in case you've been tracking my feed, you already know my
buddies -- Andrea Lipinski, Orenthal Hawkins, and Kevin Lauderdale -- and i
placed out a podcast called Temple of horrific, devoted to the birthday party
and evisceration of awful film. That, possibly obviously, wasn't sufficient for
us, so being throughout-the-board fanatics of mystery technology Theater 3000,
Rifftrax, and their ilk, we decided to attempt our hand at doing our own
riffing display.
(For the ones of you new to the style, to riff in this
context is to take a movie, desirable or bad, and lay in an additional audio
remark tune cracking smart approximately the on-display screen goings on. this
is generally presented in the shape of a video display, however that doesn't
suggest it cannot be accomplished stay as nicely. strive it at that screening
of Loving you're planning to wait this weekend -- it's a laugh! (We are not
accountable for any repercussions you may enjoy in case you do this at that
screening of Loving you're making plans to attend this weekend).)
After a few studies, we settled on a certainly execrable
(and public domain) candidate: the horror(?) mystery Scared to death, which
simply so occurs to be Bela Lugosi's best coloration film, now not that it did
him a whole lot right. because we're no longer absolutely loopy, we determined
to check the waters by using doing simplest the primary twenty mins. you could
see the outcomes in the participant at the bottom of this publish.
can not be denied we had a laugh living la vida MSTie, but
we also learned a few valuable instructions:
choose YOUR film
VERRRRY carefully
Scared to death is a gem of a stinker, with inane talk,
awful performing, and beats that aren't so much dramatic as they may be
incoherent. It also occurs to be based on a stage play, and brings with it some
extraordinary factors of the theater, to wit: The characters speak, lots. This
is not a problem while you're simply sitting there, guffawing on the element,
however complicates matters when you're looking to shoehorn a riff into the
inanity with out running the danger of dropping some thing little narrative
thread there's. fortunately, most of the talk is as needless as the movie is
overall, so we threw warning to the wind and stepped on talk where we needed
to. next time, even though, we're going to be looking cautiously at the
provenance of the script.
WRITING RIFFS BE hard, YO
Any fan of the riffing arts knows which you do not go right
into a session bloodless. You can't just sit down, fire up the recorder, and
assume you're going to drop pearls of wit on a first viewing. It takes a couple
of viewings to land on simply the right riff at the right time. It additionally
takes a variety of concept -- some thing stupid happens on-screen, and your
intuition tells you, This must be addressed, however you can not just say,
"Heh-heh, it is stoopid," and assume your process is carried out.
There are approximately 95 riffs within the twenty minute span of Scared to
demise, and that's on the low cease of the scale for such efforts. typical, we
sense we nailed it, but languors exist at factors, proof that we have been
running difficult, but not hard enough.
THE virtual AGE IS YOUR great buddy AND YOUR WORST ENEMY
we're 4 humans residing in 4 extraordinary towns. In
principle, we should have recorded our riffs individually and that i, as
manufacturer, could have used my enhancing magic to sew all of it collectively.
We decided to head an additional step, and use a Skype conference session, so
we should all have interaction during recording. This was an excellent call: It
was amusing session, and the good vibes translated to the audio music. hassle
became that, having virtually no budget to tug this venture off, we were at the
mercy of anything era all of us had to hand. This ranged from professional
recorders to smart phone recorders to table mikes. The distinction is apparent
and, to a small quantity, distracting. backside line: locate the money, and get
all people's hardware at the identical degree.
i believe all of us got here out of this with a heightened respect
for the paintings of Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson, et al, however also quite
jazzed with the aid of our very own humble efforts. check the show out and spot
in case you agree.
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