Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Please

Pacific Office Automation was looking for a way to showcase the talents of their Top 10 Western Region Sales People. Not their sales talents–everybody already knows about that–their singing talents.

So they hired Studio Bard to produce their their Annual Employee Appreciation Event with an American Idol theme. To do that sort of theme justice, you really need video clips of people singing a cappella with a number pinned to the front of their shirt. That’s where we came in.

We created a very realistic looking “Idol” audition set on our soundstage, complete with a celebrity judges table. (Curtis Salgado was among the noted adjudicators.) All that was missing was Randy Jackson saying, “Dog, that was a little pitchy.” Their Pacific Office Automation colleagues voted for best singer at the live event.

As expected, most of the sales people sounded better than the average Idol contestant.