Created: 12 August 2015
From 9-12 August 2015 I went to Cologne, Germany with my family.
Hilariously, we showed up just in time to find out that Gamescom was ending. My hands will constantly grasp at a Gamescom MGSV demo that will never be there, and my river of tears is never-ending.
Anyway, I took video footage of the whole trip (I actually always take video on trips, but nothing usually comes of it). In this instance, I had an aneurysm on the final night of our stay (11 Aug.), whipped out my laptop in our hotel room, and decided to spend the entire night editing the footage. I knew just the song to use, so I downloaded an mp3 of Skeletons by Stevie Wonder from youtube, and a vacation video was born!
Not Bert in Cologne! This was just footage set to music. I uploaded it unlisted at 9:30 AM that very morning, with the intention of it only being seen by my immediate family.
Then a couple days passed, and on 16 Dec. I watched Demolition D’s vacation video at 3 AM, and on the spot decided to narrate my video. If you actually watch the un-narrated version, you can see that a lot of the jokes were in there from the start, like all the “otaku” stuff. The gestapo lines were quoted directly from things I said while recording in the museum.
I did one take all the way through and said, “that was good except for the last part.” So I just rerecorded that section, without intending for the two takes to sync up. But then I played them side by side, and said “What how do these sync up so well?” Then I left both takes in.
And then I waited 10 days to upload it for some reason? In the meantime, I made Bohemian Rhapsody, which I uploaded right away.
And additionally, I had leftover footage from my trip, and wasn’t doing anything with it. So I thought it would be a good idea to do a Part 2 using a different song? Thus was born: Bert in Colon (Part 2)
I even went back to Part 1, added an end card with an annotation for Part 2, and changed the title card at the start to say (Part 1). It is worth noting that I flat out lied at the end about my “editing software” not being able to handle long videos. The only reason the parts were split was to use two different songs.