‘ROADRUNNERDRUMMERJD’!

Another apology! Sorry for the long delay in posting, I’ve been tied up with alot of shit lately. For the good news first, IT’S BEEN SNOWING! Hopefully, if I get round to it (which I surely will), there will be a video showing all of the snowy mishaps that have been a regular occurrence over the past week on YT in the near future.

There is, unfortunately, some drearily bad news. YouTube lately, for some reason that I’ve never fathomed, has become ridiculously touchy in what they call ‘copyright infringement’.  My old phenomenon, CarLovingJosh, has ceased to exist. So be sure to look out for the replacement for CLJ – my new username is RoadRunnerDrummerJD!, and yes, it will carry on from where CarLovingJosh left off. I’ll try and upload most of the videos that were on my old CarLovingJosh channel, but obviously not all of them (as some, apparently, had copyrighted material contained in them! )

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Top 10 Fastest Production Cars 2007-08: Production notes

ng Well, what can I say? Sorry I haven’t been posting lately (it’s been almost a year since my last), but now I should be posting regularly.

It’s now time for official production notes of, to be brutally honest, my best video to date. It’s had over 30,000 views now, and it’s called ‘Top 10 Fastest Production Cars 2007-2008′.  This video was, to be honest, a pain in the ass to make, and took me over a month. It’s pictures and text, but it lasts for almost 6 minutes. And trust me, 3 pictures per car for 6 minutes is damn hard.

The first car in the video is, as you might have guessed, the Ferrari Enzo, which maxes out at 217 mph. And in first place, reigning supreme over all of the world’s hypercars, is the SSC Ultimate Aero (but, in my mind, the Bugatti Veyron is still a much better car – it manages to be as luxurious as a Rolls-Royce, but can go 253 mph – and have you ever seen a Roller do that?

The first step of making this video was to prepare the pictures - I used sources such as Google, Ask, and Pistonheads to get them, and I saved them all as JPG, BMP or GIF files, compatible with Windows Movie Maker. Hard work doing even that, mind. I also had to do hours of research into what the 10 fastest production cars in the world actually were.

The second step was adding all of these images to Windows Movie Maker (“WMM” as I may call it), and getting them synced with everything else, and also getting them in the right order.

Step 3 was time to add the titles, text & different fonts (mainly ‘Lucida Console’ and ‘Impact’), and getting them synced in time with the pictures and subtitles (the rank numbers on the country’s flag).

Step 4 was to add the music, which was ‘Going Down On It’, by rap-metal band ‘Hot Action Cop’. This suited the video to standards I’d have never thought possible.

And there we go, one month-long video created and ready to upload to YouTube. In case you’re wondering, the main reason it took so long to make was all the tweaking I had to do to it (thanks to all you viewers’ suggestions there – without them I wouldn’t have been able to tweak it!)

Watch this space for more Production Notes of more great videos.

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Yes, it’s been snowing! Hurrah! Here’s my best shot……

Custard tart scoffing contest: Production notes

 < Picture of me thinking “here we go again…………………”

This is another one of my useless videos (hahahahahaha) that involves my sister.

-With my film maker CUSTARD TART SCOFFING CONTEST! (uncategorized) -Sparking into life is a whole new series (again) of videos, like My sister tries to sing.

-Oh, I’m sorry to say this but My sister tries to sing videos have officially ceased (I think….but I wouldn’t hold your breath, because I think they might be continuing! – I’ll post after I’ve talked to my sister).

CUSTARD TART SCOFFING CONTEST NOTES:

Wow, another series has coughed into life! This is a series for Christmas where my sister has to eat a custard tart (usually shoved in her face by a member of my family, for fun – of course) as quickly as possible.

If she fails, of course, what do you think happens to her? Err, nothing. She has to try again.

-Filming for this is much like filming for My sister tries to sing, except all the mess of the tart goes ALL OVER ME! and ALL OVER MY BLOODY CHAIR! (and by all means, usually on the webcam too).

-The first step is to get into the right position, so my sister is standing where there is enough space and a member of my family (usually my mum or dad) is armed and ready to shove a tart in her g0b.

- Once the human target has been locked on, I have to prime & aim the Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 webcam I have. Getting ready to shoot!

-  — Then I must record all of the action, and I can’t miss any out! This is particularly hard when it’s not possible to not miss any out. As you’ll have seen in the first video in the series, the egg custard spatters everywhere – all over the carpet usually!

- Once I have filmed this, I have to stop filming and put all of the little clips onto Windows Movie Maker.

-Now I have a movie – and how the hell is it worthy of putting on the internet? I’ll never know.

But expect some more videos in the series soon – preferably when we have some more custard tarts!

My sister tries to sing: Production notes

- It’s not all that easy, getting your sister to sing something just like that. The first video that appeared on my YouTube channel, ‘My sister tries to sing’, was simply a mock up. A tester, to see if they’d actually catch on. But it actually sparked a genius idea.

- Instead of talking about my sister’s singing, why not actually show it? So, as a joke (and she didn’t know she was going to appear on YouTube), I set up my Logitech webcam and filmed her singing (I said I was going to keep it as a time piece. How she believed it, I will never know). So she started singing the Bisto advert song.

-After a few minutes she had finished – and that was that, I had sparked a whole new video series which have now, put toghether, had more than 150 views.

- There has been a whole series of them, My sister tries to sing, My sister tries to sing I, III, and even IV! And now there is a Christmas edition of it.

- In the filming of it, there is a long process to go through (not that long, but an awkward one, let’s say).

-Now she knows she’s appearing on Britain’s number one video website, she insists on “getting ready”, and doing almost pre-flight checks, ha ha ha. She has to even have a piece of paper with the lyrics of the song she’s singing on it.

- Firstly, you have to get into the right position and let her get ready to blast those lyrics out.

-Then it’s time to switch the webcam on, get into Windows Movie Maker and capture from video device!

Once you have done that, you must sit there while she sings it, holding the webcam.

-She’s sung it! Low and behold, you have a video worthy of putting on my channel on YouTube!

 Production notes on the Custart tart scoffing contest are coming soon, so watch this space!

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Signed, –Josh–