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Be in a commercial and make some ca$h

edited December 2012
A friend of mine is doing the casting for this. Make sure to mention me if you send in a submission:

Nationally Known Fast Food Chain Karaoke Web Videos
A nationally known fast food chain is casting a series of short web videos in support of this year's Superbowl ad campaign. The videos will feature a variety of offbeat characters performing an 80's hair band inspired karaoke tune. We are looking for the characters listed below only. Please do not submit if you do not fit any of the descriptions. You must reside in Portland or surrounding area. You must be available to shoot the week of January 7th, 2013. There is paid compensation.

Businessman. Male. Age: 30s-40s. Preferably Asian, but all ethnicities apply. He has the worn look of a traveling salesman who has given up on really making it; ill-fitting suit, spare tire in the mid-section. He just finished up at a conference and hit the mini-bar hard. Re-living the glory days with his singing.

Cat Lover. Male or Female. Age: Late 20s/early 30s. Any ethnicity. Authentic, not ironic cat lover. Emotional fragility, might be ont he verge of tears.

Young tipsy woman. Female. Age: 21-25. Any ethnicity. She's a community college student who works at a restaurant chain. Pretty in a suburbs/middle American kind of way. She's drunk enough to be really going for it - and believing she's nailing it.

Rocker Kid. Male or Female. Age: around 10yrs old. Any ethnicity. (Must have a valid minors work permit). A kid that unbashfully loves music from a different generation. Completely not self-aware.

To be considered, send us a 15-30 second video (laptop/smartphone videos are preferred) of you singing your favorite 80s hair band karaoke song in-character.
Email the video to casting@sandwichvideo.com no later than Friday Dec. 14th. The sooner the better! Don't forget to include your contact info and a photo of yourself in the email.

Comments

  • Can Owls please be Cat Lover.
  • edited December 2012
    Why does the salesman have to be so sad? Boo.

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  • He's always closing, but Bateman is a banker!

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  • Businessman. Male. Age: 40s-50s. Preferably Asian, but all ethnicities apply. He has the comfortable look of a traveling salesman who has made it ten times over and continues because he really loves it; slim fitting dark suit, fit with a full head of hair. He just finished up giving the keynote at a conference and hit the revolving restaurant/bar at the top of the hotel. Re-imagining the glory days when he made his first million with his singing.
  • Tom Frank would say Salesmen are sad because advertising must convince you that it's on your side by mocking avatars of capitalism. Ads acknowledge viewers’ skepticism about big business, yet function to suspend that skepticism. Frank cites Mark Crispin Miller’s argument that “TV protects its ads from mockery by doing all the mocking, thereby posing as an ally to the incredulous spectator.”
  • I am a true cat lover and have in my life been close to tears about it, but I'm not comfortable singing metal on national tv.

    :/
    but I love making ca$h!
  • I would kind of like to play the young tipsy woman. Too bad I can't act! Woah - but if I got tipsy, maybe I COULD act.

    I still can't believe Bill Mc edited me out of all scenes in his big feature. In fact, the one scene in which I actually tried to act was never mentioned between the two of us. We simply didn't talk about it, ever. It was just deleted (I assume) and forever after understood that I would never again try to be in one of his films.
  • Let's tar and feather him when he gets to town.
  • Probably saved for the spinoff series!
  • Never heard of Tom Frank.
  • I can't believe that! All of his books are great and hilarious.
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