OK, forget YouTube, GettyImages has the wackiest videos I’ve ever seen — I’m totally hooked on stock footage. I just started to get savvy with their keywords (all their videos are meticulously categorized with marketing phrases like “Multi-Ethnic Group” or “One Woman Only”). I present my favorite search so far: “artist looking at camera.” So much fun imagining how these fit into commercials…
(…and the huge GettyImages watermark across the middle never fails to crack me up…) (here’s a vid compilation)
— guthrie 11/12/06 9:03 pm
In several of them I noticed the camera lingers too long and the forced smiles of the actors start to fade–ow!
- tom moody — 11/13/06 @ 3:22 pm
totally.. the more I look at it, the more stock footage looks really really amatateur & bad… or lofi
- guthrie — 11/13/06 @ 3:30 pm
They are really bad, but the lighting is really consistant in all of them so it can be easily edited together. I could see all of these clips put into a really convincing prescription drug commercial. Im loving the urban graffiti artist whos menacing snarl turns into a laugh.
- joel — 11/13/06 @ 4:13 pm
OMG GROSS!!!!
- paul — 11/16/06 @ 11:54 am
So interesting!
- Paddy — 11/16/06 @ 1:47 pm
hey that link seems to produce 0 searches! i guess it’s been too long.
you should make your own video and upload it. if you havent done that yet.
why arent they affiliated with the getty museum? both are cornballs
- fei — 3/27/08 @ 1:01 am
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