I just made my first spec commercial, posted it online (here, instagram, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, even LinkedIn). I’m not sure where to go from here. The main reason I made the spec commercial was because I came up with an idea for an Oreo cookie jingle.
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How is the video performing on youtube and such?
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Jimmy, I say this to help you and not hurt you in anyway: If you want to be taken seriously, you need to make a professional spec. Now, I understand you may not want to spend one dime on this, BUT, if you got an unknown or a musician friend to record that jingle, and you actually filmed something OR maybe got an animator to do it free - or you tried to emulate other commercials that had a jingle like this - rather than just holding an Oreo in your hand and humming this jingle (was it filmed with a camera phone?) you could get more people to pay attention to your efforts. Do you honestly think this is a spec commercial you could use on a reel to bring in top level clients? I'm really curious for your answer.
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The melody is catchy, so definitely take your idea to some musicians, and have the jingle written.
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Sam is right Jimmy. Get it together for real
Jimmy - Don't let this hurt your feelers, but a quick word from a producer who occasionally does commercials - nope.
Sam, I’ve been trying to find musicians to do this more professionally, I finally decided to just shoot something, even EXTREMELY low budget just to show the general idea with hopes that if there was anything there, it could be redone with a better budget, better singer, maybe animation etc. This was really meant to just be a basic idea kind of thing.
Ed, it’s actually doing really well on instagram
My main idea was for the jingle.