Silviron
Flashlight Enthusiast
\"Subliminal\" Advertising techniques?
NO, I'm not talking about the "naked lady in the ice cube" thing or the "eat popcorn" in a single frame of a film.
Am I imagining things, or has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a just barely audible telephone ring in a lot of TV commercials lately??
Not as part of an office scene or anything that would actually be part of the normal background noise of a scene, but something more subtle.
Several times a day I'm finding myself popping my head up from the computer and listening to see if it is the phone ringing in another room, then paying attention to the commercial to see if that was the source of the sound. Whatever... it irritates the heck out of me.
Another related pet peeve: cruising down the road with the radio on, just mellowing out. Commercial comes on and has a siren or a car horn honking on the soundtrack. Makes me jump and look around to see whats happening. Injects a little shot of adrenaline, increases heartbeat. After determining that there is no problem on the road, I then listen to the darn commercial. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
NO, I'm not talking about the "naked lady in the ice cube" thing or the "eat popcorn" in a single frame of a film.
Am I imagining things, or has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a just barely audible telephone ring in a lot of TV commercials lately??
Not as part of an office scene or anything that would actually be part of the normal background noise of a scene, but something more subtle.
Several times a day I'm finding myself popping my head up from the computer and listening to see if it is the phone ringing in another room, then paying attention to the commercial to see if that was the source of the sound. Whatever... it irritates the heck out of me.
Another related pet peeve: cruising down the road with the radio on, just mellowing out. Commercial comes on and has a siren or a car horn honking on the soundtrack. Makes me jump and look around to see whats happening. Injects a little shot of adrenaline, increases heartbeat. After determining that there is no problem on the road, I then listen to the darn commercial. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif