Comments on: Re-made Taxslayer.com winners start airing http://videocontestnews.com/2010/01/20/re-made-taxslayer-com-winners-start-airing/ Video contest news, tips, strategies, interviews, listings, recent winners and even a little competitive smack talk! Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:51:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Careerbuilder’s re-made “Hire My TV ad” superbowl commercials | Video Contest News http://videocontestnews.com/2010/01/20/re-made-taxslayer-com-winners-start-airing/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Careerbuilder’s re-made “Hire My TV ad” superbowl commercials | Video Contest News Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:57:27 +0000 http://videocontestnews.com/?p=1329#comment-427 [...] these are all kinda “meh.”  Just like the re-shot Taxlsayer commercial I wrote about on Wednesday, the original versions all have more heart that the slick re-makes.  The flaming fart [...] [...] these are all kinda “meh.”  Just like the re-shot Taxlsayer commercial I wrote about on Wednesday, the original versions all have more heart that the slick re-makes.  The flaming fart [...]

]]> By: Jared Cicon http://videocontestnews.com/2010/01/20/re-made-taxslayer-com-winners-start-airing/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Jared Cicon Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:52:38 +0000 http://videocontestnews.com/?p=1329#comment-424 I'm with Beardy. Like the actress Clara Pellar exclaimed in those famous Wendy commercials back in the day..."Where's the beef?". Sure I'm biased since I created the first national spot for the TaxSlayer brand, but I think it is pretty obvious that the comedy got strained out just a bit from these two spots through the whole re-write process. A shame too because I could have taken Joel's concept, produced it here in LA with Happy Joel (:30-1:00), maintained the original comedic strength (maybe even bumped it up a notch) keeping Joel in the lead role and probably for a lot less $$$ then TaxSlayer ended up paying. Go figure. I have a second script filed away for the day TaxSlayer wants to re-employ the original chubby Tax crusader. I’m with Beardy. Like the actress Clara Pellar exclaimed in those famous Wendy commercials back in the day…”Where’s the beef?”.

Sure I’m biased since I created the first national spot for the TaxSlayer brand, but I think it is pretty obvious that the comedy got strained out just a bit from these two spots through the whole re-write process. A shame too because I could have taken Joel’s concept, produced it here in LA with Happy Joel (:30-1:00), maintained the original comedic strength (maybe even bumped it up a notch) keeping Joel in the lead role and probably for a lot less $$$ then TaxSlayer ended up paying. Go figure. I have a second script filed away for the day TaxSlayer wants to re-employ the original chubby Tax crusader.

]]> By: david rorie http://videocontestnews.com/2010/01/20/re-made-taxslayer-com-winners-start-airing/comment-page-1/#comment-423 david rorie Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:10:36 +0000 http://videocontestnews.com/?p=1329#comment-423 i really like the idea of this contest. to shoot a rough low budget version. and then get it re-made with a big crew and budget. and dam, happyjoel is one lucky son of a b*#@! funny ad i really like the idea of this contest.
to shoot a rough low budget version. and then get it re-made with a big crew and budget.

and dam, happyjoel is one lucky son of a b*#@!

funny ad

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