This En Nuestras Manos Public Service Announcement, featuring various celebrities in one, proudly showing their pulseras.Of course, then it turns out to be the other place. One of the more famous "Got Milk?" commercials involved a man who dies and wakes up in an empty white room in what seems to be heaven.
A set of three PlayStation3 commercials (one Nightmare Fuel) features a room likely meant to invoke this effect, but it's just a white room.The notable exception is the iPod ads, which lean more toward the opposite extreme. PC" ads, and more recently the iPhone ads. The setting of most Apple Computer ads since the introduction of OSX, including the testimonial-based "Switch" campaign, the Justin Long-John Hodgeman "Mac vs.The print ads and banner ads are more of the "photo shoot" variety found in the Real Life section of this page, with only the white void in the background, so you can focus on Flo's quirky, zealous visage.to angelic Flo in her Progressive heaven for high contrast. It is especially glaring when they spend most of the commercial avoiding this trope by concentrating on a more realistic, documentary style filmed in an actual parking lot, with "used car salesmen" type employees from a competing insurance company.The white clothing makes it seems as if severed heads and severed arms are floating in the white void. The white objects in the white void make the void more memorable than other settings where only the background is white. In addition, the employees wear bleach-white clothing, and the furniture seems to be self-illuminated, and there are empty boxes labeled with policies. They've quickly evolved into the "people and furniture floating in a void" variety of this trope.The Flo-based advertising campaign for Progressive Insurance.Lots of guns" scene from The Matrix, below.) A great deal of car commercials actually take place in the void. (The original ad bore an uncanny similarity to the "We'll need guns. Cars would appear and disappear in response to their description of what vehicle they wanted to buy.
THE WHITE DOOR WEBCOMIC SERIES
Carmax had a series of TV commercials with people standing in a completely white room.A more mundane version of this trope is the Soulless Bedroom. See also Misery Lit for when a book presents the white void room on its cover to represent death. The diffused high-key light often makes this the opposite of Chiaroscuro. Often a sign of the Lazy Artist in Sequential Art when the background is missing. When this effect is produced unintentionally by poor description, it is a Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue.Ĭompare Blank White Void, for literal dimensions of white. May be an extreme form of Ascetic Aesthetic. Occasionally, there are a few pieces of furniture (color is optional) in the room for the characters to sit down and have a discussion. Or, it can represent the limitless possibilities of a blank canvas, so this room could be a currently-inactive holo simulator, or some other place where literally anything can happen. Or, the white can represent sterility, making these rooms suitable for otherworldly hospitalization.
They make excellent cells for imprisonment or interrogation-the absence of visible exits (or any sign that the outside world exists at all) implies no possibility of escape. Sometimes, the only indication that it's not a void is the fact that the characters have something solid to stand on.Īs literal white voids represent some "other realm"-usually a result of a dream or crossing over to another universe-physical rooms that replicate this visual effect will have the same connotations. So featureless, in fact, that you can't even tell where the walls, floor, and ceiling end-they all blend seamlessly together under the uniform light, so the chamber looks more like a white void than a room. Think of being inside a gigantic, well-lit ping-pong ball. I grew up just a lil' bit that day.A featureless white room. did you really think it would be okay for me to do so? and I had to sit back and question myself for a bit there 'cause I hadn't realized how serious it was. I was in my early 20s back then and didn't realize yet how absolutely awful spiking a drink without consent was, especially from the bartender himself!ĭon't know if I told this story already, but way back then when I mentioned this "silly strip" to Jo himself (yes, Jo was a real dude, beard and viking and bartender and all!) he looked at me dead serious and said "Of course I would never spike someone's drink." like. (in the strip above it makes it rather seem like he thought Lillian wanted the ""Orange Juice"" special, so makes it a little better) So that was my first attempt at correcting a big ol' mistake of mine from the past, the GGaR past, where Lillian had ordered an orange juice at Jo's and it was alcoholised, making it seem like Jo had spiked her drink.
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