Don't Try To Be Something You Aren't

This afternoon we shot another World Cup ad. A few days ago we went to Don Bosco and presented our ideas to the youth that hang out at the radio station after school. We really want to get the community involved so we thought we would use people other than us and our staff to make the videos. Plus, they might have other good ideas for video topics. One group of young guys came up with the idea of teaching people not to lie and boast about themselves. Don't misrepresent who you are. Just be you. So, their idea was to films a boy asking his friends to borrow their clothes and nice house impress a girl. He was trying to pretend these were really his. So he meets the girl all dressed up at a nice house. Then his friends come and take their stuff back and he is left with nothing and the girl leaves him. Not because he is poor, but because he lied. Their idea was a little different than our topics of personal hygeine, education, HIV/AIDS, malaria, etc. However, they were excited about it and thought it was a relevant issue so we filmed it today. The guy who played the man borrowing his clothes was a great actor. They all did a great job. They had their concept, locations, actors and props ready so when we arrived to shoot it, it went fast and very smoothly.



(Thinking how he can impress the girl)



(Wearing borrowed clothes in front of a borrowed house)

(Trying to woo his love)

(Losing his shoes and even his socks)



(Lastly losing his clothes)

It was a lot of fun for us and the neighbors