Posted on December 23, 2009
All you wanted for christmas was another nintendoboy video…
Written by: Katie Marsh
Hey nintendoboy fans! I never ever thought I would be writing a blog post for nintendoboy.com (much less be in a video xD), but here I am! So, I am happy to inform you that part two to Takeover is up today! I had TONS of fun making this little set of videos with everybody, but I honestly had no idea that the making of these videos involved so much time! I mean, when you’re watching nintendoboy videos, they are only three minutes long so you’re probably thinking, “HAHA! What a funny nintendoboy video, I bet that took no time at all!” … Okay, so you probably weren’t thinking that at all (except for the HAHA part, right?), in fact, you probably haven’t thought at all about how long it takes to film and edit a video. Well neither did I until recently! First there has to be a plan of some sort of what the video is supposed to be about. And for the first time EVER (I’m pretty sure…), someone -Jeffrey Vega- actually wrote out a rough sketch before filming *GASP*! I know, I know, it’s crazy… Second, you actually have to film the scenes in the video (Who would have thought?). You would not believe how many times it takes for one scene to be filmed sometimes! Luckily, there is a lot of laughing and silliness involved when this happens, so I think everyone secretly enjoys the 117th take… As for editing, I still don’t really know that much about the mechanics of it. But I do know that Jeff does ALL the editing, and that it takes hours and hours, and that he does an awesome job 🙂 and probably doesn’t get the credit he deserves here because who thinks about the editing of a video while you are watching it? Usually no one. But now perhaps you will!
Anyways, now that you know a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes, I hope you enjoy part two even more now that you know how much time, effort, and TLC goes into these videos, along with the fact that the videos are being put up on a weekly basis currently. Whether they will be in the future weeks remains a mystery! I don’t know of any videos in the near future, but hopefully I am wrong and there are more ideas to be filmed during the winter break! I would love love love to be involved in more videos now that I’ve experienced what its like once already (Wait, twice if you include part one… wait, thrice if you include the failed Halloween video!)! All right, well, go watch the video, LOL (literally), and comment on the video (here… or on youtube… or on facebook… or on all three! The choice is yours :D). OH! And happy holidays!!!
Click here to watch it on YouTube!
Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather “Like” it than comment… haha!
Posted on December 23, 2009
Takeover Part 2
Why was Jeff betrayed in his own video? Find out in the finale of Takeover!
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Josh Indech
Andrew Shain
Ellie Giles
Katie Marsh
Cameos:
Aubrey Peterson
Jason Melin
Lauren Stanaitis
Tiffany Moneit
Cinematography:
Ellie Giles
Posted on December 18, 2009
How many takes does it take to make a video?
Written by: jinxsprinkles999
Well, so much for being consistent wiith our episodes. well as far as I know we have a two part drama coming out soon. I can tell you this there is: suspense, love, happiness, DEATH, and LIFE to the new and improved nintedoboy the series. I don’t want to over dramatize it though so don’t expectoo much out of this new and improved two part series. Luckily for us it did not rain for these two days and it has made things a lot easier for us. We introduced new characters that may or may not be permanently be added to our list of cast members. THE KGB!!!!!!
DUHN DUHN DAAHHH!
Amyway. We started out with the idea we were going to do only a few episodes but with that said, we will be trying our very hardest to upload every month. Maybe we can keep that promise.
Jeff: Promise? who said anything about a promise??
Nevermind I guess we will have to go back to uploading every college break. for now there should be an episode every week for you loyal fans out there so we hope to increase our activity over the next couple of weeks so hang tight and get ready for the start of a new series. The only thing we really need now is a theme song. I was really hoping we could convince the guys from Anamanaguchi to compose a song for us considering they are using a nintendo to help make their songs. I thought that was pretty cool but commissions are probably expensive, and 3 cents a day won’t cut it.
Jeff: What are yout alkign about?! we don’t even make 1 cent a day
okay then 1/2 a cent a day then
Jeff: OH COME ON!
Getting back to Anamanaguchi (which we hold no rights to the name or anything to do with the band Anamanaguchi just so we avoid copyright problems) we really hope that we can get some way to incorporate their musical talent in our videos. And guys from anamanaguchi if you read this please feel free to pitch in and we will support you in anyway we can. Its not like we are begging or anything
Jeff: PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!
just ignore the peanut gallery for now. although it may seem like we have it under control I am quite sure it took us 113 takes to get the two vids right. Well thats a story for another day so enjoy our new episode:
Click here to watch it on YouTube!
Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather “Like” it than comment… haha!
Posted on December 18, 2009
Takeover
A mysterious phone call leads to the disappearance of Jeff!
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Josh Indech
Andrew Shain
Ellie Giles
Katie Marsh
Cameos:
Aubrey Peterson
Jason Melin
Lauren Stanaitis
Cinematography:
Ellie Giles
Posted on December 14, 2009
The Magic of Editing… and Stuff
A few days ago I was about to post a blog entry about the recent adventures the project has been through. Some of this goodness included us attempting a Halloween video and planning a Black Friday video on their respective dates. You may realize now that none of those videos made it, but I would like you to know that the original guys (me, Josh, and Andrew) have gotten together a couple times during college breaks and have tried to get something done. The fact that we haven’t done something since August and have tried other times for a video with no luck has placed frustration upon us, much like Joseph Gordon-Levitt over here! Sigh… Anyway. The reason why I didn’t bring you that post mentioned earlier is because I brought a video that I trashed back to life! On Black Friday, we got together and planned to do a “Black Friday 2” (oh boy!), but instead we went with an idea I’ve had for a while, which ended up being our first crack at pop culture… facebook… haha! I was UBER excited to do this because I felt the real joke was something that every facebook user had experienced. We make fun of those “fan pages” that people can become a fan of that have the most ridiculous themes. Just one at the top of my head and that actually is in the video is the “I go slightly out of my way to step on a particularly crunchy-looking leaf.” I mean, I love how people actually make these and people become fans of them… I really wanted to know every little detail about you!…right. But seriously though, some of them are legit funny and there are a few that everyone can relate to which makes the whole joke even better with little to no effort. Brilliant, huh? (:
So yes, we filmed this video at the forum in Norcross (same location as ‘Wishful Thinking’) and it turned out pretty well and it was SO much fun to do, and also the fact that it was a reunion of the NintendoBoy staff, was a very fun day indeed… in fact, it was so much fun, there are bloopers at the end of the video! Yay! I said it. A new video is here, but I’m sure you’ve figured that out by now. Ha. We had soooo many clips of the first scene, and it was VERY hard to put all the best laughs in the video and still keep it under 4 minutes… but, here it is, finally! You see reader, the reason why this took a couple weeks to come out was… well ACTUALLY, this video was never scheduled for release because of some reservations I had. The biggest problem was that the audio wasn’t so great… there are some parts where the mic didn’t catch some of our witty phrases and almost rendered the clip useless, and it was also VERY cold and windy that day so the loud windy windyness makes a cameo in the video… EL OH EL! Long story short of a day of editing, I discovered that my fancy pancy video software has a feature where I can legit edit the decibles of volume (should have known, yeah yeah), so I was able to change the volume of the clips even after they were filmed… I guess that’s why they call it the magic of editing? Or does no one say that? Ohhh… well this is embarrassing! So anyway, please enjoy this long lost reunion of the NB-ers! (:
Click here to watch it on YouTube!
Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather “Like” it than comment… haha!
Posted on December 14, 2009
Facebook Fans
Those Facebook fan pages sure are getting out of hand… does anyone actually do all those things?!
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Josh Indech
Ellie Giles
Cinematography:
Andrew Shain
Posted on November 3, 2009
Nintendo Hates The Beatles!
*exhale* Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done a rant… but there really hasn’t anything to say until now. There seems to be a pattern of me complaining about Rock Band, but boy oh boy do I have some things to get off my mind! So grab a seat, as I call out Nintendo for some of the frustration I’ve faced with The Beatles: Rock Band, specifically regarding the Download Content (DLC). Read on to see why John Lennon looks so offended…! I have been a fan of The Beatles: Rock Band since it came out. Yeah okay, I never really actually talk about video games or Nintendo on here anymore, but heyy… does anyone really wanna hear my banter? HA. But yes, I do still play video games and stuff when I have the time, but that’s once in a blue moon! ANYWAY. The Beatles. They are literally one of my all-time favorite bands. They have the best music I’ve ever heard. So you could imagine how ecstatic I and the other millions of other Beatles fans around the world were when this hit 9/9/09. Grabbing it at Micro Center for a crazy low $39.99 (regularly $59.99), I immediately headed over to my friend Katie Marsh’s house (she’s in a new video that will appear on the site soon!) and we ripped open the game and we had SO much fun. If you have played the game, we can all agree that the dreamscapes (the trippy backgrounds) are the coolest part of the game. Harmonix & Pi Studios (they specifically developed the Wii version) did a FANTASTIC job on this title, and I was VERY happy with this game and everything about it! You can ask my sister ell oh elll… when slash if I came home for the weekend I was playing that game non-stop! OKAY. So you get the point. I LOVE this game. I LOVE The Beatles. All you need is LOVE! HA. Now… here comes the part of the rant where I frown upon something that has recently come to my attention.
The Abbey Road album just hit the music store for all systems (Wii, 360, PS3) for you to download with new dreamscapes, new songs, even the Abbey Road medley! OH WAIT. The Wii version does NOT get the Abbey Road medley. Why, you ask? Read on. First, if you are unfamiliar with the Abbey Road medley, it is simply the last 9 songs on the Abbey Road album; they are all rather short, but the songs are seamlessly connected to one beautiful 16 minute listening experience – like I said, they are all individual songs, but when they are played together it is widely known as the Abbey Road medley… if you don’t have this album, I definitely recommend getting it to listen to this fantastic medley! Okay, so I mentioned that this clocked in at almost 16 minutes. It looks like Nintendo has a problem with huge file sizes, so they made it impossible for Wii owners to play the medley straight-through as it was meant to be played, but instead rather they broke it up into 5 parts. That’s right, 5 freaking parts. Instead of being able to play the medley straight-through, Wii owners will have to sit through 5 loading breaks to bring up the other songs in the medley. Do I even need to mention that 360 & PS3 owners will have no trouble playing this medley and be able to fully experience the abbey road album? The surprising factor is that this is not the fault of Harmonix, but of Nintendo. They have weird file restrictions and such, which is understandable considering the Wii has literally no internal memory storage, while the 360 & PS3 are always advertised as having like 120 GB systems. GAH NINTENDO. Why did you have to be different? “Nah, let’s not use GB. Let’s just say you have 100 blocks of memory!” What does that even mean?!
Okay. NOW, here’s the kicker of this whole sha-bang. You are gonna LOVE this. Because of this wacky file size thing, we are not allowed to purchase the album in full. We have to go into the store and buy each track individually if we want the whole thing. If you are an iTunes-music-purchaser, you know that buying the whole album is cheaper than getting each track one-by-one. Yep. That’s the case here. 360 & PS3 can hit the “buy full album” button and get the entire album for $17.99, medley and all. It’s pretty bad for Wii owners. Ready for this? All we can do is hit each song one-by-one and end up spending $19.50. What. the. heck. So basically we are forced to pay MORE (because of not being able to buy the album but just songs) for a LESS quality product (instead of the full medley we just get the puzzle pieces of it). And what’s funny is that The Beatles: Rock Band has sold the best on the Wii platform (I guess the party nature of the Wii matches the party atmosphere of rock band). In the end, we are left with angered Wii fans who just want what the 360 & PS3 owners get – we paid the same freaking price for the game, so why do we get the shaft? A call to action plan would be to lower the price because we can’t get it at the buy the album price. There’s literally nothing we can do about it… it’s a file size problem with Nintendo, but geez, we shouldn’t have to pay more because of their personal problems. As much as I want to add Abbey Road and its famous medley to my game, I refuse to do it under conditions like this. Let me re-inforce what I said earlier: We are forced to pay MORE for a LESS quality product… just because we chose Nintendo. I’d rather pay $17.99 for the full thing with the medley then $19.50 for the chopped-up lesser version. No full album ability, no medley, but hey, let’s pay more money for that, just for kicks and giggles!!! *sarcasm* Thanks Nintendo. This is THE definition of unfair. :/
Posted on October 25, 2009
Hardly Working
Jeff meets up with a friend to try and get some work done, but ADD gets the best of him.
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Sara Endres
Posted on October 25, 2009
Getting Nothing / Everything Done
There are always two choices to everything. Or, at least two, anyway. One of them is getting nothing done… and that is no laughing matter, right Christian Bale?! (; The other one is getting everything done… and the latter is always something that should be on the horizon. Since I’m in college, and considering it’s really expensive and a vital component to my future success in life, I’ve decided to get everything done in college. That’s right people, I’m doing well right now… academically. The college I currently attend, KSU, does not have the major I want to… major in… so I’m working on kicking butt here and gaining a plethora of hours to transfer to UGA, which has one of the best journalism schools in the nation! I am on the right track, having already a lot of hours from my hard work on my AP & IB exams in high school! Also, Josh attends UGA, so if we both go there, we’d most likely try to room together, and the site may very well explode with continuous content! =] Having said that, there are things to do. Goals to reach. People to see. Places to go. (I dunno why I said all that, just kinda rolled off the tongue). Because of the busy life in college, as you all know, there hasn’t been a new update or video since we all left for college in August. Although we are all used to long breaks in videos, huh? :-/ WELL ANYWAY, you know where this is going. There’s a new video out! In my quest to “getting EVERYTHING done,” I can’t leave out my internet project… which, for the record, I enjoy very much… if only there was more time in the day… *sigh*
Sooo… here it is! It’s called “Hardly Working,” and it guest stars one of my good friends, Sara Endres, who visited me here at college last night, and we were like… let’s make a video; that’s right, this video is 100% improvised. No joke. We had no idea what we were gonna do, but Sara and I had a blast doing it!! That being said, this video is the first ever to not feature the original crew, only because we have all parted our separate ways in college for now. However it won’t be the end of the other guys, as we will continue to try to make videos with Josh and the rest of the gang whenever we can! But this video is refreshingly new, and I think you guys will like it.. at least… I hope you will, haha! Consider this a short, but quick update of the site, and despite college being busy, we will do our best to serve all of our lovely fans! (:
Click here to watch it on YouTube!
Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather “Like” it than comment… haha!
Posted on October 21, 2009
Thank You
I don’t know how simpler my blog title could be. I just want to say thank you. For everything. For continuing to support the site, as well as us on Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, YouTube, and just whateva (links on the sidebar)… thanks so much. Every couple days I receive a notification that a member has joined… which is crazy and hard to believe… but thank you.. I wish I could pump out more content for you guys… but… alas, easier said than done. :-/ I promise to write more in the blog, but as you can imagine, college has been crazy… and life has been… different.
I know it seems like I’ve be avoiding the site (much like Dr. House), but really, I check it everyday. I really do. I’m bummed out that nothing new has happened since August… but it’s just been impossible… just like I predicted in my previous blog entry. With Josh being at UGA, Andrew and Laura finishing up high school, and me over at KSU, it’s quite difficult. I do have some videos planned to be released in the next week or so, and they will be very different.. just because I have to make do with what I have. The next batch videos will not have your favorite actors.. which I’m also bummed about.. but there of course will be new people you will grow to love… and whether those people are here at Kennesaw (I’ve met a few possible people), or just people that will come visit me (teehee), it’s all up in the air. The only thing I can promise as far as familiar people… is me. Nintendo Boy will always be here. Of course, anytime the NintendoBoy crew will be home for the weekend will make a magical video that will soon in the future be considered truly nostaglic. Which is sad, considering how many videos we’ve made.. which is not that many.. hahaha (hope you didn’t take our subpar videos for granted *wink wink*)!
Bottom line is, videos are on the way. I miss making them so much, and this withdrawal since college started has not been fun… but gosh, we’ve never been able to keep a consistent batch of videos out, which I know for a fact has hurt the site a lot… wise words from Adam Terrell… people want videos on a regular basis and not a 10-minute quarterly update… very well put! I will try my best to make that happen.. but then again when a video does come out everyone freaks out! Haha, well not really. Anyway… yep. Consider this a small update, but many more to come. I’ve made up for lack of videos with this beautiful redesign of the site, as I hope you’ve noticed! 🙂
What do you think of it? Also tweaks to the site here and there, but it’s all a working progress. But geez, where’s a blog post where I haven’t said that? Sighhhh. OKAY. SO. Remember. Thanks everyone, for continuing to support a project that isn’t ready to die just yet… =]