A wee knockabout thing I did with London open mic circuit's favourite MC, Barry Ferns...
Pony
Made me chuckle David. Sound ain't great and as I said on another post about another vid, you could punch up the edit, particularly on your mate - whose comedy timing is prob great in stand up but a little flat acting wise and an edit - as in everything -can tighten it all up. Maybe even some Cheesey music behind would help too. Good performance from yourself as ever, even with the new haircut.
Quote: Marc P @ September 20 2011, 9:21 AM BSTMade me chuckle David. Sound ain't great and as I said on another post about another vid, you could punch up the edit, particularly on your mate - whose comedy timing is prob great in stand up but a little flat acting wise and an edit - as in everything -can tighten it all up. Maybe even some Cheesey music behind would help too. Good performance from yourself as ever, even with the new haircut.
Thanks for taking a look, Marc. Yes, it's a touch embarrassing that the sound is so poor given that I'm always picking people up on faulty audio in their videos. Unfortunately the audio we recorded came out corrupted for some mysterious reason (it sounded fine in playback but in the edit it had a high pitched whistle all over it) so we had to resort to what we picked up on the in-camera mic. Perils of two comics working together without a crew.
Agree that the edit could be tightened and will take another look at it so see what I can trim. I'll also consider a director's cut where I CGI my old haircut in (for the purists).
Well it's better than me, I filmed some stuff the other day... only a short bit.. and forgot to put the mic on!! You could always run your sound through Audacity or somesuch, garageband, and amp the volume up and filter I guess. And shouldn't your avatar be in the closing credits for the piece??
Quote: Marc P @ September 20 2011, 10:27 AM BSTWell it's better than me, I filmed some stuff the other day... only a short bit.. and forgot to put the mic on!! You could always run your sound through Audacity or somesuch, garageband, and amp the volume up and filter I guess. And shouldn't your avatar be in the closing credits for the piece??
I ramped up the volume but I've never had much luck with filters. I have Audacity - can anyone tell me what I need to do to boost the volume but filter out the background noise?
I did it the other day but can't remember what I did. So that's not much help. If I were you I would dub it in bad French and add English subtitles with some cheesey seventies jazz behind it. It would help with your post modern deconstruction of Eric and Ernie enormously. 
Quote: Marc P @ September 20 2011, 10:39 AM BSTI did it the other day but can't remember what I did. So that's not much help.
Same here. Audacity's noise removal tool is actually pretty amazing compared to other stuff I've used so it's worth finding a tutorial.
Nice little sketch, the Horse line ending was very funny.
I'll have a look and see what I can do. Thanks for the tip, guys.
Last line made me laugh.
Tis good Mr Bussell. Everyone said bout sound so I won't bother adding to that.
Loved Bussell's performance in this. Not sure about showing the straw on the floor in the beginning, because, coupled with the title, it does give away what's happening a little bit early for my taste. I agree with Marc on the editing and the sound but I'd avoid cheesy music. You could keep the TV sound going maybe just for ambience.
But please remember I know nothing about nothing.
Thumbs up from me Mr Bussell, Barry was brill too.
Some more great suggestions. Thanks again, internet humans.
I liked it and the straw was nice and intriguing
But maybe it just peters out?
Not sure how you'd add a badumtish, maybe he's really annoyed about the pony because it f**ked his mum? Or Dave finds out his flatmates bestmate a French chef ate it or f**ked it or both?
Also lovely flat, whose is it?
The badumtish would be the flatmate revealing that he has an even more incongruous pet, such as an elephant. But he's able to keep it under control whereas Bussell isn't.
The flat was very nice, but I was entranced by Mr Bussell's teeth. How does he get them so white?
I liked it too. The ending was ok.
Maybe after telling David that the call was from M&S in Kilburn he mentions something like "Shit! That's next door to the French butchers." to give added urgency. Just a suggestion.