Created: 2 Aug 2015
Originally Titled: Grand Theft Auto Slide
This is where my excitement for video creation began to get ahead of me.
The idea for this video began in 2014, when I played Super Mario Galaxy 2. I sincerely disliked the remix of the Mario 64 Slider theme in that game, and it set me on a quest to find the best remix. Eventually I found Go Go Trolley! from Paper Mario Sticker Star, which is in my opinion the best version of Slider. So I listened to it over and over again obsessing over the compositional differences between these versions and what made them tick, and after so much listening, I had a mental image in my head that I couldn’t get out.
I imagined a family in a van careening off a railed ridge in the mountains and flying down the slope, the driver clenching his teeth as he dodges in between trees. Everyone’s pressed back into their seats by the speed of this off-road roller coaster, screaming for dear life as parts of their car get flecked off by passing branches.
[and scene]
So my first option was to use that scene from Are We There Yet.
So instead I used footage from GTAV. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find third person footage of anyone riding from the top of Mt. Chiliad, the best I could find was in first-person. I tried to make it work, but I’ll admit it’s quite rough. Almost certainly my weakest video, and a shameful squandering of what I still consider to be a hilarious idea.