Kirsten and I have decided to make a new, all singing all dancing podcast. I’ve proposed that we do our own commentaries for rubbish films which I can promise just now WOULD and SHALL be hilarious.
But Kirsten thinks nobody will listen to it and suggest we record a whole commentary but edit it to a half hour best bits sort of affair. I believe it’d be out of context and defeats the purpose of someone listening to it along with the film. People can rent DVDs and listen to our commentaries. You don’t have to own them. I propose our first film to be the first FINAL DESTINATION film in the saga. It’s so ridiculous that it’s a prime candidate for a couple of self indulgent pretentious cats like us to take the piss out of it.
Apologies. My grammar hasn’t been the best in this post. I’m quite hungover.
Let us know what you think please. (Not your views on my alcoholism) Give us a reply on twitter or something, @johnaggasild & @kirstenin
John
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Just to make it clear, I do really like the idea of doing commentaries for films, but I (it’s Kirsten now, by the way) would mainly like to do it ’cos I know it’d make me and John laugh. However, I have a few worries. For example, just because we’d have a laugh doing it doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone else would want to listen to it. It just seems grossly self-indulgent. Even for us! God knows, if some random twerps off the internets said to me, ”Download and listen to this thing I made. It is really funny, but it’s two hours long” Even if it was funny, I’d probably not bother due to the length. It’s a very long time to sit listening to gibbering. It’s also a very long time to be consistently funny, which is what you’d want from such a thing if it’s eating away at your hours and of course, there’d be moments that aren’t very entertaining and could be considered dull.
Also, not everyone is fortunate enough to own this thrilling piece of cinematic genius and I don’t know anybody who would be willing to shell out on it or a rental just in order to hear two people talk about it in a flippant manner. We’re asking a favour by getting people to listen in the first place, so why should they spend money on a shit film just to gain a little bit of context?
My proposal was, yes, we should do this, purely to entertain ourselves, if anything. I also said that we should put the full thing up on this blog for anyone who would have the time/will to listen, but it shouldn’t be the only thing we offer or else nobody’ll bother. If we were to do a normal podcast too and have a part in it where we’d say “Oh, we watched Final Destination again the other day and recorded some of our thoughts [then set the scene and cut to bits of commentary.] Here are those thoughts…” or something similar, that could be just as good, plus it’d mean you, THE PEOPLE, don’t have to endure the mundane bits that would inevitably occur over such a timescale.
Whilst on the phone to John, I brought up Adam and Joe. On their 6Music (and back when they were on XFM) show, I feel they’re at their best when summarising things they’ve seen. For example, when taking ten minutes to merely describe the first scene of Skins series three, it’s hilarious. It’s well thought out and the fact that they have to set the scene themself allows them to be even more creative and even exaggerate a bit. Same goes for their top-notch description of R.Kelly’s hip-hopera, Trapped In The Closet.
I just feel that a podcast of half an hour to 45 minutes is enough. Especially as the main criticism of Podcast Numero Uno (aside from the terrible sound quality) was that it was too long and we knew this even as we were recording it.
So, in summary: Would you, THE PEOPLE, rather hear an audio commentary from me and John being all charming and devil-may-care as per usual or listen to a normal podcast with clips from the audio commentary and then have the choice of downloading the full thing if you enjoyed the extracts?
Please let us know, we’ve not got much going on at the moment and it’d fill our little hearts with joy to know there’s some sort of opinion on this. Like John says, message us on Twitter or if you have more than 140 characters on the subject (if so, you are a strange and beautiful creature) email thewhatcast@gmail.com or leave a comment on this here blog. You do need to put in an email address in order to leave a comment, but WordPress won’t email you and the address itself will remain hidden.
Thank you, I love each and every one of you on the mouth.
Kirsten
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(I’ll also leave you with the aforementioned Adam and Joe clips just because you’ve all been such good girls and boys for listening intently… They’re really very very very funny and if we ever produce something even half as good as this one day, I will die happy.)
