In class, we watched the Yes Men video that featured a performer posing as a Dow Chemical spokesman on the BBC.
When we watched this video, I was most impressed by the way the performer was able to sell his performance as authentic by accurately mirroring the tropes of a genuine public address from a real spokesman for a major company.
In the clip below, the performers also mirror the conventional media form, that of a trailer for an academy award winning movie, in order to not only provoke laughter from the audience, but also to comment on the Academy Awards as an institution and the formulaic nature of their criteria for an award winning film.
This is not necessarily an intervention into contemporary news, but it does provide an example of intervention (through parody) into a conventional, iconic media form: the movie trailer.
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