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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Blu » 03 Mar 2011, 00:08

Those are not as simple when
a) your parents are such helicopters you fear for your neck being chopped off by the blades
b) you're not good at poker or any other casino games and are still innocent enough to suck as a prostitute
c) I'm not in the army and I don't run a small country.

So why not get these guys on it? I mean, at least they'll have helpful and creative ideas that might save my skin in the long run. :lol:
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby waZelda » 01 Apr 2011, 07:31

Ways to avoid getting mauled by a bear. Examples:

Play dead:
The bear (someone in a costume) runs after someone and that someone use the pretend-to-stab-yourself-by-putting-a-sword-under-your-arm-trick. The bear walks away with its head down.

Scare it:
The victim holds up the giant creepy doll and the bear runs away.

Scare it worse:
The bear runs into Paul's magicland character (Simon) who starts reading a story and the bear quickly runs away.

Distract it:
The one the bear is chasing gets to a shore and there is a shark there, so they start preparing for an epic battle.

Move it to tears:
Graham in the same outfit as in the Serenade from ways to use a vuvuzela sits on a rock playing a harp when the bear gets there. The bear then attack and the subtitle adds "NOTE: Requieres some talent".

Take me instead:
As Kathleen runs away, Graham suddenly emerges and put himself in front of her as a human shield while mimicking that he says something. The bear then shrugs and knock him down while Kathleen keeps running.

Call for help:
The bears target screams Mr. Tiddlywinks three times (using graphics like old movies, showing the text in white on black background) then hides behind a tree when Mr. Tiddlywinks appears, confused when all he finds is a bear. Then both the bear and Mr. Tiddlywinks shruggs and start attacking each other.

Justin Bieber:
The victim holds up an iPod and the bear instantly covers his ears and run away

Make it sleep:
Paul in a scientist outfit starts giving the bear a lecture on the benefits of becoming a vegetarian and the bear falls asleep.

Befriend it:
The victim stops and picks up a laptop. When the bear catches up, a facebook window pops up with a facebook friend request to the bear.

Reversed psychology:
The victim shows the bear a menu and with a meat knife in his/her hand start pointing at different bodyparts as though asking it which one it would prefer to eat.

Scribblenauts:
The victim picks up his/her DS and summon Cthulu. The bear retreats.

Latent powers:
The bear knocks someone over, then suddenly the victim starts glowing light blue, then punches the bear so it flies straight into a nearby tree.

Sam Raimi:
The camera is in the bears perspective as it chases after someone. That someone then throws a banana peel and right afterwards the camera angle goes straight up at the sky, indicating that the bear slipped on it.

Stinger:
The victim from the "befriend it" clip sits by a computer and gets a request from the bear, wondering if he/she would like to be its neighbour in farmville.

EDIT:
Came up with a couple more after I posted this.

Chasing montage (or whatever it is called):
The film is going fast and the bear and victim run in a silly way. First they go left to right, then right to left, then left to right running backwards, then coming from the right, running a couple of times in a circle with their arms out like emulating planes and out left. Then they run left to right with the victim chasing the bear. Then appear from the right, still with the bear being chased. Then they both stop like thinking "wait a minute" and then the bear chases the man again.

Go back in time:
As the victim is chased, it uses a watch and disappears with a flash. In the next shot it reappears at the same place and the bear is just a baby (teddybear), so the victim starts cuddling with it. Then the mother appears and the victim has to run away again.

SCIENCE:
The victim is in a scientist coat and stops to point at the bear with a remote or something. The bear freezes and a scanning light moves from tip to toe, then a "dark version" of the bear appears so the scientist gets away while the two bears prepare to fight.

By the way, if you like the video, feel free to leave out some of them, because in hindsight there are way too many lrr references un it.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby RLYoshi » 13 Apr 2011, 15:02

Easter's just around the corner. I recently wrote an entire X2Y script titled "Ways to Find Easter Eggs". Though I hope people actually go on easter egg hunts and it isn't just a family tradition or something. Anyway, here are some things I came up with:

THE CLASSIC:
The easter egg hunter reaches behind a television set and pulls out an egg. (Text appears again, this time saying "THEY'RE ALWAYS BEHIND THE TELEVISION!"). He then reaches behind again and pulls out several more eggs.

INTERROGATION:
The hunter forcefully shoves the easter egg hider into a chair, demanding the eggs. The hider soon gives up and hands over an egg.

BRIBE THE EASTER BUNNY:
The hunter meets up with the Easter Bunny in an alley or similar place. He sneaks the bunny a twenty-dollar bill and the bunny sneaks him an egg.

PERCEPTION CHECK:
The hunter rolls a twenty-sided die and gets a 17 or higher, allowing him to uncover an egg.

VIDEO GAMES:
The hunter is playing a video game and points something out to the hider. The hider slaps him on the head (Text appears again, this time saying "NO, NOT THOSE KINDS OF EASTER EGGS!").

ARM-EGG-ADON:
The hunter is standing on the street, holding a sign and talking about how Arm-EGG-adon is coming (see what I did there?).

BURN THE HOUSE DOWN:
The hunter is shown pouring gasoline on the floor. He then pulls out a match or lighter. Cut to a big empty field with smoke, leftover flames, etc. with the hunter stumbling around and coughing. He pulls an egg out of the rubble.

SECRET SPY MISSION:
The hunter is wearing high-tech spy gear and creeping along a wall. He grabs a guard and snaps his neck, looting an egg from his body. While there, he also takes his wallet.

THE SAM RAIMI:
The hunter sees the hider. Cue Sam Raimi vision of the hunter, chasing after the hider. The hunter soon grabs the hider and steals the egg from him.

Stinger: The hunter and the hider walk onscreen. The hunter is carrying a basket filled with eggs.

HUNTER: Is that all the eggs?
HIDER: Yeah, I think so.
HUNTER: Okay.

The hunter walks offscreen. The hider pulls an egg out of his pocket and chuckles. He starts walking away in the opposite direction the hunter just went, but the hunter suddenly comes on, grabs him, and drags him away.


I know there isn't a lot. I had other ideas, but they were removed due to either just not being funny, or probably being hard or impossible to film. You can add or remove some if you wish. If you want to hear the removed ideas, you can ask.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby MotorWaffle » 06 May 2011, 11:04

I don't know if this would be better suited for X ways to Y or a regular video, but "Dealing with People Who High-Five Way to Hard" or a similar idea could be amusing. All I can thing of for an X ways to Y would be wear a gauntlet, scissors beats paper, give up social interaction, and Rocky-style hand strength training montage.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby waZelda » 24 May 2011, 13:06

Oh, just thought of another one. I really like this one, though it might be a challenge to film. I think it has a lot of appeal to video game geeks.

Ways to Abuse Portal Technology

The Remote:
We see a guy on a couch reaching for the remote that is on a table nearby. After a particularly half-assed attempt at reaching it he takes out the portal gun from behind his back, shoots a blue portal at the table, then an orange one at the roof and catches the remote as it drops.

Cheating:
You see a classroom where someone are obviously taking a test. The guy with the portal gun is struggling, but you see someone else that is writing like crazy. the portal guy then shoots a portal on the roof above the bright person's desk and the other portal below his own desk to peek at his test.

Vanity:
You see a girl in a bathroom, placing one portal in front of her and one behind her then look at the back of her head in the portal and starts styling her hair.

Egging:
A guy sets up two portals, one at the floor and one at the roof, then drops an egg, which will accelerate and get more and more velocity. He then goes over to the window and raises the portal gun. In the next shot you see the egg hitting someone's car.

3 point shot:
A basketball game indoors. One of the players pulls out the gravity gun, shoots at the roof above the far end basket and at the floor right next to him, then simply drops the ball into the portal and scores.

Bear trap:
You see a guy placing a portal in a caged room, then run into the forrest, put up another portal, then try to cover it up to make it harder to spot. Next shot he gets chased by a bear and jumps over the portal, but the bear just run across it with nothing happening. The man return and tries to step on it to see if it works and then fall straight into his own trap.

The paparazzi:
We see a girl with a towel around herself. The next shot we see the towel be hung up somewhere. We then see her upper back as she walks into the shower, just to find a portal and a guy taking a poicture.

Wrath:
Wee see the girl with her chest and hips censored (so she can be in her underwear when you film it) coming through the portal and chasing after the guy with the camera. She is holding a razor or something.

Busted:
You see a policeman (James probably) chasing after someone. The criminal climbs over a fence, but the policeman shoot a portal at the ground. The next moment the criminal lands inside a cell.

Escape:
We still see the same criminal in the cell. He shrugges, pulls out a portal gun of his own and shoots it at the wall.

The pervert:
You see a guy looking around a corner at a girl, then shoots a portal at the wall behind her and slap her on the butt. The portal appears just before she turns around. She then starts attacking a guy that happen to walk by.

Clubbed:
Should be with James and Alex. One of them show the other person the portal gun and the other person think it is really cool. Then the person who showed it off makes a portal at the wall. The other person walks through and finds a Club soda, and it isn't until then that the word "clubbed" appears on the screen.

Take out the garbage:
Preferably, it should be one of your parrents in the video giving you a black garbage bag. The person shoots a portal out the window and one at the floor, then drops the bag into the whole. In the next shot someone is riding a bike then gets hit by the bag coming up from the portal.

Rest:
Someone passes a goal line and is clearly really tired. He then shoots a portal at the ground, fall forwards and in the next shot lands straight on his bed.

The Sam Raimi:
The camera is chasing after someone. That someone runs towards a wall, then shoot a portal at the wall, shoot a portal on the ground, jump into the portal on the ground, come flying out of the other portal feet first and kicks the cameraman in the face.

Stinger:
You see the long-distance runner fall down on his bed, just to find his wife and another man. The other man then pretends like he is going to explain, then takes the portal gun out of the runners hands, shoot it at the wall and begins to flee.

EDIT:
I have another one:

Keep Playing:
You see someone with a headphone sitting by a computer. Then you here the sound of a sniper and in the next shot you see yellow liquid falling down into a toilet seemingly from nowhere (the roof is not in the shot).
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Xarcain » 20 Jun 2011, 17:03

Ways to Study For a Test

Open with a guy freaking out over the fact that a major exam is the following day.

-Osmosis: Tape the learning material to head.
-Post-it Notes: EVERYWHERE!
-Subliminal Messaging: Sit there in a trance with heaphones on.
-Indoctrination: A shady room where a government agent "educates."
-Group Study: The books lay untouched as the people play [insert entertainment choice].
-All-nighter: Caffiene ahoy!
-Download: An ethernet cable should do the trick.
-Proxy: Have someone else do it.
-Force: The 2x4 of Knowledge.
-Magic: +4 smarts.
-Sam Raimi: Textbook on the hunts.

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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Nox Equites » 21 Jun 2011, 01:07

I thought here would be a fine place for my first post.

Ways to Win A Trial

Starts with a scene of cast members being arrested.

In no particular order:

Be Innocent: Best innocent look by the people on trial.

Bribe the Judge: Person hands Judge a bulging envelope.

Bribe the Jury: Jury in deliberation room counting piles of money.

Mind Control: Cast member with intense look on face with after effects to mimic comic telepathy, then judge dismisses case.

Take hostages: Should be self-explanatory.

Plea Insanity: Persons on trial acting in best lunatic fashion.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Valliac » 21 Jun 2011, 10:11

Giant Robot Defense?

Giant Robot Defense.

Also, watch it in 240. Wont work otherwise.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby JenSev » 25 Jun 2011, 12:52

Ways to save energy

-Man Power

Matt on a bicycle powered generator with Kathleen standing behind him holding a whip.

-Super Man Power

Someone dressed up as Electro or something comes into the house and the crew starts putting electrical plugs on/into him to use his energy. For some reason I'm picturing James here in the costume.

-Harness Lightning

Think of the old Frankenstein movies, probably with Paul the Scientist.

-Static Electricity

Rubbing the cats on things.

-Turn Off The Switch

Graham throws the main switch on a circuit board and the movie ends with static.

You can probably think of a lot more, but these are basically the most amusing ones that I could think off.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby D-structman » 24 Jul 2011, 00:14

-Ways to Hi-five
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Avistew » 30 Sep 2011, 06:58

I feel kind of bad reviving this thread for what amounts to a joke post.
But not enough to refrain from posting!


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Buy the shirt off his back
Hide all his shirts
Ban shirts
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Turn the heat on
Spill something on his shirt (so that he has to take it off)
Spill something on his shirt (so that it dissolves it)
Go back in time and prevent shirts from being invented
Draw a shirt on him in his sleep (so he thinks he's already wearing one)
Put an icecube down his collar
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby iamafish » 30 Sep 2011, 07:10

^^ please do that one

'seduce him' might be another one, or 'wear the same shirt as him', or 'just rip the damn thing off him'.

actually an variation of the last one could be 'make him think he's the incredible hulk'
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Postby Geoff_B » 30 Sep 2011, 07:21

(yes I know this joke has been used before but still...)

I find all this obsession to be...

*sunglasses*

... Extremely a-Paul-ling

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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby chif-ii » 12 Oct 2011, 07:32

Hello, long-time watcher, first time poster. Just finished Portal, so that's where this comes from. If LRR ever get their hands on a portal-gun prop...

Ways to use your Portal gun

Opens with an Aperture Science TV spot, advertising the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (now only $999.95 with S/H). Guy (possibly Matt?) sees the ad, gets out his cellphone and starts dialing. Jump cut to Guy signing for a package, opening it up, and bringing out the gun prop.

Garbage disposal - (set in James's apartment?) The guy with the gun throws his trash into a portal on the floor, where it falls out of a portal set on another building

Ultimate Cannonball - guy uses portals to jump into a pool from high up; so high up that the splash drains the pool completely and soaks a nearby sunbather (probably too late in the season to do this)

Duel - Old West-style standoff. On the draw, Guy1 shoots a portal underneath Guy2, sending him careening off the side of a building

Backrub - as seen in Outside Aperture, at around 5:30 or so.

Easy Robbery - Guy in ski mash shots portal into next apartment over. He finds a woman in the apartment, looking crossly at him, which segues into...

Make new friends - Guy in ski mask introduces himself to woman, making a point to show off Portal gun to his new friend

Peep show - Guy uses portals to spy on someone in the shower, but it turns out to be a dude that's taking a shower. Cue disgusted reaction.

Instant refills - Guy is holding a party (or he just might be by himself, or sitting out by the pool). He tries to take a drink from his cup, but the cup is empty. Guy shoots a blue portal on the wall, reaches in, and pulls a soda out from the fridge (orange portal is inside the fridge). Can also be shot starting from a dark fridge

Free Cable - Guy1 is watching TV. Pan up or zoom out to reveal a blue portal above his head, showing Guy2 on his own couch watching TV

Just out of reach - hard to explain. Orange portal is beneath a chair or desk that the guy is standing on. Blue portal is beneath an open cupboard, with a can of beans or something that is teetering on the edge. Guy jumps into orange portal, but gets stuck in the "seesaw effect" (Valve's TV spot shows P-body doing this, just before GlaDOS starts talking)

Parlor tricks - Magician pulls rabbit (or cat) out of his hat. The next shot shows that he has a portal on the inside of his hat

Hammock - as seen in this comic

Impatience - While he waits for the crosswalk to change (angrily pressing the "cross street" button), guy shoots portals across a busy intersection.

Reduce travel time - typical sitcom "I'm leaving for work, honey" scene. After receiving a kiss from his wife, guy shoots a portal into the wall, walks through it, and comes through in his cubicle.

Mess with their heads - y'know how you play the game where you tap your friend on the opposite shoulder, so when they look to see who it is there's no one there? Like that, but with portals

Sam Raimi - hand chases after guy. Guy turns around in fright, but quickly shoots two portals to put the hand in an infinite falling loop. (could be stinger)

Budget Space travel - end of Portal 2, but the guy is in a space suit and it's intentional. Guy1 shuts his visor and signal to Guy2. Guy2 fires portal gun to the moon. Guy1 plants a flag on the surface of the moon (possibly Team Matt design? Otherwise, use LRR logo). He tries to get back, but there's no portal. Go back to the original location where Guy2 hoists the gun up, looks at it, and grins and nods to himself.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby madhousezack » 17 Dec 2011, 04:39

x ways to Dungeons and Dragons
x ways to kill a dragon
x ways to get drunk
x ways to survive black friday
x ways to cosplay
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Postby Lord Hosk » 15 Jan 2012, 17:07

inspired by this: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/887256-clumsy-medics-drop-transplant-heart-on-the-ground-at-mexican-airport

Ways to fail at an heart transplant

Butter fingers
In a room person on a table covered by a sheet, doctor type person wearing a mask picks up a heart then bobbles it and drops it on the floor.

Wrong way
Two people on tables covered by sheets, one paul being dead, the other the intended recipient. Take the heart from paul throw in garbage, take the heart from the living patient with wires and hoses hooked up and start working on implanting it in paul then have a second person wisper in the "doctors" ear, he stops what hes doing grabs the heart out of the trash and picks some gum and bits of food off it then goes to the "living" patient

Valentines day
Take the "bad heart" out of the patient and toss out, then the doctor gets handed a chocolate heart gets shocked makes yelling motions, pulls down his/her mask and takes a bite.

Bad directions
Two people run into the room holding a cooler, there is a woman on the table, the doctor turns around holding a baby.

Really bad directions
The same two people run up to a door labeled "morgue"

Really really bad directions
The two people hop out of the car with the cooler and run through the gate of a cemetery.

questionable source
someone behind a grocery store type meat counter hands the cooler over to one of the "transportation people"

Bad choice
sitting in the car at a T intersection there is a sign. Airport points to the left, Tuscon bus terminal points to the right, they turn right.

Wrong equipment
With the patient laying on the table the surgeon looks down at a tray with a scapel a meat cleave and a chainsaw, then grabs the chainsaw.

Wrong transplant
The surgean removes a heart and tosses it, then opens up the cooler and takes out a foot

Reality
Show a picture or vid clip of the original
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Under_Score » 29 Jan 2012, 12:29

I'm kind of surprised they've never done an X Ways to Desert Bus. Seems like an X Ways to Y would be a perfect video to do while Desert Bus is going on, since they've said they tend to be easier videos, and they may as well make in theme.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Lord Hosk » 03 Feb 2012, 00:20

but what would you do?

one, drive on the left,
two, drive bill style drift back and forth
three, wearing gloves
four, space jump
five,
six, donations
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby ElementalAlchemist » 03 Feb 2012, 19:15

But it's Desert Bus, so they do get the opportunity to pad it by repeating at least one of them a few times. You know, because it's Desert Bus, which is just driving, which is pretty repetitive. As is the correcting.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby the amativeness » 04 Feb 2012, 00:30

seven, upside down
eight, dancing catgirls
nine, summon cthulhu
ten, $10,000 bid
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Bacon » 03 Mar 2012, 05:57

Ways to con.

Set at the LRR stand at a convention. All the familiar faces sat behind a table of merch and goodies, LRR posters behind. All ye who approach should be either real fans, unknowns or lesser seen crew members. Most of it is shot either from the viewpoint of a crewmember or that of fans etc looking at the stand. For maximum brilliance, actually film at a convention!

The enthusiast - A fan approaches wearing as much LRR clothing as possible. T shirt, one of the LRR scarves and a hat. Also carrying LRR DVDs and a creepy doll (possibly a crude homemade one, but it's the thought that counts). The fan approaches the stand and is generally as enthusiastic as is humanly possible, then a little bit more than that. Lots of squealing, smiling and uncomfortable hugging.

The auctioneer - A guy walks up and gets an autograph on a shirt. Once it is passed down the line of crew and handed back, an identical shirt is produced to be signed, there are confused loks from the crew but the start signing anyway. The camera cuts away to the auctioneer pulling another shirt out of a box at his feet with eBay written on the side. Throughout, the auctioneer looks uninterested and bored and his body language is slightly aggressive.

The magic player - A fan approacheth with a bandolier of magic decks, stands defiantly in front of the crew (who are shown in the magic player's mighty shadow) and challenges them by throwing a glove on to the table, grabbing a deck and pointing at the crew. The next shot shows one member of the crew in a match against him whilst the others watch on intently, ignoring passersby.

The creepy guy - One crew member nudges a second sat next to them who is busy (signing something/on the phone), the first nods towards someone looking at them from the crowd but is not near the stand. Cut in to a closer shot of creepy guy, wide eyed and grinning, staring menacingly at the crew. Back to the crew looking both scared and disgusted, close up of one finding the number for security on their phone and then making a call.

The mix up - Someone shows up wearing a shirt for something else, confusing the LRR crew with other people. The crew look at each other, confused as their stand is quite difficult not to identify. Mixed up fan continues talking at them. The crew shake their heads and perform various hand jestures to both silence and inform the silly person, pointing at the posters, merch etc. The camera then zooms out to show the stand next to the LRR one which shows the group the fan is looking for. It should be as radically different from the LRR one as possible, using a different colour scheme on their stuff.

The flasher - A person (gender uncertain from the camera angle) approaches the stand wearing a trenchcoat or something of that ilk. The camera switches to an angle behind the latest arrival shortly before the coat is flung open. The next shot is basically from the flasher's perspective, showing the mixed reactions of the crew. One should be shocked, hand covering open mouth and recoiling in shock. Another is looking in what would appear to be the groinal area, looking impressed/shocked (o-mouthed, wide eyed). Another would be non-plussed, having seen it all before. Yet another would be too busy playing magic to have noticed (possibly two playing each other depending on who is available). Another would be busy taking a picture of the action, it lasts longer.

The grab and run - A short one. From the crews' perspective, someone dashes up to the stand and eagerly but hastily looks at everything on offer. From the fan view, crew member offers their hand to shake and greets the fan. Back to the crew view, the fan bats away the proffered hand in their haste to snatch up freebies (and not so freebies) from the stand before stuffing their loot into a bag and running off. Back to looking at the crew, the crew member inspects a bedraggled and plundered table before leaning over it to see where the fan went. All of this should happen quickly.

The no show - Noone. Just the crew looking bored at the stand. Cut between each crew member passing time and a shot from crew perspective of nothing much happening. Include a thumb twiddler, sleeping, reading/doodling, watch checking and of course playing magic.

The clubber - A fan approaches, exchanges greetings and then offers a present to the crew. From the crew-eye view the present is taken and placed down on the table, the clubber subtly grins and their eyes narrow. From clubber vision, the freshly revealed box is slowly opened by one crew member, the others are stood behind and look expectant. Back to the crew perspective, the clubber looks like they are forcing back a giggling fit, biting their bottom lip. Clubber vision again, the box is finally fully opened, a harsh light is emitted from the box and the crew look stunned. The person who opened the box removes two bottles of delicious club soda. Back to the crew perspective, the clubber is laughing and pointing. Truly the ruler of their clubbing empire. Back to look at the crew and yet more bottles have been taken out, one for everyone on the stand! Everyone looks cross, giving the clubber very evil stares.

The photo op - A fan with shows up, holds up their camera and points at the crew, obviously signalling their desire to be photographed with them. Cue the fan to reenact the usual poses for photographs, notably the outstretched arm too close for comfort shot. Each photo would be taken with a crew member separately, being filmed from the view of the camera in the fan's hand. The crew member would try to look sincere but not quite manage to hide their discomfort. After a photo is 'taken' you could edit in a flash and the sound of general picture takery (although x ways to y doesn't usually do such things so the sound is optional) and then show a still frame of the 'photo' for a short while. In every one the fan would make a silly pouty face that has been haunting the internet for years. Maybe include an awkward group shot with the fan in the middle looking ecstatic and the crew looking blank.

The Sam Raimi - The camera weaves in and out of the crowd, passing along the different stands at the con. Eventually pouncing upon the LRR crew and a pile of empty bottles. All are suprised.

I thought it would be an interesting one since LRR go to loads of cons and there are probably even stranger types of people who show up. It's also a fun change since the crew are being subjected to the horrors rather than acting them out. It could be hellish shooting it at an actual convention though, but I liked the idea because the Sam Raimi would look great that way. Everyone feel free to add more since you have probably come across more types of people at cons than I.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby plummeting_sloth » 16 Mar 2012, 18:01

Inspired by this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=andjFfU_YV0

X Ways to Quit your Job.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby ZigFB » 23 Jul 2012, 11:37

Ways To Do A Clip Show

Host it

Graham and Paul laughing at the camera, holding coffee mugs. No audio save for the piano, of course. Cheesey Amiga style graphic of a window displaying random LRR clip between them.

Create A New Story From Old Clips

Story guy, talking to camera, silent once again, from his last video, fires a shot. Bad cut to Bill and Morgan's two idiot criminals running. Cut to the head of Evil Inc. laughing. All silent, cause, you know, piano.

Fake "old" clips.

Graham, Matt, and Paul, with a terrible looking fake beard, are arguing about something, and he grabs a keyboard mouthing something about Linux.

The Sam Raimi

Kind of long montage of different Sam Raimi bits, cut at random points, eventually leading up to a screen playing different LRR videos.


Anything else, it's up to you guys.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby Merrymaker_Mortalis » 31 Jan 2013, 15:09

Ways to Fake Working. (how to pretend you're doing work).

Two Internet exploring programmes and lots of tabs.
Look pondering at paper.
Look pondering at Spreadsheet.
Photocopy random things.
Print random things and wait at communal printer.
Play online typing games.
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Re: X Ways to Y:The Thread

Postby AdmiralMemo » 01 Feb 2013, 12:18

I've got a good one that will need to wait until November, at least: Ways to Raise Money For the Children

Challenges (various throughout, such as Caramelldansen, QWOP, 64K, etc.)
Silent Auctions
Live Auctions
Ken Steacy
etc.

You guys have done a Whole Story, fake movie trailers, fake game reviews, etc. to get the word out about Desert Bus. Why not an X Ways to Y? :)

And... I just looked up and saw it had already been suggested. Still a good idea. :)
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