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The group of teenagers created a mock commercial for a fictitious cigarette company, that then debunks the myths of smoking with harsh realities.
Credits
Youth producers
James Bushey, Shawney Bushey, Brittney Daniels, Brittany Lucia, Andy Schmidt
Average rating
(3.00)
Organization
Media Lab at Mountain Lake PBS
Creative Commons info
Share it? yes
Remix it? yes
Use commercially? no
Reviews
I like your fake product and sales pitch. One suggestion: try to memorize your lines so that you don't look off screen to read them (that always pulls me away from a video because it reminds me that there is something behind the camera).
Emily Bennison | April 26, 2006
Great PSA! I think you guys did an excellent job of getting lots of varying shots (most of which were very well set-up), to keep the PSA visually interesting. My only criticism is that you didn't illuminate the down-sides of smoking as explicitly as you did the up-sides. A few images of coughing kids, or wrinkled faces, or something could have made the end a little more powerful. Overal: good job!
Kyle Halle-Erby | April 22, 2006
Good message. I loked the guys at first saying all the categories. It would have been benficial to have a slightly better plan for your actors who had the read thier lines. At first with the guy in the suit, it worked, but it may have lent more credibility to the last guy to have his lines memorized, so that it would feel as iff he was telling his story, not the a scripted one.
Jeremy Nielsen | April 21, 2006