where the coloured woman is singing"I wish I could share.....etc." and she is giving out all the free coke).

We were amazed, she is very rarely interseted in anything! Today I was watching the ad I watched closely and carefully, to see why she was so interested.

I was amazed to see something i have never before saw on this ad. To the right of the coloured woman there is occasional white bright flashes, maybe two or three on each occasion. I was thinking to myself "I saw this ad maybe 20-30 times before why havent i seen this before"

A method of hypnotism perhaps????

Have a look at it and tell me what ye think....

Freaky :eek:

DuFF-MAN

aidan_walsh

I've seen the ad (who hasn't!) but haven't noticed this yet and was told of these flashes last night. Its most likely a lot less sinister than you're expecting though...

smoke.me.a.kipper

also the 2nd guy [i think] she gives the bottle to, drinks out of a closed bottle!

Lafortezza

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

also the 2nd guy [i think] she gives the bottle to, drinks out of a closed bottle!

He's probably too coked off his head to notice. heh.

byte

LOL, I had noticed this too. The advert annoys me though as it's on too often!

DuFF-MAN

LMFAO

Im actually watching the ad as we speeE...eee....eeeemMusTs......buuy.....Coke....Muuust....buuy ....coke... :eek:

Optikus

I know the ad, don't particulary like it ... never noticed the flashs or the coke head, must keep an eye out of it the next time i watch T.V.

SprostonGreen

I think they're edit points.

Remember U2's video for "The Sweetest Thing", Bono and his wife on the carraige on Fitzwilliam St.

Those flashes appeared many times(after Boyzone jumped on the back, etc) and the overall effect was that it was done in one take.

When I noticed the flashes on the Coke ad, I figured thats what it must be also.

I maybe wrong though.

BuffyBot

Join The Navy




...it's a conspiracy...

Ciaran500

I've seen that ad hundreds of time but I've never noticed the flashing till now and its very obvious. I don't know if they changed the ad recently or this thread just highlighted it.

weemcd

ive noticed the flashes, thought it was a weird special effect, companies love to put them in nowadays for absolutley anyhting "woah sfx dooood! excellent!" . possibly there is something subliminal about the ad. INTERESTING :shifty eyes:

Creamy Goodness

The one where the coloured woman is singing

erm i don't think i've seen this ad but what colour is the woman?

green?
blue?
red?

actually i lied i have seen it but for some reason i don't like the term "coloured" when someone is talking about a person

Basq

And if you watch really closely, it's also sending young kids a message to buy cigarettes!

"Smoke.... Smoke..... Are you smoking yet?!"

DuFF-MAN

hey,


same here ciaran500, didnt see it till today, i watched it again the second flash near the end of the ad seem to shine off her earrings. Here is what I think:

What colour is the woman?(hehe...nows ur time to shine cremo)
What colour is coke?
When the light shines off her head she may appear like a big bottle of coke.....??who knows??
Why didnt they get a white person to do it?

I wudn't mind recording the song she sings and play it backwords, you'd never know

It might have sumtin to do with subliminal messaging like weemcd said:

possibly there is something subliminal about the ad. INTERESTING :shifty eyes:

Here is a link to a site regarding this theory:
Subliminal

Ever see that film Event Horizon? It is meant to use Subliminal Messaging.

Ever see Brainiac. they were doing something on this topic b4. i watched the whole show and there was numerous micro-second flashes during the show. at the end of the show they asked "Did you get a drink of water while watching this show" and sure enough i did!! they showed how they did it little quick messages saying "YOU ARE THIRSTY"....wow.

DuFF-MAN

simu

That ad annoys me and I always mute when it comes on but more because of the annoyingly catchy tune rather than any subliminal messages, I'd say. Boy am I glad I stopped drinking Coke!

FruitLover

DuFF-MAN wrote:

...the coloured woman...

Roffle, I haven't heard that one since the 90s.

koneko

God I hate that ad. I can't see I've noticed the flashing, I always change the channel as soon as the ad comes on.

Sleipnir

BuffyBot wrote:

Join The Navy

...it's a conspiracy...

yvan eht nioj.........!

Makaveli

It's Diet Coke that's not even real Coke, just brown sugar water.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

simu wrote:

That ad annoys me and I always mute when it comes on but more because of the annoyingly catchy tune rather than any subliminal messages, I'd say. Boy am I glad I stopped drinking Coke!

amen! I was addicted for so many years, till I stopped recently. I don't miss it either.. horrible stuff.

GoneShootin

Makaveli wrote:

brown sugar

I LOVE brown suger



yo!




word.....

callmescratch

now ive got that song stuck in my head

tinsel

if you go to mikadosoc.ie..in the polemics forum theres a thread called the coke ad...this discusses the possibility of subliminal messaging (dono how to put in a link to it or even if im allowed to!)though personally i agree that its prob just from the editing process...an international company like coca cola are not going to do somethings as illegal as subliminal messages with all the lawyers they're bound to have!

AdMMM

I havent noticed that before I must say

However, I know that when I was a child I was attracted to flashing lights ("oooh shiny is preeeettty"), so maybe that was why your cousin was so involved with it!

Just a suggestion

De Hipster

More on the recent use of subliminal advertising...

Bush a RAT

Bush says 'RATS' ad not meant as subliminal message
Gore calls ad 'disappointing development'
From CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley

September 12, 2000
Web posted at: 9:04 p.m. EDT (0104 GMT)

ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush said Tuesday he was "convinced" an ad placed by the Republican National Committee that flashes the word "RATS" over a Gore prescription drug proposal was not intended to send a subliminal message.

JBoyle4eva

I can remember the last time I seen this ad before iI read this topic and can remember sparkles, which I though was some kind of reflection of car windows or her earings.

Anyway, if anyone wants to know why they chose this women to do the ad was because it was a failed promo for her single, which I don't think made it into the top 40 both sides of the Irish pond!

Stark

simu wrote:

That ad annoys me and I always mute when it comes on but more because of the annoyingly catchy tune rather than any subliminal messages, I'd say. Boy am I glad I stopped drinking Coke!

Same here Was watching it and thinking "This doesn't make me want to drink Coke, it's just making me even more glad I gave it up"

Dave

Does anyone notice that the coke bottles are open aswell when she take them out. How?

BolBill

Watched it last night, very strange flashes. Made me hate George Bush, but then again I felt like that before I saw the ad !!!!!

Furp

I noticed the flashs from the first time I saw the ad in the cinema.

I don't think they are anything more than reflections of light straight back into the camera lens, I assumed they are on purpose though as that ad has a distinctive cinematography style.

Almost light a 70's look or something I think that Heineken add with Prague in it has a similar colour palette and cinematography style.

SprostonGreen

Dave wrote:

Does anyone notice that the coke bottles are open aswell when she take them out. How?

I thought the saps that she gives the bottles to, just drink them with the tops left on.

Either way, its wrong.

bopper

DuFF-MAN wrote:

A method of hypnotism perhaps???

yeah i read something like this on another board, personally i think its ridiculous :rolleyes: maybe your cousin just likes the song just like my little sister does. she sings along to it every time the ad comes on

Kiith

i noticed this too. i thought it was just the reflections off her earings. but i'm probably wrong.

the_syco

Its not sublimimel messagses. I checked with a frame-by-frame video recoder. There's a few flashes, half way down, and three quaters to the right.

Its just another anti-coke thing. Like the "don't drink coke cos a friend of a neighbour did a good deed for a palastani, and he said not to drink coke after 10/9..." hoax's.

unme

the_syco wrote:

Its just another anti-coke thing. Like the "don't drink coke cos a friend of a neighbour did a good deed for a palastani, and he said not to drink coke after 10/9..." hoax's.

palastani? 10/9? Is there a hidden message in that comment somewhere?

This ad also came up on another thread here related to the worst ads on TV. It is weird that the lady in question would hand out open bottles of coke. Weirder still that complete strangers would drink them.

They say there is no such thing as bad advertising, and that this ridiculous ad at least has us talking about the product.. but seriously, another one of these Coke ads and the product will become permanently associated with silly singing nitwits.

jor el

Not to worry anyway, it'll soon be replaced with the 'Holidays are coming' one. I'd expect that to start as soon as Haloween is over Stupid Coke and their stupid ads.

I've never noticed the flashes in the ad before, but then I don't pay much attention to ads.

egan007

tinsel wrote:

an international company like coca cola are not going to do somethings as illegal as subliminal messages with all the lawyers they're bound to have!

LOL
That's sweet.

They would not even use slave labour......
Oh wait! they do!

evie

Kiith wrote:

i noticed this too. i thought it was just the reflections off her earings. but i'm probably wrong.

I agree, saw the flashes when I first saw the ad and if you look closely she's got very large metallic type chandalier earings on. I just assumed that that was what the flashes were?
I'll have a look the next time I see it though.

Miss Mann

It's just an ad, for jimmy's sake. Some people have serious issues with Coca Cola. Did it make you fat, and you're blaming it now? Aww, poor babies.

xx

DonkeyStyle \o/

Must look out for that add... actually no... screw that.
I've seen that add come on TV before, but I always change the station... coke is manky crap and the manufacturers are evil.

steveland?

Never noticed the flashes before but now that ill be on the lookout for them i know im never gonna see the ad again...


Damn Murphy and his laws

Jim_No.6

I've definitely seen the flashes, but I've hated that ad ever since it came on. Not really sure why, it just sickens me. I actualy won't stay in a room with it on...

So yeah, subliminal messaging? Maybe...

mewso

This is one of those ads that makes me dive stunt man like for the remote to avoid it. I wonder do those subliminal messages have the opposite effect with certain kinds of people. i.e. people with no tolerance for utter tripe on their tv.

jor el

Jim_No.6 wrote:

I've definitely seen the flashes, but I've hated that ad ever since it came on. Not really sure why, it just sickens me. I actualy won't stay in a room with it on...

So yeah, subliminal messaging? Maybe...

Did you leave to go buy a bottle of Coke, or did you just wander around looking for a black chick handing out free samples?

robbie1876

My theory is that the flashes are there deliberately to make it appear like a possible borderline subliminal ad. It's done to get people talking about the ad, like we are doing now. How many people so far have said they will make a point of looking out for the Coke ad?

It's reverse subliminal advertising.

Hagar

The scary part is that somehow kids might get the idea that is ok to take Coke from strangers. The bottles even look as if they are already open, which is even worse.

mewso

robbie1876 wrote:

My theory is that the flashes are there deliberately to make it appear like a possible borderline subliminal ad. It's done to get people talking about the ad, like we are doing now. How many people so far have said they will make a point of looking out for the Coke ad?

It's reverse subliminal advertising.

Yep and Duff-Man is actually the woman who sings in the ad.

pickarooney

FruitLover wrote:

Roffle, I haven't heard that one since the 90s.

Despite all the good PR work these people are doing. Makes you wonder why they bother.

jor el

I saw the coke ad last night and made a point of looking for the flashes. Their actually quite noticable when you know they're there. The last one seemed to be a flash off her ear ring, but was way to bright to be accidental, they must have been set up this way.

Anyway, I don't really care and won't be paying particular attention to this ad any more.

Aava

I never noticed before but I watched it again (without even blinking) and I saw 5 flashes. They seem to be coming from the distance, it's probably just a reflection of the sun off a building maybe. I don't think it's her Pat Butcher earrings though.

DuFF-MAN

Originally Posted by musician
Yep and Duff-Man is actually the woman who sings in the ad.

My cover is blown:)