Pond5, a stock media company, is getting in on the Star Wars marketing tsunami with a series of hilarious ads about Star Wars characters running against each other in faux elections. Funnier if you’re up to date with American political trivial / ads, as they play off jokes from classic American political ad campaigns: the Han Solo-Chewbacca ticket, for example, is running off Hillary Clinton’s now infamous ‘3am’ commercial from her 2008 run against Barack Obama. Also, we admit we just like Star Wars stuff. According to Pond5’s blog:
It’s widely known that Pond5 media is often used in political campaign ads, so that got us thinking: What if our favorite Star Wars characters were running campaigns of their own? Then we scoured our library for video and audio that could bring these parody campaigns to life through a series of imaginary TV spots.
From intergalactic spoofs of classic ads for Hillary Clinton and Ronald Reagan to an Ewok-language Green Party campaign, all of these videos were created exclusively with footage, sound effects, and music from Pond5.
A microsite was also created for each ‘campaign’, where viewers could vote for their favourite. The film will be out on the 17th of December.