I thought it was funny how the media constantly has tragic stories that are meant to make us fear everything. EVERYTHING causes cancer, a man tries to help a motorist who slid off of the road and ends up getting hit by a second car sliding off the road, your kid could be abducted and it's usually by someone you know, madd cow disease, etc. I've written a few phony commercial campaigns for a made up company, The F.E.C. I just wanted to get your oppinions of them. Are they funny, disturbing, stupid?
F.E.C. 1
A house sits in a middle of a horrible thunderstorm. The gigantic tree rocks back and forth from the force of the wind. A mother sits up, listens, and jumps out of bed. A faint crying can be heard. She runs into her childs room, and picks up the crying baby out of the crib, whispering "it's alright, it's alright" into the baby's ear. As she is walking to the door there is a loud clasp of thunder. A large tree limb breaks through the ceiling and crushes the crip the baby was lying in just moments before. Fade to black
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".2% of deaths, ages 0 - 3, are from lightning related causes"
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"What are you doing to protect your child?"
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"Paid for by the F.E.C."
"Don't say we didn't warn you"
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F.E.C. 2
A man (We'll call him Ed) sets out for his daily walk. He walks by 2 movers who are struggling to get a rather large TV into the moving van. He helps them and continues on his way.
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- A woman is looking out of the window at a moving van parked outside of her house, the 2 men are walking up to her door
- The 2 men carrying out a computer and a stereo, the TV can be seen in the backround
- The woman is tied up in the closet
Ed is walking a few feet behind a man holding a briefcase. A wallet size photo falls out of his pocket. Ed picks it up and returns it to the man. Ed turns the corner and the man continues straight.
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-The man standing in front of a house, reading the address on the back of the photo
-The man picking the lock on the back door
-The man Holding a gun with a silencer hiding around a corner, as the woman in the picture is walking towards the room.
Ed is about to walk back up to his house. A man is walking in the oppisite direction. Ed notices that the man's shoe is untied and politely points it out as they pass. The man says "thanks" and kneals down to tie his shoe. Ed walks back up to his house.
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-The man is at a conveniance store, he is staring at a woman in the next aisle.
-A 'Missing' poster of the woman hung up on a lamppost
-The man sitting on a bus, a young boy is seated next to him
-A 'Missing' poster of the boy hung up on a grocerystore bulliton board
-The man knealing on the ground tieing his shoe staring at Ed as he is walking into the house
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"You just never know who you'll meet."
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"Paid for by the F.E.C."
"Don't say we didn't warn you"
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F.E.C. 3
An Elderly Woman is sitting at a table, finishing up a bowl of soup. In another house, a man is watching TV, he looks at his watch and groans. The Elderly woman puts her dish into the sink and heads for her bedroom upstairs. The man takes his coat off of a coat rack. The woman Picks out a pair of earings in front of a mirror. The man sits on a chair in his kitchen to put on his shoes. The woman leaves the room and heads for the stairs. The man leaves his house. In slow motion, you see the mans foot come down on a crack in the sidewalk, there is a loud bang when it hits. The elderly woman trips over her own foot and falls down the stairs. The elderly woman is in the hospital sitting in a wheelchair, the man (her son) is sitting in a chair next to her holding her hand. She says, "The doctors say I'll never walk again" Fade to black
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"It's not just a myth"
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"Paid for by the F.E.C."
"Don't say we didn't warn you"
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(Just in case some of you haven't heard it, there is a popular kid's rhyme that goes 'don't step on a crack or you'll break your mother's back')
