POINTLINE NEWS: Let's Play (News Parody)

[Dracophile]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/radiof/part2/pointlinenews.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXCXVWU8e8

POINTLINE, the definitive source for hard-hitting news and exclusive interviews...

Unofficially a part of Let's Play (http://penguinforum.miniclip.com/showthread.php?t=64353), join J. Andre Bardin as he interviews co-host of Let's Play J. Andre Bardin. Includes a short studio "tour" and some fun camera tricks.

[kogeck]

The green screen effects you had were awesome. Especially near the middle of the clip, where you were basically talking to yourself.
The studio equipment looks very high class and expensive.
I liked the opening sequence. Is it Flash made?

Looking forward to more episodes. ;D

[Dracophile]

Actually we have neglected to use the green screen for anything yet, which is kind of odd considering it cost us about $100 and took 3 days to put together. The camera "trick" we used wasn't too complicated really, we shot the conversation twice with me at the far far right of both shots, then we overlayed one video onto the other using the "T" as the midpoint so the scene became me sitting on both sides (you can unfortunately see the seam because we don't have even lighting on the graffiti wall).

The introduction (and other graphics) were made with Flash though, yes.

As for the equipment, the set with all of LP's furnishings is worth over $2,000. Expensive indeed. :P

EDIT: Before I do anything I need to shoot the LP opening sequence, I haven't done that yet. :P

[Bizor]

Nice ponytail.

I love parodies, especially MST3K, which I've seen a hundred episodes of.

I'm looking forward to "Let's Play" and all your sarcastic comments henceforth.

[Gold Soundz]

Epic win. Can't wait to see more of the lawl you've got to offer.

[Guardian Ou]

I'm honestly going to say that it took me a good minute or so to figure out that you were the same person. :rolleyes:
(I only noticed this video because I'm subscribed to you on youtube.
I was about to make a post in your other Let's Play thread about this and then saw this thread.)

Very nice comedy video, and wow... How long did it take you guys to finish the set? I would have never thought of putting lights behind the couch.

Looking forward to future Let's Play videos! Keep up the awesome work Justin!

[Dannyboy]

Haha, I cracked up at the double Jason part. xD

[Dracophile]

I'm honestly going to say that it took me a good minute or so to figure out that you were the same person. :rolleyes:
(I only noticed this video because I'm subscribed to you on youtube.
I was about to make a post in your other Let's Play thread about this and then saw this thread.)

Very nice comedy video, and wow... How long did it take you guys to finish the set? I would have never thought of putting lights behind the couch.

Looking forward to future Let's Play videos! Keep up the awesome work Justin!

The set took about 4 or 5 days (not all together) to put together. The greenscreen was very simply made and cost about $100-$125, the cardboard used for the graffiti wall was free of course, and we had the paint lying around so that was free as well.

I've done a lot of reading up on greenscreen and basically the golden rule is "EVEN LIGHTING", so we have 5 lights pointing at the wall there to eliminate shadows and evenly light it.

[StarSkie]

You just rant about random stuff...brilliant.

[Floppydisk35]

The set took about 4 or 5 days (not all together) to put together. The greenscreen was very simply made and cost about $100-$125, the cardboard used for the graffiti wall was free of course, and we had the paint lying around so that was free as well.

I've done a lot of reading up on greenscreen and basically the golden rule is "EVEN LIGHTING", so we have 5 lights pointing at the wall there to eliminate shadows and evenly light it.

You're my hero now! Keep up that good work! ;)

[Chandru]

It's by some weird guy called RFS. Who's that? It sounds like someone was too lazy to spell Rufus.

[conman1001]

Late I know, but if you watch closely at the end, (It may just be my screen) when they bump fists you can plainly see the line and the fist like disappears then reappears. but other than that, it was a good job!

[Dracophile]

Late I know, but if you watch closely at the end, (It may just be my screen) when they bump fists you can plainly see the line and the fist like disappears then reappears. but other than that, it was a good job!

We know. And you don't have to watch closely. It's very obvious. :( We've never shot anything like that before, so we had to learn as we went along.