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Get A PC from Vancouver

Laurie McGuinness has put together four spoofs of the “Get A Mac” advertising campaign. PC (Brent Chapman) is played as a Baby Boomer executive who contemptuously derides his Gen Y creative employee Mac (Evan Schulte).

Money

In this scenario Mac works for PC but isn’t too happy about how much he gets paid. “How am I supposed to pay my rent?” “Well,” says PC, “you could make your landlord one of those cool movies.”

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Girl

PC’s taking the weekend off to ski with his beautiful girlfriend (played by Jamie Erickson). Mac’s staying at home with another guy (played by Keith Moore) to record a video for his Ultimate team and record some music in his basement.

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Work

PC explains that Mac is running behind schedule. Mac apologizes for his lateness, explaining that he’d been busy making a web site for his cat. The pressure’s on. They have a meeting in fifteen minutes which Mac had not remembered. “That was today?” PC wonders if Mac is high. “Do you want a lift over or do you want to ride your unicycle?”

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Music

Mac doesn’t want to share his music with PC.

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Credits

This scathing Get a PC series was written and directed by Vancouver copywriter Laurie McGuinness who hosts all four of the Get A PC ads in quicktime format. Director of photography/editor Norm Li via Q Films, 1st AC / audio engineer Rob Heimbecker, with music and audio post done by Alex Whittaker at Spinnaker Sound.

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Tags: Apple, Get A Mac, Laurie McGuinness, Spoof Ads

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No Responses to Get A PC from Vancouver

1. Alistair says:

   February 25, 2007 at 10:55 am

   Wicked! I too find myself obsessing about our advert driven world:

   http://www.adblogging.blogspot.com/

   See?

   Reply
2. Ron says:

   February 26, 2007 at 8:37 pm

   GAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY! Cheap repro’s of a theme that has made waves. Is it too hard to go out there and be original, instead of trying to take credit for someone else’s idea?

   Reply
3. Scott says:

   February 27, 2007 at 11:42 am

   Obviously made by someone with serious Mac-envy.

   Reply
4. Ian Mack says:

   March 1, 2007 at 1:15 am

   I guess I’m just dumb.

   I can’t fathom the spoofs – way too clever for me.

   So do I buy a pc or an apple?

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