1, 2, 3, 4... I declare a dance war! Our Delta Airlines dance crew has a new challenger.
Our choreographed dance routine for last year's "Delta Wanderland" Christmas video was a novel idea at the time: encourage actual Delta employees to audition, send the finalists (myself included) to L.A. to learn the dance moves, and shoot the music video all night on location at the LAX Airport. As an actor, it was a change of pace for me to rehearse dance moves rather than block action and memorize my lines from a script.
My blog offered a series of behind the scenes looks at shooting our music video last year. Three of the four most the popular posts from that series are listed below. Here are the links:
Behind the Scenes in LA Pt. 1- Dancing Near the Stars
Choreographing our dance moves at L.A.'s International Dance Academy on Hollywood Boulevard
Behind the Scenes in LA Pt. 2- On Set: Delta Wanderland
Stories and production stills from our all night video shoot at LAX airport
And of course...
Bonus Documentary: "Delta Wanderland: Behind the Scenes!"
Sharing our official behind-the-scenes video, including a rare, brief clip of me busting some moves during our freestyle dance off!
We were proud of our production. Our Delta music video even beat out companies like HP to receive a trophy this year, winning an OMMA award for best Online Media, Marketing, and Advertising!
But a few weeks ago, Virgin America challenged us on our own turf: the dance floor. Their creative new safety video features professional dancers (unlike us) and pizazz to spare. Clocking in at a whopping 5:00, readers may want to skim through the clip:
I'll concede, our Delta dance troupe seems to be out-sassed on this one. But does our 2012 "Delta Wanderland" music video stand on its own merits? And is it fair to compare our one night production using authentic, non-dancer Delta employees against a professional music video? Personally, I think it's impressive that we pulled off "Delta Wanderland" on such a tight shooting schedule last year. Our team did such a great job! Readers can be the judge of that.
We may have barely lost this dance battle, but not the dance war.
Poke the play button above to watch us dance in our 2012 "Delta Wanderland" Christmas music video.
Our choreographed dance routine for last year's "Delta Wanderland" Christmas video was a novel idea at the time: encourage actual Delta employees to audition, send the finalists (myself included) to L.A. to learn the dance moves, and shoot the music video all night on location at the LAX Airport. As an actor, it was a change of pace for me to rehearse dance moves rather than block action and memorize my lines from a script.
My blog offered a series of behind the scenes looks at shooting our music video last year. Three of the four most the popular posts from that series are listed below. Here are the links:
Behind the Scenes in LA Pt. 1- Dancing Near the Stars
Choreographing our dance moves at L.A.'s International Dance Academy on Hollywood Boulevard
Behind the Scenes in LA Pt. 2- On Set: Delta Wanderland
Stories and production stills from our all night video shoot at LAX airport
And of course...
Bonus Documentary: "Delta Wanderland: Behind the Scenes!"
Sharing our official behind-the-scenes video, including a rare, brief clip of me busting some moves during our freestyle dance off!
We were proud of our production. Our Delta music video even beat out companies like HP to receive a trophy this year, winning an OMMA award for best Online Media, Marketing, and Advertising!
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But a few weeks ago, Virgin America challenged us on our own turf: the dance floor. Their creative new safety video features professional dancers (unlike us) and pizazz to spare. Clocking in at a whopping 5:00, readers may want to skim through the clip:
I'll concede, our Delta dance troupe seems to be out-sassed on this one. But does our 2012 "Delta Wanderland" music video stand on its own merits? And is it fair to compare our one night production using authentic, non-dancer Delta employees against a professional music video? Personally, I think it's impressive that we pulled off "Delta Wanderland" on such a tight shooting schedule last year. Our team did such a great job! Readers can be the judge of that.
We may have barely lost this dance battle, but not the dance war.
Coming this weekend on Garth's Blog...
