{"id":1857,"date":"2018-12-14T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T09:53:45","slug":"drama-and-theatre-alumni-skydives-for-virgin-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/14\/drama-and-theatre-alumni-skydives-for-virgin-ad-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama and Theatre alumni skydives for Virgin ad campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Callcut, who graduated with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/114\/drama-and-theatre\">BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/\">School of Arts<\/a> at Kent this year, is currently featuring in an advert for Virgin Experience Days.<\/p>\n<p>In the ad, George plays Darren, who receives a gift of an indoor skydiving experience for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The ad was filmed over two days, where George had to participate in a simulated skydive at <a href=\"https:\/\/twinwoodsadventure.com\/fly\">Twinwoods Adventure<\/a> in Bedfordshire, with a second day filming the character receiving his gift on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The reaction to the advert has been good,\u2019 explained George, \u2018Family and friends have all been very supportive and found the advert enjoyable and funny to watch.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The ad can be viewed on YouTube here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wt5_Dy8_CC0\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wt5_Dy8_CC0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wt5_Dy8_CC0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Callcut, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre from the School of Arts at Kent this year, is currently featuring in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/14\/drama-and-theatre-alumni-skydives-for-virgin-ad-campaign\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,50018,124,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}