Today embodied everything that I love about this business.
I got a call at 1830 last night to do a Boost Mobile commercial today. Brilliant. We broke the slump!
I get to call, and it's a pretty typical experience: moderately to very attractive people dressed in pretty classy stuff, because it's a restaurant scene. We're all checked in and wardrobe approved, and the 2nd 2nd and the PAs start funneling us in to this high class little restaurant in downtown LA (location shoot). It's gonna be a pretty standard day.
Enter the Animatronic Pig.
Yes, that's right, a man in a six foot tall hog rig. A fully articulated, completely realistic looking pig, with two guys at the remote controls for the mouth, snout, ears, eyes, et cetera.
We get the pig all situated at the table, and then we get him a forkful...of ham.
The pig's line (in various forms throughout the day), "Are you judging me? Is this so wrong? Let me tell you what's wrong...a mobile phone service that charges blah blah blah."
Pretty standard cell phone sales pitch. But it's a pig. Eating ham.
It was hard not to stare at this beautiful(ly realistic) puppet doing it's thing. Combine the facial puppeteering with the man-in-the-rig moving his arms and manipulating the fork...brilliant.
I'm pretty sure it's a local spot, so it's not something you'll see outside of southern CA...but nonetheless, that was a day brightener.
I got $150 to watch puppeteers make a pig fly...talk. Still pretty cool.
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