Wrapped!
Whew! A new week is starting and we have four new spots in the can. Lauren and I are at the office wrapping today, and Fagan and Jerry are logging and editing away. Our client wants a rough cut of one of the spots today!
We had lots of fun with all the spots last week, but I think Cabbage Patch Kids and Lucky Bee Bee were my favorites. Both were very girly, with super fun creative concepts (thanks to our rockin writer Bernice), fabulous talent (thanks to our LA-based casting director Michael), infectious jingles (thanks to our composer Ric), and very current looks for the sets, wardrobe, and hair/ makeup (thanks to Art Director Jeff, Stylist Jeanne, and Kandee the Makeup Artist).
Here’s a pic of our three little Cabbage Patch stars. They were adorable!
In the background, you can see our doll styling station. Our two professional doll stylists - the Jennifers - were fabulous. For one sequence in the commercial, they had to create 10 different, intricately styled hair-do’s. To make each look really good takes a lot of effort (and funny miniature doll hairstyling tools… including tiny curling irons and hot glue guns).
We also shot for a new product called Dunkadoos. Our look for the spot was very clean… People kept commenting that it looked like an Apple commercial.
My favorite part was a shot with a big, slimy, live frog. So fun!
I also got to totally embarrass myself that day when our client said he wouldn’t sign off on the jingle unless we convinced him with a live performance of it. I recruited Lyndi (our wardrobe assistant), Kandee the makeup artist, production coordinator Lauren, and assistant director Garrett to help me perform it at lunch. We rocked it out.
We’ll post production stills from our set photographer later this week, and in the meantime, we’re going to go lock ourselves away in the edit bay!