An Interesting Article

[jackofallgeeks]

This is a
somewhat interesting article about a model suing a jewelry company because
the ad they made with her makes her look lewd. It's interesting because the
model says she's made a point to keep a wholesome reputation (and as a
graduate student in education, presumably hoping to become a teacher, I'll
buy it -- especially with the way we've already seen tarnished reputations
negatively impact educational careers years later), and because the
description of the shooting makes it seem more than a little deceptive. I
haven't seen the ad, so I don't know how much of the filming was cut, but
apparently there was some kind of a comedic storyline which culminated in
the guy giving the girl a necklace and the girl getting excited. Apparently
'excited' meant something different to the producers than to the model, as
they asked her to re-shoot the "getting excited" part, "without smiling."
Presumably this re-shooting constitutes the bulk of the internet clip that
the model is complaining about.

Comments

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

From the article (emphasis mine):

Three-fourths of the filming of the commercial ... involved a comedic story line, but the woman later was told to sit and feign excitement for a few seconds while the young man put the necklace on her, the lawsuit says.

After that scene, the court papers say, the director told her to fake excitement while lying down, without smiling.

"He asked her to keep repeating the action until he thought he got the most authentic looking film piece," they say.

I still haven't seen the online clip (or the full ad, if it's different) and can't watch it here since I'm at work and stuff, but I still hold that it's reasonable she *didn't* know what she was filming because she was misled. There's a difference between taking a few seconds of absurd excitement and making a full clip out of her repeated action. Depending on the editting, what she believed she was creating and what was actually produced could be very different things.

[ambereternal.livejournal.com]

Oh I read the article before watching the ad, just to see how reasonable her claim would be. As an actress, I have to say it's almost impossible that she didn't know what the director was asking her to do. Given the movements, sounds, and expressions she's making, she would have to be the biggest twit in the industry to not realize she was faking the big O. I mean, she's lying down, one hand on her forehead, the other moving extremely suggestively throughout the frame, and moaning. Even Jessica Simpson would have picked up on it...