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Name: Aaron
Location: Indiana, United States
Birthday: 8/8/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: I'm not that interesting.
Expertise: I can make moving pictures well. I also can judge.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Media
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
9/29/2002
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I haven't put on weight or anything. I just found this MRI scan of a fat person.
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As you can see above, this is a "Discovery Channel Update!"
Before I go into any details, let me state this: please visit this website and vote for my comedy spoof, "Deadliest Catch: East Coast Edition". I need your help to stay #1 in the viewer polls, and I really appreciate anything you can do.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR "DEADLIEST CATCH: EAST COAST EDITION"
Now that I have that out of the way, I can get down to business. First of all, I apologize to everyone who actually tuned in to the televised version of "You Spoof Discovery" this past Sunday night, expecting to see more than a brief clip from the short film I made with Aaron Sinn, "Deadliest Catch: East Coast Edition".
You see, even I had no idea how much or how little of my parody they were going to include, although I certainly anticipated more than what they ended up using. This was mainly due to the fact that when I spoke to the producers of the television special on the telephone, they insisted in no uncertain terms that "We are definitely going to feature your video in the show."
When he said, "definitely going to feature your video," I never would have assumed that meant they were only going to use a brief segment of Aaron Sinn falling down in the opening credits. I probably wouldn't have insisted you all watch the show if I had known that.
I'm sorry you had to sit through the whole program on my behalf, waiting for my name to appear, since so much of the selected material played out like a themed episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. For me at least, this would not be the ideal way to spend my Sunday evening at home on Oscar night. But that's another story.
Incidentally, I did receive an email from one of the post-production assistants of "You Spoof Discovery" yesterday. He apologized for the last minute removal of much of my video, essentially blaming it on the network executives above him who have the final cut. Honestly, I don't blame them. The vast majority of the program content was, I kid you not, footage of people in crazy wigs and bald caps hitting each other on the head and falling down. I am not exaggerating. Considering the humor of our piece was essentially built on understatement and awkward boredom, it makes sense that they would replace it with people baking cookies and falling down, or people playing baseball and falling down and dying. (F.Y.I. -- these are the Deadliest Catch spoofs that were featured more heavily than mine.)
Nonetheless, there is a happy ending to all of this. Most of the entries used in the television special weren't even mentioned on the official website, let alone have a published Q&A with the filmmakers and allow you to watch them in their entirety any time you want. I honestly believe that Aaron and I will recieve far more exposure from the website alone than we ever would by having a one minute clip of our comedy short included alongside broadcasted videos of children covered in butter falling off of a table in a television special that not many people watched anyway.
Strangely enough, I was also told by the post-production assistant that our "Deadliest Catch" spoof was still a part of the final edit for the international version (just not the domestic version), which means that it will be seen prominently on television worldwide everywhere except for America. Go figure. I guess they thought our comedy was endowed with European sensibilities.
As always, you can watch our spoof on the website and read about our travails in filming it here. And please, please vote for our spoof. If anything, I'd like to stay #1 on the website.
-AW
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I'm going to be on the Discovery Channel! Kind of!
Actually, I won a comedy short film competition held by the Discovery Channel, and they
are going to air my video on the Discovery Channel this upcoming
February 25th at 10PM EST as a part of their "You Spoof Discovery" TV
special. You can also watch the parody I made online and vote for it
here:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergenc...altke-sinn.html
Back in October of 2006, eager to cash in on the emerging trend of
inexpensive viewer-created content, the Discovery Channel held a
"Calling All Wits" open video competition for "parodies and spoofs of
your favorite Discovery Channel programs!" You can read the original
call for entries here:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/spoof/about.html
The rules were simple. Create a comedy short film mocking any program
currently aired by Discovery, 10 minutes or less, then upload it to
their website. The winners receive a cash prize and the chance to have
their spoof aired on the Discovery Channel in a television special
entitled "You Spoof Discovery!" They contact you if they are interested.
As a recent graduate of film school and an unemployed dreg of society,
the twin prospects of money and a national broadcast credit were quite
appealing to me when a fellow filmmaker friend of mine, Aaron Sinn, approached me with the idea of entering the competition a mere month before the deadline.
Thusly, we decided to set aside the weekend before the due date to throw
something together for the contest. Since Aaron's stepsister's
boyfriend recently purchased a rustbucket shrimpboat on the verge of
foundering, we decided to do a spoof of the program "Deadliest Catch",
which is about the deadliest job in the world, the Alaskan crab
fishermen of the Bering Sea. Ours would be "Deadliest Catch: East Coast
Edition", which would have the same frenetic, grave and serious tone,
but applied to the boring lives of shrimpers in Edisto, South Carolina.
We wrote the script, and I shot and edited it, and got it into the
website just under the wire.
On the whole, I thought the short turned out fairly well, considering
we made it in less than a week and had to restrict ourselves to
PG-rated humor they could air on a family friendly network. I tend to
have something of a morbid sense of humor, so this was a little
difficult.
Three months later, I received a call from a producer at the Discovery
Channel, informing me that ours was one of the top 20 submissions
chosen for the program, and that it is to premiere this February 25th
at 10PM EST on the Discovery Channel. You can read about the program
and watch the spoofs here:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergenc.../bios/bios.html
Be sure to vote for my spoof on the viewer poll! It might get to #1!
And then I would be... #1.
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The Toba Eruption.
A scant 72,000 years ago, as if lanced by a tremendous cosmic surgeon, our planet burst.
On its surface, a pustule of gas belched forth its poison into the stratosphere, coating the firmament with a reeking conflagrate of ash and shrieking death. According to some estimates, as calculated from genetic and paleoanthopological evidence, the human population was reduced to as few as 30 reproducing females anywhere.
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