Doritos

As I sat down to think about thhis question, I had to really think hard. We had a short week. I am currently working with my class on proper timing of shots for commercials. I picked four Doritos commercials that were fairly easy for my students to try to recreate. Many of you have seen them I'm sure. The first one had a person in a mouse suit break through a wall. The second had a board meeting where a guy explodes from eating a Dorito from a Dorito tree. The third used a remote control car with a Doritos bag on it. The fourth had a guy looking at a pretty girl and he wrecked. I told the students that I wanted them to match the timing and shot selection of the commercials. Their grade depended on how close they could make this happen. I'm sure at this point, some of you are thinking what the students did, "How am I going to find a mouse suit and bust through the wall? How are we going to make one of us blow up? Do you really want me to wreck my car for a grade Mr. Maynard?" Now to get to the question that the blog asks. As I began to explain how these commercials were created and show them how they could recreate them with home video cameras and our Dell computers, I saw the light come on in a bunch of their minds. As I sat with the leaders in my classes and helped them edit (o\Of course they were done shooting first. That is why I sat with them.) and explain the effects and watch them create them, they got so excited to show their friends in the class and to help other students create the same effect that I had taught them. The learning almost became contagious. It was one of those moments when I felt as a teacher, "I am making a difference." If any of you guys want to see some of these, I will bring them with me on Saturday. Some of them did pretty good.