Nuthin' better to do but shoot people
Jul. 11th, 2002 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slipjig3Boredom struck hard, so I spent yesterday morning tinkering with the camcorder and the editing software. Great fun. Basically I hung out over by the lake and shot tourists, scenery, and more tourists (and a carpenter taking his shirt off; I don't think he knew he was on camera). I only got about three and a half minutes of footage, because I only had one quarter for the parking meter, but it was enough to play with. Once I got home, I kludged it together with a voice-over and some ominous-sounding Michael Hedges music into the introduction of a hypothetical Twin-Peaks-y, death-comes-to-a-small-town type flick (title: A Long, Dark Summer in Lake George), about a minute in length. It's very silly, and there's NO WAY I'm doing anything with it, but I loved the process. Total production time: 2 hours, from leaving the house with camera to final product, and that includes a stop at the grocery store and a social call to Kristi at work, who threatened slow, painful murder if I filmed her. Pity, that. I could've used a mysterious Femme Fatale.
On a related note, Verizon is sponsoring a contest for its employees to create a 30-second commercial. First prize: T-shirts and a pizza party. When did I land back in junior high school, and why didn't anyone tell me? Anyway, I signed up to participate, but later I had second thoughts; they're looking for a team effort, and I already know that I'd be a really bad team player on this one. (My tendency would be to make something like that PowerBar clip where the pallbearer accidentally drops the dearly beloved down the hill. I know I'm in the right family because we all laughed our patooties off over that one.) So I blew off the initial meeting, but Karen, one of the project people, hunted me down and asked if I could do video editing at all. Sigh. Oh, well, Terry Gilliam just did a commercial, so who am I to complain? I'll keep y'all posted.
I'm realizing that I'm being a negligent LiveJournalist, in that I haven't overloaded my entries with Nifty Cool Links. I guess I don't do enough random surfitude to produce the necessary nifties, but I promise I'll do better. In the meantime, if you're a game lover and you're not already aware of Funagain Games, I've just doomed you for life by bringing it to your attention.
Oh, and one more note about yesterday: What kind of flippin' moron forgets one item on a two-item shopping list? Uh, that would be, um, me. I need to get root beer today.
On a related note, Verizon is sponsoring a contest for its employees to create a 30-second commercial. First prize: T-shirts and a pizza party. When did I land back in junior high school, and why didn't anyone tell me? Anyway, I signed up to participate, but later I had second thoughts; they're looking for a team effort, and I already know that I'd be a really bad team player on this one. (My tendency would be to make something like that PowerBar clip where the pallbearer accidentally drops the dearly beloved down the hill. I know I'm in the right family because we all laughed our patooties off over that one.) So I blew off the initial meeting, but Karen, one of the project people, hunted me down and asked if I could do video editing at all. Sigh. Oh, well, Terry Gilliam just did a commercial, so who am I to complain? I'll keep y'all posted.
I'm realizing that I'm being a negligent LiveJournalist, in that I haven't overloaded my entries with Nifty Cool Links. I guess I don't do enough random surfitude to produce the necessary nifties, but I promise I'll do better. In the meantime, if you're a game lover and you're not already aware of Funagain Games, I've just doomed you for life by bringing it to your attention.
Oh, and one more note about yesterday: What kind of flippin' moron forgets one item on a two-item shopping list? Uh, that would be, um, me. I need to get root beer today.
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Date: 2002-07-11 09:16 am (UTC)We were running a Live Action RPG game, and the players were on the lam. They stopped at a bar, and we had the TV going, as bars tend to do. It was a Pokemon episode, nothing special.
What the players didn't know was it wasn't the TV - it was a videotape. We used the camcorder to record a "special news bulletin" talking about "violent criminals". We had pictures of the PCs, so we posted them up on the screen, and we went 'on the scene' with an interview. We copied the recording on the episode. So, halfway through their drinks, the news report came up.
I don't remember if the players stayed long enough to watch the whole thing, but making it was a blast. I swear, making the props was more fun than playing the game.