Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video was not worth the effort as I sustained a chipped tooth, a bitten tongue and a concussion doing it.
The obvious thing to do for the video was lots of forward rolls to imitate the eponymous character. I wasn't sure how i was going to manage getting myself in shot with the green screen cloth I had so I took several takes which included an all grass background in the hope the grass might work as a 'natural' green screen to impose the game background onto.
Fortunately it worked.
Unfortunately, I didn't consider the fact that trying to do multiple takes of me doing multiple forward rolls as quickly as i could at the age of 42 and with spinal arthritis would incur any injury.
The first take lasted a minute and i got so dizzy that the last roll I landed on my neck to a resounding crunch. I then proceeded to do 3 more takes, like an absolute pillock.
God only knows what the people walking their dog with their children thought.
The conditions for my lockdown videos were:
I only had a limited amount of time to learn (mostly by ear) and record the songs (as I am a key worker) so they were usually recorded in one or two takes so they are certainly not flawless recordings.
I played all the instruments (including programming the drums from scratch).
As the videos started to get more elaborate I could only film them within the confines of my house and garden in keeping with the lockdown rules.
This video was not worth the effort as I sustained a chipped tooth, a bitten tongue and a concussion doing it.
The obvious thing to do for the video was lots of forward rolls to imitate the eponymous character. I wasn't sure how i was going to manage getting myself in shot with the green screen cloth I had so I took several takes which included an all grass background in the hope the grass might work as a 'natural' green screen to impose the game background onto.
Fortunately it worked.
Unfortunately, I didn't consider the fact that trying to do multiple takes of me doing multiple forward rolls as quickly as i could at the age of 42 and with spinal arthritis would incur any injury.
The first take lasted a minute and i got so dizzy that the last roll I landed on my neck to a resounding crunch. I then proceeded to do 3 more takes, like an absolute pillock.
God only knows what the people walking their dog with their children thought.
The conditions for my lockdown videos were:
I only had a limited amount of time to learn (mostly by ear) and record the songs (as I am a key worker) so they were usually recorded in one or two takes so they are certainly not flawless recordings.
I played all the instruments (including programming the drums from scratch).
As the videos started to get more elaborate I could only film them within the confines of my house and garden in keeping with the lockdown rules.
