Hello you lot. Hope everyone is okay.
By now many of you will have seen the latest Lost Footage - and the latest video with Sanja and I. I really like both of them, even if their very different nature risks giving our audience the tonal "bends".
Current plan is to keep going as we have been over the past couple of months; vids with the two of us, and Lost Footage as and whenever they get finished. We might be changing up the sort of videos we do with the two of us. We're not...
2020-05-14 09:19:06 +0000 UTC
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Here's this week's regular Digi episode, in which Sanja and I discuss what we've been getting up to during Lockdown, while sampling a bunch of mystery Russian drinks - including some sort of cosmonaut drink, or something. Also... it marks the long overdue return of Gannon to the channel.
Well, sort of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__KDqxrfAmk
2020-05-13 12:54:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello, you lot. Hope you're all doing okay. Business as usual this end. Still feeling a bit overwhelmed by social media, and not really feeling like engaging much at the minute, but generally mostly fine.
Anyhow... part of why I've been quiet is because I've been working on this, as you know - the fifth episode of Mr Biffo's Lost Footage, and the first part of what'll be a sort of series-within-a-series.
This is as close as I've gotten to what I want this show to be; t...
2020-05-11 20:42:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang. The next Lost Footage is proving to be an epic one, in terms of putting it together. Here's another little snippet - a sort of interstitial - that was born out of a bizarre moment I found in an old child development video. You'll see why I thought it was perfect for the Found Footage treatment. Don't watch if you don't want to be spoiled! See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3NN_C3dsQ
2020-05-06 09:36:48 +0000 UTC
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It's time for your weekly lockdown dose of me and Sanja, which will be going up on Thursday for the rest of 'em. This week we're trying out bizarre popcorn flavours, before I veer off into my usual ranting and bouts of oversharing. Also, there's a special ending to this video that I really should've seen coming...
Next week... Gannon makes a welcome return to the channel, but not in the way you might've been expecting...
2020-05-05 15:57:06 +0000 UTC
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So, here's another video for you that will probably be in the next episode (do not watch it if you're waiting for the whole thing). It's a remix of a dreadful 1950s educational video about dating. To be honest, I could've left it as is, and it would've been worth a watch, but I still re-edited it. And may yet edit it some more. This will likely come during the adolescence sequence.
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
2020-05-05 11:30:03 +0000 UTC
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The Hollywood Reporter is running a series at the moment, interviewing writers, directors, actors and producers about how the current global situation has impacted them; not just in terms of their work, but just how their day-to-day life looks right now.
The brilliant Armando Ianucci was interviewed for it, and he talks about how uncertain this time is, and how he isn't sure the best way to pitch the tone of series 2 of Avenue 5 (if you've not seen it - do; it's great). Series one was a...
2020-05-05 10:22:22 +0000 UTC
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Happy Monday, all.
For those of you following the progress of the next episode of Lost Footage, here's the first almost completed sequence. Do not watch if you're wanting to see the whole thing complete!
Because it's quite different, and much more part of a whole than the usual stuff, I'm not totally sold on this yet. It's possible this might change, as there may be something missing for me, and I won't really know until I see it in the context of the entire episode. At the ...
2020-05-04 09:05:10 +0000 UTC
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Some of you have asked the see one of my scripts for the next Lost Footage. For the sequences where I only have to reply on myself, I don't tend to script, but in some cases I'll needed somebody else to say some words.
So, here's the script - beware spoilers - for the Womb Sequence, along with the voice-over which I'll be adding to the animation:
Life. It’s all around us. It’s in the trees. It’s in the ground.
There’s even life inside you right now...
2020-05-02 09:32:21 +0000 UTC
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Afternoon! Or morning. Or evening. Or whenever you're reading this. So, no idea if I'm howling into the void with any of this, but I'm going to keep you furnished with Lost Footage work-in-progress stuff as the pieces start to come together. Again, don't read on or watch any of this if you want to remain spoiler free.
Here are two very short work-in-progress videos. One is a title sequence for an animated version of a comic I drew waaaaay back in 1987 for my college magazine. There was ...
2020-05-01 15:43:52 +0000 UTC
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I thought I'd give you some insight into the next episode of Lost Footage, given that I'm right at the beginning of a brand new episode. Don't read this if you want to go into the episode knowing nothing, as I'm going to go deep into the process (and much of what I write about here may not even make it into the finished thing).
The idea for the one I've just started working on kind of stems from where I've been heading since I put together that first Lost Footage a few weeks ago. <...
2020-05-01 09:18:03 +0000 UTC
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Because some of you are interested in this stuff, and because I promised you something a bit more exclusive... here's a really, really, really early test of a sequence from what'll hopefully be the next ep of Lost Footage.
There's nothing really funny in there yet, and it has been thrown together very quickly by me and Chris-JC (though you wouldn't believe how quickly he produced the music). But it'll give you some insight into how stuff develops. Quite literally in this instance....
2020-04-30 14:25:08 +0000 UTC
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Here's the second part of the Found Footage Q&A for you. It will be going up later for general viewing, so I'm sorry I've not been able to get these to you sooner. I'll try and dig out some exclusives to make up for it.
I really enjoyed doing these Q&As - I think they're worth a watch for anyone who is interested in film-making for next to no budget, as well as, obviously, people who enjoy Found and Lost Footage. They also let me be a bit more 'me' than I typically am in the vid...
2020-04-30 09:14:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang. How are you all coping?
I think I've hit a bit of a wall with lockdown, and find myself wanting to hibernate until this is all over. I've barely been on social media in the last week or so. Haven't felt like being in front of the camera. Can't connect with my day job work...
It's odd. I mean, my mood is kind of fine, I've no real complaints, and I could happily lose myself in editing Lost Footage for the duration, but I just feel less engaged. Like some life stuff isn'...
2020-04-28 15:07:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone.
Hope you're all okay and keeping safe. Apologies that I've not been massively active on here or Twitter over the past week or two. In truth... I've been deep in the bunker working on the latest Lost Footage, which will hopefully be going up tonight, for everyone.
I worked particularly hard on this one. I even edited over the weekend, which is something I generally don't tend to do. There's a particular vibe and atmosphere I was going for this time, an attempt...
2020-04-27 15:29:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey kids! Hope you're all okay.
Bit of a different video for you. Remember last week when I asked if you had any questions about Found Footage? Well, we had a lot of questions, so this is part one of a loose two-parter.
Inevitably, it goes beyond Found/Lost Footage, and touches upon my creative life in general, my influences, how I put Found Footage together, and why Sanja and I threw out the entire first take of this video, which we filmed in a local park (though it still c...
2020-04-21 16:44:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey-yo, you lot. Hope you're all okay.
I dunno how to do YouTube. I really don't. I don't know what you're meant to do to kind of 'break through', and - what's worse - I no longer think I'm capable of it. I'm obviously wired all wrong.
See, here's the thing... I've been absolutely loving putting together those Lost Footage episodes. If I could just do experimental creative stuff for the rest of my life - and not have to worry about earning money - I would. I absolutely would...
2020-04-17 14:53:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang.
Here's the next instalment of Lost Footage. I'm going to be putting this out later today, and then probably filming some sort of Q&A about Lost/Found Footage, as it's something a few people have asked for. If you've got any burning questions in that area, post them here, and I'll make answering Patron questions a priority!
In the meantime, here's your latest nightmare...
https://w...
2020-04-17 10:24:43 +0000 UTC
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Boooya! Here's a new video a little early. Don't know when it's going up for everyone - it might be later today - but it's me and Sanja trying some disgusting novelty sodas. Plus the usual domestic nonsense you get from us two...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEjNKfdeNgA
2020-04-14 13:29:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello y'all. Hope you're doing okay.
Here's a short animation test I put together, that I though you might like to see. It'll be part of Lost Footage, but probably not the next episode. I want to have a crack at some longer-form animation, so it'll likely be something I'll work on over the next few weeks, and I'll keep you updated with progress as we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6IC6AqY9zM&...
2020-04-14 08:08:58 +0000 UTC
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Streaming. So... much... streaming... going... on...
But before I get into that... did you have a nice Easter Weekend? Saturday I was bored. Sunday we went through old photos and ate chocolate. That was nice.
This weekend I did notice that streaming in the retro gaming community reached a sort of critical mass. From comments I've seen on Twitter, I'm not alone. Everyone seems to be screaming "Come and watch me do a thing live!!!".
It's great in lots of ways. I've loved the e...
2020-04-13 09:25:05 +0000 UTC
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Morrrrning all. How we all doing?
So, hopefully you've seen that there's another new episode of Lost Footage up on the channel. Well, mostly new. There's some genuine 'lost' footage in there too, from various places. I've got, I think, one or two more little bits and pieces that you might've already seen, which will be going into a third episode... and then we're in properly uncharted territory.
It's an odd thing, but my head hasn't been in the right place for doing regular ...
2020-04-09 08:52:27 +0000 UTC
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Hi all.
As some of you will have seen on Twitter, or if you watched the Digi live stream last night, over the weekend the Digitiser community lost one of its most colourful personalities.
Gaming Mill - or Shaun, as he was otherwise called - was somebody I had known since the mid-00s, when he was a member of my message board, the Board of Biffo. Shaun, like several people I'm still in touch with from those days, was on the receiving end of harassment from the same people who,...
2020-04-06 12:39:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello y'all.
Hope everyone is doing okay. For what I hope are pretty obvious reasons, things will be a little different on the channel for a while. As explained in this failed attempt at a video - I buggered up the sound - we'll be mixing it up between sort of more laid-back, chatty, lo-fi vids, and the more extreme production values of Lost/Found Footage.
I wasn't going to put this video up initially due to the sound quality - and it is, basically, just an extended intro fo...
2020-04-01 11:48:53 +0000 UTC
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Most of you by now will have seen that there's a new instalment in the Mr Biffo's Found Footage universe - Mr Biffo's Lost Footage. That now takes us up to 11 complete episodes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4J9BeFb1Yg&t=132s
I quite like the fact that it sort of arrived mostly unannounced, in the way that modern popstars release albums without any advance hype. That w...
2020-03-29 10:38:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday, you lot. So, dunno if you saw... but there's a new episode of Mr Biffo's Found (Lost) Footage up. And yes, it features the return of Goujon John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4J9BeFb1Yg&t=132s
Voiceover Pete sent me two different takes (in both of them he somehow said "dirt" instead of "dirty"). Thought you might like to see the one I didn't use. I think I use...
2020-03-29 09:31:31 +0000 UTC
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Morning, everyone. I hope you'll indulge me with something quite personal.
One of the things I've had to contend with in my life is being perceived as having broad shoulders. I mean, I literally do have broad shoulders, but I'm talking in an emotional sense. People think I can "take it", if you know what I mean. They think that I can carry a lot. And, generally, I can.
Consequently, because of that perception I've kind of been forced into that role. I've become strong,...
2020-03-21 09:33:21 +0000 UTC
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I'll probably share this elsewhere, but thought I'd let you lot see it first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRvQf0XA1JY
2020-03-19 18:00:41 +0000 UTC
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Hello all.
I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to share this post on Digitiser as well. I started out with the intention of this blog being a higher tier Patreon exclusive, but we're all in this together, and while we're being locked away... we don't have to be completely shut off.
Rest assured, all Patrons will continue getting the videos early, and the higher tier gang will hopefully be getting some exclusive video content over the next week. I'm going to scour the hard drives ...
2020-03-19 09:11:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello, you lot.
Blimey, eh? Where do you even begin...?
I hope you're all doing okay. It feels a bit daft putting out stupid videos at a time like this, but I know many of you want any distraction you can get at the minute.
So, here's next week's ep. I've not had a chance to watch it back yet, so hopefully I've not ballsed anything up. Well, not anymore than usual. "LOL"!!!!
Sanja and I have talked about doing some sort of special, lo-fi, isolation videos while w...
2020-03-18 19:23:09 +0000 UTC
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