Welcome to Q and Eric.
Superfist 126873 asked to see a close up of the ball that they were throwing at me before. And if you see, it is a beautiful caped crusaders, I got Batman and Robin and just Batman. It is a Batman ball and they were throwing it at me.
Aries 1013 wants to know if I really need to wear glasses or is it just part of the disguise for my secret identity. Now, I don’t have a secret identity or anything like that but believe it or not, when I take these babies off, there seems to be a little confusion around the office.
Eric: Good morning.
Female: Hey Eric.
Male: Oh hey! Wattup dawg?
Male 2: Hey Eric, Wazzup dude?
Male 3: Good morning.
Eric: How’s it going?
Male 3: Pretty good.
Male 4: Who the f**** is that?
Male 5: Let’s get him!
Male 3: I don’t know who you are but you’re a bastard.
Male 4: Guys, it was Eric without his glasses the whole time.
But to answer your question, yes, I need them to see. Emo in the pantry just got a brand new video camera and wants to know about filters. So, the first thing that you need to make sure your camera has is filter threadings right at the end of the lens and the size. So, if you look at your camera and you look at the front end of the side, you can usually see like a millimeter size, like 62 millimeter or 35 millimeter or probably not. So, some good filters to have is first, maybe it has a clear glass filter on the end which is going to protect your camera lens and you can also get an ND filter which is going to help block out some of the harsh sunlight. A wide angle lens is great. You can shoot in a small room and get a lot more information from the edges or a macro lens. A lot of time, it is like a wide angle macro lens combo and that’s for shooting things really close up very clearly.
Now, don’t be like me and get confused and buy a spam filter for your camera. I ruined a perfectly good Canon that way. That stuff got crazy evil grease. It does not wash off. And it gives gas, evil gas.
Fridge productions is a new viewer and a big fan and they say that whenever they shoot inside, regardless of how nice their camera is, their shots look bad. They want to know if we have any suggestions.
Actually, I went through a Youtube page and watched a couple of your videos and I can tell you that the problem with your inside shots is that there is just not enough light. In your email, you said, you use sun lights but I think that you jus have like your house light on. You have to bring in additional lighting like the clamp lights that we have in Steve’s Weekend Extra tutorial or you can even bring in like very lamp from all the other rooms in your house to light that one room. But, you really need more light.
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Fudge957 lives in the UK and he wants to know where he can find corn syrup. We are using corn syrup all the time for blood and some other gory effects. Now, I did some research and I found out that in the UK, light corn syrup is actually called glucose syrup. So, you should still be able to buy it. I don’t have to ship it to you which is great.
Now, here is Steve, our British correspondent to tell us about some more wacky Brit sayings. Steve.
Steve: Hello and welcome to another episode of English to “English” where we take quotes from British slang and try to translate them to American English slang. So here is our first one. “Float an air biscuit.” Have you ever heard of that one?
Eric: Yes, it means to fart.
Steve: It gets me every time. All right, to get one’s goat.
Eric: Get one’s goat…
Steve: That means to annoy someone. Mad as a box of frogs.
Eric: I haven’t had that one either.
Steve: I did not really read a thing for that so I don’t know what it means either. All right, a moose.
Eric: That is an unattractive woman.
Steve: Correct.
Eric: Probably large.
Steve: Yes. And, if I fancy the arts off of someone?
Eric: It means you want to shag them.
Steve: And, what about a face like a bulldog licking piss off a metal?
Eric: Your face? It means you’re very unattractive.
Steve: Yes it is. So you got a bunch of them out of most of them. So you win. Thank you very much my boxer. That’s it for English to “English”. Stay tuned for the rest of Q and Eric. Cherrio.
Ash S Artwork has a question about recreating a driving scene around dusk or night and they don’t want to use a green screen. There are a couple techniques of recreating a driving scene at night or dusk. One is you can just recreate moving light. If you have a bunch of friends, they can hold like different colored flash light and you could kind of like move them. Pass them in like a part car in a dark light and just move them past and the middle as long as the background is kind of out of focus. That could be to recreating a scene very dark without much street lights.
The other one which is sadly not much easier than doing green screen is actually use like an old projector or something and have a screen behind the parked car and then you can project some video you shot of like night time driving back there. Those are your options. But again, green screen is about the same difficulty rating which is a 7 on the Heisenberg shooting difficult rating scale.
Now, I want to give a quick shout out to Sickness Ink Productions. Apparently, they requested the beating heart effect as well a couple of weeks ago. We neglected to putting it up sold so, I’m sorry. I tried to find everyone has requested and every effect but looks like you slipped through so, here’s your name.
Samurai Matt 423 says, I have a mini DV camera and a Mac and I cannot spend more than $150 on the way to get my films digital to edit. And, if you have a mini DV camera, then Matt, you should not need any money. All you need is like a firewire cable which is maybe $10 and you just hook it right up to your camera to the computer and then you capture it with your video editing software. So, send me the rest of that money. $10 for the chord, send me $140 or I will find you and f***ing kill you.
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