Can you believe the Super Bowl is tomorrow!? Yep, tomorrow is the day that the two Doritos commercial contest winners are announced. This will happen during the game sometime when they air the winning commercials. Unfortunately, it won’t be one of our commercials because we didn’t make it into the finals. I’m not really surprised. There was some tough competition this year and there were plenty of commercials that were even better than ours that didn’t make it into the finals.
Overall, I would say we were in the top 20% of the commercials in terms of production value and story; although much of the story ended up getting cut because of time constraints and I think that really hurt us. I really wish that we could have, at the very least, made it into the finals (and won $25,000) so that we could have paid everyone involved in the project. This was an all-volunteer project. Nobody got paid…from cast to crew. Everyone took a chance with this project and it is greatly appreciated. We couldn’t have done it without their combined talent.
Now I know I said that I would be talking more about the making of the commercial, and I will. But because producing the commercial took me off my I-Man cast feature film project for several months, I felt it was more important to put my focus back on writing the treatment to get that project moving again. Naturally, if we had actually gotten into the finals, I would have put my time and energy into promoting the heck out of the commercial and trying to get as many votes as we could so that we could win. But since that didn’t happen, I switched priorities.
To all of you who have been supporting us in this contest, I want to give a big thank you. It was because of you giving us five-star ratings that we were able to actually make third place in the popularity ratings for a short time! It didn’t last long, of course, because everyone else was trying to get their ratings up too and they overtook us. But it did get our commercial some attention; and that was one of my goals during that phase of the contest.
If you’ve been following the contest, you know that Doritos had a Nacho Awards contest earlier. There were eight different categories and our commercial didn’t really fit any of them so we weren’t chosen to compete. To watch the winners, go to the Doritos Facebook app and click Nachos on the “Sort By” drop down menu.
The Finalists
The following video is of Ali Landry introducing the five finalists, giving us some behind-the-scenes tidbits, and explaining how the contest works.
Tomorrow we find out who the two winners are! Which commercials are you rooting for?