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July 13, 2009

Seth shoots a scene in a French Restaurant.

The Internet is so awesome!

It wasn't until recently when I was in a small town about to go on a river trip, and I couldn't get an Internet signal strong enough to check my email let alone upload video that I realized how much I depend on the Internet. Without Internet access I felt isolated from the rest of society. This was what I was looking for in a way, I was on vacation, about to spend days rafting in a wilderness void of all electronic communication, but I wasn't quite ready to be shut out so soon.

I still had a one minute video ad to upload for a contest.

I don't typically take part in these type of contests. The idea of spending a lot of time and energy on something on the offchance that there might be some type of reward at the end doesn't really appeal to me. (Which is probably why I don't gamble either.) But this contest had a big reward that made it seem worth shooting for.

So, I roped Laura and Seth into working on the script. I had to leave in two days to take a train to Arizona for my river trip, but I had confidence we could do it. Our concept was a reality show parady called "Small World: Revisited". To illustrate the point that the product we were advertising allows users to easily make international phone calls I asked several of my friends who are originally from other countries if they would say a few words in their native tongue. They all agreed, and the next day we set out filming around Santa Barbara, doing our best to make things look foreign.

With the short amount of time we had to plan, Seth, Laura and I all ended up acting in the video, while taking turns shooting and running sound. We only had two girls, Laura and I, and five guys, so Laura played two parts to even out the gender balance. This turned out to be very successful as most people who have watched it said that they didn't even realize that two of the girls were the same person.

Since we only had 24 hours to complete all shooting, we took very few breaks. We completed shooting in the afternoon the next day, only moments before I grabbed the tape, my laptop and my deck, and got on a train to start my trip.

Since my internet access was so bad we ended up having to finish up post and upload after I got off the river, the day that the competition was closed. This set us back substantially compared to videos that had been up for days or weeks, but I am still glad that we did it. We had a lot of fun working on it, and I was so impressed with the motion graphics Travis Holliday did, and the music Scott Robinson sent. Take a look by clicking here.

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