Last month I went down to Beirut to film an MTC-Vodafone commercial and yesterday it was finally aired on TV. I just uploaded it on YouTube if anyone wants to watch it.
[YouTube]
I couldn’t mention this before because I didn’t want to reveal too much but we managed to find and get the rights to the old Kuwaiti song “Everything OK“. Many of you might recognize it since I posted about it awhile back.
If you didn’t see the pictures from the making of
you can click the following links:
Egypt – Day 1
London – Day 2
India – Day 3
37 replies on “Everything OK Commercial”
Pretty cool commercial. I was just wondering, did you pay everyone who appeared in the commercial, like the extras?Also, how did you manage to get that London policeman to be part of the commercial? Was he an actor or off-duty, or what? I’ve always wondered how these things work in the movie/tv making business.
Yes every extra you see was paid. Even the ones that didn’t appear in the final cut were paid.
The London policeman was a Lebanese actor who looked British. He even had ginger hair which you can’t really see in the commercial. His uniform was shipped to us from a supplier in Paris.
FYI, it was all shot in Lebanon.
just a technical comment
there is an error in the post production done in this commercial , if you see the shot were the Egyptian guy who dances in the big skirt then it transitions to the shot of the umbrella , it’s very obvious that there is a jump between the two shots and it doesn’t transion smoothly
thats because the two shots were edited together using an editing program not CGI program , everything else looks ok!
1. The guy travels too much.
2. His wife is annoying ..
I didn’t understand one word they said :s :s
K: The wife was inspired from chandlers girlfriend on FRIENDS
Thanks for answering my questions Mark, wow I was surprised when you said it was all shot in Lebanon, you guys did a really good job with the props/scenes.
By the way, any chance you can activate my account so that I may post on the forums, etc. Thanks
Account name: Defiant
hmmm i dont have any accounts pending activation in the forum. try signing up again.
I just checked my junk mail and I saw the activation email. My bad.
So how do u acquire a song like that ? do u have to go to the artist and take permission and pay him a gazillion dollars or there some sort of organisation where u buy music rights ?
Well you have to get rights to the music and the lyrics. Sometimes the rights are with the studio, sometimes the rights are with the artists, it varies.
Great commercial.. I liked it. very neat and well-done. Great job!
Sorry mark, that really sucked. I like the song with it’s original video clip but that was about it. This is just like having the song “shamma” on an add.
Wait a minute, Marina FM did that too 🙂
Really cool commercial. Is this going to make MTC not suck now? 🙂
OMG this is like the lamest MTC commercial so far.
Talking about the music, sorry to tell you, but I felt it was not this great especially the words ok everyssings ok and even the ppl singing depressed me.
Everything else is wonderful i mean the shots, costumes, Good Job! In fact I like this street in Beyrouth, no wonder that it was chosen for the Ad.
Mark, can you post the previous commercial you did for mtc atheer (if aired)
https://248am.com/mark/work/the-mtc-commercial-shoot/
thanks
i don’t like it.
That was nice and all but I have one question:
What kind of person who have enough money to go all around the world and buy some neat stuff but don’t have the money to get a new shirt for himself?
Just a thought….Bravo anyways LOL 😀
Hey Mark, I just want to say congratulation on the air of the ad. It was so funny and nice surprise to hear the OK song sync in the ad.
Great job. However, I have to say that Angelo has a point on the shirt comment.
I like the commerical, I think it’s funny.
I loved it, but the everything OK song is annoying. good job Mark
one word AMAZING! good job Mark and all personnel who makes this magical commercial happened.
nice one!
in one word…crap!
and finally, I love it. Nice commercial. When its going to be on TV?
I don’t now why I keep playing it, its amusing.
I didn’t see it on TV yet.
There is an ad in the paper with some pics of the shoot, iots a tv and a newspaper comercial.
It looks really good.
welldone
Hmmm, it would have been better to spend this money on upgrading their services, no pun intended mark i nkow you need the job. However at the rate service that MTC is providing I can’t till the third operator starts.
crapy commercial, sorry dude
see the difference between itisalat (uae’s telecom) commercials and mtc !! that AD sucked!!
I love it!
pretty lame really.. sorry, but you can’t help but compare it to the great ads by Mobily of SA… Now that’s real advertising !
i agree with basamig the ads of mobily are amazing but not badd
cool commercial, what a demanding wife >.>
liked it, and kept my eagle eye out for the offending street sign, so it in reflection in the phone box door, well done. cheers
I don’t like it. It’s lame and it sucks as some people said earlier.
that MTC commercial from a couple years with the Kuwaiti leaving his meeting and walking all over the world with the cool music in the background was the coolest.