New App Commercial

Litrally in my last hours as station manager for Texas Student TV we released the TSTV Mobile App, currently for Android.  The iOS version is on its way.  Anyways, my last bit of unfinished business before leaving Austin is to make a commercial for said app.  With most of the TSTVpopulation away on vacation, I was lucky enough to work with some TSTV alums from the show TNN.

Oh yeah, and the creepy old guy in the background.  Anyways, I really lucked out having these awesome ladies in the commercial because they have great chemistry together. I've used them individualy before in projects, (The two on the right were in the Combo Breakers Yugioh Minisode while the girl on the left was in Photography 101 video I did for a class.  Yes, I'm aware the film is washed out in that one.  One of these days I'll do another project on 16 mm that won't be washed out because of the camera not closing all the way.)  But putting all three of these girls together is HILARIOUS!  Hopefully that makes for a good commercial.  It's a pretty straightforward one.

Another cool thing about this commercial is I get to try my hand at superimposing the app into the phone screens.  You know how in cell phone commercials they say screen images simulated?  Yeah, that thing!  So I'll be putting the app into this:

I tried my hand at imposing reflections into people's eyes in my VFX Demo Reel, so Im guessing this'll be pretty easy to do.  But it does present the opportunity to do a straight up sperimposition like you see in a lot of commercials, which bugs me since they stand out too much, or I can try to really integrate it into the shot by preserving the reflection of the thumb and such.  Anyways, that's what'sup in the world of Steven Zurita right now, so look forward to seeing that in the future!