What would be a good story line for a cereal commercial?
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March 23rd, 2011
We are doing this school thing were our language arts teacher is making us do like a commercial skit where we have to persuade the viewer to buy a product. We have to use at least 3 types of a propaganda in the commercial also. Anyway, the product that my two friends and I are doing (2 boys, 2 girls) is cereal. This stuff called Berry Bomb Crunch (Its not real). My job is to make the script but I have absolutely no story line. And it cannot be more than like 5 minutes. So please could you give me a story line that would make a good script and that would include everyone. Please also let me know how I can add the 3 propaganda’s in it. Thanks!
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It tastes good.
It is good for you.
Everyone will love you if you eat it.
Questions?
Dude. I am not going to do your job for you. I gave you the framework. Get busy.
Crunchy. Like hearing the crunch of someone eating inexplicably loud enough to travel throughout the house it will make you get out of bed like the smell of coffee or bacon does because it is…
So delicious it is worth getting out of bed.
No high fructose corn syrup
This cereal contains no lastive acid!
The too cool for school kid approaches the girls at the dance, but they can’t be bothered with him. They’re busy watching the nerdish guy who is dancing a storm up – at least they think that. In reality, he’s just exulting from the taste of his bowl of Berry Bomb Crunch.
Whenever you open the box for the first time, there is an actual explosion of berry bomb crunch. People in a school or an office try to trick each other into opening it. Someone bites it open and lobs it like a grenade.
You could also just try the Seventh Sanctum Idea Generator.
A coworker of mine used to use the expression, “that’s the bomb!” When something was fantastic. Maybe you could work that in?
5 minutes is crazy long. Is it an infomercial? Commercials are usually 30 seconds, maybe a minute.
Ok how about this one…an American Indian girl comes along walking with her female cow. From nowhere jumps out two masked cowboy robbers touting their guns. They rob the Indian of her cow. In the next scene she picks up bits of cereal along the path which lead her to the two cowboys, one is happily eating a bowl of cereal while the other one ( his back on the audience ) is milking the cow. He turns around smiling, his cereal bowl now full of milk. He sits beside the other cowboy, eats happily. Then one cowboy plucks a berry from a small tree nearby, looks at the Indian then yells BERRY-! The cow says,
BOOMBB…! The Indian girl cheerfully chirps CEREAL-!!
The cowboy drops the berry in his cereal bowl while the Indian giddily sits down with them. The other cowboy then pours cereal from a Berry Bomb Cereal box into another bowl for the Indian girl while the cow now walks towards her positioning itself ready for milking. ( you can supply snappy and funny dialogue and physical acting all throughout the commercial. Add music and sfx if you can )
Anyway what does having 3 types of propaganda mean exactly-?
Idk, but a cool line you could use would be “you guys, this tastes amazing! i’m super cereal (serial (serious))!”
I love @Haleth ‘s idea. You could just have someone at the breakfast table, open the box and it explodes with Berry Bomb Crunch going all over the place, while the announcer says, “Berry Bomb Crunch, an explosion of flavor. It’s da bomb!”
Of course, to make it long enough, you will have to add some more stuff.
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