This was a short created for the 2009 Iron Chef: Beeeep! on PPMB
The basic premise was to create fictional commercials based on the humorous AT & T commercials where a person would narrate over shots of themselves getting into trouble and/or bad situations due to dropping AT&T for cheaper phone service.
We see a tall, olive complexioned, black-haired, mustached man wearing a pair of khaki shorts and a multi-pocketed vest standing on a beach from a side view. He is setting up an expensive looking camera on a tripod at the water's edge.
He is looking out over a scenic view of the beach houses and hotels, with his back to the ocean.
The camera shifts to view the beach houses, hotels and the man's back.
Another copy of the man steps into scene from the left holding a pipe in one corner of his mouth.
BEEP!
"Hello. You've reach Vincent Lane... He can't answer your call right now because the cheap phone service he switched to doesn't offer international calls as part of the basic package."
In the background you see Vincent-1 rummaging through a camera bag and lifting out several different camera lenses.
Vincent-2 lights his pipe and waves the match out to extinguish it.
"So, Jane, we won't be getting that message from you with the reports of Tsunami warnings your friend Daria told you about here in Indonesia."
Vincent-1 looks down at his feet wondering where the surf that was just lightly splashing his feet, went. He scratches his head and shrugs.
Vincent-2 looks back over his shoulder at Vincent-1 and shakes his head.
"Maybe if we make it back we'll look into switching back to Transcom, since their 'World Trek' package comes with international service standard and is only $20 more than the basic package per month. I may even look into the low cost satellite phone upgrade they're offering for a limited time."
A small string of text displays at the bottom of the screen giving the date that the offer ends, and the url for details on the Transcom website.
"Looks like we're going to find out if that phone we got from the other company's waterproofing was depth tested like Transcom's 'Super Traveller' models were."
Vincent-2 walks off camera and we see the camera swing around to look out at the ocean. A massive wave is beginning to form in the distance. Vincent-1 turns around, gapes at the sea for a moment. He then turns and begins to run screaming, dropping camera equipment as he goes. He runs toward the screen until it goes black as he runs into it.