VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Patricia Shanks]

OK. So, with much wonderful input from our friend, Frank, I managed to keep my 22 (I was thinking of the other class I teach of 18 students before.) students occupied for the last class. I am still tap dancing, while the school awaits delivery of the equipment, so that we can actually start recording and editing. (HOW I'll keep the rest of the class quiet - ever - EVER while someone is recording, I'll never know. Not to mention, the folklorico dancers having at it next door. All I can say is that everybody's work will have a folkloric rhythm to it. Yikes.)

I've been mimicking the wicked witch, lately, as she melts. "What a worrrrld! What a worrrrld."

My plan for tomorrow is to give the "mini-est" lecture on how to talk into the different kinds of mics. Mini. Mini-lecture. Then, I'm going to give them an equally mini overview of what goes into a :60 (I think ... because it will be hard for novices to get everything into a :30) commercial contains. I'll let them try to sell a gazorninplatz, or a thing-a-ma-jig, etc. I'll collect these and, at the NEXT class, we'll let "other than" the writer read the spots, individually, aloud. For the remains (the chards, peut-etre) of tomorrow, they'll individually read copy that's too long - avec stopwatch. I would think that normal kids would get a kick out of being cut-off too soon and/or trying to speed-read and run out of breath. Hmmmm. That's what I would think.

Which brings me to my "beg." I have a few pieces of almost unmanageable copy. But I'd like to have more variety. They'll get bored with the same couple of pieces of material.

Can anybody point me to where I might find some :30 examples?

I blame Sesame Street for this. Really. Romper Room had it right. But the epileptic flashes of numbers and letters read by wild characters that DON'T EMINATE FROM A CHILD'S IMAGINATION!!!! are to blame. Forget MTV.

Was I yelling?

I'm meeellllllting.

Thanks, in advance, for your help.

"The Witch" <-- That is NOT a tag line.
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