My Commercial! (And my summer movie rankings)

Here is my commercial that I made for my class a few weeks ago. I mimicked a ONE campaign commercial, but used regular ordinary people instead of celebrities. We have just as loud of a voice if you ask me.



The version I made for class didn't have credits or the song at the end. Sorry about the audio being a little off...



I can't believe a week from now I will have a cabin at Frontier Ranch. Such a weird thought. This was a hard working, but good weekend. We shot my final project on Saturday all day with some actors, and it was a lot of fun. I think it turned out pretty well, we're going to edit it tomorrow, so we'll see. Then today we went to the Zemeckis center and shot Tony's project in front of a green screen all day! It was a long shoot, but good experience, I had never worked with a green screen before. Should be interesting to see how it turns out. I also went to Mosaic for the third and last time tonight. Erwin Mcmanus spoke, (apparently he's pretty famous) and it was great. It sounds cliche, but he spoke about knowing God rather than just knowing his reputation. He had a great metaphor: Our relationship with God is more than just downloading all the "information", it's about making the connection. Ha, that should resonate well with out tech friendly generation.

We are in the final week, which means that everything will be wrapping up. Tomorrow my final project should be finished, and by Wednesday our Warner Brother's projects will finally be finished. They are turning out great. I'll be sure to post all of them here whenever they find their way onto youtube. Thursday is our last day of class, when we are screening all of our final projects and Warner Bros. movies. Two of the execs that were with us the whole time at WB are coming to screen our WB movies, which is kind of nerve wracking, but exciting! After class I get to finish the program by getting to go to a free pre-release screening of The Bourne Ultimatum, which I am REALLY excited to see. I LOVE those movies. Friday is the entire summer program BBQ, where each of the classes from the summer program, (there are like 15-20 or so) submits ONE film that they feel is the best from the entire class. I wonder which one will be our pick... After all of that, I am driving to Santa Cruz to make a major transition from the Film capital of the world to the beautiful quiet mountains and up into the camp bubble. I've loved being surrounded by the film world, but I can't wait to get to camp! I can't wait to be able to breathe fresh air and get to see some old friends, and sing at campfire, and make fun of little kids... It's going to be a great two weeks and a great way to end the summer. But before that all happens, I'm going to make the most of my last week here!

Just cause I feel like it, I want to rank the summer movies I've seen so far, from best to worst, in my opinion. (Just because something is at the bottom doesn't mean it was a bad movie, it just means the others were better!)

Ratatouille
Ocean's 13
Live Free or Die Hard
Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix
Transformers
Surf's Up
Spider Man 3
Shrek 3
Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End
Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer

Still need to see: Bourne Ultimatum, Rush Hour 3
Will wait for rental: Evan Almighty

Okay after writing that list, I realize how hard it was to make that list. It's hard to compare the animated movies to the big action blockbusters. I think Ratatouille's story was just amazing, and Pixar is always the cream of the crop. (except for Cars.) Die Hard had some amazing action, but I think it will be topped by Bourne Ultimatum. I would actually put Surf's Up higher, but something just isn't letting me... but seriously, not a bad movie, it was a lot of fun. Spider Man 3 wasn't as bad as a lot of people say it is, but the infamous "emo" scene, was definitely interesting. Fantastic Four was the worst movie by far, just a lame, lame story with bad acting. Pirates was the letdown of the decade, and was a trilogy that was clearly made just for the money, not for the story. The first one was so much better than the other two it's not even funny. Harry Potter was visually great, and had better acting than any of the others, but it was rushed, not very well directed, and left too much out from the book. Transformers: Great visual effects, fun action, story lacked a little, it relied to much on its visuals and action, but not too horribly. I think I liked Ocean's 13 better than most people. I think these movies are just genius, and witty and clever. This one was better than 12 and just below 11. 11 can't be topped, it's the classic original (of the new Ocean's.) I loved the "lets get even and get revenge" motive of 13, and the casting of Al Pacino.

So there you go, my very brief, quick summary of how I think this summer did for movies. Looking forward to see Bourne, Rush Hour 3, and The Invasion (since I saw some of the final sound mixing at WB) to finish out the summer movies.

If you are bored check out the new Will Smith movie trailer for I Am Legend that comes out on my birthday. Looks pretty good...