Behold — It Is Samsung Behold II Man!

Posted by Yuri Baranovsky on Mar 15, 2010 in entertainment industry, film shoots, video, writing |

Hi, all!

So, I may or may not have mentioned that a couple of weeks ago we got a great gig shooting 3 short online commercials for Samsung.

Through Blip.tv, we pitched our ideas to the company — who wanted a super hero theme — wrote up the scripts, and shot this over a weekend (give or take a day of pick-up shots). The videos were originally going to be 30 seconds but, I may have had a bit of fun with the script and they ended up being a little over a minute — for the best, I think.

The end result ended up being less of a 30 second TV-esque spot and more of a three episode arc of a short, very, very branded show. It makes me think that maybe, just maybe, we’ve stumbled upon what commercials are going to look like in a few years  – actual entertaining bits of content, and not just bland advertising.

So, you know, we’re like the future and stuff.

Anyway! Let me know if you have any questions about the videos at all — how we shot them, how we wrote them, whatever — I’ll do my best to answer everything to the best of my very tired abilities.

Here we go:

Episode 1, Jumps Slightly Higher Than Average Girl

Episode 2, Kidnapped!

Episode 3, LowTeknia

11 Comments

Robb
Mar 15, 2010 at 6:03 pm

Nicely done, sir!


 
Giovanna
Mar 15, 2010 at 6:22 pm

Well done! What an astonishingly lovely cast of actors! You really shoud hire them all again. Especially the one in green spandex. She was amazing.


 
Bryy
Mar 16, 2010 at 12:02 am

Wow. Really, super good. Way to use the features!


 
Daniel
Mar 16, 2010 at 12:19 am

Very nice!


 
Fenyx
Mar 16, 2010 at 10:00 am

The first three seconds of episode 2 is my favorite part!!


 
Big Fan
Mar 16, 2010 at 10:24 am

Brilliant. Really.


 
Trisha
Mar 16, 2010 at 2:16 pm

Awesome work! Some of the best commercials I’ve seen. Is it sad that I knew what she was saying through pager code before she said it?


 
Anna Cincera
Mar 17, 2010 at 10:34 am

The idea to have “HEAD TRAUMA” follow that guy as he falls to the bed was genius.

I’ve watched these like six times in the past few days. Just thought you should know.


 
Charball
Apr 5, 2010 at 2:52 am

Please. Please. PLEASE tell me that I really, actually, totally just saw you bust out pager code. That was 81113501773!!! I love you guys.


 
Chris
May 13, 2010 at 12:41 am

These are extremely funny. I wish all pre-roll ads were this good, and not just rehashes of standard broadcast TV commercials. One can only hope that the advertisers will catch up with the concept of how different good web video programming is from traditional TV. This is the kind of ad I would be happy to have in front of my show.


 

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