Tag: disneyland

Created: 28 September 2016

What do you do when you feel the need to artistically compromise your work in order to appeal to viewers, and avoid inconveniencing them? Easy! Create two versions of your work to ensure that neither stands as the definitive one!

I kid. It was an easy decision to split this up because I knew the exact scenes that were giving the video such a long run-time, and they could be cut without confusion. Not only that, but once I was sure that only my friends would end up watching it, I felt comfortable unmuting most of the footage. This was not my original intention, and you can tell by how often my sentences get cut off in this version.

Would you believe the peanut scene starting at 2:51 is a reference to a culture festival a month earlier where I ate a peanut butter cupcake and had a horrible allergic reaction? Well there’s coincidentally footage of that exact cupcake prior to the incident in that scene! You’d never know that unless you were there at the time!

Created: 28 September 2015

That’s right, I started this 3 months before it came out. It was intended from the start as a sequel to my Cologne videos, but an order of magnitude larger in scale.

My entire senior class was scheduled to take a day trip to Disneyland Paris, so I brought along my camera and recorded everything I could think to. I got probably 2-3 hours of footage, but the whole day I was thinking about how I could turn things into bits for the video. A lot of the video arose out of ideas or jokes we had while talking at the park (for instance, I was dared to do make that illuminati joke on the spot, which was before I could have known that you can’t really see the triangle on the cart, dangit).

But I didn’t tell anyone who stars in this video I was making it. I wanted to get it done quick and surprise them, but I quickly realized that would not be happening. It kept getting pushed back further and further until December rolled around and I had to buckle down and commit to finishing it as a Christmas surprise. I ended up working until Christmas Eve to get it done, and then it took all of Christmas morning to render.

As I mention in a comment on the Director’s Cut this version was trimmed significantly in an attempt to make it watchable by someone who doesn’t want to hear my friends and I spout memes (and doesn’t want to watch us meander down a street from the corpse of a broken ride for 10 minutes).