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College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-resume dept.

cartechboy (2660665) writes "Two University of Southern California grads were looking to start a digital content company so they decided to roll the dice and create a home-made (but incredibly professional looking) television commercial for Tesla — just to see if they could get some attention for it. Well, apparently, mission accomplished. R.J. Collins and James Khabushani took $1,500 and created a 60-second Tesla 'faux-mercial' dubbed 'Modern Spaceship' that is well, pretty good. Elon Musk noticed, tweeted it and has helped the thing go viral."

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  1. Lemme posit this... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If the car commercials I have to suffer through on my TV were half as good as this "amateur" commercial, would I fast-forward my TiVo to skip the commercials?

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    My answer: no.

    This is an enjoyable commercial.

    Question: why cannot the "professional" commercial makers do this sort of thing? Why are current car commercials always screaming at me?