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Why My Boomstick Can Beat Up Your Boomstick!

Thanks to whoever made the original meme's text

I laughed so hard I cried when I first read it. I'd credit you, but have no idea who made it since it was copypasta / a meme.

About this video

EDIT: Jan 31, 2024. The first version of this video was originally put up on various websites on December 9th 2021. What you see above is version 2 that fixes a few scenes I hated, a lot of the audio, all without doing too much work, as I didn't want to recreate the whole thing. I am satisfied enough with this version to use it as a demonstration of my skills, even though it still has some problems.

Nevertheless, I've heard somewhere that people who make movies have a saying that goes: "movies are never finished, they are abandoned". After making this video the first time around, I understood why. I know all the mistakes I made, but improved them enough to be acceptable, as the average person won't care. Although, what you see above is the 2nd version of this video, the original had demoralized me so much that I chose to just make it acceptable enough to end it, and move onto the next project.

The first had some scenes I hated, some bad keying in various places, bad audio, and shots where I was focusing too much on the technical details instead of my acting (monocle on scene, and fear /running scene), so it ended up not looking as dramatic, nor put the viewer in the body of the character as I wanted. This is because I was doing everything myself, and chose to make this meme into a video as an exericse to learn 3D stuff, and apply all the video production skills I had recently learned when I first made it.

I also didn't know much about audio back on version 1, and by the time I was done with the whole project, I ended up doing the same thing with each part of the video 5 times over because no one taught how to do exactly what I needed. Just generalizations on how to do X. So I played around, and that eventually made me very demoralized. I easily spent more than 1,000 hours making version 1, though only about 200-250 were effective, as I had to test every new idea, and learn from each mistake from scratch. Such as boosting the ISO on a green screen shot is very bad, since the noise in the image will make it harder to pull a key. So I decided to abandon version 1 when I felt it was good enough.

Recently at the beginning of 2024, I decided to change the parts I hated without doing TOO much work. Either way: it's much better, especially for a first video with imperfect equipment (I used a Canon T3i with a kit lens, and with bad lighting. Pulling a key on 8-bit color was pretty hard too). Though if I had to do it again from scratch: I'd add more action with different shots / angles to bring the viewer more into the main character's mind, get rid of some of the bad key in certain shots, and add bullet holes in the wall I was being shot at (though I kinda like it without it, as it insults the hypocrisy of anti gun people even more than it already does). But the first time around, I was burned out.

Either way, I got over 140 ideas for funny videos planned. So you might want to subscribe to my RSS or Atom feeds.

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