Comments on: Vodaphone ringtone music commercial

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:15:34 +0000

If you’re going to do something clever with music, at least make sure it’s in time!

Poor effort.

By: John Thomas

John Thomas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:17:08 +0000

It’s a ripoff of http://www.vimeo.com/1109226

By: defyboy

defyboy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:25:23 +0000

Its Vodafone not Vodaphone guys…

P.S. Go Kiwi!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:56:45 +0000

These are clearly parts of Overture 1812 by Tsjaikovksi, at least thats how you write it in Dutch. The Germans write Tschai–. In Englisch its Tchai–, and a y at the end. French and Italians write it completely different; Apperently only the Russians know how to write it correctly :)
BTW the overture has nothing to do with Willem Tell. The piece was written to commemorate Russia’s defense of Moscow against Napoleon’s advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino in 1812.
The overture is best known for its climactic volley of real cannon fire and ringing chimes.

By: Gert

Gert — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:29:26 +0000

Wauw worlds biggest collection of shitty phones.

Why do we expect that our phone will break after 2 years?

Why do we accept that?

I have a Nokia 1100 from 2003 and it still works, still has longer battery life than most modern phones. It has fallen into a pool and still works. I’ve dropped countless times, even flung it across a room once or twice.

And it has Space Impact+ :-)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:52:12 +0000

The making of Vodafone Symphonia

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:14:47 +0000

@DAVE, yeah, it’s 1812 Overture, not sure if that was Tchaikovsky or not.

By: Wonginism

Wonginism — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:24:54 +0000

Go NEW Zealand

By: sl

sl — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:11:49 +0000

It’s mostly the 1812 Overture, but they’ve taken bits and pieces out of it.

By: harc

harc — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:33:15 +0000

doesn’t any of you know how a story/narrative is developed?
“the making of” is also an advert, it tells you a storry while, quite literrary, flashing the product in your face. apparently they decided that this storry worked better.
surly it got you talking about the product, it also got you feeling good, how your smarter then the companies scientists, you feel familiar with it.

videoculture friendly extensive explanation:
http://www.archive.org/details/the.century.of.the.self

By: LogicBloke

LogicBloke — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:26:20 +0000

What about a bluetooth network interconnection to manage all this, It could have been better I guess …

By: Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:22:57 +0000

I spoke with the director of this ad on Wednesday. I kept asking how they possibly could have synchronized that many cell phones… and he gave me a bunch of reasons already mentioned here (using a public network at off hours, etc). He finally admitted “it really only worked about 30-40% of the time, so we had to do a fair bit of post production”. He also had never heard of Golan’s project (the flong link above).

By: yea g

yea g — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:56:22 +0000

Its vodafone not vodaphone

By: John C. Reid

John C. Reid — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:07:21 +0000

The making of video specifically states they had to do this between 1 and 6 am and the intro text specifically states they did it during off-peek hours. I would have to think then that this was done on the public network rather than a private lab. That is what make this truly impressive.

By: Rogan Dawes

Rogan Dawes — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:48:14 +0000

I guess they could have used their own microBTS to manage all the phones, and eliminate any conflict between non-participating handsets.