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Author Archives: Dale Reimer
Chroma Keying!
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While waiting for a music download for our next video, I doofed around a bit with chroma keying for the first time. I’m actually starting to get excited about it, and I’ll see if I can actually use it in a video soon. There’s still some kinks to work out, like tracking (so that the picture moves with the camera, instead of it being obvious that the picture is separate from the video), but I’m actually surprised that I could even do it this well on my first go.
Let me know what you think!
Bacon Bits!
I can’t believe none of us thought of this before, or if one of us did, never even bothered to bring it up. Because “Bacon Bits” is possibly the coolest name ever for the sketches of a group like ours. From now on, we are calling all of our sketches a “Bacon Bit.” I mean, come on, it doesn’t get more clever than that!
Here we come Bacon!
Also, I thought I’d note that I am currently working on a new logo for the Empire; while the current one is okay, I’m hoping to get something more professional, more scale-able, and most importantly something more acceptable for the Bacon Empire.
Wish me luck!
[Behind the Scenes] White Trash
White Trash, the 24th sketch to have graced the Empire; ’tis a beautiful thing.
Here is the Blooper Reel:
When Calen can’t quite take out the trash
White Trash, came from 15 grueling minutes of attempting to brain storm, and finally once we got our first idea, we just did it. White Trash is what came out. That was, in fact, a play on words in more than one way.
From: The Empire
White Trash
Calen takes out the trash.
Taran most definitely enjoyed the filming of this video. It will at some point have a sequel, something you can look forward to; but for now, just feast your eyes upon this Texan beaut moving his body the way we do in the Empire.
The Cheez-It Tournament is most definitely an original Bacon Strip Empire video. Being the second one we released, and third we filmed it involved costuming for the first time. As pictured here, Mico is trying on some shades to work with his “royalty” look. In fact, this costuming session inspired us to put the “Pre-Match Purchasing” in the video.
[Behind the Scenes] The Rickety Old Barn
This barn is a common set for our videos, especially more “in-depth” ones like The Quest For Triumph and Rated M For Doom. It is a rickety old thing, and is actually considered dangerous in some of the upper regions. I hope you know we’re out there, risking our lives just to provide you with a few minutes of entertainment. So enjoy our videos!
[Behind the Scenes] The Chess Master
The Chess Master was the first video ever made by Bacon Strip Empire, with only 3 members at the time, Taran, Allison, and Calen. It is where several trends started in the Empire, such as someone dying, the song Mind Heist, and general stupidity. Here Taran is pictured in one of our first clips filmed in the history of the Empire.
Here, Calen is seen showing off his chewed-up Cheez-Its. This is where the idea for the Cheez-It Tournament originated.
[Behind the Scenes] Crossroads
Crossroads was probably our favorite video when it came out originally. It was one of those ideas that just came to us while discussing awkward human situations like we always do in the empire, and we thought it would look funny on camera. Both myself (Dale) and Taran really enjoyed being in this film as we got to yell a lot.
As you can see, Taran is quite mesmerized by the greenness of the landscape. As a Texan he is used to hot, dry, brownness 367 days of the year.
Dale mid-yell/point of one of his lines, trying to ignore the insane amount of horseflies that were present on set.