Breaking New Ground

I’ve never made any secret of my love of comedy and I’m more of a writer than a performer but I’ve always had this desire to perform comedy. The closest I ever came was singing Mack The Knife on karaoke… while I was dressed as Darth Vader. No one could hear the words for the bloody mask.

I write humour. Sometimes I record humour while posing as my alter-ego Flatcap. You can find a host of short vignettes from the lad on my Audioboom channel at:

https://audioboom.com/users/2199083/boos

It’s a finicky job putting them together, but I enjoy doing so when I have the time. And considering the last one was put up just before Christmas, it shows just how much time I don’t have.

But audio is nothing when compared to video.

I’ve had a hankering to do comedy videos for some time, but my tech is low low-tech, and try as I might, I can’t get video and audio to sync properly with any of my five cameras (one digital camcorder, one compact camera, one smartphone and two webcams).

Then, a few days back, I received a regular newsletter from The Comedy Crowd and it was flagging up a link to a fantastically funny video which had no dialogue and that’s when it hit me.

Silent comedy.

Well, not quite silent, as you’ll see if you watch the video, but there is no dialogue so no problem syncing sound and video.

It’s taken up most of my spare time for the last few days, dragging me away from my current WIP for hours at a time, but eventually, I got it finished, then with some help and a few pointers from my good friend and fellow humourist, Iain Pattison, I revamped it a little and the finished product is here for your edification.

Comments are open, so please enjoy, and if you want to share or embed it, you pick up the links/code from my YouTube channel, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZEe3u7OXI

In the meantime, here is Flatcap Getting Fit

 

And  if you enjoyed that, Flatcap has three volumes of his cynical wit available for download.