Media Class
When I was in high school I had to take this media class and I was so terrible at it and I dreaded going to it because I was really shy and I have absolutely no imagination (thankfully I am a science major). But the class was required (for God knows what reason) and so we all had to take it freshman or sophomore year (they put more emphasis on this then computer class, which as an elective for some crazy reason).
Our teacher was really bubbly and took himself seriously even though we all laughed and made fun of him like crazy. For one of our assignments we had to make a commercial. There was a hat with folded up pieces of paper and we got into groups and we had to pick one of the pieces. Ours said cheap web car insurance. So we had to take the phrase or company or whatever it is we had pulled out of the hat and we had to make it into a commercial and tape it for next week's class.
So my group got together after class to start an outline and we decided that we were going to be a California car insurance company and we would make our commercial trying to sell instant web auto insurance to viewers. We taped it in my basement and we colored a background with a desk (like the Geraci commercials).
Our commercial was so corny. We tried to make it a cross between those random Peter Francis Geraci commercials where he just stands there in a corny background and talks and his name pops up all over the screen and the eagle man commercials where the bird random comes out of nowhere and an egg of insurance is hatched. We had the best time making it (even though the assignment was so lame) and everyone in our class was cracking up when they saw it because we had this giant bird sitting on a desk with a corny background selling insurance.
Our teacher (even though we were making a joke out of the assignment) thought we were geniuses and loved the fact that we took ‘past works' whatever that even means and brought them into our own assignment. We ended up getting an A and having a great time doing it, so I guess it wasn't THAT bad.