When The Actor Insert Works

TV is still one of the kings of media.  Even with all the doom and gloom of the internet, DVR's and the likes predicting the death of TV, viewership is up.

Which brings me to the ads.

When ads are produced locally, you get stuff like this.



Kernhill bombarded TV and also had a media mix that included radio.  The owner starred in his own ads and  voiced his own radio ads, become a local celebrity and sold a ton of furniture.  And what you see and hear was written by him.

Now take this ad.



There was likely an ad agency involved and a pretty good production budget.  
I would love to have heard the creative folk sell the idea to the client of having the the two insert actors singing the lines?

I have a bridge I need sold.

Is there disconnect in Nissan's latest TV ad

Nissan has a new TV campaign, Summer Saving Days.  The have taken and rewritten the lyrics from Summer Nights, a song featured in the movie Grease. 

The ad looks like Glee doing Grease.

The movie came out in 1978.  If you are under 40 you likely don't know the movie.  So for those of us that do, why didn't Nissan at least dress their actors like the movie?  That I can relate to.