was the shifting background planned? or just thrown together afterwards cause it was funny? And the airplane edits were hilarious.
Well, it kind of weird... This sketch was part of a larger "show" that we submitted to an Xbox contest... as such, we shot every Sunday over the period of a month and a half.. so the first day of shooting was most of Part 1... the 2nd day some of part 2, the third day was some of part 3, and then we had one other day for pickups.
I had just learned to do greenscreens (remember
the Terrorist? The real reason I did that was to test and see how greenscreens looked in black and white), and I hadn't realized that you should TRIPOD the shot... otherwise the camera-movement (it was me new glidecam) makes the screen go all wonky.
Anyway, I began editing the first part, and figured this out, but after playing with it for a bit, I think it grew on me. It gave the video a kind of pyschadelic-meets-dirt-poor-production kind of feel, which was appropriate, considering half the full show is two guys sitting on a couch talking about video games, LOL. I asked the producer if he wanted to re-shoot the wonky shots, but everyone thought it looked kinda funny, so we kept it. I tweaked it a bit from there, but I couldn't actually get it as BAD as I wanted without looking totally stupid (ie. it lost the feel of an "office" and became an abstract room).. so to answer the question, no, it wasn't planned, but after it was done we decided not to reshoot.
And what's an airplane edit?