Project 2
Stop Looking at Me--It's Only a Game
I was inspired by the "Above the Influence's" "Stop Looking at Me" anti-marijuana television public service announcement. You can view the original commercial here.
After watching the commercial, I decided to create a parody of it. Instead of addressing the social issue of smoking marijuana, I wanted to address an addiction some of my friends, and most recently myself, have succumbed to.....World of Warcraft.
I used Macromedia Flash to create a 30 second long commercial. I used an add-on to the WOW game to take screenshots of the game. I imported this screenshots into the flash document and converted them to bitmaps. I then animated the screenshots to look like a person was playing the actual game.
I tried to recreate the same animation style as the original commercial--very simple and childish.
I recorded the music from the original ad on a digital audio recorder and added it to my version of the advertisement.
Documentation
Here is my version of the "Above the Influence" advertisement:
Stop Looking at Me--It's Only a Game