TV EPISODES:
Community:
Season 1: Ep. 121
Contemporary American Poultry
(homage)
Shown with clips from Good Fellas, and Casino
The Simpsons: Season 2 : Ep. 3
Never More
Seinfeld:
Season 9: Ep. 8
The Betrayal
(reverse chronology)
ER :
Season 9: Ep. 10
Hindsight
(reverse chronology)
Bones:
Season 1: Ep. 20
The Graft in the Girl
(great montage scene)
Twilight Zone: Season 1 Ep. 39
Eye of the Beholder
Twilight Zone: Season 1 Ep. 15
I Shot an Arrow into the Sky
Twilight Zone: Season 5 Ep. 22
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
MUSC VIDEOS (GENERAL):
(To include special units on just Madonna, Billy Joel and Peter Gabriel)
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
(the “first” music video)
Live/concert:
Pink Floyd – Dogs of War
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
(1990)
(great use of cameras)
Guns – N – Roses – Sweet Child O Mine
Storytelling music videos:
ZZ Top - Legs
(establishing a mythology)
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
(continuing a mythology)
Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
Billy Joel – River of Dreams
Billy Joel – Keeping the Faith
Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon
Billy Joel - Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
Michael Jackson – Thriller
(first video like a movie)
Michael Jackson – Billy Jean
Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days
(capturing aging angst)
Bruce Springsteen – I’m on Fire
John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow
(1985)
Metallica - One
(1989)
(great anti-war story video)
Shown with clips and excerpts from “Johnny Got His Gun”
Bob Seger – Like a Rock
(1987)
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
(1993)
Billy Idol - White Wedding
(1982)
Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice
(use of peoples thoughts)
(loaded with symbolism)
Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More
(1985)
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
(1991)
Madonna - Like A Prayer
(1989)
Genesis – Land of Confusion
Peter Gabriel – Father Son
(2009)
Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show
(2009)
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
(horror movie format - creepy)
Pink – Stupid Girls
(socially conscious message)
Abstract/performance music videos:
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Madonna - Express Yourself
Madonna – Vogue
(1983)
Aerosmith and Run-DMC - Walk This Way
Van Halen - Right Now
(1992)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
(1975)
Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls
(1991)
(social conscious message)
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
(1983)
The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
(1984)
George Michael - Faith
(1987)
Genesis – Illegal Alien
Blues Brothers – Soul Man
Drake and Josh – Soul Man
Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend
(all one continuous shot)
Animated music videos:
Passion Pit (assorted)
Lex Gopher - The Child
(abstract motion graphics)
Job for a Cowboy – Embedded (maybe – maybe not)
(big time creepy warning)
Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes
TV COMMERCIALS
MacIntosh: 1984
(best commercial ever)
Shangri-La: Wolves
DuLux: Walls
Mercedes-Benz E Class: Sorry
Infinity ads (multiple)
United Airlines ads (campaign)
(great humor)
Google: Parisian Love
American Airlines: Putting Them First
(tear jerker)
Folgers coffee ads: Growing Things
(tear jerker)
Coca-Cola: Hilltop
(great cameras)
Coca-Cola: Polar Bear – Northern Lights
Coca-Cola: Mean Joe Green
Adidas: Impossible Is Nothing (campaign)
(great concept and execution)
Dove: Onslaught
Dove: True Colors
American Express: Jerry Seinfeld and Superman
E*Trade Talking Baby (campaign)
(great humor)
Schweppes: Burst slow motion balloons Ad
Nike: Courage Commercial (I've Got Soul But I'm Not A Soldier)
Nike: Fate Leave Nothing commercial w/ LT & Polamalu
Nike: My Better is Better than your Better vol.2
NY Quits: Lung disease – Bubblewrap Lung
National Tobacco Campaign: Every Cigarette is Doing you Damage - Eye
Quit for Life: Sponge; Quit for Life campaign television commercial
Sprint: animated Flashlight commercial campaign
MOVIE TRAILERS
1. The Man Who Wasn't There
(2001)
2. Magnolia
(1999)
3. Watchmen
(2009)
4. The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
5. The Road
(2010)
6. Inglorious Basterds
(2010)
7. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
8. No Country for Old Men
9. The Lord of the Rings
(2001-2003)
10. Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
11. The Matrix
(1999)
12. Schindler's List
(1993)
13. The Blair Witch Project
(1999)
14. The Shining
(1980)
15. Cloverfield
(2008)
16. Psycho
(1960)
17. Alien
(1979)
Movie Trailers:
http://www.ifc.com/news/2009/06/50-greatest-trailers.php
http://www.traileraddict.com/
Canada’s top ten short films;
http://www.topten.ca/shortfilms/default.aspx
Thomas Edison’s films;
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html
TV Commercials:
Nissan;
http://www.nissancommercials.com/infiniti.htm
United;
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,5046,51625,00.html
Coke;
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html
Assorted;
http://www.retrojunk.com/list_commercials.php
E*Trade baby;
https://us.etrade.com/e/t/jumppage/viewjumppage?PageName=etrade_super_tv_ads