Dante
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
Spoofed/borrowed
Back in the day (1999), Dante recruited a woman to work with us in creating a satirical political ad. She had a husband who was a musician, so we were able to enlist somebody to do a soundtrack (anonymously) for our video (no way could we used the old Good n Plenty ad - copyright stuff).
The city had recently elected a new Mayor (somebody Dante personally knew well and campaigned for). The Cable Access station and program was funded through the Mayor's office, but with a Membership led Board of Directors. We members were in control, but the funding went through the city. Anyway, the Mayor had a spokesman. A spokesperson who we were actually friends with, but who we saw (when he was in power), as overly controlling of messaging etc, and who was always in the local news, and sometimes in the metro area news as being the spokesman for our Mayor. He was great at media relations. Really good. His messaging and himself were ubiquitous.
So, Dante being who he is -- we were looking for content -- content for videos and programs We'd videotape, edit, produce etc.
Dante was drawn to a vision - a parody of our allies and friends at city hall. It was all in fun. We got together Dante and his cohort, and we edited clips of messages and such, and strung it all along with the audio in the video. It was great, brilliant, commented on by people who had been doing this for years (Dante was actually a newbie).
While the video was playing -- the Cable Access Station's office phone started ringing. The Office desk was just outside of the studios. Dante knew. Oh boy! We watched the office manager's face as she was taking the call, and we started laughing. Others were puzzled. It was the Mayor's spokesperson on the phone asking "Who produced this, Dante?" They either were monitoring the video, or somebody immediately sent in a heads up (never found out which). LOL
Here's what we used as the foundation of the satire, which had text on the screen following along (bouncing ball
) (soundtrack the husband's Saxophone playing the tune), the narration was our text parodying the Good n Plenty script.
Dante was forgiven, sort of. But Dante knew to always cover his back with his friends. Where Dante came from, all is fair in love and war -- politics being war -- a blood sport.
1950s Good & Plenty Candy Commercial
Back in the day (1999), Dante recruited a woman to work with us in creating a satirical political ad. She had a husband who was a musician, so we were able to enlist somebody to do a soundtrack (anonymously) for our video (no way could we used the old Good n Plenty ad - copyright stuff).
The city had recently elected a new Mayor (somebody Dante personally knew well and campaigned for). The Cable Access station and program was funded through the Mayor's office, but with a Membership led Board of Directors. We members were in control, but the funding went through the city. Anyway, the Mayor had a spokesman. A spokesperson who we were actually friends with, but who we saw (when he was in power), as overly controlling of messaging etc, and who was always in the local news, and sometimes in the metro area news as being the spokesman for our Mayor. He was great at media relations. Really good. His messaging and himself were ubiquitous.
So, Dante being who he is -- we were looking for content -- content for videos and programs We'd videotape, edit, produce etc.
Dante was drawn to a vision - a parody of our allies and friends at city hall. It was all in fun. We got together Dante and his cohort, and we edited clips of messages and such, and strung it all along with the audio in the video. It was great, brilliant, commented on by people who had been doing this for years (Dante was actually a newbie).
While the video was playing -- the Cable Access Station's office phone started ringing. The Office desk was just outside of the studios. Dante knew. Oh boy! We watched the office manager's face as she was taking the call, and we started laughing. Others were puzzled. It was the Mayor's spokesperson on the phone asking "Who produced this, Dante?" They either were monitoring the video, or somebody immediately sent in a heads up (never found out which). LOL
Here's what we used as the foundation of the satire, which had text on the screen following along (bouncing ball
) (soundtrack the husband's Saxophone playing the tune), the narration was our text parodying the Good n Plenty script.Dante was forgiven, sort of. But Dante knew to always cover his back with his friends. Where Dante came from, all is fair in love and war -- politics being war -- a blood sport.
