In which I help with the production of Jackass 3D promotional materials
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
The greenscreen shoot. That 16:9 frame at right represents the frame of the video player that’s part of the facebook page. Clamps hold breakaway blocks with tracking markers.
If you have a facebook account, you might1 enjoy checking out this bit of Jackass 3D promotion that I helped plan and coordinate. It was a pretty complicated greenscreen shoot, put together on an extremely short timeline. The Jackass guys were hilarious and game, and their crew was great (special thanks Tripp and Barry). The creative team at Paramount, Picture Production Company, and the folk at Powster did a bang-up job initiating, commissioning, planning, and putting the whole thing together. It’s nice to see the finished result online and to be able to tell people about it. It is an app, you have to give it access to your entire life, but it’s2 no more insidious than Farmville3.
A small section of a final result, composited live in a web browser.
Also part of the same shoot, this baseball-themed game.
All’s well that ends well eh? Now go see the film. How else are you going to see excrement fly at the camera in 3D?4
- Or you might not. There’s no accounting for taste. [↩]
- As far as I know. [↩]
- And far far less annoying. It also doesn’t spam your friends with every smiling sheep you’ve mulesed or smiling automated milking machine you’ve installed or whatever people do in that Farmville thing whose updates drove me from Facebook. And seriously, what’s better, virtual happy farming, or dudes hitting baseballs into each others’ nuts? The world’s answer to that question can be found in the box office receipts for Jackass 3D. [↩]
- Neither a trip to the zoo, nor the blue Navii “tribal bio-expelled tactical paste” seen in the upcoming director’s cut of Avatar count. [↩]
