Christopher Knight for School Board TV Commercial #1
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This is the now-infamous "Star Wars" commercial that I made for my campaign for Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006. It wound up being featured in The New York Times, on the Fox News Channel, every major newspaper in the state, on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, by the Heritage Foundation, and it was screened at the Pixelodeon Independent Video Festival at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in June of 2007. It's been shown on VH1's show "Web Junk 2.0", on E! Entertainment Television's show "The Soup", and it was also proclaimed the "Best campaign commercial ever" by George Lucas's Edutopia website!
And yes: this (along with two more commercials) DID broadcast on local television - on WGSR Star 39 in Reidsville, North Carolina - during the month leading up to the 2006 election. I did not win a seat. But I came in 8th place out of 16 candidates with 4,648 votes... which is a LOT, all things considered. And I wasn't that far off from getting a seat either: it was pretty close across the board for the most part. I'm *extremely* happy with how well I did :-)
Also, I know that I look horrible in the legal bumper at the beginning. That was filmed after going without sleep for three days straight. Please be kind :-)
The voice-over is done by Melody Hallman Daniel: http://danielmethod.com
Here are links to the other commercials:
Commercial #2 (the library chat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzrSjKYmLeM
Commercial #3 (my personal favorite)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLl99oidfkg
Here is this commercial being featured on VH1's "Web Junk 2.0":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyVQwpByug
Feel free to visit my blog at http://theknightshift.blogspot.com
Tags for this video: Behind Board Carolina Child Christopher County education Knight Left No North Rockingham School Star Wars
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Dude, ignore the trolls; those idiots don't have half the balls to do what you did. Even if they did, they undoubtedly would not have nearly enough experience or knowledge to last very long, even if they somehow managed to grab enough votes to get a seat. Real likely, eh?
@assorted trolls-
STFU n00bs. Have a problem with what I'm saying to you? Go whine about it; make my day.
Did you make it like this so people could see you like to have fun as well as be political?
God bless you man
And I *definitely* wanted people to see that I wasn't taking this TOO seriously! Why can't McCain or Obama cut loose some in their ads...?
Here in Canada, our elections are done in ridings, so each major political party must have its own leader before the election and this one guy was running to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (I think it was the Conservative party) and to show he liked having fun, he showed up for an interview on a jet ski and in a wet suit and let's just say he was made fun of so much it ruined his political career
He's still around, and he's my MP ;_;
Fuck
but i had a game on the playstation 1
it was nice
but so imaginary
with all these swords and stuff
probably not the best idea, but you are pretty corageous.
And it is nice.
May the Force be with you.
Do you use a Green Screen or something?
And what Computer Programs do you use to make this stuff?
btw the video was great!!