Made a promo for our new FOX affiliate today regarding a football-themed show that we will be airing soon. The interesting thing about the promo is that there is a part that says something along the lines of "be sure to watch this show on the local FOX affiliate" and I edited a shot of a woman holding a sign and swinging it back and forth. The shot comes from the raw footage of football plays, fans and cheerleaders I used to build the spot with.
The sign is an unfriendly epitaph to the opposing football team. I decided to use the shot as an advertisement for the FOX station. I took our station logo from our graphics department and inserted it onto the sign using Photoshop to creat the new sign and After Effects to marry the two images together along with a motion track.
I then stuck the new composition into the spot and voila! Instant self-promotion using the existing raw footage.
When Larry saw the spot, he was into it. Then he saw the comp.
"That-!" he started to say.
The shot continued on, then the shot of the coach giving his ten second "tune in" speech and then the tag and then the fade to black.
"That is terrific! Great job, young man," Larry continued. He was sincerely excited about my work. I knew the shot would give the localizing kick the spot really needed.
And Larry smiled. I think Larry's a Jason Fan now. At 5:40 he walked into my office with Miriam, the morning show host, saying "here he is, here's the kid" -- meant with affection, I'm sure. :) He had a videotape in his hand.
"This is the new opening to our morning show. The video is badly shot. The sound is awful, it's too long..."
"So it sucks," I interjected.
"Yeah. It sucks."
We watch the open and it does, indeed, suck. Miriam had many ideas. I told her to write them down and that I would take care of it. I had to leave for FAITH by 5:50 so I bid a semi-fond farewell and took my leave. We will meet again at 10am tomorrow morning to discuss what can be done about the morning show open.
At FAITH training tonight we visited a Chinese woman who had previously accepted Christ as her personal Lord and savior. We made that visit a ministerial visitation and explained some things about the baptist faith that seperated us from her catholic upbringing.
All I know is no matter what your "religion" is, so long as you "faith" is centered on the fact that if you believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died on the cross for our sins and then rose again, you are a Christian and can have an eternity in Heaven with God Almighty to look forward to after your worldly death.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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