To view the version of the spec with music, go here:  https://vimeo.com/503267765  

BTS VIDEOS:  

Camera Test for a Spec Commercial | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrzkxrmJ78&t=215s  

BTS of our Spec Commercial | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAEwxx7uY4E&t=25s  

It's finally here! Last fall Alex Carter, Cody Jones, and I got together to assemble a team to produce and post-produce Alex's spec commercial. We filmed it in one day last fall and finished post-production in mid-December. We tried connecting with Gillette to see what they thought about the spot we made, but we didn't hear back from them. 😢  

But we didn't really expect to, either.  

So now we're bringing the spec to you to see what you think AND to learn more about Alex's idea, the issues we had in production in post-production, and what we learned from making our very first big brand commercial on spec.  

TECHNICAL DETAILS:  

Canon C300 MkII 

Vintage Nikkor Photo Primes (cine-modded, of course) 

Edited with Final Cut Pro 

Color in DaVinci Resolve 

Sound Mixed in Adobe Audition  

CREDITS:  

Santa | Gary Planck 

TV Personality | MJ Peters  

Written & Directed by Alex Carter 

Produced & Edited by Matthew O'Brien 

Cinematography & Color by Cody Jones 

Gaffer | Cadet Fowler 

Key Grip | DJ Hornacek 

Sound Mixed by Kyle Ranney  

ALEX 

YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCguzWaeZ0DaJDezjmN0Yu0Q 

Instagram | @made.by_alex 

Letterboxd | https://letterboxd.com/alexcrter/ 

Website | https://alexccarter.com/n  

CODY 

Instagram | @codyjonescolor 

Website | https://www.codyjonesdp.com