Tuesday, March 27, 2007

For your editing pleasure

I've been really bored lately, but Stephen Colbert has saved me.

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen made some comments about Rahm Emanuel, a pussy congressman with no sense of humor. Emanuel has advised new arrivals in congress not to appear on Colbert's "Better Know A District" series because The Colbert Report edits the interviews to make the representatives look really stupid or outrageous. It's all fucking hilarious, and I would totally get a kick out of it if they did it to me. But many congressmen are pussies who cannot deal with looking stupid for a minute, even though everyone knows these interviews are doctored and otherwise manipulated.

So Stephen put himself through the same thing. He participated in a fake, scripted interview with someone on the show's staff so people like me can take the footage and edit it into something that makes him look like a total asshole. It's already god-damn funny, but it can be edited into something ridiculously funny, and I'm going to give it a try.

I might be really good at this. Not necessarily a good editor, but good at finding the right things to edit because I tend to get really focused on things that interest me. Couple that with the perfectionist and crossword puzzle freak inside, and I might end up making a totally bad-ass video. We'll see. I'm downloading the source video right now on my dad's Mac.

I think this is a contest, but I'm not sure. Time to get to work.

Aimless
The Quasi-Aimless Trailer

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do it. IT would be fun to see.

Elaine Vigneault said...

I did my edit.
http://www.elainevigneault.com/2007/04/01/stephen-colbert-uncut.html
You should do yours.
By they way, it wasn't someone on the Colbert Report staff, it was Gwen Ifill.

Here's one of many places we're discussing it:
http://www.colboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=21830
If you do it, you should post yours there so we can all see :)