Spoof your Brand! Challenge
Background
Many of you have one or even several automotive brands with more or less well-developed car model and variant line-ups throughout the decades, and more or less well developed lore behind it. The Car Sharing forum contains well-curated car brand threads, some with Wikipedia-style entries or even graphical car ads. You draw on established brands and car models to enter challenges such as the CSR series. In most cases, presenting and developing your brand and cars in this community is serious business - and rightly so.But how about a more light-hearted change of pace?
The challenge - its goal and how to enter
The goal of this challenge is to spoof (one of) your own brand(s) in a hilarious, funny, critical etc. way.There are many possible formats for a submission:
- A spoof of a print ad for a car model of your brand (see Inspirations)
- A written outline for an Honest Commercials ad video for your brand, accompanied by e.g. the start and the end image (photoscene + slogan) (see Inspirations)
- An outline of a script for a short episode for Jezza/Hamster/Cpt. Slow of TGT, Mr. Regular of RCR, Mr. DougScore etc. with one or more still images as well as some snippets of their snide remarks about the peculiarities of your brand / a typical representative car / the typical clientele that would buy the car or drive it as hand-me-down etc. (see Inspirations)
- An outline of a script for a spoof short film (think BMW films meets South Park / Family Guy / âŚ), along with one or more stills of possible scenes with your car in it
- A short fake CSR-like forum challenge as the backdrop for a spoof submission of your own (all in one single post)
- ⌠whatever other suitable format you can come up with that fits the spirit of this challenge
How can I win?
Everyone who enters and has some fun in the process, is automatically among the winners! In addition, there will be a poll after the challenge deadline to determine the everyone's favourite spoof. Depending on the number and range of entries, there may be more than one category for the pool. Those categories will only be announced at the end so that you cannot optimise your entry for a particular poll category.Some ground rules:
- Only spoof a brand that you âownâ and a car that you are responsible for designing & developing. The goal is to roast yourself, not others!
- If you collaborated for the development of a a brand or car that you spoof, make sure all collaborators are onboard with your submission (and tag them in your post)!
- Your post should contain at least one or more images with the car in it related to the spoof
- Your spoof should be understandable without intricate background knowledge of your brand
- Your brand can be located on Earth or in the Autoverse (Gasmea, Fruinia etc.).
- No NSFW submissions! Bad taste is allowed, of course (hello, J.C.! - see inspirations), as long as it is in-line with forum rules.
- No need to submit a .CAR file or anything else to anyone, just put everything here in a single post.
- Links to your brand thread in the Car Sharing forum or other challenges where you entered the same car is encouraged (but not required)
Inspirations (for spoof print ads):
- Toyota Hilux: https://twitter.com/loudribs/status/1365018179710443530/photo/1
- Assorted: https://sniffpetrol.com/category/not-advertisements/
- Assorted (scroll down a bit): https://digitalsynopsis.com/advertising/we-fix-your-adverts-honest-funny-ads/
Inspirations (for vids that spoof or make fun of brands/cars)
- Honest Commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43p86TR8_Is
- Jaaag owners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyj9VMhE6oI
- In one tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKTXK8YiCzk
- Regular Car Review videos: e.g. Oldsmobile Bravada, Nissan Pathfinder, Chevrolet Alero, 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, PT Cruiser (generally not NSFW, so no links)
Start and end
Submissions are now closed.Rank the submissions here:
The poll closes Friday, 2021-07-02 AOE (anywhere on Earth).