Eyewitness Accounts

HomerTheBrave · Postby **HomerTheBrave** » 27 Apr 2007, 14:56

RAWK.

Kathleen · Postby **Kathleen** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:00

Corax wrote:lol i really liked it, especially paul's character. god how did you guys think of all this shit lol

The concept was totally Graham's idea. He explained it to me, and set up that he wanted it to be set in a mall. Then he came up with a list of characters (I think the only ones we added in later were the mall walker and the record store clerk) he wanted to have in it and went "hmmm. Why is this guy in prison? What happens?".
I came up with the basic plot (yes, it is absurd, that's how you can tell I was involved, I guess) and we wrote it all out in like an hour.

Once I came up with the idea of a shower of lobsters and crabs so we could have the frat boys singing "rock lobster", it kind of wrote itself.

Melendwyr · Postby **Melendwyr** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:07

Nate finally got a speaking part!

We're gonna need you guys to identify where the locations were. I recognized Graham's loft-attic, but that's about it. Toronto was presumably also involved.

Loved the name of Graham's foodcourt workplace.

Yukikaze · Postby **Yukikaze** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:09

That was great! It started a little slow, but MAN did it pick up as it went along.

Not entirely unlike a massive--

"Comment on the state of the environment"

--careening through a shopping mall.

Kathleen · Postby **Kathleen** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:11

I'd like to think this video gathered speed as it went along.

Graham · Postby **Graham** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:17

Yeah, I had written about a page and a half, involving the giant globe thing, and got stuck. So when Kathleen started stream-of-consciousness-ing the rest of the plot (fire, flood, lobsters) we scrapped what I'd written and re-wrote from Go.

Making sure the edits were tight enough and sounded smooth enough was tough, but shooting was much tougher.
Going to so many different locations for what amounted to twelve 10-minute shoots was murder to organize and arrange. Finding places willing to let us shoot was another thing.

Kathleen was shot on the weekend, Alex did his in Toronto and we did Jer, Bill and Nathan here on Thursday. Everyone else was shot on Wednesday between 4:00PM and 11:00PM.

Melendwyr · Postby **Melendwyr** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:19

This is SO going in my GITP forum thread. May have to jettison one of the other links to get it to fit, but it'll be worth it.

HomerTheBrave · Postby **HomerTheBrave** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:21

Hey, so, like... Didja ever see Roshomon?

Alex Steacy · Postby **Alex Steacy** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:45

I saw that play at Stratford. It was awesome!

I'm going to have to do some fiddling with my microphone so it doesn't sound quite so tinny...

The Thrill · Postby **The Thrill** » 27 Apr 2007, 15:46

I loved it! This could be one of favourite videos you guys have ever done. I noticed a couple people saying they had trouble following the story but I had no such problems. As soon as Matt said "The Final Countdown" I knew that Adam and Ben would have to sing it, I don't think I know the song "Rock Lobster" though. I thought Jer did a really good job, Andy was great (as per usual), I really like James as Officer Rodriguez and I thought Paul did a really great job as the pompous artist.

God damn I hate "The Final Countdown."

robothero · Postby **robothero** » 27 Apr 2007, 16:26

The Thrill wrote:I don't think I know the song "Rock Lobster" though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM

B52s

AdmiralBarikir · Postby **AdmiralBarikir** » 27 Apr 2007, 16:43

that was tottally awesome guys! I laughed all the way through!

Andy · Postby **Andy** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:00

Unclever title wrote: And whose dog is that?

Mine!

Also, Really nice jail set! I love the bit at the end when it gets taken down.

AmazingPjotrMan · Postby **AmazingPjotrMan** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:13

I'm not sure what to say that hasn't already been said. Great job.

Tea Mandy · Postby **Tea Mandy** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:17

My biggest kudos go to Kathleen and Morgan. Their performances really stuck out to me as being awesome. Certainly not to discount anyone else, as the acting here was tremendous.

I had really hoped to hear more of the Rock Lobster song too. Also would have loved it if James talked like a RCMP officer in interviews on TV, with a deep voice and no emotion to even the silliest things. Doubt it would have been entertaining, but may have liked to see it.

My lol point: when Andy and Morgan began to banter back and forth, it was great.

Btw Paul, new hat? Surprised we haven't seen it yet.

Pretzelcoatl · Postby **Pretzelcoatl** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:24

This one was awesome! I was reminded of a sketch Olde English did in the same style: http://www.oldeenglish.org/podcast/funny-face (Your version is superior, of course!)

All of you guys were hilarious, but I cracked up consistently every time you cut back to Paul's character.

Stephen_S · Postby **Stephen_S** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:33

That was awesome editing. Great story line and acting too.

Melendwyr · Postby **Melendwyr** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:40

Trivia question: has there ever been a LRR video with more people in it?

The 2004 Holiday Special had 13 people, counting Gibb. I think this one only had 11.

Graham · Postby **Graham** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:52

This one had 13 actual people.

Melendwyr · Postby **Melendwyr** » 27 Apr 2007, 17:55

Graham wrote:This one had 13 actual people.

I dunno, Graham. The LRRWiki only lists eleven, and it's a pretty reliable source.

The data section on the site video page also only lists eleven people. Who are the two uncredited ones?

Fumbles · Postby **Fumbles** » 27 Apr 2007, 18:19

everyone did great acting jobs but andy, paul and morgan absolutely rocked.

jtaylor · Postby **jtaylor** » 27 Apr 2007, 18:37

Melendwyr wrote:
Graham wrote:This one had 13 actual people.

I dunno, Graham. The LRRWiki only lists eleven, and it's a pretty reliable source.

The data section on the site video page also only lists eleven people. Who are the two uncredited ones?

Matt and James

Even Detective Riley could have solved that one.

Melendwyr · Postby **Melendwyr** » 27 Apr 2007, 18:43

jtaylor wrote:Matt and James

Even Detective Riley could have solved that one.

That's meant to be a subtle hint, jtaylor.

jtaylor · Postby **jtaylor** » 27 Apr 2007, 18:59

oh. right.

Melendwyr · Postby **Melendwyr** » 27 Apr 2007, 19:01

Well, the Wiki has been fixed - but if we can't rely on the credits for accurate information, we're just going to have to start making stuff up on the fly.

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