Bugs Everywhere, Fear the Vacuum!

            When you’re about to fall asleep at night, the last thing you want to worry about is if there is a spider crawling around on your ceiling or on the wall above your head. I used to cringe whenever I’d have to kill a spider by smacking it with a shoe (and sometimes missing), or having my dad come kill it. Luckily, the spider vacuum emerged and my family has been using this handy device ever since we’ve sucked our first spider with it! Having personally used this device, my group and I were able to make a relatable radio broadcast and commercial advertising the spider vacuum to an audience of busy mothers.

            For our commercial we decided to make a storyboard detailing the exciting events occurring at a dinner party. Starts off with a woman walking around and socializing with friends in her living room. She then announces for everyone to head into the kitchen to view her fabulous cake that she had spent hours upon hours decorating and baking. As she swings open the door to her kitchen (with everyone anxiously trailing behind her), she is shocked with terror by a humongous spider dangling above her iced cake. Screams erupt throughout the house as women prod and poke this interesting looking spider (it’s really a squatty strange looking man dressed in a spider costume). After a moment of hesitation, everyone scrambles to spray this menacing creature with bug spray. Yet the spider remains hunched above the glorious cake, creepily smiling, and unaffected by the various insect sprays. Suddenly a light bulb goes off in Tiffany’s head, ‘I can use my new and improved bug vacuum to suck this menace!’ Returning swiftly from the closet, Tiffany emerges with her handy bug vacuum and victoriously suctions up the spider! Party streamers explode everywhere with cheers, all thanks to the bug vacuum!

Below is the storyboard for this one of a kind commercial:

            As for our radio broadcast, we decided to use a slightly different approach to advertise our bug vacuum since we could only use audio to catch the audience’s attention. Below is the script we constructed for the radio broadcast of Mitch and Tiffany throwing a party celebrating their brand new house!

(SFX) (Laughter and talking)

Random chatter: “Congrats on the new house!”

Mitch: “Why thank you!”

Tiffany: “Excuse me while I go use the restroom.”

(SFX) (Loud screaming from down the hall and then sound of running footsteps)

Tiffany (squeals in terror): “Spider!!!”

(SFX) (Gasps from guests followed by party stampeding to the restroom)

Chaos in the bathroom

(SFX) (Shoes banging, people screaming, thumping, newspaper and magazines hitting walls, explosions—overall cartoonlike sounds)

Mitch: “It’s on the run!”

(SFX) (Feet chasing and then skidding to a stop)

(SFX) (Sucking sounds of vacuum getting the spider)

Random guest: “Good thing I got you guys this bug vacuum!”

Another random guest: “There’s another one!”

(SFX) (Fading sound of vacuum with stampeding of footsteps)

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