Weed Killer Gone Wrong

Told in a style reminiscent of Max Headroom, this is the true story of weed killing gone wrong. The wife brought home some weed killer. The husband used it. Something went wrong. Now the husband and wife are at odds, each pointing the finger of blame at the other.

Whose fault is it? Who is to blame - the husband or the wife?

Watch the video, then YOU decide!

This video is really best seen on my website (and has the missing "20 minutes into the past" intro to it there). If you liked it, please check out the higher video quality video on my site: http://www.TheReelTodd.com

This video is my 1st attempt at video blogging, or vlogging. Video blogging can be boring (depending) so I wondered what would happen if I took a regular story of a recent event in my life and told it in the vein of Max Headroom... only in more of an early 80's, green monochrome style. This is the result. I originally intended on producing a series of these video blogs (same look and style) but this was such a pain in the ass to produce, I'm not sure I will follow through. The guys at work that I showed it to were not impressed with it, so maybe call it an interesting experiment but nothing worth trying again.

I have been told that the green, monochrome ASCII text in the background looks similar to the raw "code" seen in the film The Matrix. The Matrix is cool film, but this is backward. It is the "code" seen in The Matrix that resembles green, monochrome ASCII text. Green, monochrome ASCII text was a very common sight back in the early 80's, long before The Matrix. Of course, it was The Matrix that took that look and made it very popular. If you think this looks more like something out of the film The Matrix than an old-school, early 80's computer themed Max Headroom parody, that's fine by me. If The Matrix look makes this cooler in your book, I can dig it!

Want to embed this video in your own website or blog? Get the code here:
http://www.thereeltodd.com/weedkiller/WK001.htm

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• weed
• killer
• max
• headroom
• blog
• vlog
• green
• monochrome
• computer
• 80's
• matrix
• todd
• 8-bit
• ASCII
• geek
• nerd
• talking
• head
• dork

[HazerD]

wow thts ace, i tired something similar but didnt get as good as this, how did u do the background and what software did you used? its a great vid, very funny too! please ahre all, Hazer.D

[TheReelTodd]

Thanks HazerD! :-D Glad you enjoyed it. The background was made in an old version of Cool 3D. The look of "Weed Killer" was accomplished in PhotoShop, (as frames) via a custom made action and batch operation. It was composited and edited in a popular, but very buggy video editing app. If you'd like to do something like this, any video editing application that allows for transparent layering and video compositing should do. I hope this helps. :-)

[ADITHX]

ok, this is your second vid ive watched and i want to see more! I'm interested to see what you come up with next?

[TheReelTodd]

Thanks for your kind words, ADITHX. :-D I have some absurd material for another Weed Killer video, I just haven't had time to get the ball rolling. :-( But I hope to have another Weed Killer video soon. :-) I hope you'll watch for it. :-D

[Gistino]

Hey, I did'nt get a notice for this, ah well least I'm seeing it now! Just faved and rated! I love the effects! SWISS SWISS SWISS CHEESE! hahahaha You sounded like Jim Carry when you said GOOD BYE! =D

[TheReelTodd]

Thank you for your kind words! I'm not sure if you remember Max Headroom, the character I am spoofing in this video, but he was awesome. Look him up here - check out his videos. Max ROCKS! Jim Carry actually sounds like Max Headroom a lot (Max was around way before Jim). I think Jim *borrowed* Max's style a lot. Either way, I take it as a compliment! :-D

[DChatc]

This is a bit of a close one, but I would say ultimately 'the Mrs'.

BTW: Nice seeing a post-millenneal, post Matrix (lol) Max Headroom! :D

[resurself]

cool!!!

[daemon1947]

I love the old-school monochrome aspect of this video, but found the story to be droning on and on and not really entertaining. The lipo video story was better, but wasn't too fond of the "upgraded image" (color, etc). You have something here though!

[Featherflow]

Brilliant...as soon as I saw this I thought of Max but this was better...you deserve to have a million subscribers at least...

[DevilMaster]

Do you have a version of this video that:

1) can be used with Windows Movie Maker

2) has no voice, only sound effects?

I'd like to try and dub it into Italian.

[juliijulii]

Seen two so far.