Will Ferrell White House spoof

Andy just sent me this link to White House West, a fakr White House ad starring Will Ferrell stumbling around down at the ranch.

Can you believe that Bush is going on another huge vacation? WTF... do they think that a more relaxed, wood-chopping oriented president is expressing an image of leadership?

The project is coming along nicely, over these horribly long days in the lab all week. And I've gotten a parking ticket... back to it now...

Last night I burned a draft version of the DVD, and I found that many of the transitions I'd put in were no good. I remember that the same thing happened on a project before.

The problem with making videos on the computer is that the screen makes all these visual distortions in how it represents motion. It makes transitions and wipes look fuzzier than they actually are, and the video color balance is a lot darker.

When we did the "American Women in World War II" video, we had a digital video camera hooked right up to the computer all the time, and the camera passed its signal out to the television, so you could see the way it bulges outwards and cuts off the sides of the picture, and how weird some things look that you can't see at all from the computer.

The problem is that this University lab has little TVs, but they can't represent what people are doing on the computers. So it took until tonight to see a bunch of glitches...

Posted by HongPong at August 7, 2004 01:42 PM
Listed under Campaign 2004 .