The best Commercial Idea EVAR!!!

[xcalybur]

I just thought of the most fantastic commercial. It is similar to the newest iPhone commercials where there is a black backdrop on the streets of some city, say Manchester or Concord (Could be any relatively large city). Have the commercial open with someone standing in front of the black backdrop and an interviewers voice say immediately, "What's your name and why do you support Ron Paul?". The person says, "My name is Richard Smith and I'm from Newport, New Hampsire and I support Ron Paul for President because ...". Then the interviewer says thanks and the person walks off the camera to the right. Interviewer says "Next." and a woman comes in camera left. Interviewer says, "What's your name and why are you voting for Ron Paul?. Woman says "I'm Vicky Price and I'm voting for Dr. Paul because...". As she walks off stage right and another person walks onto the backdrop, the camera pans slowly and then faster up and away while panning to the left to show a line of people maybe 1000 deep. Fade out to "Ron Paul 2008" blah, blah, Hope for America. You could do this for several ads. Each time two people talk about two different reasons why they support Ron Paul. Health Care, The War, the economy, his honesty, etc.

You can see a little about what I am talking about by viewing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQIbYnF7Ic

 

[AdamT]

I like it. This would be pretty easy to do as well.

 

[bbachtung]

I don't know why they didn't do three versions of a commercial, put them on the website, and had a donation contest to see which one people liked the most based on a donation code (i.e., tvad1, tvad2, tvad3).

 

[CCTelander]

I just thought of the most fantastic commercial. It is similar to the newest iPhone commercials where there is a black backdrop on the streets of some city, say Manchester or Concord (Could be any relatively large city). Have the commercial open with someone standing in front of the black backdrop and an interviewers voice say immediately, "What's your name and why do you support Ron Paul?". The person says, "My name is Richard Smith and I'm from Newport, New Hampsire and I support Ron Paul for President because ...". Then the interviewer says thanks and the person walks off the camera to the right. Interviewer says "Next." and a woman comes in camera left. Interviewer says, "What's your name and why are you voting for Ron Paul?. Woman says "I'm Vicky Price and I'm voting for Dr. Paul because...". As she walks off stage right and another person walks onto the backdrop, the camera pans slowly and then faster up and away while panning to the left to show a line of people maybe 1000 deep. Fade out to "Ron Paul 2008" blah, blah, Hope for America. You could do this for several ads. Each time two people talk about two different reasons why they support Ron Paul. Health Care, The War, the economy, his honesty, etc.

You can see a little about what I am talking about by viewing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQIbYnF7Ic

This is an OUTSTANDING idea! I wish I had the skills to produce it.

I really think the impact on the average voter would be HUGE.

 

[xcalybur]

The line would be all Ron Paul supporters as well. Real ones and we can make a public thing about asking for Ron Paul supporters to show up for a commercial. Not only would it show how strong he is with his following, but would engage his supporters to help out.

We could do this in major cities around the country. We could even use this as a way of eventually downing Hillary or whomever. Person walks up and says "I support Ron Paul because he wants to get our troops out of harms way immediately, unlike Hillary who sad she would keep them there until at least 2013." We could use this as the hallmark for the campaign and would be pretty cheap to make. We would need a boom for a camera to shoot it and the backdrop which isn't very expensive. You could take a crew of 3 people and do it all over the place.

 

[constitutional]

Here is a killer ad idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKRzIaFw8V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMP3rkDNlQk

 

[DJ RP]

This is a GREAT idea. Anybody who thinks they could pull this off needs to assume responsibility, then get to the next big ron paul rally and get the organiser fo the rally to help gather the troops. We all know that ron paul fans would love to do this and it would be so easy to do. You wouldn't even need to organise thousands as long as you shot the scene NEXT to the rally the camera could pan out at the end showing the rally in process which would make the point almost as well as if it was a huge line!


Somebody should do this I LOVE the idea.

 

[LibertyEagle]

I just thought of the most fantastic commercial. It is similar to the newest iPhone commercials where there is a black backdrop on the streets of some city, say Manchester or Concord (Could be any relatively large city). Have the commercial open with someone standing in front of the black backdrop and an interviewers voice say immediately, "What's your name and why do you support Ron Paul?". The person says, "My name is Richard Smith and I'm from Newport, New Hampsire and I support Ron Paul for President because ...". Then the interviewer says thanks and the person walks off the camera to the right. Interviewer says "Next." and a woman comes in camera left. Interviewer says, "What's your name and why are you voting for Ron Paul?. Woman says "I'm Vicky Price and I'm voting for Dr. Paul because...". As she walks off stage right and another person walks onto the backdrop, the camera pans slowly and then faster up and away while panning to the left to show a line of people maybe 1000 deep. Fade out to "Ron Paul 2008" blah, blah, Hope for America. You could do this for several ads. Each time two people talk about two different reasons why they support Ron Paul. Health Care, The War, the economy, his honesty, etc.

You can see a little about what I am talking about by viewing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQIbYnF7Ic

Sounds like a good idea. Most of the "walking" out and in would have to be cut though. We have like 27 seconds to get out a bunch of positions. But, at least the people giving their opinions would maybe be more real.

 

[xcalybur]

Amistad, I agree with you that the first one is great, but we could never get away with it. It is the switch ad from Apple and they would sue. The second one is also great. It is a remake of the one I did. We would also get sued for that one, because it uses Richard Dryfus' voice without his or Apple's permission. Also, I'm not sure that the second one would come across to people now-a-days. Most people don't even know a lot of the people that are shown in that ad and they certainly have no idea what they did or stood for. The people it is aimed at is us. We know it is a great ad because of the symbolism. You can't expect the American public that has 20% not being able to find the USA on a world map.

 

[xcalybur]

LibertyEagle, I get what you are saying, but I think we can get two people in and out with cuts and a one liner. The Apple ads do about 6-8 lines per person. If we can't we can always do just one person and give them more time and do the same pan out.

 

[Drknows]

They need something that will get people fired up. like that Michigan rally where 2,000 people were chanting Ron Paul. Then have a voice over guy talking about Ron Paul.

People need to see he has support and hear his message at the sametime, then they will want to be apart of it.

 

[xcalybur]

You don't think that having a massive line of people wanting to be in a commercial wouldn't show the great support he has?

 

[xcalybur]

If I could get about 7-10k, I would do these myself and edit them and give them to Ron Paul to use.

 

[Drknows]

You don't think that having a massive line of people wanting to be in a commercial wouldn't show the great support he has?

yeah i was just adding my two cents i think its a good idea but maybe more natural looking would be better?

 

[koob]

i like the simple idea of finding real ron paul supporters of every demographic and having a closeup quick shot of them saying "i support ron paul" "he was a doctor for..." "he is for the constitution" and just have one person say something than just cut to the next person. and make it feel very real.

 

[xcalybur]

I like the idea, but it is harder to pull off with the sound problems and such. Maybe it would work. It feels a little fake to just show up at a rally and do this however. I worry that people would say that any candidate could do this at any of there rallies. But only Ron Paul could pull that many people in just to do a commercial for him. It shows the peoples passion.

 

[centure7]

I just thought of the most fantastic commercial. It is similar to the newest iPhone commercials where there is a black backdrop on the streets of some city, say Manchester or Concord (Could be any relatively large city). Have the commercial open with someone standing in front of the black backdrop and an interviewers voice say immediately, "What's your name and why do you support Ron Paul?". The person says, "My name is Richard Smith and I'm from Newport, New Hampsire and I support Ron Paul for President because ...". Then the interviewer says thanks and the person walks off the camera to the right. Interviewer says "Next." and a woman comes in camera left. Interviewer says, "What's your name and why are you voting for Ron Paul?. Woman says "I'm Vicky Price and I'm voting for Dr. Paul because...". As she walks off stage right and another person walks onto the backdrop, the camera pans slowly and then faster up and away while panning to the left to show a line of people maybe 1000 deep. Fade out to "Ron Paul 2008" blah, blah, Hope for America. You could do this for several ads. Each time two people talk about two different reasons why they support Ron Paul. Health Care, The War, the economy, his honesty, etc.

You can see a little about what I am talking about by viewing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQIbYnF7Ic

My method would be this. There would not be a black backdrop, but a large black board backdrop that can be moved on wheels, or a black curtain that can be pulled. Everyone stands in line behind the board. The interviewer asks each person why they support Ron Paul, then after they are done, the inverviewer calls "next!" and the blackdrop is rolled/pulled away temporarily to reveal a huge line behind it and allow the next person to step up. The only advice people in the line are given should be to keep the message as positive as they can, but if they feel they must say something negative not to hold back.

The big problem I'm seeing with this is that commercial only last 30 seconds. Saying something unique and intelligent in less than that may prove really difficult.

 

[xcalybur]

The dialog will have to be pre-done. It always is. It will just seem that the person came up with it off the top of their heads and we would pre-screen the most charismatic people in the crowd to use.

 

[Nate K]

Good idea.. we should also implement something about why or how we have the most passionate supporters (because he stands for the Constitution, truth, etc.)

and also include "why does Ron Paul have 1,078 meetup groups across the country compared to leading candidate Barrack Obama with 70 (or however many)"?

 

[Leslie Webb]

The Amistad,
The voice on the Think Different ad sounds like Richard Dreyfuss, no?