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lovinit · 27-01-2009 11:24am #1

Ok here is a compliment for RTE, I think they make really good promos for shows and the music they use is awesome, I loved the one with Prison break, and they used The Fray's new song for the lost promo, just a thought!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 27-01-2009 11:26am

lovinit wrote: »

Ok here is a compliment for RTE, I think they make really good promos for shows and the music they use is awesome, I loved the one with Prison break, and they used The Fray's new song for the lost promo, just a thought!!

Compliments are like complaints - nice to make here but I hope you told them as well.... (and I did like the Arcade Fire trailer a year or two back!)

AnonoBoy · 27-01-2009 11:32am

In general RTE promos can be pants. The Project Ha Ha promos were pretty dire and made the shows look terrible when in fact they were pretty decent overall.

For these big shows do RTE cut the promos in-house or do they get them packaged with the show and then just add in their own voice-over? Anyone know?

[edit]Although the Project Ha Ha starting graphics were very well made[/edit]

2fivers · 27-01-2009 11:36am

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

(and I did like the Arcade Fire trailer a year or two back!)

Damn straight.

Intervention + Prison Break gunfire scenes = Best. Rte. Promo. Ever.

lovinit · 27-01-2009 11:40am

Yes the Arcade Fire one is the one that completely stands out:cool:, I think Arcade Fire's song was massive after the promo.I love the promos with music, there was also one with a song from Oasis called The Masterplan which was really good as well

AnonoBoy · 27-01-2009 3:40pm

lovinit wrote: »

I think Arcade Fire's song was massive after the promo.

I think you'll find the promo had nothing to do with that though.

2fivers · 27-01-2009 3:48pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I think you'll find the promo had nothing to do with that though.

You'd be surprised, you know.

I know of a few people who downloaded both single and album on the strength of the Rte promo.

ScumLord · 27-01-2009 5:04pm

The promos are good but they're not that hard to do, your basically shoving the best bit's of everything into 30s of course it's going to look good.

Bondvillain · 27-01-2009 5:12pm

True, but going by the sheer volume of utterly shíte self-edited "montage" music videos thrown up on youtube by amateur Spielbergs, they probably aren't as easy to do properly as they may appear to be.

ScumLord · 27-01-2009 5:33pm

Those videos have no point other than to say "look at me". With a 30s promo the time makes a huge difference you don't have time to get bored. The promos also have a clear defined goal which makes them much more appealing.

Bondvillain · 27-01-2009 6:39pm

Yes, but I'm referring to the ones that have obviously been made as some kind of special needs calling card to put the creator "out there" in the field of Editing employment.. They're basically happy-shopper versions of the promos run by proper tv channels, the only difference being that they are absolutely rubbish.

I was simply saying that the amount of bad ones that exist go to show that they obviously arent as easy to put together as one might think, and that Rté occasionally do a very good job on them.

jill_valentine · 31-01-2009 5:41am

MiWadi is a Cage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGOVN7kNrw

lovinit · 20-08-2009 12:35pm

Downloaded two songs in the last two weeks on the strength of RTE promos, first one was if there is a rocket tie me to it - advertising GAA on RTe and the other one called From Yesterday by 30 seconds to mars advertising Hurling on RTE, two great songs

Dman001 · 20-08-2009 5:33pm

They actually used The Fray song for Lost and I wouldn't thank RTE really for that as they did the same in America. But I do like alot of the promos RTE do.

Bondvillain · 20-08-2009 9:46pm

Meh, they had one or two decent ones in the past (The aforementioned "Arcade Fire - Intervention" one comes to mind) but recently they've been awful -

I refer to the Harper's Island Weezer one; the Amityville Horror Crosby Stills and Nash one; anything where they try to be cool or funny promoting CSI; and particularly the pointless, meaningless and utterly sh*te "It's Nine time" ones, where they're desperately trying to turn their showing of old, repeated TV series and poor 5 year old films at 9 p.m. into some kind of hip "event".

(I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea what "It's nine time" even means. It sounds like some random English phrase that a third-rate Eastern European rapper would shout in the middle of a break beat)

In short, they've been a bit rubbish recently.

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