In this episode, Scot takes a quick break from format for a few announcements and to introduce a new Halloween song: The Haunted House Song.  I also learned how to do video editing by making a music video for it! It's silly and dumb and I'm also very proud of it.  

Check the video here on the youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CSYBwPfx3Q

 

And check out all the lyric videos on the youtube channel's main link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxDnKc4gzWuwjpl1tz6WUw

 

Today's music courtesy:

Shawn Korkie - https://www.fiverr.com/shawnkorkie

Bastereon - https://www.fiverr.com/bastereon

Aandy Valentine – https://www.fiverr.com/aandyvalentine

And for The Haunted House Song:
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Lyrics and vocals: Scot Maupin

Music provided by Rujay.

Instrumental: "Next Level" by SeriouzBeats.

Channel: https://YouTube.com/user/RujayTV.

Beats video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzo8fRwWHc

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Contact:

https://twitter.com/PerfectShowShow

https://www.instagram.com/perfectshowshow/

 

AI-Generated Transcript:

 

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Hi and welcome to the Perfect Show. I'm your host, scott Moppen. Normally, this is a podcast where I catalog some of the perfect pieces of life, one by one, where each episode I examine something that I or someone else considers perfect. I say normally because I don't have the next regular episode ready just yet, and this one is about something that I am not claiming is perfect, but I still wanted to check in and tell you what I've been doing recently, give some updates about the show and then proudly present what I do have for you this episode a new Halloween song. So let's get to it. First off, I tried to hook up my soundboard for this episode, but failed. When I started learning how to record podcasts, I made some drops or sound effects that I never really used. So now I wanted the soundboard so that I would have that option here from time to time and can give those drops a second life, but I couldn't figure out how to set up the audio to record everything at once, so I'm still working on all that. I know it's possible, but for today I'm going to go back in and add the drops after the fact, boo, speaking of, which seems like the perfect time for an announcement, right? So then, a few announcements. Up top is that I've added a new section to the website for the Perfectorium the Index of Perfect Things. It's a page where you can see a picture for each item entered, and then clicking the picture leads you to the webpage for that episode. Pretty simple addition, but still. Right now there are only four pictures, but as things grow it may be helpful to have a way to search visually instead of scrolling through a long feed of episode notes and media. The new Perfectorium can be found on the Perfect Show site, which is, of course, at PerfectShowsite, and the Perfectorium is at PerfectShowsite, slash Perfectorium. That might be tricky to spell, so once again, check out P-E-R-F-E-C-T-S-H-O-W dot S-I-T-E slash Perfectorium. Okay, and now the second item Avrobot. If you would. The Perfect Show YouTube channel finally has some content now. The YouTube channel is the same as the Twitter and Instagram name at Perfect Show Show, but if you go to the show's YouTube channel, which is in the show notes, you'll find new lyric videos for the three dance songs from episode four, the last episode. Each video shows the lyrics line by line as the song plays. I made them myself, actually, and that's part of what's been eating up my podcast time recently because at the point when the last episode came out, I had never done any video editing, and so part of the time has been me teaching myself how to make and edit videos. So check them out, if that's your thing. I think the videos turned out nicely. They're easy to find and share this way too. Instead of just songs stuck in the middle of a podcast episode somewhere, I've added them to that episode's webpage too, so you can find them through the show's website. Good job, scott. Okay, okay, those three videos were kind of a bonus side benefit, because the real reason I had begun to teach myself video editing was to make a music video. So today I have a new Halloween song and there's also a video component, but this is an audio thing. So I have the audio for the podcast, but I had an idea to try and make an animated music video for it, and when I hatched the idea three weeks ago, I'd never done animation or video editing before. I've always been an art guy, but mostly drawing and painting. Another driving factor was that a song about Halloween has a pretty hard expiration date each year, so I knew there was sort of an invisible timer counting down and I wanted to see if I could get it done by the beginning of October, which, as I'm speaking these words today, is October 1st. So it worked. Hey, why do I even have a Halloween song anyway? Well, that's certainly a fair question. So where do I start this? During the pandemic, I started taking a sketch writing class, which was another thing I had never done before. I thought it would be a good opportunity to step out of my comfort zone, and it was. It also ended up very much becoming a comfort zone for me through the pandemic. Each week I would meet up with my teacher and a bunch of other writers and we would share, read, perform and riff on each other's sketches and just have tons of fun on a Zoom call for three hours a class. Then, each week for homework, we were assigned a certain type of sketch to write and bring to the next class, which was how we continually had things to read and discuss. It became something I would look forward to and I really appreciated having something as simple as a weekly assignment to absorb some of my COVID and quarantine thoughts at the time. It was good to have to shove everything aside from time to time and be like I'll think about that later. Right now I need to do my homework Strangely, very helpful. And then one week the assignment was to write a comedy song. From the start of class I had been keeping a Google Doc with snippets of sketch ideas and when it came time to do my homework I would usually springboard off something in it. What came to mind for the song assignment was a premise with a guy who is super scared of haunted houses but a girl wants to go to one with him. So before the date he just goes to the haunted house over and over, getting like traumatized over and over again, so that on the date night he can go and pretend that everything's no big deal. Fun premise, right. So I wrote it up for class. It went well. I got good feedback and suggestions that I incorporated and did rewrites. But it was very much not Halloween time at that point. So I was like what am I going to do with the haunted house song during the rest of the year? Well, the same thing as someone without a haunted house song Nothing. So I put it away and kept writing sketches for that class. I also continued taking classes here and there when they were offered, to keep up my writing habit and actually maybe at some point I could make like an audio version of one of those and see about recording it for this. But we'll see. Oh, okay, hey Scott, how about you just focus on making regular episodes and not distract yourself with even more side projects just yet? Okay, classic Scott. Yeah, so here's how the process went making the video. Unlike the lyric videos I was talking about before, this was going to be a full on video with characters, a plot and visual jokes that you can't get just from the audio. I did a couple of monster pictures for it early on, but most everything else has happened just in the past three weeks. The first week was just drawing. Animation is labor intensive. You know that on an intellectual level, but you forget what it actually means until you start trying to make something yourself and how slow that process can go at times. I had storyboarded the video, so I already knew basically what scenes and pictures I would need, so I just buckled down with pencil and paper and started banging out the images as best I could. Now here's where a smarter version of me would have drawn a little bit of stuff and then tried to animate something small first to make sure it would all work, bu