Congratulations. You're already thinking like a network executive.
It's true, though, that if you had the ability to produce something like this, you probably ought to be making a lot more than $36,000/year, minus expenses.
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How to beat Hollywood productions and make a name for yourself
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Congratulations. You're already thinking like a network executive.
It's true, though, that if you had the ability to produce something like this, you probably ought to be making a lot more than $36,000/year, minus expenses.
GenJerDan
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Keeping someone's attention for an extended period of time? With a very short format? Difficult.
Although Taster's Choice and Folger's did it a while back.
That's the kind of sponsor you need to get, anyway. No one will stand for actual commercials in the things.... ...but Product Placement? Sure.
Although Taster's Choice and Folger's did it a while back.
That's the kind of sponsor you need to get, anyway. No one will stand for actual commercials in the things.... ...but Product Placement? Sure.
David Jimerson
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I know the Taster's Choice ads -- with Tony Head -- but I don't think I know the Folgers ads -- unless I'm just not connecting.
Anyway, the ads may have been 30-second chapters to a story, but no one saw them as primary entertainment. They were just . . . ads. No different from the eSurance pink-haired spy babe.
Anyway, the ads may have been 30-second chapters to a story, but no one saw them as primary entertainment. They were just . . . ads. No different from the eSurance pink-haired spy babe.
David Jimerson
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I do, too.
GenJerDan
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Gotta start the memory dredge...
Which one was the neighbor affair-ish one? TC, I think.
That would make Folger's the "Jean-Luc" one...
No, not primary entertainment, of course. I don't consider anything on the web primary, either, though. Too much trouble for too little return.
...except maybe at the end, if you can download the whole series to view at a sitting. Otherwise....pfft.
David Jimerson
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Was the "Jean-Luc" thing part of a serial? I remember that specific commercial, but don't remember it being part of an ongoing story.
GenJerDan
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Oh, crap. You know, I think you're right. I guess I conflabaturated the two.
I made that word up. There's another word that I mean, but I'm too sleepy to think of it. But it starts with a c. I'm pretty sure.
rsbush
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Looks like you conflated these two words
Confabulate: To unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory.
Conflate: To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.
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David Jimerson
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Wasn't it for General Foods International Coffees (instant) anyway?
GenJerDan
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Looks like.
All a Google for Folger's and Jean-Luc brings up is stuff about Jean-Luc Picard like this: http://www.worc.u-net.com/alt.fan.q/pqrelation.html"The time Q secretly replaced Picard's Earl Grey tea with Folger's Crystals."