Published on Mar 21, 2014 by Dissolve Footage
This Is a Generic Brand Video is a generic brand video of “This Is a Generic Brand Video,” written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. No surprise, it’s made entirely with stock footage. All video clips used are from dissolve.com. See and license them here: http://www.dissolve.com/generic
The original piece is published on McSweeney’s:http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/th…
Narrated by Dallas McClain.
Music: “Piano Work 02” by rysktchkw
Available under Creative Commons License from SoundCloud athttps://soundcloud.com/rysktchkw/pian…
“Generic Brand Videos” are also categorized as Free Speech, which is becoming a lost, utopian perspective in the United States.
Interesting tool for the production of videos though, Sunfire.
I worked in journalism and advertising – university newspaper as production manager, then later graphic designer for screen-printing company, and many other publications over the years – and I have to say that this video explains beautifully why I left the field. Simply and beautifully stated.