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GREEN SCREEN!!!!

2009-05-13 · letter vlog · Hank · 2:36 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Projects) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: self promotion

Hank shows off the green screen he got with his new camera, recounts seeing Spamalot for his birthday, launches his EcoGeek YouTube channel and asks Nerdfighters for green-screen ideas.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Pre-filmed wagon-ride intro; new camera and green screen; first green-screen gags

  • ★★ Along with his new camera, Hank got a green screen. — 00:00:00

00:00:45 — Rapid green-screen montage of shouted backgrounds (Wolverine, Margo Roth Spiegelman, giraffes, Neil Gaiman, Picard, Hundertwasser)

  • ★★ Hank shows off the green screen with a rapid montage of shouted backgrounds, from Superman and Wolverine to Margo Roth Spiegelman, animals, Neil Gaiman, Jean-Luc Picard and Hundertwasser. (playful) — 00:00:45

00:01:17 — Green screens are fun; birthday trip with Katherine to see Spamalot in Spokane; EcoGeek channel launched today

  • ★ Hank says green screens are fun, viewers should get one, and he has many things planned with his. (playful) — 00:01:17
  • ★★ For Hank's birthday Katherine took him to Spokane in their new Civic to see Spamalot, the Monty Python Broadway extension, which he found pretty good. — 00:01:17 · Katherine Green
  • ★★★ Hank announces that as of today his YouTube channel TheEcoGeek is live, another thing he is doing with the green screen. — 00:01:17 · EcoGeek

00:01:49 — Hank as the EcoGeek: channel on environmental news and green tech, subscribe; liked John's Poe-bust video; asks for green-screen ideas

  • ★★ As the EcoGeek, Hank will discuss all kinds of environmental news on the channel, mostly focusing on green technology. — 00:01:49 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ Hank points to the subscribe button on the EcoGeek channel page, suggests viewers click it, and asks them to tell him what they think of the channel. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:49 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ Hank tells John he was a big fan of John's 'what would you do with a Poe bust' video. — 00:01:49 · John Green
  • ★★ Unsure what else to do with the green screen, Hank asks Nerdfighters to leave ideas in the comments for what he should do with it. (playful) — 00:01:49 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • Hank calls out background colours on the green screen, ending with green. — 00:00:00

    “Black! Red! Green! Oh, right.”

  • In a pre-filmed intro Hank rides down a slope in a giant wagon. — 00:00:00

    “That wasn't as fast as I expected it to go. I hurt my butt.”

  • Hank muses that it would be great if Nerdfighters left green-screen ideas in the comments. — 00:01:49

    “Oh, that would be great. Maybe someone will tell them to do that. Do it.”

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Mentioned

Central: EcoGeek

Also: People: Friedensreich Hundertwasser · Katherine Green · Neil Gaiman

Works: Spamalot

Groups: Monty Python

Places: Spokane, Washington

Characters: Jean-Luc Picard · Margo Roth Spiegelman · Smokey Bear · Superman · Wolverine

Products: Honda Civic

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