So I spent all day – and I mean all day – last Wednesday shooting my commercial for Dai Viet beer.  It was an interesting day and a lot of fun, and I’ve been meaning to post about it ever since but I’ve just been lazy. 

Also, I didn’t take my camera to the shoot because I thought it might be unprofessional or cheesy to be snapping photos on the set.  Well, as I will detail in my upcoming post, I don’t care if I had hired Ken Burns to make a documentary about the making of my beer commercial – I still would have been the most professional and least cheesy aspect of the commercial shoot.

There was a VP of Dai Viet beer there all day and he was taking tons of pictures.  At the end of the day, I asked my contact with the film crew – Vinh Phuc – to see if he could get the Dai Viet beer guy to burn his photos onto a CD for me and he said he would.  Vinh Phuc called today and I will be doing my “voiceover” – where I get to say “Bia Dai Viet bia cua moi nha!” (Dai Viet beer is the beer of every household!) – he’s picking me up at 11:00am.  He said he was going to have the CD of photos for me tomorrow.  Yo never really know over here, of course, but if he actually has the CDs for me, that will give me extra motivation to go ahead and write my post about the film shoot.

Vinh Phuc also told me last week that he would give me a DVD of the finished commercial once it’s edited, etc., so if I can I will post the finished product on my blog as well.  If it turns out half as cheesy as I think it is going to be, it will be pretty funny.

Anyway, by procrastinating this long to write my post about the commercial, I may now be able to include some photos.  We’ll see.