Some Random Online Videos

Buddah and Funbob here! Today, we are reviewing some random online videos. We would like to expand our horizons and write about videos from different perspectives rather than strictly movies.

"In Plain English" series are made by Common Craft. Lee and Sachi LeFever began this company in 2007. Their product, they state on their website, "is explanation". Blogging in Plain English describes the differences between the distribution of news between the 20th and 21st century. In the beginning of time, news was written by a professional and were sent to a team of examiners who selected portions for the hourly news. Now, news is different. Rather than a professional choosing what events to broadcast, any average joe can write about any lame topic (like us, but were nerds not average). This new device is called blogging.

Continuing the "in Plain English" series, Zombies in Plain English is much more entertaining than boring blogging. We are nerds not socially retarded (although that can be debatable) so we liked this video more than the previous. The three minute video determines what procedure to take if a zombie attack took place. We are taught how to identify a zombie (pale skin, limping, tears on their skin, and background dancers in Michael Jackson videos). Once identified, one must have a strategy. When retreating, one should go to a Costco or a boat (I'm on a Boat!). If want to take another approach, try the counter attack mode. It consists of a few simple tricks. #1 shooting the brain, #2 stabbing the brain, and #3 chopping the head off. Good luck, fellow nerds on your quest of survival. Don't worry about us because we are on a boat!!!!!

If you're search of even more historical videos, Food Fight is a short film created Stefan Nadelman that portrays America's historic wars and battles. Nadelman realized his love for animation and generated Latin Alive in 2000. After working on Terminal Bar and Evil Bee, he animated Food Fight and several Saturday Night Live skits. His humor does show in the short movie. The two best concepts about Food Fight is the sound effects and animation affects.

Now if you love Grand Theft Auto I recommend you see this next video called "Great Tasting Americano." This short film was written by five students in Auckland, New Zeland Peter Green, Thomas Hsieh, Gaurav Mehra, Leng Khun and Regan Music. The project was from their 3D animation class. The animation was pretty cool, it was a stop motion that ran off of Adobe. Now there wasn't a story line. Basically, the characther stole a car and drove to a coffee shop. But the cool aspect about the movie was the animation (especially the fight scene where they

incoorperated computer animation with stop motion). To me the element that really made it enjoyable was the animation.

In the early 1900s, the radio was invented. It opened so many doors for entertainment. Radio allowed people to listen to news, music, and stories. Like movies are today, radio was used to tell stories. Back of the Mike is a short film that shows behind the scenes look at the making of old Western radio. The documentary, made by Chevrolet Motor Company, illustrates how radio sound effects were produced. I was surprised that I actually loved it. In the beginning I thought "Oh no, it's one of those corny movies that has a deep moral that I never get," but it was really interesting to observe the sound effects. The film gave me a dash of guilt because now all I do if I need a sound effect is find it on iMove or online.