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“Yes!” - The Omni Video

Posted by Linda Sharps on 04.18.06 @ 10:26 AM File Under: MISC

Our resident moviemaking experts, Grayson and Terry, shot Omni's very first commercial recently. I believe the idea was originally floated as a joke, and then suddenly there was a storyboard and cameras and someone actually Riverdancing and now…

I give you:

“Yes!”

Note: no Omni employees were harmed during the filming of this video. Well, except for Brian's dignity, but he's a fast healer.

 

Comments

  1. Curt Clifton

    04.18.06 11:40 AM

    ROTFL.  Definitely worth the cost of admission.  Heck, I would have paid twice what I did to subscribe to the RSS feed just for that ad!

  2. Hasan Khalil

    04.18.06 12:44 PM

    I couldn't believe my eyes. I just hope for Brian's sake that he was well paid. Something tells me he probably wasn't paid enough (or at all?) for this extra company enthusiasm.

  3. Corentin

    04.18.06 1:52 PM

    Wonderful!!! Great add :-)

    Congrats to Grayson and Terry :-D

  4. Jan Erik Moström

    04.18.06 6:00 PM

    I would like to say that Brian could probably make a living as a dancer :)


    Wonderful!

  5. David Hall

    04.18.06 6:11 PM

    I hope he has good medical cover…

  6. PNM

    04.19.06 3:56 AM

    In OW sp4, I had to do a “download link as” to get it. It would not play in the browser.


    That said, it is a cute little peace. It is true, after all. Omnigroup software is very good.

  7. random observer

    04.19.06 4:04 AM

    YAY! its awesome and amusing and you probably don't want to hear any more beyond that, but it makes me think of the question:


    why is he happy/dancing?


    yes, as an observer I see he's coding, then he finds something and fixes it, but we need more suspense, more build-up.


    I'd sympathize more if in the beginning he has a closeup and talks directly to the camera saying something even vague like “this problem has taken me X days to debug and now, NOW, finally, _I_ have the answer, I. am. a coding _GOD_!!!” then starts dancing.


    oh, or a voiceover while he's looking stressed/harried.


    “this is brian. brian's been coding for a bazillion hours and is about to fix the worst bug he's ever encountered to date….”

  8. mindflayer

    04.19.06 5:08 AM

    My eyes.

  9. [...] Ahh, those great moments when someone does the Yes! dance. Well done Omnigroup. I use a lot of the software that these guys have written. [...]

  10. Matthew Stuckwisch

    04.19.06 4:01 PM

    I'm about to do that same dance soon as soon as I finish my term papers.  But, I won't film it ;-)

  11. Matthew Barker

    04.20.06 9:07 AM

    I like it.  I'm not sure if anyone outside the computer

    industry…(e.g., a barely technical manager) would

    understand it.  So, it looks good for ZDTV.

    I watched it 3 times.

    Cheers,

    Matthew

  12. JB

    04.20.06 1:18 PM

    If I ever visit the Omni HQ, remind me not to drink the kool aid

  13. Cult

    04.21.06 12:31 PM

    “I'm the LAHD OF ZE DAHNCE”

  14. Ryan

    04.23.06 9:44 PM

    Ah, the “Yes!” dance. I know it well.


    And it's particularly well-executed in this example. Nice moves, Omni!

  15. [...] Talking about a happy coder http://blog.omnigroup.com/2006/04/18/yes-the-omni-video/ [...]

  16. FH

    04.29.06 7:11 AM

    Brilliant. I expect to see it in the next Super Bowl.

  17. [...] “Yes!” commercial from The Omni Group. I’m not sure about the goofy dancing, but all of us coders know what he’s feeling.    © 1999-2006 Justin Blanton                    e v e r y t h i n g i s r e l a t i v e                    Hosted by DreamHost [...]

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