Rate My MST. (Be gentle..)

[skeeter]

Hey, MSTies!

Skeeter here, occasional reader, first-time poster and full-time MSTie. I was goofing around with a video camera last night, recodring a "Demo Reel" of a home-made MST. (Based on "Just For the Hell of It" by Hershell G. Lewis.)

Now bear in mind, my technical skills are subpar. Okay, sub-zero. So I'm behind the camera instead of in front, it's recorded directly of the TV via a Handycam, and the audio on a segment is pretty bad. But, what do you think?

Incidently, to explain the accent, I'm a New Zealand standup comedian, giving this thing a trial before (maybe) trying to entice a few other funny guys in to help write, and start the long, complicated process of working out "Intellectual Rights".

In other words, clicking these links breaks copyrights, in all honesty. And in all honesty, I don't really care. It was fun. (But is it funny? Find out, won't you?)

Parts 1-7 for download off rapidsahre. (The largest file is 11megs, so I hope you have a faster connection than I do.)

rapidshare.de/files/31294186/Movie1.wmv.html Slightly monotonic, sorry about that.
rapidshare.de/files/31295145/Movie2.wmv.html The Credits!
rapidshare.de/files/31297523/Movie3.wmv.html Starting to warm up. Too bad the audio is a little off.
rapidshare.de/files/31304652/Movie4.wmv.html Note the lousy Edit
rapidshare.de/files/31306362/Movie5.wmv.html I slightly mess up one of my favourite riffs. On soup.
rapidshare.de/files/31309029/Movie6.wmv.html Part 6: Getting Into my Stride, before my timing deserts me at the end.
rapidshare.de/files/31311750/Movie7.wmv.html Take 2! Fight Scene! And we're done.

What'd think?

[skeeter]

Either I've gone deaf, or the silence is defeaning.

That good, huh?

[Waluigi]

skeeter said:

Hey, MSTies!

Skeeter here, occasional reader, first-time poster

(Group) Hi Skeeter!

[skeeter]

Great, now I feel I'm at MSTies Anynmous.

[Sober voice]It's been three months since I watched Future War and... (runs to the VCR, screaming random riffs)

[Blue Lightning]

Shouldn't this be in the Crow's Art forum? Normally the mods are on these things like TV's Frank on potato cakes....

[skeeter]

Well, if they want to move it, be my guest. I just took a blind guess as to the best forum.

[skeeter]

skeeter said:

Well, if they want to move it, be my guest. I just took a blind guess as to the best forum.

Thank you, Mads. Mods. I meant mods.

[skeeter]

Well, thanks for the feedback, guys. I'll take your helpful suggestions and comments and run with them. Even that guy who told me I'm not funny and shouldn't quit my day job. Oh wait, that was me.

Sorry, but most comedians are neurotic as hell, doubly so when they're trying out a project for the first time.

So, I re-tweaked the script, and recorded the entire first 25 minutes of the flick in one take. Ditched a couple of riffs I realised I actually hated, tossed in a few more to cover blank spots and got off a couple of half-decent ad-libs I wasn't expecting. I now have my demo reel. Now to decide what to do with it...

[Sandor]

It was a good effort. So far most hobby riffers I've don't usually have it down. We (me and my friend Josh) like to keep it as fresh and energetic as possible. We always ad lib but we keep it energetic. if you check our rifftrack for Crow: Wicked Prayer we make sure we're not like some who sound like they rehearsed it 5 days straight and didn't get a wink of sleep since.

edit: I'm not pointing any fingers.

[skeeter]

Thanks for the feedback. (At last) The first run-through felt a little stiff, but the one-taker sounded better. I'm probably going to try the tape out on a few other stand-uppers, regardless. I get the feeling bouncing ideas off others might result in a funnier, punchier script.

[samtaco]

I HAVE NO CLUE WHERE TO FIND IT ON THESE CRAZY PAGES!AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!