who's got a good commercial/infomercial/exposé to show?

Apr 09, 2010 21:05

Here's me asking for help again. I'm going to start a film project with some of the kids next week. They're doing a theme on Viking times, and I'm going to coach them as they divide into two groups and make short films: one is going to do a commercial/infomercial about how excellent it was to live in Viking times, and the other is going to do an ( Read more... )

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utopian_sky April 10 2010, 08:36:33 UTC
I'm not sure this is something to show the kids, but maybe it can inspire to something. I don't know, either way it's quite funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4&feature=fvst

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kattahj April 10 2010, 11:11:52 UTC
It's brilliant, but it might go over their heads. I don't know. Thanks anyway!

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sarcasticwriter April 16 2010, 08:53:14 UTC
The Story of Bottled Water is okay (unoriginal as it is), but I would consider it more edutainment than exposé - at least in the way Americans produce exposés.

If we're talking about bottled water exposés, Penn & Teller did a vastly better job in the way-back times of 2003 in an episode of Bullshit!:

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kattahj April 16 2010, 10:53:52 UTC
Cool, I'll watch that! I've already had the class, but it's always good to gather material for next time. Anything is good that is more filmically interesting than Plus. (And from that perspective, "The Story of Bottled Water" works very well - I didn't really care about content.)

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