Earlier today a friend posted a funny local television commercial to Facebook. It was for a used trailer home seller and featured the hilarious tag line of "Come on down to Cullman Liquidation and get yourself a home, or don't, I don't care." That's when I followed the post-roll to a website called I Love Local Commercials.

This website immediately interested me because I wrote, produced, shot, and edited small town local television commercials for many years early in my career. I shot local commercials for WMDT in Salisbury, Maryland, featuring small businesses throughout the Delmarva region (Deleware, the eastern shore of Maryland, and that part of Virginia nobody thinks about). Later I produced local commercials for WPTZ in Plattsburgh, New York. I created spots throughout the Champlain Valley (The North Country of New York and the Burlington Vermont area), and even some in Montreal, Quebec. Below is the last (award-winning) local commercial I ever produced, for a miniature golf course. I did everything on this spot from writting to shooting to editing. That's even my synthesized voice as the golf ball.



So back to the I Love Commercials website, I then discovered that the people behind this site are the same people that did that hilarious Red House Furniture "black and white" commercial that went viral around the internet earlier this year. Now I recognize these two guys as the ones singing in that commercial. Apparently they're traveling around the country making "memorably different" local commercials for unheard-of small businesses. Pretty cool idea. Wish I had thought of it.

Labels: television, video, work