Well, friends, it’s time again for me to reveal another commercial I wrote, directed, and produced. This is the third in a long series of ads for my boss and attorney friend, and I’m really excited about them.
If you’ve seen the others, you know that they start off with a little boy who portrays the attorney in the early 1960s when he was a child, then they transition into him as an adult. The hitch with this commercial was that our little actor who plays him as a child can’t yet ride a two wheel bike, so we had to hire his cousin for a stunt double.
It’s been so much fun shopping for all the vintage toys and clothes for these commercials, but I think the purchase my boss has loved best was when he bought the Stingray bike we used in this one.
Some behind the scenes fun is that while the actor can ride a two-wheeler, the ramp was actually over two feet high, and was a little too steep. So we belted him to the ramp and blew a lawn blower at him for some of the commercial, and for the rest, we actually had two large, musclebound men at the end of the ramp, and as the boy rode to the end, one man caught him while another man caught the bike. It took nearly three hours of nothing but him riding to the end of the ramp before we got just the right footage to play for the fifteen seconds you see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrymmhMIMUk
Once again, I added the link rather than embedding the video so that you can click on it and go to our YouTube page… and hopefully, you’ll “Like” the video on YouTube so that my boss will keep me around. (Thank you very much!)
P.S. As before, my Proud Mama Moment is that my son Jeremy did the audio engineering for the music and the voiceover.
Time to talk: What kind of bike did you have when you were a kid? What was the riskiest bike trick you ever did?