User:Mattderojas/Video:Yearbook Sales

Yearbook Sales is the working title, and How To Get Your Yearbook is the official title of a video concerning early sales of yearbooks.

Video 1
The first video was based on car commercials where someone says that if you buy their car, they'll pay your taxes or something else. Subtitles at the bottom of the screen show that it's nothing but lies.

In the video, a middle-school student does something similar, but he first says that students who buy a yearbook will get a Get out of Class Free Card (a parody of the Monopoly game's Get out of Jail Free Card), saying that you can get out of class any day, any time. But then, green subtitles appear that say "No, you won't. He's lying." The student reads them, albeit backwards (in our view, right to left, where he's supposed to read them left to right. This error was not discovered until post-production.)

He tries it again, with a free school laptop, an IBM ThinkPad. He says it doesn't have a firewall, but this is mistaken because the firewall exists on the school's Ethernet server. Again, like before, the subtiltes appear and read "No, you won't. He's still lying."

The student again reads them (backwards). Then he decides to tell the truth: they will get "priceless memories of the 2005-2006 school year--memories of your friends, of the good times they had, that can only be found in this yearbook." As The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand plays, green subtitles appear that read "Yes, you will. He's telling the truth." This time around, however, the student doesn't read them; he keeps on talking to buy the yearbooks at sale prices.

Video 2
A second attempt to advertise yearbooks showed the same student in the hallway. He meets a deaf student ("Deaf Guy," a term later coined in the video series Deaf Guy's Paradise) as well as a "foreign exchange student" who speaks Creole. Both don't understand what the main character is saying, and make references to both the bathroom and the library.

Unfortunately, the video was never completed by the due date for yearbook sales, February 3, 2006. The raw footage is still held by Cameo Films.