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Chris Ninness contributed to the CYT Blog a couple weeks ago- urging CYT SD to help develop a commercial with Walmart Stores, in hopes that it would be hand-picked to be viewed on air during American Idol! Well, because of your help, the video is FINALLY here.

You can watch the video at the Mofilm website. The commercial, “Live Better Musical” was co-directed by Chris Ninness and David Gaetke.

Chris Ninness stressed that no community voting would be available for the competition, “It will be judged by a panel of Walmart executives…. Please pray and keep your fingers crossed.” He also spoke of everyone’s hard work amongst the video’s huge collaborative effort:

“The best way to help a project reach it’s full potential is to surround it with the best talent you can. The key was to find a great cinematographer, a great group of dancers, and an amazing song writer. When all the elements came together it was like magic. The enormous amount of effort put into it was why it has gotten such great feedback,” said Ninness.

Hello CYT Family,

I have very exciting news to inform all of you. I am currently developing a commercial with Walmart Stores and if I am hand-picked it will screen on the air during American Idol! I need your help to make this vision come to life! We get one single minute to impress the judges so we thought we had to DREAM BIG and do something AMAZING, so we have decided to make our one minute spot a musical!

Who doesn’t love a good musical, right?

This letter is going out to you because we believe that you are the key component to making this a reality. If you live in San Diego and you are interested in participating please follow the instructions below. We can’t do this without you.

Here’s what you have to do:

1) Arrive by 1:00pm on Saturday the 27th of Feb at 11318 Longshore Ct. San Diego CA 92130. This is a residential area and drop off and parking instructions will be their when you arrive. Due to parking restrictions we ask the kids be dropped off and picked up at 5:00pm. We know some of you may have rehearsal until 1:00pm, please arrive as quickly as possible after rehearsal. Rehearsal comes first.

2) Please bring clothes that you would “play” in. No logo’s. Must be modest. Nothing to flashy but try to be bright and colorful. CYT and Invisible Children clothing are cleared logos you can wear.

3) You must be on the list! Sign up by e-mailing cytwalmart@live.com who will be attending. Friends are welcome to participate, bring as many as you would like! They must follow the same rules listed above and below. The reason for this is because when you e-mail this address you will receive a photo/medical release form that must be filled out and turned in the day of shooting. If you do not have the form you cannot participate. One form per child.

4) Bring water and a snack as their will NOT be food supplied. It is a short shooting day (1pm to 5pm) however we understand you may get thirsty and hungry. We will have a snack break time, however it is up to you to bring your own water and snack.

5) If you have any “activity” you can bring with you (such as a scooter, ball, jump-rope ect.) it would be greatly appreciated.

We can’t wait to see all of you and get started shooting! It’s gonna be a blast!

Thank you all so much!

Christopher Ninness
CO-DIRECTOR

David Gaetke
CO-DIRECTOR