Subj: Color Coordination #10 Date: 94-07-18 22:43:38 EDT From: L7s
Color Coordination and the System (July 8) Denver #10
(Oops) I spaced out on telling y’all about the Rock the Vote commercial spot we did in Denver back on the 8th (it must have been the altitude!). The folks at Rock the Vote have a new campaign called Rock the System, currently dedicated to educating people about health care reform. To do this, they raised a bunch of money to assemble a nifty booklet with simple explanations of this highly complex subject. They then got a bunch of band people to blab about the book-to-film adaptation, hoping to encourage everyone to call and order this bit of free information. Not only does its main body of text demystify this tangled web, but it also includes hyperlinked vocabulary sections and short explanations of related words and expressions. Very easy for my two-minute mind to digest, even as we are bouncing down the highway.
These public service announcements are always filmed in front of special screens that allow the editors to insert other images behind the subjects (in this case, us). Last time we did a PSA for them, back in 1992, we had a problem with the background screen, which was blue, and Donita’s hair, which was blue. It seems that her hair would disappear, and she would look like a Hair Club for Men candidate. The problem was solved (although we do think, for the most part, “Bald is Beautiful”) with a temporary black spray-in hair dye. This time, we had the same problem, but with a different dye job/screen combination. The black screen and Donita’s hair, which is now (you guessed it) BLACK. The problem was solved by borrowing a baseball cap. Oh well!?! Color coordination never made much of a presence in our camp, anyway. (LOL) IF YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY OF THIS FREE BOOK, call 1-800-ROCK VOTE
