Act It! round 12
This round, the semifinals, featured four of us doing three commercials each: one 15 second, one 30 second, and one 60 second. We were under orders not to mix this time, but only to submit single takes of our voicing.
I had a 15-second commercial introducing an upcoming space series (called "Dragonfly" - an obvious parody of "Firefly"), a 30 second commercial for Office Max, and a 60-second commercial for Dunkin' Donuts. The judges came down pretty hard on us - the standards have been going up as we get close to the end. I got criticized for my Dragonfly commercial because I misunderstood the direction ("use a bad-ass announcer voice") and there was some slight negativity about part of the Office Max commercial that didn't sink in when I listened to it at 3 in the morning. But the judges really liked my Dunkin' Donuts commercial.
I wound up winning the round, in part because each of the other three violated one of the rules: two ran over the time limits, and one used an effect on his voice when he was doing an on-the-phone bit. But to make sure we understood that making it to the finals was not just based on a technicality, the judges pointed out that the contestant who was eliminated had actually been relatively weak in this week's entries.
So, I am in the final round now, which features just three of us. They have not told us yet what we are doing in the finale, only that, "it will be epic."
I had a 15-second commercial introducing an upcoming space series (called "Dragonfly" - an obvious parody of "Firefly"), a 30 second commercial for Office Max, and a 60-second commercial for Dunkin' Donuts. The judges came down pretty hard on us - the standards have been going up as we get close to the end. I got criticized for my Dragonfly commercial because I misunderstood the direction ("use a bad-ass announcer voice") and there was some slight negativity about part of the Office Max commercial that didn't sink in when I listened to it at 3 in the morning. But the judges really liked my Dunkin' Donuts commercial.
I wound up winning the round, in part because each of the other three violated one of the rules: two ran over the time limits, and one used an effect on his voice when he was doing an on-the-phone bit. But to make sure we understood that making it to the finals was not just based on a technicality, the judges pointed out that the contestant who was eliminated had actually been relatively weak in this week's entries.
So, I am in the final round now, which features just three of us. They have not told us yet what we are doing in the finale, only that, "it will be epic."