Twenty one spots form the 80s and 90s. Every one with a great back story. Some with a budget most of them not.
I was making my own short film on the streets of Toronto and this guy came up to me and asked me if I made commercials so I said yes (of course). Turns out he had twenty people cold calling businesses and selling them airtime, and if they bought his package that got a free commercial. So I (and a couple of other lads) trotted round with a thousand dollars and told the new client that we were going to write the spot there and then. I would make it as written, any changes they paid for, mistakes we're on me. The trick was to sell them a better idea and "boost" the grand.
Ridgways Tea, number three, is one of my favorites. The actor with glasses, Jonathan Barker, ended up running the OFDC for a while, was my best man, and now runs an IMAX production company.
Mighty drop is fun. We animated the bottle over some slides.
CKLW was thirty seconds 35mm stop motion straight form the camera.
I was making my own short film on the streets of Toronto and this guy came up to me and asked me if I made commercials so I said yes (of course). Turns out he had twenty people cold calling businesses and selling them airtime, and if they bought his package that got a free commercial. So I (and a couple of other lads) trotted round with a thousand dollars and told the new client that we were going to write the spot there and then. I would make it as written, any changes they paid for, mistakes we're on me. The trick was to sell them a better idea and "boost" the grand.
Ridgways Tea, number three, is one of my favorites. The actor with glasses, Jonathan Barker, ended up running the OFDC for a while, was my best man, and now runs an IMAX production company.
Mighty drop is fun. We animated the bottle over some slides.
CKLW was thirty seconds 35mm stop motion straight form the camera.
