A few months ago Mr. Mingle and I volunteered to be actors in a video commercial for my company. It was a video that we were told would be shown in banks all over Japan. We spent about an hour in the bank pretending like we were getting a loan while talking to the friendly bank manager, while my coworkers shot the video from all angles. Truly, we felt like stars - how hard could it be? There was no talking because there was going to be a voiceover, and we just had to look friendly and happy ... "look Dear..it's a loan application...isn't this GREAT?" And then we walked out of the bank hand in hand, so satisfied with our new home loan. (If only it were reality huh?)
Well, today I saw the final video for the first time. It's 16 minutes long and is primarily full of graphics displaying the success of one of the funds, and a lot of words in Japanese. But at 5min.14sec. into the video we get our 5 seconds of fame. No kidding! Five whole seconds! And, what's even better is that there are multiple things happening on-screen at the same time, so the actual viewing box of our fake loan video is an eigth the size of the entire screen. So, Mr. Mingle...when you are watching it later ... DON'T BLINK. But hey - you can now add to your acting resume that you were in a commercial shown nationally in Japan!
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