Today I was filmed by Mike Baxter, videographer, for the new The CW channel (WB and UPN merge). The commercial is to advertise The University of Tennessee's Outreach and Continuing Education programs. I was chosen among 300 other students currently enrolled in the photography certificate program to represent the "face" of UT's budding photographers. That's pretty cool!

The CW Channel reaches just over a million homes in the East Tennessee viewing area. This 30 second commercial will run 30 times, in those one million homes, starting August 28, 2006.

They filmed me in the Market Square area of downtown Knoxville. We did about 10 interview style questions to cover how the UT Photography Certificate program has helped me as a photographer and then they filmed me walking around Market Square and then this shot you see here where I am doing some downtown photography.

Hopefully I won't end up looking like a big dork.

Here is a link to whom the commercial is for. http://www.outreach.utk.edu/ppd/

Here is a link about the local CW channel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBXX

Big thanks to Darrin Devault, Marketing Director for UT Outreach and Continuing Education and Mike Baxter for putting me at ease infront of the camera, where I REALLY don't belong.

Also big thanks to Tom Geisler, Jennifer Bennett and Mary Jerger who all made it possible for me to be in this commercial.

UPDATE: Here is a link to the commercial. It is six meg (6 MB) so it might take a minute or two to load depending on your connection speed. I don't think it is "streaming". http://www.bendinglightphotography.com/JamesLundy.avi