Post by Captain Amadeus (Legendary Em) on Jun 20, 2009 9:14:03 GMT -5
Alright, this time I'm just making a fool out of myself. Last year, I was in a Mass Media class in my senior year of highschool. One of our big projects was to make a commercial for an original product. Since I was the only one in my group with a creative bone in his body, I was put in charge of pretty much the whole shibang.
My product? Kill Kola, a beverage that increases one's testosterone and blood-lust 100%. My commercial? It involved a man dressed as a beaver.
Here's the link; watch it now, and then read the rest of this post: s444.photobucket.com/albums/qq170/VictoriasMassMedia/?action=view¤t=1617ec54.pbr
The 'actors' are my friend Juan Marante in the Beaver Mask, and myself as the guy who is randomly punched in the face for throwing a can at the beaver. But you really wouldn't understand that because of the shoddy camera work and editing that took place.
See, there were too other women in my group. One just crushed the can with her foot and said 'See ya!' for the rest of the day. The other took the video home, did an pretty bad job on selling the product in the second-to-final scene (mostly because you couldn't hear what she was saying), and decided to edit it all together herself. Never mind the fact that certain scenes needed to be re-shot all-together; the beaver did not come even CLOSE to touching me and that's why she felt the need to put the word 'crazy' by my face so that it couldn't be seen.
She put the scenes together in photobucket's 'remixer' which just plain didn't get any sense of timing correct with the scene switches. Things were even worse originally, but right before it was presented (!) I was shown the 'finished' product and had five minutes to put the scenes in an order than made sense.
So what you have just seen is the destruction of my creative proccess. Parts to look out for are me getting beat-down by a man in a bad beaver costune, and said beaver standing with his foot on my back during the scene when the can is crushed (I am laying sprawled in the background).
I worked my butt off and the project got a C-, while some guy who'd done nothing but move Jpegs around a screen in Windows Movie Maker while DJ music played got an A+. There is no justice in the world...
My product? Kill Kola, a beverage that increases one's testosterone and blood-lust 100%. My commercial? It involved a man dressed as a beaver.
Here's the link; watch it now, and then read the rest of this post: s444.photobucket.com/albums/qq170/VictoriasMassMedia/?action=view¤t=1617ec54.pbr
The 'actors' are my friend Juan Marante in the Beaver Mask, and myself as the guy who is randomly punched in the face for throwing a can at the beaver. But you really wouldn't understand that because of the shoddy camera work and editing that took place.
See, there were too other women in my group. One just crushed the can with her foot and said 'See ya!' for the rest of the day. The other took the video home, did an pretty bad job on selling the product in the second-to-final scene (mostly because you couldn't hear what she was saying), and decided to edit it all together herself. Never mind the fact that certain scenes needed to be re-shot all-together; the beaver did not come even CLOSE to touching me and that's why she felt the need to put the word 'crazy' by my face so that it couldn't be seen.
She put the scenes together in photobucket's 'remixer' which just plain didn't get any sense of timing correct with the scene switches. Things were even worse originally, but right before it was presented (!) I was shown the 'finished' product and had five minutes to put the scenes in an order than made sense.
So what you have just seen is the destruction of my creative proccess. Parts to look out for are me getting beat-down by a man in a bad beaver costune, and said beaver standing with his foot on my back during the scene when the can is crushed (I am laying sprawled in the background).
I worked my butt off and the project got a C-, while some guy who'd done nothing but move Jpegs around a screen in Windows Movie Maker while DJ music played got an A+. There is no justice in the world...