The Nintendo Boy Project

Just like Robert Downey Jr., I was giddy with joy when I was able to round up a few people on my dorm floor that wanted to be in my next video!! As I continue along the path of a collaboration/guest star route, the videos are gaining a fresh vibe to them so you don't know what to expect and from who! While I am a fan of character development (mainly for the "Sketch Comedy" series), it's fun to just let loose and explore more plot-based style videos. It gives me a chance to do more jokes with as little stretch as possible, haha! With that being said, let's talk about the newest video to call home here on the site!

I've been living in the University Village Suites since August of 2009. 3rd Floor, to be exact. That's an inside joke (well not really). Also, that's a spiffy name for a blog post, which is mainly why I just wrote that, teehee. Since my roommate, Victor, lives with me, he obviously knows a little bit about what I do here, and ever since college started he's shown interest of making a video with me! It's a shame that it has taken this long to finally make a video, but it's finally happened! I contacted some people on my floor via facebook and gave them the opportunity to collaborate on a video for the site. You know, I guess I could have just walked to their door and asked them personally... HAHA! Well actually, it was quite difficult to get a hold of these people, ironically enough! Nevertheless once I recieved an overwhelmingly positive response, I went ahead and wrote out the lines for everyone in the video... yes... that's right. I WROTE A SCRIPT. JEFFREY VEGA HAD A SCRIPT PREPARED. SOUND THE ALARMS!

The video is about me going around, asking people what they think of this website... and well, let's just say things don't go so well for me. HOWEVER, in reality, things went VERY well, filming wise. We're all so busy during the day, all the filming took place literally at 1 in the morning... not exactly the most practical time to film, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do, right?! I was so excited once everything was finished with all the guest stars, thanks to one of my closest friends Onelia for helping to film and putting up with my pickiness! (: The one thing that brought me down during editing was... well, the whole process. I planned to film 2 scenes for every person I worked with, and I would seperate the clips throughout the video with the other people so it had the effect of like going back to that person as if we never stopped talking. I was bummed to find out, however, when putting all the footage together that the video would be close to 15 minutes. OUCH. You could probably guess how hard it was to cut some things out... so many funny things will never see the light of day, and even after the difficult editing decisions, the video is still a lengthy one at right under 6 minutes, but at least I was able to get everyone who was filmed into the video! I've watched some people watch the video and they say the time passes by so quickly because the video is actually entertaining and doesn't drag on... yay! So, why don't you tell me what YOU think, hmm? (;

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Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "like" it than comment on it... haha!

At last, it has finally arrived. That's right, the blog entry detailing the events of Board Games is finally being typed up! Well, I guess since you're reading this and it's already published and such, that doesn't matter or anything and well I say that because I'M typing this up NOW and uh- ANYWAY! Today, we will briefly discuss Board Games (mainly because it's been so long and I don't really remember...teehee) as well as some interesting background factoids that went into to publishing this video. As I transition to the body paragraph of this essay, I will go ahead and try to connect the animated .gif by saying that the "interesting factoid" was a decision that I made so I wouldn't have to keep trying to figure out why I have no views on YouTube (even Lenny doesn't know... ha!)

So. Board Games. Where do I even begin? Oh boy, this is going to be one awkward blog entry. Alright, remember that one random scene in Takeover where I called a meeting but only three people showed up to an event where I tried to get Josh to admit he likes Nintendo? Yeah I know, so random, haha. Those three people were in my Communications Learning Community last semester, and I became pretty close with them (and I will add them on the collaboration page soon... I know it's long overdue but eh, you probably didn't notice)! They knew I did videos (because I never shut up about it!) and were quite interested when I asked them if they were willing to help collaborate on a video! You know I think I actually already talked about this in a post about Takeover last year... ah well. Anyway, as we all returned from winter break I contacted them all about a video idea I had. After I received an overwhelming positive response, I went immediately went forward with my idea and came up with a rough outline (in my head of course... *nervous laugh*) and was super excited to get it done! We all moved back into our dorms the weekend before the first week of spring semester and reunited and had fun as we improv'd the entire video! So, there really isn't much to say. I mean, we literally improv'd it. I wish I was a little less annoying (I'm not like that in real life... *cough*), I wish Lauren (the girl on the far left) wasn't so mean to me, I wish Aubrey (the girl in the middle (wasn't so annoyed by me), and I wish Jason (the guy on the far right) had more lines, because he was hilarious! But yes, it was a very nice collaboration that I'm very proud of, but I don't think there will be any more videos with them since they got mad when I spit chocolate milk on them and everywhere (without telling them what I was going to do, I might add)... HAHAHA, just kidding. Or am I? No no, I am. They were terrific guests and look forward to working with them again. We will see... (:

Alrighty, and now for interesting factoid time! Not a huge deal, but definitely worth mentioning. This video was given a different kind of treatment for publishing: YouTube EXCLUSIVE. That's right, for one week, I decided to only upload the video to YouTube (and not on facebook just yet) to force everyone to go through the popular video site to watch my latest episode! Why did I do this you ask? Well right off the bat, YouTube HD is FANTASTIC! Facebook's... or really anywhere else... is not so much. I wanted everyone to see my new video in a beautiful resolution... that's a harmless wish, right?! (: With this, I also conducted an experiment: How many people *actually* watch my videos? I know, crazy right... who would EVER want to know that? The reason why I may not have the best estimate is that my views are skewed because of facebook. Grrr, I'll get you popular social networking site! *shakes fist* The only reason I post my videos to our facebook fan page is because people have a better, easier option to comment... and you guys know how much I love feedback! I repeat: this is the only reason... so if I don't get any likes/comments than I assume no one's really watching it.. or people are just lazy. Eh. But anyway, my experiment actually resulted in me now knowing that people really do watch my videos because, in the week that Board Games was only on YouTube, it garnered unusally high views compared to the others. In fact, as of writing, the video has more views than most of my videos that have been out for more than a 2 months! Now there's the kind of thing I like to see! Now what will I do with this new found information? Not sure yet... I may continue to make the videos exclusive for a week for the sake of YouTube views, but at the same time the facebook video suffers because no one watches/comments because they'll be like.. "oh that's not new, I've already seen that!" My case is proven with Board Games on facebook, which has only a comment by one of our actors... :/ SO. It's a hard choice. Perhaps I'll just continue to upload them to YouTube & Facebook at the same time so neither suffer but at the same time the views will be more spread out... BUT, as long as I receive feedback, I can live with that! *looks at you* (;

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Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "like" it than comment... haha!

Hey nintendoboy fans! I never ever thought I would be writing a blog post for nintendoboy.com (much less be in a video xD), but here I am! So, I am happy to inform you that part two to Takeover is up today! I had TONS of fun making this little set of videos with everybody, but I honestly had no idea that the making of these videos involved so much time! I mean, when you're watching nintendoboy videos, they are only three minutes long so you're probably thinking, "HAHA! What a funny nintendoboy video, I bet that took no time at all!" ... Okay, so you probably weren't thinking that at all (except for the HAHA part, right?), in fact, you probably haven't thought at all about how long it takes to film and edit a video. Well neither did I until recently! First there has to be a plan of some sort of what the video is supposed to be about. And for the first time EVER (I'm pretty sure...), someone -Jeffrey Vega- actually wrote out a rough sketch before filming *GASP*! I know, I know, it's crazy... Second, you actually have to film the scenes in the video (Who would have thought?). You would not believe how many times it takes for one scene to be filmed sometimes! Luckily, there is a lot of laughing and silliness involved when this happens, so I think everyone secretly enjoys the 117th take... As for editing, I still don't really know that much about the mechanics of it. But I do know that Jeff does ALL the editing, and that it takes hours and hours, and that he does an awesome job  and probably doesn't get the credit he deserves here because who thinks about the editing of a video while you are watching it? Usually no one. But now perhaps you will!

Anyways, now that you know a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes, I hope you enjoy part two even more now that you know how much time, effort, and TLC goes into these videos, along with the fact that the videos are being put up on a weekly basis currently. Whether they will be in the future weeks remains a mystery! I don't know of any videos in the near future, but hopefully I am wrong and there are more ideas to be filmed during the winter break! I would love love love to be involved in more videos now that I've experienced what its like once already (Wait, twice if you include part one... wait, thrice if you include the failed Halloween video!)! All right, well, go watch the video, LOL (literally), and comment on the video (here... or on youtube... or on facebook... or on all three! The choice is yours ). OH! And happy holidays!!!

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 Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!

Well, so much for being consistent wiith our episodes. well as far as I know we have a two part drama coming out soon. I can tell you this there is: suspense, love, happiness, DEATH, and LIFE to the new and improved nintedoboy the series. I don't want to over dramatize it though so don't expectoo much out of this new and improved two part series. Luckily for us it did not rain for these two days and it has made things a lot easier for us. We introduced new characters that may or may not be permanently be added to our list of cast members. THE KGB!!!!!!

DUHN DUHN DAAHHH!

Amyway. We started out with the idea we were going to do only a few episodes but with that said, we will be trying our very hardest to upload every month. Maybe we can keep that promise.

Jeff: Promise? who said anything about a promise??

Nevermind I guess we will have to go back to uploading every college break. for now there should be an episode every week for you loyal fans out there so we hope to increase our activity over the next couple of weeks so hang tight and get ready for the start of a new series. The only thing we really need now is a theme song. I was really hoping we could convince the guys from Anamanaguchi to compose a song for us considering they are using a nintendo to help make their songs. I thought that was pretty cool but commissions are probably expensive, and 3 cents a day won't cut it.

Jeff: What are yout alkign about?! we don't even make 1 cent a day

okay then 1/2 a cent a day then

Jeff: OH COME ON!

Getting back to Anamanaguchi (which we hold no rights to the name or anything to do with the band Anamanaguchi just so we avoid copyright problems) we really hope that we can get some way to incorporate their musical talent in our videos. And guys from anamanaguchi if you read this please feel free to pitch in and we will support you in anyway we can. Its not like we are begging or anything

Jeff: PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!

just ignore the peanut gallery for now. although it may seem like we have it under control I am quite sure it took us 113 takes to get the two vids right. Well thats a story for another day so enjoy our new episode:

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Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!

A few days ago I was about to post a blog entry about the recent adventures the project has been through. Some of this goodness included us attempting a Halloween video and planning a Black Friday video on their respective dates. You may realize now that none of those videos made it, but I would like you to know that the original guys (me, Josh, and Andrew) have gotten together a couple times during college breaks and have tried to get something done. The fact that we haven't done something since August and have tried other times for a video with no luck has placed frustration upon us, much like Joseph Gordon-Levitt over here! Sigh...

Anyway. The reason why I didn't bring you that post mentioned earlier is because I brought a video that I trashed back to life! On Black Friday, we got together and planned to do a "Black Friday 2" (oh boy!), but instead we went with an idea I've had for a while, which ended up being our first crack at pop culture... facebook... haha! I was UBER excited to do this because I felt the real joke was something that every facebook user had experienced. We make fun of those "fan pages" that people can become a fan of that have the most ridiculous themes. Just one at the top of my head and that actually is in the video is the "I go slightly out of my way to step on a particularly crunchy-looking leaf." I mean, I love how people actaully make these and people become fans of them... I really wanted to know every little detail about you!...right. But seriously though, some of them are legit funny and there are a few that everyone can relate to which makes the whole joke even better with little to no effort. Brilliant, huh? (:

So yes, we filmed this video at the forum in Norcross (same location as 'Wishful Thinking') and it turned out pretty well and it was SO much fun to do, and also the fact that it was a reunion of the NintendoBoy staff, was a very fun day indeed... in fact, it was so much fun, there are bloopers at the end of the video! Yay! I said it. A new video is here, but I'm sure you've figured that out by now. Ha. We had soooo many clips of the first scene, and it was VERY hard to put all the best laughs in the video and still keep it under 4 minutes... but, here it is, finally! You see reader, the reason why this took a couple weeks to come out was... well ACTUALLY, this video was never scheduled for release because of some reservations I had. The biggest problem was that the audio wasn't so great... there are some parts where the mic didn't catch some of our witty phrases and almost rendered the clip useless, and it was also VERY cold and windy that day so the loud windy windyness makes a cameo in the video... EL OH EL! Long story short of a day of editing, I discovered that my fancy pancy video software has a feature where I can legit edit the decibles of volume (should have known, yeah yeah), so I was able to change the volume of the clips even after they were filmed... I guess that's why they call it the magic of editing? Or does no one say that? Ohhh... well this is embarrassing! So anyway, please enjoy this long lost reunion of the NB-ers! (:

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Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!