http://web.dragoncontv.com/videos/60/ Dragon*ConTV is about the culture of Dragon*Con. Our videos spoof everything from Star Wars and Star Trek to obscure sci-fi. Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://web.dragoncontv.com/videos/60/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Making Videos for Dragon*ConTV « Live Granades Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:58:43 +0000 /?p=59#comment-130 [...] End strongly. This is related to the last point since, if your concept is your joke, you don’t want to give it away early. Writing past the joke works if you’re writing a long piece. It doesn’t work here. In commercials, we often let taglines to do the heavy lifting. For Soylent Green Baby Food, the first joke is the name of the baby food itself, which shows up halfway through. The other big laugh occurs when the tagline appears: “Soylent Green is people…people who love your baby“. The same is true for Swears Unlimited. That video may not have gotten many laughs, but the tagline reliably made people chuckle. [...] [...] End strongly. This is related to the last point since, if your concept is your joke, you don’t want to give it away early. Writing past the joke works if you’re writing a long piece. It doesn’t work here. In commercials, we often let taglines to do the heavy lifting. For Soylent Green Baby Food, the first joke is the name of the baby food itself, which shows up halfway through. The other big laugh occurs when the tagline appears: “Soylent Green is people…people who love your baby“. The same is true for Swears Unlimited. That video may not have gotten many laughs, but the tagline reliably made people chuckle. [...]

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