NewsUndies - 20090317
More of the news that shouldn’t be news….
…And hey, while you’re here…
You’d think that with all the computers and other gear I’ve got, I could fashion a … well… some sort of a device that would… show the copy… so I wouldn’t have to keep printing it out…
Well… I actually tried it out… The computer I do NewsUndies on has a webcam right above the display… I can have a little text editor window right under that… It looks creepy and unnatural. I’m not sure if it’s the eyeline, or what… Maybe it’s because I didn’t use any props… maybe it’s because I had to work the scroll wheel of the mouse to advance the copy… not sure…
The paper copy gives me a prop to futz with, makes the presentation a little more dynamic, and gets away from the weird “Ed Sullivan Stare”… This was something described by George Carling may years ago…. he was talking about all the weird acts Ed had had on his show… and what could have been weirder… one possibility he pointed out was just Ed staring back at you. … “How are you?”
There’s another aspect to this, and that is that the time I have to produce a NewsUndies is pretty tight. I usually do them before I go to work in the morning. I have to review the “fodder”… select and write 4 or 5 stories, do a couple rehearsals, do the actual read… usually twice… then edit, add titles, upload to YouTube and put a little wrapper here on UrsusPacificus… the whole thing takes about 3 hours. That’s dedication. I hope you appreciate it 