"A cellular phone that will come on the TV screen and dance, Oh and have it do some acrobatics."
That was the task we had given to
us by Radio Shack. This entaled the making of a giant cell
phone that could be worn by an actor for the dance part and a
Rod Puppet to do the acrobatics.
Radio Shack wanted an exact copy of their then new cellular
phone. Using fiberglass, plastics,aluminium, bondo and
various gel media a body suit and a miniture rod puppet were
made that duplicated the real phone so closely that on
cameria during the blue screen it was impossible to tell to
tell which was which.
The shoot took three days but the results were a memorable commercial that was a seemless blend of puppetry, and bodysuit work.
The commercial has run for 3 years and is currently still in use.
