A sprinkler pops up and starts spraying water on the front lawn. Inside the house we see a guy in a mundane slice of kitchen life. But he hears some muffled commotion that causes him to seek out the source of the noise, which gets louder as he approaches the front door. He opens the door to find a man in swimming trunks having a grand old time on the front lawn, being doused by the sprinklers.
Indeed the lawn is this bathing suit-clad guy’s personal water amusement park. He’s seen in various positions getting soaked–laid out on the lawn kicking his feet in celebration and standing and spinning about repeatedly like a whirlybird.
A series of supered sentences relate: “Don’t make us ask you again. It’s a desert out there. Water only one day a week.”
A voiceover chimes in, “To find your watering schedule, go to changeyourclock.com.
This offbeat yet direct water conservation message on behalf of the Southern Nevada Water Authority was directed by Peter Harton Jensen of The Joneses, Santa Monica, for agency R&R Partners, Las Vegas.
The R&R team consisted of executive creative director Daniel Russ, creative director Ron Lopez, copywriter Jason Luery, art director Diane Vafi, executive producer Don Turley and producer Kelly Thompson.
Mel Gragido exec produced for The Joneses, with Jeanne Stack serving as producer. The DP was Stops Lagensteiner.
Editor was Bill Marmor of Rex Edit, Santa Monica.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More