SVC Smackdown 10/18/2010

UWKC Assignment

My twitter idea for the Girly Girl Spa: Francine Simplemint creates relaxation videos (voiced over by her) that help viewers relax when they can't get to the spa. The first one was generic. The second one was a response to one of her followers tweets (He tweeted details about his stressful day). Francine custom wrote a relaxation video message just for him. The idea would be that she would troll through her twitter follower's tweets, find stories of stress and then make videos specifically geared for that person. The hope would be that followers would be much more likely to forward videos if they were the stars.

Francine Simplemint Video 1

Francine Simplemint Video 2

Craigslist Assignment 2: Electric Boogaloo

Craigslist Assignment: Create a print campaign for Craigslist.

Thanks to Dwight B for thinking of Free Wood. Here were more things I thought of after class. Whatcha think?

#1 Design: A shot from the nose to the beltline of a young, sexy vampire (we can see the fangs). In the middle of his chest is a wooden stake.

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

#2 Design: Noah building an ark…it’s kind of a patchwork job…the landscape is filled with hundreds of pairs of animals.

Text: Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

#3 Design: A woodsmith’s shop. We see a man (obviously Gepetto) making an army of Pinnochios…some of them are already alive.

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

#4 Design A man surrounded by zombies. He has a hefty hunk of wood in his hands (probably a rough baseball bat shape). The shot is of him smacking a zombie in the head; the zombie definitely ain’t gonna make it.

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

#5 Design: The interior of a house, near the front door. A large armoire has been shoved up against the door. Other furniture (Couches, chairs, etc) are barricading the windows. Through the windows we see zombies trying to get in.

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Armoire

Tagline: We don’t care what you use it for.

#6 Design: In the foreground we see an arm (from the POV of the reader) holding out a wooden torch. Just a few feet away is a panicked Frankenstein, his hands up, covering his face.

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

Design #7 Close-up of a giant’s mouth, he’s using a large branch as a toothpick

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

Design #8 We are in the witch’s Candy house from Hansel and Gretel. We see Hansel and Gretel and the woodburning stove; Hansel and Gretel stand next to the stove and a large pile of wood; the fire from the stove is glowing merrily. Hansel and Gretel stand facing the reader, arms crossed, smug looks on their faces

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

Design #9 A wolf stands outside an ENORMOUS (Like 100 feet tall) Fortress made of wood; a Pig stands at the top of the tower, thumbing his nose at him.

Text: A craigslist style font, in craigslist blue: Free Wood:

Tagline-We don’t care what you use it for

Design#10: A giant roughly-hewn, wooden Trojan Horse; soldiers are spilling out of it; it's the middle of the night, inside the city gates

Text: Craigslist style font and color: Free Wood

Tagline: We don't care what you use it for

Design#11: A huge Burning Man sculpture; nighttime, the sculpture is on fire, thousands of people dance around it

Text: Craigslist style font and color: Free Wood

Hey, do you think it even needs the tagline?

What Merlin Did on October Ninth

On October ninth, Merlin Epp cleaned out a chicken coop.

He played in the yard with Woody.

He studied for a spelling test.

He listened as the Yankees won another post-season game.

On October ninth, he spent a rainy day at Ferndale football practice.

He sung in the choir.

He hand washed his 49 Ford.

On October ninth, he pulled another shift at Boeing.

He drove three hours to see a girl.

He dreamed of Jeanne.

On October ninth, he and Jeanne played a wedding.

He studied the constitution.

He and Jeanne played another wedding.

On October ninth, he placed his hands on his wife’s belly.

He prayed for his children, yet unborn.

He wondered if he would be enough.

On October ninth, he got stuck in a staff meeting.

He turned a kid onto pipe organs.

He chaperoned a dance.

He announced another Eagle touchdown.

He taught a unit on the first amendment.

He flipped the switch…and someone’s light came on.

On October ninth, he took the day off.

He got his hair cut by one of his oldest friends.

He shopped for music.

He called his wife several times.

He brought chicken to his sick daughter and son-in-law.

He cooked a lovely dinner for his sweetheart.

Merlin Epp did die on October ninth.

But more often,

on October ninth,

Merlin lived.

-Cliff McCloe