Advert filmed on NCR

[MissDollyMixture]

For all of those wondering what was going on that sunny day in November when you couldn't get down the street

they finally posted the finished advert :)

http://www.interparcel.com/press/advert.php

[cate]

Loads of reddies exchange hands did they?

[kford]

The David Mitchell VO makes it sound like a sketch from That Mitchell and Web Look. Except it wasn't funny. Or entertaining. Or good.

[Dickensman]

The David Mitchell VO makes it sound like a sketch from That Mitchell and Web Look.

Except it wasn't funny. Or entertaining. Or good. wrote kford

Yes but kford, the positive bits you have delibrately missed out, it was short!

[AcedOut]

Looks like something of the quality knocked out by The Apprentice contestants!

[VeryBerryCherry]

I have to say that I think

is the best advert filmed on NCR

B)

[Manda]

Genius detective work VeryBerryCherry.

[VeryBerryCherry]

All thanks to the barbers at The Clippers on North Cross who mentioned it to my boyfriend.

[amyw]

is that really nx road? whereabouts on it?

['bout now]

Dart Vader, in ED! who'd a thunk it.

[newbie09]

love that with all the effort that went into it they didn't notice the sweet shop cover that tipped all the water on the guy, clearly blew in the wind with no water on it 1 second before!

[Vince]

I would urge everyone to watch the "making of" video just below the advert.

It's safe to assume that the brief was to show that interparcel.com offers a web-based door to door parcel delivery service which is more convenient than going to the post office.

So they film a bloke going to the post office in the rain. Then they cut to a bloke in the warm indoors who does the same job with his laptop using interparcel.com.

The number of "creatives" involved: 2.

It's people like this who are in danger of giving advertising a bad name.

[ianr]

>It's safe to assume that the brief was to show that interparcel.com offers a web-based door to

>door parcel delivery service which is more convenient than going to the post office.

>So they film a bloke going to the post office in the rain. Then they cut to a bloke in the warm

>indoors who does the same job with his laptop using interparcel.com.

If they'll give me a consultancy fee -- I assume a few thousand will be the norm -- I'll tell them not to be so daft as to force potential customers to go through several passes of a quotation-getting routine to get any idea of their price structure.

[MissDollyMixture]

nice veryberry :)

[Sue]

amyw Wrote:

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> is that really nx road? whereabouts on it?

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At the beginning of the video, I think the row of shops on the right is around about where the pet shop is.

Bear in mind this was filmed a long time ago :)

[Dorothy]

I moved here in 1996 and am certain that the black-fronted shop with the long lace net curtains was there on North Cross Road even then.

[The Nappy Lady]

How funny, to know an icon of my childhood (green cross man.....actually two if count his DV role too) was on North Cross Rd. Wow.

From view at start I would say it's def the row of shops where the pet shop is now.

I'm loving it!

[Sue]

Dorothy Wrote:

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> I moved here in 1996 and am certain that the

> black-fronted shop with the long lace net curtains

> was there on North Cross Road even then.

xxxxxxx

I moved here in 1991 and I don't remember that shop/house, though admittedly my memory is crap :))

I remember a butcher, a newsagent, a cobbler and a Greek deli in North Cross Road, all of which have long gone.