Video Voyeurism
Another spot with very little footage, this was a case where there was footage, but not a lot of it, and what was there was deadly dull (it consisted, at the time the promo had to be assembled, only of the police interview and a very, very brief demonstration of a cell phone’s photo feature). I wound up, once again, creating everything in Paint Shop Pro, and integrating that with a little bit of that video in the Avid. And it sucked - it really did. So many of my February sweeps promos were done “in the computer” that everything was starting to look the same. Out of sheer desperation (and completely out of ideas), I then shot the finished promo running on the monitor from various angles, and then went back in and dropped that footage over the original. It almost works.
