Table 1.2: Pillsbury Crescent Rolls Commercial Découpage

On the 28 January 2008 As the World Turns episode, a 15-second commercial for Pillsbury Crescent Rolls occurs at approximately 29 minutes into the broadcast. It contains 14 shots, with an average shot length of 1 second, 2 frames and a median shot length of 1 second, 2.5 frames.

Because the shots in this commercial are so short, we have indicated their lengths in number of frames. (Video, in the US, contains 30 frames per second.)

Shot Number, Scale & Length Figure Sound Action/Camera movement
1
long shot
39 frames
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Figure 1.43
[Ennio Morricone’s theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), begins. Ambient sounds of the dinner party can be heard.] All shots are handheld.
2
medium shot
26 frames
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Figure 1.44
   
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Figure 1.45
   
3
close-up
26 frames
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Figure 1.46
Voiceover: Flaky on the outside, soft on the inside.  
4
close-up
31 frames
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Figure 1.47
   
5
medium shot
36 frames
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Figure 1.48
   
6
medium shot
37 frames
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Figure 1.49
[Ambient sounds fade out.]  
7
close-up
53 frames
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Figure 1.50
   
8
close-up
21 frames
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Figure 1.51
   
9
close-up
10 frames
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Figure 1.52
   
10
close-up
17 frames
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Figure 1.53
  Small zoom in.
11
extreme close-up
16 frames
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Figure 1.54
   
12
long shot
48 frames
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Figure 1.55
Mother figure: I got more. [Ambient sound fades up.]  
13
close-up
34 frames
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Figure 1.56
   
14
long shot
54 frames
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Figure 1.57
Voiceover: Pillsbury Crescents. Do you have enough?  

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Jeremy Butler has written about television style for over thirty years, publishing in ScreenCinema JournalThe Journal of Popular Film and Video, and Jump Cut. His textbook, Television, contains the most comprehensive overview of style in television studies. He has taught television, film, and new media at the University of Alabama since 1980.

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