John Sammon

Mr. Clean promoted their Magic Eraser with a contest back in 2007. They challenged you to create a commercial to help promote their product. I wrote the commercial and had friends act and film it. I didn’t win the grand prize but sure got a lot of enjoyment out of the piece I produced.

The Education Department at Playhouse Square asked me to come up and produce a commercial to promote their lunch-time “Speak Up Classes.” These classes help working professionals with public speaking. They wanted something outside the box and funny. So we shot this in the winter of 2007.

In the fall of 2006, I was charged with coming up with some kind of interactive contest to target a “younger audience.” The typical target audience for Playhouse Square is women age 60-65. We felt that Spamalot was a great show to test out this sort of contest. After doing some research, I came up [...]

I was accepted into the Graduate program at Ohio University in 2007. I decided to pursue an M.A. in Interactive Multimedia. The cost of college was going to be expensive. So I created a Web site where people could sponsor the homepage for a fee and I would put the proceeds toward my masters. While [...]

I coordinated the creation of this commercial for the Center for Student Legal Services in Athens, Ohio in the Spring of 2008. The Center wanted to come up with a video that would expand their exposure for students. I proposed doing a parody of one of the most memorable songs of the 90′s – Crash [...]