I say it's GOOD. Flows money into the climbing economy. Just like those really bad movies that hire all the good climbers to do stunts and stuff.
Hopefully Alex will be be able to go climbing for several years with the paycheck. When you do an ad like this you normally get residuals every time it's played.
It's Katie Brown and Alex Honnold on the Corkscrew Summit of Ancient Art.
Good for them. It's a high profile national ad that will come with enough residuals to fuel their goals for awhile financially. Better than some non climbers on a green screen. At least real climbers are benefitting from it somehow.
Even though they shot some ridiculous belay positions to make it look more dramatic, at least it's real climbers in the real deal.
I have had several clients reference this commercial in the last couple weeks.....I hate all large financial institutions, but this is good for the JT economy!!!!!!!!!!!
Flouride, if/how do Katie and Alex get residuals off something as short lived as a commercial? Like, is it normal to get residuals? Or is it just normally just scale by the hour? I probably don't understand how residuals or scale works, but always wondered how climbers gravitated toward hollywood rigging and stunt work.
They're on screen, faces shown. If they have any agent worth their salt they should have got a decent fee for the ad itself then a percentage for all times it re-airs. Hell, they can probably get into SAG for that ad and get the bennies and all that union provides.
commercials are golden when it comes to money, especially national ones. I have a friend who was in one when he was 12 and still gets checks to this day when they dust it off and re-air it (was a popular national spot). Given, they're small checks but getting paid for something you did 25 years ago one time? Sweet.
Definitely would be a sweet gig. Hope it worked out that way for both of them.
side note, we used to refer to Katie as "The Claw" - she used to wear that watch on one wrist, that was to hide the attachment point for her 'claw' hand that allowed her to fire off 13s onsight at such a young age. lol