Your last chance to submit your entries for the 2010/2011 installment of the big, annual Crash the Super Bowl contest was last night at midnight. So hopefully you all got your Doritos and/or Pepsi Max commercials done on time. If you missed the cut off, don’t be disappointed; just think of it like you’re already set to submit to next year’s contest!
According to an announcement on the CTSB forum, it might take up to 48 hours for the last minute uploads to appear on the site. But already it’s clear this Crash was the biggest yet. Last year, Doritos received about 4,000 submissions. Right now the combined total for Doritos and Pepsi Max entries is 5720. (note: Numbers updated on 11/24 to reflect the last minute ads that were finally approved.) So which product did filmmakers prefer? Well as of right now, here’s what we’ve got:
Doritos entries: 4260
Pepsi entries: 1460
So Doritos wins in a landslide. But as I mentioned in a previous post, this year I’m mostly interested in the Pepsi Max competition since it’s the first year Pepsi’s been a part of the Crash. A few weeks ago I decided to try and watch at least a few seconds of every, single Pepsi Max ad that was submitted to this year’s Crash the Super Bowl contest. And I’ve actually managed to do it. I’ve been bookmarking all the good submissions I see and next Monday I’m going to post a list of what I think are the 25 best Pepsi Max ads.
But I could use some help with this bizarre task. So if you’ve seen a really great Pepsi Max ad that deserves a spot on our Top 25 list, send it to us! Hell, I don’t even care if you made the ad you send. As long as its good, I want to see it. If you have a link you want to share, leave it in a comment to this post.
For now I’m going to post links to two particularly noteworthy ads. The first got my attention because it’s full of recognizable faces. It features two writers from Conan O’Brian’s staff that often play different characters on his show. Both those guys are awesome. And according to some of the comments on the video one actress is a regular in videos produced by The Onion and another girl was a “hottie” on that show The Good Guys a few weeks back.
Office Break- Pepsi Max:
I can't embed videos from the CTSB site so click to view.
The final gag at the end of the video is ingenious but I don’t know…the ad as a whole just doesn’t really grab me. It seems like it was produced by someone with deep pockets (deep compared to 99.99% of CTSB contestants) and money and production values were used to cover up a weak script. In a weird way, I think this entry is actually hurt by the fact that they used a recognizable cast. It seems like a lot of effort with only a small pay off. To me at least, ads that try to “spend” their way into the finals are a real turn off. UPDATE: Oh wow. I assumed this ad was made by someone who worked at the Conan O’Brian show. But it turns out this entry was created by a filmmaker named Kevin Willson. His entry last year made it to the final 6 and aired during the 2010 Super Bowl. It didn’t score high enough on the Ad Meter to get a bonus but Wilson won a $25,000 finalist prize.
Tool Fight:
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That’s a very high-quality submission and you’ll notice that the name of the featured construction company is “Herbert Construction.” There’s nothing to confirm this 100% but it seems pretty likely that this ad was created by 2009 Crash the Super Bowl champs, The Herbert Brothers. They’re the guys who won a million bucks after their brilliant “Free Doritos” commercial was rated the best ad of the entire 2009 Super Bowl. I had seen them doing a promotional video for this year’s Crash and they seemed very excited about submitting a Pepsi Max ad this year. Plus it features a nut shot which is definitely their style. AND ANOTHER UPDATE: Yep, this ad for sure was made by the Herbert Brothers. It even features one of the actors from their famous . If the Herbert Brothers make to the finals again, this will be their third trip to the Super Bowl. Besides “Free Doritos” they also won $10,000 for making it to the finals the first year Doritos ran the Crash with a video called .
Anyways, remember to check back next Monday to see our picks for the Top 25 and if you’ve seen an ad we need to include, let us know! UPDATE: I’m happy to look at any videos anyone wants to send me and I’ll even give you a quick review if you’d like one, but my inbox is getting pretty messy. So please don’t e-mail me your links. Post them in a comment so that everyone can see it.
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I would say the only thing that has changed is the focus. The Ad Meter “top spot” was never really as strong as it is now (and made even more so by Free Doritos toppling the Bud dynasty). Every year it was, “oh, cool…lets watch a most likely disappointing football game and see some clever commercials instead of boring car and anti-depressant advertisements”. Now that it has taken on a competitive edge…of course escalation will occur. It is important to note, also, that Go Daddy usually ranks pretty low on the Ad Meter. Probably on purpose. Be anywhere but in the middle.
But the saturation I described is also why you better air in the first couple commercial breaks if you want a chance at the top spot. And this, I think, has also always been the case.
Oh wow, for the first time in the history of VCN we got so many comments that you now have to click the “Older Comments” link to see the first 50.
NOTE: I edited the post to reflect the current number of entries. The grand total is now 5249.
@Herbert Bros, while I love “Free Doritos” I think “Duct Tape” is a great example how a simple concept can get a big laugh too, love that ad.
does anyone have a guess how the judging process works? Do they have lower level people narrow down the videos that clearly don’t have a shot and make like a top 50 for the execs making the decisions? Even though the execs say the quality doesn’t matter, i doubt the every see the low quality entries.
“they ever” not “the every”, poor grammar, lol
@ Shane
I have no idea. That said:
I would guess they hire interns to watch them all. For a great majority of them they will watch about 2 – 3 seconds of the spot and then put those in the “hey…sure” pile. The ones that survive the 2 – 3 seconds might then be ranked in tiers (like: very good, good, maybe) and they continue to narrow them down to the best of the best.
My brother Joe commented earlier on what he thought happened and I agreed. I would be very surprised if they did not try to recreate the Ad Meter sample to see which commercials get the best results once they have a good handful.
yo beardy,
check it out.
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-D
I have a budget of 0 (Zero) and no experience, wrote down five great ideas, took every bit of advice from the Herbert Bros. on the CTSB site and found out the hard way that no one is actually willing to Help you for Free, Free Doritos are great but free professional help would have been nice, ever since the contest open-up till the last past two weeks I advertised for a crew (actors, props, lighting, cameras, etc.) went out and scouted locations, ask for permission to shoot, explained my creative ideas and was rejected every single time, yes its hard, people will take you for crazy “Yea right, a commercial and you want services for free, good luck” this is what I got time after time from the local Film Commission, the local theater actors, and one guy who said he want it to be the director, local shops and stores saying no thanks and doors shut in my face. I decided to essentially be on my own, it’s the last week of summiting commercials and now there’s an Immense clock ticking down on the CTSB site rubbing it in my face, 5 days U looser, 4 days and No help Ha-ha, 3 days you’ll never make it butt wipe. Oh-no you didn’t you obnoxious clock, time is almost up, “Dam You” countdown-clock and I have no professional help. Well I selected the simplest of my ideas and went to town with it, that’s after I cried my face off and two days to go, got my camcorder, had my Wife and Nephew be in it (force them to be in it, gave ten bucks to Diego and told my Wife I’d be on my best behavior for some time) practice with Shelis and Diego for a couple of hours, irritated them more than once, got my daughter holding a lamp close to everyone faces and trying to engrave a hot light bulb in to her Mom’s forehead, there a crude stand up lighting system that I made with pvc pipe falling apart, rearrange my furniture at home, waited for the sun to hit the room just right, filmed for 7 hours, then the camcorder battery dies and we have to wait forever for it to be charged up TWICE, loose the sunlight, loose everyone’s patience with a six year old full of Doritos and “are we done yet, are we done yet”. Then it’s like, I know nothing about editing and one day left, Uno, 24 hours left from the mean old clock on my laptop ticking away in my nightmares, oh the wife just walk inn, wants to know why I’m punching my laptop screen, any way going back to my story, So its Sunday night, I will edit tomorrow that I’m off from work, No I’m not calling in sick, did I not mention my Grandpa died last week and his funeral was on Monday, it’s been a hell of a week for everyone, (that’s the reason I cried my face off) http://hillcrestfuneralhome.frontrunnerpro.com/runtime/4878/runtime.php?SiteId=4878&NavigatorId=66900&viewOpt=dpaneOnly&ItemId=600008&op=tributeMemorialCandles So then its Monday and I’m back e back from my Grandpas funeral, I have no motivation in me and its 3pm and the dead line is hours away, I’m editing for 8 hours straight trying to come up with just the right version, then at one minor point saying to myself what’s the point, how am I supposed to compete with all of these professionals and there deep pocket budgets I mean common there were advertisement and film companies seeking comedy writers, even Conan O’Brien writers are competing. The idea, at least the way I understood it was to leave the Big Boys out and have The Crash the Super Bowl contest actually discover RAW Talent. or am I just whistling Doritos, any way that’s my outburst of frustration for the day, so it’s done, its summited and it will be judge, it’s not perfect, lightings off, voices sound odd, but every bit of it is mine. /#/gallery/?video=9053 this is for my grandparents.
Hi Beardy – great site, found it while looking at the Crash the Super Bowl forums and the moderator mentioned some “crazy” guy had counted all of the ads – that “crazy” person was you!
I’d love to hear what you think about my submission “Guilty Conscience”: shot on Saturday, edited on Sunday. Crazy. Submitted. Thanks!
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Martin,
That’s a wild story but I think your video turned out pretty good. I think one of the best things about the Crash the Super Bowl contest is that it inspires people to try their hand at film making. But as you found out, making a commercial is neither cheap nor easy. There are tons and tons and tons and tons of aspiring filmmakers out there all asking camera people, lighting techs, sound techs etc to work on their projects for free. These people are in such high demand that the chances are small that they would want to take a risk and work with a first time director. So you shouldn’t take that personally at all. Keep in mind, the goal here is to create an ad that is good enough to air during the super bowl and be seen by millions and millions of people. Production quality does matter and that means that if you have an idea you love you should be willing to spend a little money on it. The only way you can shoot a great ad for almost no money is if you happen to have the skills to produce, shoot an edit a professional looking and sounding spot all by yourself.
Hallvalla,
I liked the overall concept but the spot had a lot of technical problems. It didn’t look so great and the sound was just well…not good. No matter how good an idea is, if the viewer can’t understand the dialogue and if the video is not pleasing to look at, it can’t be considered for tv. But like I said, it’s a funny idea so you may want to re-shoot it for a different contest.
Shane,
Based on some things different people said in the launch event video, it sounds like the judges at the top only see the best of the best.
I did hear from someone with firsthand knowledge that doritos does show at least the finalist videos to focus groups. I’m not sure if they just show the 5 finalists after their picked or if they show them a bunch of potential finalists and ask for their input. I’d bet they show a bunch of ads to the group.
@Martin, props to you for following through with an idea and actually executing it, so many people talk and talk and have no action, you did, and i’m sure u learned a lot. I echo what Beardy said, a little money needs to be spent on these ads its just the nature of the beast with so much competition out there.
Hey Beardy-
If you’re not being bombarded with too many, take a gander at ours when you’ve got the time.
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We (as a group) did 7 spots (2 of them were the same spot, just different ending)… 5 Doritos and 2 Pepsi Max.
I do not know how they do the judging process… but I can tell you that I do believe they watch EVERY commercial in it’s entirety (the full 30 seonds). Having been a finalist/winner I had the opportunity to meet alot of the people behind this contest, and I think a majority of the major players at Doritos ALL watch every ad… not just interns narrowing it down for them. They put a lot of time money and effort into this contest, and really seem to do it right. There is a tremendous amount of ads, but they do have another month to watch them…. and I know from meeting them they talked about spending HOURS upon HOURS watching every ad.
In their rules they state their basis for judging. There are three criteria. If you can do well in all three critieria your spot has a chance of being talked about as a finalist.
Joe Herbert
Martin… sorry to hear about the troubles you encountered working on your project! They allow anyone to enter the contest. Steven Spielberg himself can enter if wants. Bill Gates can enter with a $1 Billion dollar budget if he wants. Ad agencies can enter and do. The point in the contest is to give people the chance to beat the best… not for all the second and third best to compete against each other for best of the second best… make sense?
Dave and I tought ourselves filmmaking for a year withour picking up a camera then we did our first project.. a short film about jokes… then our second project ever done and first commercial attempt was a spot we submitting in the 2007 crash the super bowl contest and we were a finalist, but didn’t air during the super bowl. So you can’t say it’s NOT a place to discover raw talent!!! We are proof of that.
As to having trouble getting people to work for free, that’s an art. I’m not sure where you are from, but the only place I’ve ever had trouble getting locations is Los Angeles, because they are so used to getting paid big bucks from production companies all the time. I think it’s funny that the websites of places like libraries, schools, stores, retaurants in LA all have a page on their site that says CLICK HERE FOR FILMING RATES…. lol… you don’t see that anywhere else in the world. We live in a small town between Cincinnati Ohio and Indianapolis Indiana, and it’s not like this area is known for being THE PLACE to go for video and film production, so everyone with a passion or experience in every aspect of filmmaking is hungry to work anything that pops up. People are very willing to work for free. BUT not for anyone or anything. They have to believe in you and your concept. When we first decided to cold call cast and crew we were VERY organized. We had a funny script, with storyboards all laid out, and we presented ourselves in a professional manner despite not knowing what the F we were talking about. And people were excited to be on board. It’s hard to publish things online and get a lot of responses, but if you initial direct contact by phone or email and get their interest peeked you’ll do get people to help work on things with you. Maybe not the first or second person, but if you don’t stop until you have someone who says yes (that’s what we did) then persistence will pay off.
Also, if you can’t someone who is a director of photography for example, to come help with lighting and camera work… then what you do is ask those people who say if they have any assistants / grips that they work with who are aspiring to be a director of photography. Often those people who WANT to be a director of photography and are working their way up the ladder would JUMP at a chance to be one on your project.
If it was easy, the contest would be pointless.
The KEY is CONCEPT… CONCEPT CONCEPT CONCEPT CONCEPT!!!!!!!!! And using your brain requires NO BUDGET at all. It costs you nothing to THINK is this contest helps prove that. The point they are making is that you can do well with great ideas, and not because you throw money at something. We beat ad pros for the top spot in 2009 with a budget under $2000. And most of our budget was just buying everyone food. So it wouldn’t be unfair at all if bill gates spent a billion dollars on an ad and submitted because it doesn’t matter how much you spend, it’s about having the best idea and executing it well. All the money in the world with an average concept won’t beat a GREAT concept on a low budget.
The guys who won the first year in 2007 made their spot for under $50, and they used a cheap camcorder to shoot it. There again was undiscovered raw talent.
We shoot our commercials with a camera that retails for a little over $1500!
Be creative in how you think, be creative in how you go about executing your spot, and be creative on how you edit… the contest isn’t a lottery where they draw a winner from a hat. It’s a talent competition, and it gives everyone an OPPORTUNITY that they would otherwise never have gotten. The other winners, and ourselves would never have made a super bowl commercial had it not been for them making that opportunity available.
Keep your spirits high, and good luck on your future endeavors!!!
REMEMBER THIS: There will be more than 5 good commercials submitted. There are 5 finalists. This means several REALLY GOOD AWESOME OUTSTANDING WORTHY spots won’t make it. It’s simple math. Just do your best and hope, and then move on to the next project. Worst case scenario make something GREAT for your reel to show people… over time you build up a portfolio of great work, and use that to get more work.
Joe Herbert
I don’t edit what I type, or use backspace, so deal with the typos people, lol
I would rather take my brain and a $1,000 budget and go up against Steven Spielberg with a $100,000 commercial budget and lose, than to go up against people I know I can beat. And I don’t know if I’m alone in that thinking, but those who feel the same have the attitude of a champion inside them.
FYI, despite winning money in this contest, our budget on a submission this year is LESS than we spent in 2009. The day we start throwing money at projects is the day we sellout and our work suffers and we get beat by someone as hungry as we used to be, and I’ll never let that happen.
@Joe, what is the three criteria the judges use?
The judging requirements are spelled out right in their rules!!! This is a straight copy/paste from the site:
CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT:
-The creative assignment for the Contest (“Creative Assignment”) is as follows:
Choose a brand category: DORITOS® brand or PEPSI MAX® (each a “Category”).
- Review the assets for that brand Category provided in the Toolkit on .
- Get together your idea for a DORITOS® brand or PEPSI MAX® Super Bowl XLV commercial. Go for action-
packed. Or go for funny. It’s up to you.
- Create and submit a 30-second spot featuring DORITOS® brand tortilla chips or a 30-second spot
featuring PEPSI MAX®.
- Your commercial may feature both brands (DORITOS® brand and PEPSI MAX®), however, your Submission
will only be judged in the first Category for which it was entered.
- Your submission should be in commercial form consistent with these Official Rules.
JUDGING REQUIREMENTS:
Judging Criteria (“Judging Criteria”) is as follows:
Originality and Creativity – 40%
Adherence to Creative Assignment – 30%
Overall Appeal – 30%
The Crash the Super Bowl contest is the GREATEST creative contest I know of in the world! AND it’s more than just the creativity you put on screen. There is probably MORE creativity involved with what goes on behind the lens!!!
Dave
Howdy Beardy,
If you’ve got half a minute, I’d love to get your feedback on our submission, The Main Event.
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Thanks man; love the site!
I have 2 entries Beardy. One for each product. It all starts with story and I feel my team has accomplished what we set out to do! Without further ado……..
Pepsi Genie:
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and
Eat Like a Little Girl:
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Enjoy and feel free to bring the feedback!
Barking Shark,
Your ad is very well made and looks great. But the joke of the spot seems kind of forced. I liked that the boxer refused water and drank pepsi but as soon as his trainer said “go get this clown” I knew he’d be fighting a clown. But other than the joke, WHY was he fighting a clown?
Solo Mojo,
The one with the genie is pretty good. But the end gag with the pepsi bottle nipples popping out because the girl gets cold is probably too risque for the super bowl. If you remember, they’re kind of sensitive about exposed nipples these days.
As for the eating contest one, people shoving doritos into their mouths isn’t really appetizing to watch. And the guys eating doritos don’t care that they’re delicious. They’re only eating them because of a contest.
OK FOLKS, THAT’S IT, THAT’S ALL, I’M DONE. I’M BURNT OUT ON CRASH THE SUPER BOWL ENTRIES SO I WON’T BE ABLE TO DO ANY MORE CRITIQUES. I’m still looking for good entries though so feel free to continue to post your links. And you can also feel free to ask other readers for feedback.
Would love to get some feedback on my submission. It’s called ” THE CHIP SQUAD” Belive it or not I spent under $800 bucks putting this ad together and was able to get all the actors and extras to work on SPEC..
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Everyone was pretty happy with the end result. What do you guys think?
Manny, I’m sorry, but I’ve seen that commercial hundreds of times, it reminds me of the recent Captain Morgan commercials. I’ve seen many Doritos commercials in this contest also that have the characters take on the persona’s of Doritos chips. I’m sorry you spent that much money on this commercial.
It was great production quality though.
“Duck Duck MAX” – /#/gallery?video=7014
Wow! How have I missed this site up until now? Me and my partners got into “video contests” about a year ago, with our first submission being for Nikon. It’s really just escalated from there – we almost feel addicted to them now! This is our very first Doritos Superbowl submission, and it’s crazy how many people we knew who ended up submitting this year. The Pepsi Max numbers make me wish we had submitted a Pepsi commercial instead, though, as I guess there are much greater odds of being 5/1388. Anyway, would love to have you check out “Totally Worth It”:
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Thanks so much, and great site, Beardy!!
Please take a look at my submission when you have a chance:
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This site is great! The talk about visual versus physical humor scared me off from posting this one earlier, but here goes:
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This site is really great, Beardy! Thanks!
Howdy once again.
I was not sure to which thread I should post.
Here is our spot.
It is for Pepsi Max.
It is called Birdie.
I hope that you think it is nice.
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This one was simple but I thought it was one of the best I saw on the site:
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Beardy, I posted this on the other link, but I forgot to ask for a review of your thoughts. Thanks, it’s good to get opinions from outsiders not just friends and family.
New Girlfriend
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Divine Janitor
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To the Maxx
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Thanks ahead of time!
Joe!
Joe is right. the rules never say “only enter if your an amature” its fun, and a challange to go up against some big budget projects.
Aaron,
I’m sorry to say this but it seems like you managed to put at least one thing in each of your entries that would offend some one. You have to remember that the super bowl audience is huge and there will be a whole lot of people watching who have no sense of humor. To start, Divine Janitor would probably offend a few religious people. And in To the Maxx, your white actor seems to be portraying a black stereotype. Maybe that wasn’t your goal but that’s how it comes off. (remember, afro wigs on white guys are never a good idea) And if Pepsi aired New Girlfriend they’d just be begging for trouble. LGBT rights groups would flip if that ad aired during the super bowl. And yes, I’m serious. Fighting negative stereotypes (like the one that all transgendered people want to trick hetero men into sleeping with them) is big deal for a lot of activists.
RE: Joe’s comment about the 2007 winners shooting their ad for 50 bucks using a cheap camcorder. I remember reading some article at the time that said the $50 budget was misleading because they used thousands of dollars worth of HD gear which wasn’t easy to come by in 2007. I just did a google check and “Live the Flavor” was shot with a JVC GY-HD100 with a Letus 35mm adapter. That was seriously high-end stuff 4 years ago.
check out our ad “com’on baby!”
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Ouch, you know the ironic thing is… the Divine Janitor was supposed to be a confessional with a priest who goes on break and I called Catholic priests to find out if that would be something that would offend others because the last thing I wanted to do was offend someone. Your post blew me away! The only one I thought might be an issue is the Afro on white man, but in the same sense I knew I had no intentions of making fun of a “race” but the whole 70s itself. I’m a youth pastor and we filmed Divine Janitor at our church. I could careless if Christians got mad because I’m a strict one and I don’t feel I touched anything sacred. Last, “new girlfriend” was supposed to be about a woman who has a deep voice. Not a transgender person. I ran into a woman who had a deep voice once and it gave me the idea. But I guess I can see how you came to your conclusion with the “no sense of humor” people. Not my intentions at all. But for what it’s worth, what did you think of the production and concepts as intended? I’ve struggled since I’ve entered this contest 3 times now, with no schooling. Now I’m beginning to wonder if schooling in this arena is my next step because of all the great videos with great graphics. Thanks for the comments, yet sad sad sad for me.
aaron, no need to be sad sad. As I was going through all the entries I bookmarked the ones that I thought were decent (so I could do my top 25 list later) I bookmarked about 200 out of 1300 entries and “New Girlfriend” was on there. So really, you made an entry that i think is in the top 15% of all the pepsi entries. And Divine Janitor probably wouldn’t offend any one but religious zealots. As for To the Max, the wig wasn’t the only offensive thing. Your actor also seemed to be doing a “black” voice. Not good. But despite the possibly offensive stuff, your ads do show promise.
However I definitely would not recommend going to film school if your only goal is to win the crash the super bowl contest. If you look at the past finalists doritos has chosen it’s clear that all of those finalist had lots of filmmaking experience. And the people who are submitting professional looking entries probably ARE professionals already.
Here’s my advice to you; you only need one thing to make a professional looking video and its not a degree in filmmaking. It’s MONEY. If you have money you don’t need to learn graphics and lighting because you can pay people to do your graphics and lighting. If you don’t have money, maybe you can come up with a good script and find people to invest in it. Actually…the only thing more important than money is a good script. If your script is good enough professionals will want to work for FREE because they’ll believe they might stand to gain if your project succeeds.
Anyways, i’m rambling. if you love filmmaking, pursue it. But ff you just want to win the CTSB contest, next time put together a team of pros that can help you bring your ideas to life.
Oh yeah and always let other people read your scripts before you shoot. Ask them for notes and to look for any potential problems.
This one is my favorite! I heard it was not DQd as they got the pepsi “guns” approved ahead of time. I can totally see this being in the final chosen group! Thoughts?
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Thanks Beardy!
I actually would like to do more than just the contest. The contest is actually a step toward what I really want to do. That’s show that you don’t have to have “offensive” stuff in videos for them to be good. Hahah, kinda failed on that one this year! But anyways there is so much crap in the media and just like everything else in the world, people sell out for money. Instead of good plots, story, acting, there is a huge emphasis on gore, graphics, sex, and violence. All because this stuff sells. Movies should be an art, not who can make the most money, and in all honesty media effects people way more than we realize. What messages are we sending to our kids. But let me step down from my soap box and say that I am “Grateful for your comment on “New Girlfriend”. It’s nice to hear someone of your caliber say they thought it was even in the top 25! You will see my back next year or maybe on a smaller scale contest too, with hopefully non-offensive videos. Thanks again!
@Aaron “people sell out for money”, i really hate when people say things like this, i hate the fact that when things make money people think that is “selling out”, it is actually called being successful. I agree you shouldn’t let money dictate everything you do, but at the end of the day, money is what makes the world go round and I would direct a sequel to “Pluto Nash” for money if the job was offered to me. Now, I will step down off my soapbox, ha, ha.
@Shane Free, I hear you Shane no disrespect to all those who work hard for their money and have a lot of it. there are people that have morals and values that make money. Money is not “the root of all evil” but the “love of money is the root of all evil”. But Shane would you agree that the reason there is so much filth in movies is mostly because that stuff sells? And if so I equate this problem with the same one as people putting things that might not be good for us in their crops/animals so they have a larger and more productive crop for what, the money? Maybe I sound like a real crazy skeptic, but Ii think we need to wake up a little and start taking better care of ourselves as a whole. I for one know that greed can settle in easy and begin to change the way you look at things. No one is exempt from the “love of money”. Thanks for your comment Shane.
Alright now…back to Pepsi Max discussion, thank you Aaron and Shane.
Well, it’s next Monday (November 22). Where’s the list of your Top 25??
@John you’re right John, sorry guys, if you would like to talk more Shane just send me your email, thanks for talking, and Beardy do you have an option to subscribe to your site through emaail. I’d like to keep more in touch with you.
Hey. What would your opinion be of my video? Its called Dorito Magic featuring a magician coming out from behind the curtain at the beginning. There are a couple more of the same name. There’s alot of mine posted because of problems with the website during upload.
I appreciate your time.
Thanks.
Randy
Randy,
Your video was amusing but I think it could have been a lot stronger with a few tweaks. The story moved a little slowly. The first 10 seconds are just spent waiting for the first trick to happen. Actually, I probably would have opened with the kid in the audience eating the doritos and cut to the magician already in mid-act. Then the magician notices the doritos and does a trick to get some.
I would have made some aesthetic changes too. I’m sure you worried a lot abouy the size of the audience and got as many kids as you could. But a nearly empty crowd just doesn’t feel right. A full crowd would have made the video seem bigger in scope. And also would have liked to seen more elaborate costumes for the magician and his lady assistant. I know you probably didn’t have the budget for abigger crowd or real costumes and that’s ok. But you shot ano budget version of an ad that would have been much better if you spend $500. Basically, you had an expensive idea but didn’t spend money on it. That type of thing has happened to me plenty of times and my advice is to try and think of a new idea that will fit your budget and means and maybe next year you’ll be able to do the bigger idea.
My final note is that the end of the video was too happy. Usually at the end of a CTSB ad some one gets their comeuppance. The way things were goin I thought something was going to happen to the kid or the kid would take some kind of quick revenge on the magician.