Work
Corporate
Project
Role
TiVo
Concept, Creative / Art Direction,
Production Design, Co-Director
Contracted to create a viral-video
for TiVo. Was
tasked to create entire backstory and myth to
support an engineered conspiracy model amongst
users. The concept was to reignite interest in the
company and its product offerings by setting into
the user’s consciousness the idea of a deeper,
multi-layered history.
One where the basis of the
TiVo technology was actually extracted from an
other-worldly source—a UFO. Where unnamed
forces within government and big-business are
working to keep the ‘truth’ from the consumer.
Meanwhile acting to position TiVo as a type
of ‘white-hat’ corporate entity. One harboring a secretive
network laboring to put forth important new ground-breaking
technologies out into the marketplace. The false-history
built to act as backdrop to the virals we produced, thereby
lending credibility. Thus far we have ‘leaked’ two films on
YouTube and ongoing blog-based efforts amongst the
TiVo user communities online to generate buzz and
fresh dialogue within targeted circles.
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