This area's going to act as a Special Features type thing for my new movie The TV Commercial.

So as you might notice at the menu and when the title comes up, the full name is Unimportant Events: The TV Commercial. Unimportant Events is something I've wanted to do for a while now, and even though this might not be the best example of what I want this (loosely related) series to be about, the theme is "Things that everybody sees but don't pay attention to, or what it took to get here". Plus, it's more of a look at smaller events in everyday life. This series is gonna be pretty mundane, but that's why I think it's hilarious.

Originally, this movie was going to be about two guys watching a TV show and then that thing happens when one commercial gets instantly cut off by another commercial and everything just continues as normal. So I thought "hey, why not make a movie about what happens behind the scenes of that whole thing", so this movie's about a company that's started to go under the last year or two and this commercial is sort of a last hope and any chance of a rebound is instantly denied when their commercial gets cut off by a weather warning. I admit, it lost a bit of it's original idea along the way, I completely cut out the guys watching TV because I thought it kind of took away from the punchline at the end, or awkwardly extended it somehow. I also substituted a Weather Alert for another commercial because I think it packs a little more of an unexpected punch like "who could've seen that coming" and plus a real-life commercial would just be too hard to fit in and I thought it would stick out a little too much.

I started this movie on January 19th this year, I planned on starting it more around November but what I made this one night just looked like shit so I decided to lay off for a little while. I had hoped to finish around the end February so I had to make a schedule for myself to finish it at a decent time and it actually worked out really well, I suggest anyone who hasn't done that for any project try it sometime because it DOES help a lot.

There's a lot of references I hope at least some of you out there get. First off, the big one, I don't even know if I should give it away here because it's too obvious, but Pierce & Pierce is a direct reference to the company in American Psycho, great movie. Second, the TV logo says "Deep Image", which is a reference to the TV logo in The Matrix where Morpheus is first explaining what the matrix is to Neo. Kind of a nerdy reference but I thought I'd sneak it in there because I just watched it that day and figured why not. Third, the Pierce & Pierce commercial is in vain of the Charles Schwab commercials, they basically just have the same color scheme but the smooth transitions have some similarities.

I'd also like to say that I really apologize for the horrendous wardrobe that all the women are wearing in each scene, it kind of hit me while I was making it that I don't really have a good sense of women's fashion so I guess I'll have to work on that for next time, the guy's were pretty straight forward obviously, so no problems there.

So yeah, I'll try to think of more stuff to put in here, if you guys have any questions I'll throw the answers in here or whatever. Thanks for watching!