Tuesday, February 9, 2010

What I do

Zeph, my daughter, always ask me what I do. I always answer: I make commercials. She nods as if she understood. And then she'll always tell me she saw that new Enervon or Knorr commercial on TV and that she liked it. I always smile because more than I appreciate it, I really don't know how to react to an 8 year old kid about the complexity of what I do.
Or maybe in her mind it's not that complicated.
And I thought about it and maybe yes, it's not really that complicated. So I will try explain the process as simple as possible and just in case Zeph ask me again-- I'll just give her this link.

So the advertising commercial starts with the idea. Assuming that I have an idea on the first day, from the time the creative brief was explained to us, i usually doodle (or otherwise known as thumbnails) on my notebook more or less how I visualize that idea.

 
after going through that words and visual connections to vivify the proposition, I usually make 5 or more decent ideas. And then present it to the creative director, once the CD liked it after the usual 2 internals and with 2-3 enhancements, we'll polish the copy and visual to present it to client.
  
So this is the storyboard for Fita Minsan TVC30's. We usually present 3 different ideas to client. If they liked an idea, with 2-3 revisions it will then proceed to production. We will recommend a director that we feel fit to do the job in capturing the idea that we have on paper. 


This particular spot was directed by Henry Frejas of Filmex.
It usually have a time table of 1-2 months to make a TV commercial (that's from conceptualization to production). 
So yes, that pretty simple.
And I love the feeling of seeing it on TV:)

Monday, February 8, 2010

Mavic's despedida

LC-A double exposed

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Random shot : Moving universe

random shot : tired playlist

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Random shot : my chucks

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Random shot : Jump start

LC-A double exposed

Monday, February 1, 2010

Start the day with optimism

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Phoenix

I heart KCRW's morning becomes eclictic since the 90's.

Death Cab for Cutie

Morning becomes eclectic. Live at KCRW.