Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.
Disclaimer: Budweiser's parent company, Anheuser Busch, which originally licensed the concept for five years from Stone, was not involved in the production of the ad
Wassup 2008
Full Credits
Client: Wassup08.com
Production Company: True Vote Productions/ Believe Media
Director: Charles Stone
Director of Photography: Shane Hurlbut
Executive Producer: Maurice Marable, Gerard Cantor
Producer: Katie Matson Walker
Line Producer: Sara Bartlett
VFX Company: Mass Market
VFX Artist / On-set Supervisor: Rich Rama
Editorial Company: Union Editorial
Editor: Nico Alba
Sound Design: Bill Chesley, Henry Boy
Sound Mix: Sound Lounge
Mixer: Philip Loeb
Lead Flame: Sarah Elm
Lead Compositor / On-set Supervisor: Lane Jolly
Particle Animation: John Cherniak
Roto/AFX: Michael Dobbs
VFX Producer: Blythe Dalton
VFX Executive Producer: Christine Schneider
Here is the 2008 Pro-Obama version. It makes you realize just how far down we have gone in eight years. But according to these guys, there is hope.
The first comercial OF the wassup group .
Wassup
Classic television ads are few and far between. And only occasionally do they blend into the politic dialect (see: “Where’s the beef?” Mondale v. Hart, 1984).
The “Wasssssup” Budweiser spots were — for avid television watchers — one of those memorable ad moments that had pop culture significance. Now, the very same characters are reprising almost identical roles in a short clip on behalf of the Obama campaign.
ABOUT : Wassup
Charles Stone III is an award winning feature film director who got his start in 1988 as an animator for New York’s Woo Art International. In the early 90’s he started directing music videos and in 1998, in the height of prosperity and opportunities during the Clinton Administration, he used the prestigious Music Video Production Association Awards to premier True, his short film shot on Video 8 on a shoestring budget and starring Charles and his friends. The film was an instant hit and became an underground sensation in the film and advertising communities.
The success of his music videos and short film opened the door to directing his first feature film, Paid in Full. Meanwhile, True was still an underground hit circulating from one person to the other on shared VHS tapes when it landed in the Chicago offices of advertising agency DDB Needham whose creative directors imagined using the film’s characters for another purpose.
In 2000, on the eve of Bush being elected, together with DDB Needham, Charles ended up creating and starring in (he’s the first guy lying on the couch) a series of Budweiser Whassup?! spots that became an international sensation and garnered the most prestigious awards including the Cannes Grand Prix, Grand Clio, Golden Pencil and Andy Award. In 2002, Paid in Full was released and later that year Charles began directing his second feature, the sleeper hit Drumline for 20th Century Fox.
The prosperity of the Clinton years was waning and the corruption and mismanagement of the Bush years was coming into focus. Luckily, Charles had already established himself as a successful director and jumped onto his next feature film Mr. 3000 for Touchstone Pictures and continued directing commercials like a Nike Air Jordan campaign introducing the NBA star Carmelo Anthony.
Looking back on the last 8 years since Whassup?! debuted, Charles realized how much our country has changed and seized on the opportunity to reunite the whole cast for a searing film on our current condition with the hope that it reminds people the importance of voting and more specifically, the importance of choosing Obama, a candidate who is a clean break from the policies that got our country in this condition in the first place.
Charles is currently in development on several feature films as well as directing episodic television and short form content for the internet.
Special thank you for link:
http://www.wassup08.com/about.html
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