Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/21/12 at 11:21am
http://www.emrahyucel.com/tr/post/smash-key-art-exploration
Here are eight of the original concepts for the SMASH artwork... these are very interesting ideas, it just looks like some of them don't work. If you like any of these, which one do you prefer?
#2Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/21/12 at 11:24amI still chuckle whenever I see "The Monday After The Super Bowl."
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#3Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/21/12 at 11:39amCan someone please explain to me the concept of the final ad? They look like like they're trying to make a human Christmas tree but with the wrong colors. Why the hell are they all touching each other?
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~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#4Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/21/12 at 11:40amWhere's the one where they're making a human centipede?
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/21/12 at 11:49am
Wow,
Where have I been? I have seen nothing about this show called Smash!
Enough already.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#7Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/21/12 at 12:33pm
You have been getting sick for a while now Jordan, you should probably put a shirt on. JK.
Like most others on this message board I am sitting here with my mouth open. NBC can shove Megan Hilty as far down my throat as they can get her. I have been anticipating her rise to stardom since I have herd about this project, Dorothy of Oz etc.
Maybe SMASH's portrayal of Theatre is not exactly accurate but Spielberg's endorsement of this show is an endorsement for theatre and if this show is a success it would encourage more people to go see a Broadway show. Which could possibly help our favorite productions stay open a little longer. (I know its a long shot but this is primetime)
They need to ensure this project they have spent millions of dollars on is not going to flop and If that means we have to look at character cards or vote for winner on a show we have not seen, so be it. I will personally take each episode as a UFC match waiting for the Katharine McPhee knock out.
Besides if you don't have the patients for a few SMASH promos and your on a broadway forum all day, then how are people who watch un-comedy like 30 Rock and Modern Family going to handle this? Let's be a little more supportive this is great for the community. I like the first ad, the 5th ad and the 8th ad in the link, but I think they wen't with the right one. :)
Please don't respond with grammar and spelling corrections. It's a Saturday. I will cut off your junk and give it to the Fiddler on the Roof.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#9Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:33pm
GET OVER IT.
There's really no way to please anyone. If there was no promotion, people would complain that no one knew about it, or that it got shafted because it's about theatre.
And when they're promoting the hell out of it, trying to find an audience and specifically targeting the likely-to-watch theatre community, and people are complaining that there's too much promotion.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#10Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:43pmI'm sick of the show already. OVER EXPOSURE.
#11Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:51pmAll I see is Meron and Zadan recycling the same look/promotion from their producing of Chicago.
#12Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/23/12 at 5:02amI don't think any of them are great (which is surprising as I think the designer usually does memorable ad concepts) but i have to agree I really don't understand the human pyramid ones they went with... Yes, I get it's meant to be one star ising to the top, etc, etc, but it is just so visually blah to me, I can't believe it was chosen.
#13Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:16amI don't like any of them. The visual style has been too trendy for too long. Though I fell out of favor with Glee, their marketing ads at least appeared more original.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#14Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:08am
The only one I actually like is the third one, there seems to be at least something going on there, instead of just awkwardly looking sexy into the camera.
Edit: I forgot to count the main picture, so the fourth one, with the yellow background.
Updated On: 1/23/12 at 11:08 AM
hyperbole_and_a_half
Leading Actor Joined: 3/21/11
#15Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:21am
"Yeah, no. I mean, I used to like Smash back when it was on vinyl. But now, man? I mean, it's just so overexposed."
This must be a new record, even for this board. From zero to bitter before the show even premieres! If you want to bitch about overexposure, why not bitch about how BroadwayWorldTV has become the Daniel Radcliffe channel.
#16Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:37am
Daniel Radcliffe is SO 2011. Isn't he like 70 now?
I guess people are tired of getting Smashed already.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#18Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/24/12 at 12:01am
I both can't stand and adore the bitchiness of this forum.
I for one, am looking forward to Smash, and I hope it becomes successful. More Brian d'Arcy James, please.
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#19Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/24/12 at 1:09amI think they chose the right one, the others are weird and for most of them it's too easy to see that everyone is photoshopped together
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#20Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/24/12 at 1:32amI guess it's hard to sellthe concept and they wanted to emphasize the personalities and the faces some may recognize, etc (which I assume is partly why the one they choose at least shows Christian Borle fairly front and center considering he was a major player in the pilot--sopme of the other choices have him kinda lurking in the shadows). I get that it's about stardom, etc, but I still don't really get the concept of the human pyramid--or that weird one with everyone pointing out to the upper left corner, except for a few people pointing the other way...
#21Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/24/12 at 6:15amWay too many ads. Way too much exposure.
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#22Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/24/12 at 8:50amI have no idea if this show will be a hit or not, but if it does fail, at least they won't be able to blame it on limited exposure. I feel like I've seen that main poster everywhere I've looked this month.
#23Ad Evolution: SMASH on NBC
Posted: 1/24/12 at 7:58pmWhile I do think it's overexposed--I really can't blame NBC. this is the first major project Greenblatt (sp?) brought to them since moving from Showtime to help head NBC, they surely know how little faith audiences currently have in dramas on NBC, and it's an expensive and risky show for them.
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