Colbert Greenscreen Challenge
The Colbert Report is having their second Green Screen Challenge, where they provide images to be composited. This time, the assignment was the make John McCain interesting. My original concept was to have the Movie Monkey interview McCain, thinking he was at a press junket for a little indie movie called “The Straight Talk Express.” The problem is that it wasn’t very funny; McCain’s available dialog online doesn’t lend itself to morning DJ hijinks. In fact, if you watch, you’ll agree that it is very boring. Apparently he can only be funny on SNL.This second concept came together in one day in a crazy rush of compositing and editing. It basically puts McCain in the ultimate pre-9/11 action movie. The music is by Jonathon Vandergriff, a local KC composer who does awesome work.
Enjoy it before the RIAA comes!
July 7th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
My audio work will just have to go on the dvd as a bonus feature when this green screen challenge takes off.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
You’re audio was great! I think I most was fearful of making a mediocre video, and the script I had written up was really mediocre. McCain doesn’t lend himself to “comic re-editing”, partly because most of his source material is so dull. (A friend told me that McCain always reminds him of boring people in Monty Python animations who have their nose run away. In retrospect I think that is what I should have done!).
July 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Ha! That would have been very funny!