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Jan 2025
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143. These Guys Made Doritos a Super Bow...

Brayden Figueroa, Kostas Garcia, Chase Uttley
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What’s up Rock Nation, today we welcome back Nate Norell and Dylan Bradshaw! Nate and Dylan teamed up to co-direct a commercial for the Doritos Super Bowl ad competition and they made TOP 3! If they win, not only does their ad play at the Super Bowl, but they win $1 million!


Voting is super easy! All you have to do is select their ad "Abduction" and enter your email. You can vote everyday, and every vote counts!


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Timestamps:

0:00 - Trailer

0:31 - Intro

1:12 - One Handed Crack

2:18 - The Doritos Commercial Explained

3:14 - “Abducted” Commercial

3:44 - How to vote

4:42 - Commercial Breakdown: Computer screen VFX

5:33 - How they landed on the alien abduction concept

6:00 - Opening Shot lighting breakdown

7:07 - Computer Screen VFX breakdown

7:23 - Pre-production process

8:17 - Bringing your vision to life as a director

8:59 - How VFX changes a production

9:51 - How they pulled off the ragdoll scene

11:47 - The challenge of storytelling in only 30 seconds

12:32 - The importance of working with a team

13:50 - Shooting schedule

14:55 - Another VFX shot breakdown

17:07 - Making the submission deadline by ONE HOUR

19:47 - The power of making spec work

23:23 - What they learned from co-directing

28:42 - Gear used to shoot the commercial

29:25 - The ending punch line breakdown

32:57 - Rule of 3 in comedy

35:16 - Their marketing strategy

36:40 - The strategy behind viral content

40:05 - What winning will mean for their careers

42:37 - Going all in and betting on yourself

46:44 - What they will do with the $1,000,000 if they win


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