CCR Production Post

 Sooooo the CCR production process was lengthy and I truly underestimated how time consuming the process would be. In total, both CCRs took around 9 hours to film. Fortunately, filming them was some of the most fun I had in a while and the process never felt tedious or boring in the slightest.

The podcast CCR production took place at JD's house, as he had a backyard that worked surprisingly well for a podcast set up.

 Being musicians, we both brought our microphones (Shure SM-57)to use during production and make the sense that it was actually a real podcast all the more believable. These were plugged straight into JD's audio interface which ran directly into Garageband.  

We decided to help each other film ours individually, as different episodes of the same podcast, entitled KL Poductions, derived from KL PRODuctions (Brilliant, I know). In all honesty, I hadn't given much thought into how the CCR questions would actually be brought up until about 5 minutes before I arrived at his house, but I had reached an idea nonetheless! The CCR questions would be asked by fans in the comment section of the previous podcast episode, and we would choose them at random and answer them.

With the help of taping a loose script to the table in front of us, some comedic improv, and the help of our friend Max, the production process was over quite shortly (not really). It was a ton of fun, and some key highlights were the creation of "Guy the Sound Guy", the victim of me and JD's tormenting, as well as the creation of the inside joke "SmoothieGo Jr.". Don't ask.

A Comedic Change of Plans

Remember that "celebrity sidewalk interview" idea that I had. Yeah? Well it was trash. 0/10. Embarassing. Shameful.

Instead, I opted for the scene of a stand up comic bombing awfully in front of a crowd. After quickly running out of jokes, he would then turn to the audience and ask if they had any questions. What would these questions be? CCR questions 3 & 4 of course!

I decided a local bar which I have played gigs at in the past by the name of "Boston Johnny's" would serve well as a fake "comedy club". After getting permission from my friend Jason, my wonderful mother drove me over and served as a heckler, and I got another bargoer to serve as the host of the comedy club introducing me on stage. While I'm sure that the other bargoers did not intend to spend 90 minutes of their evening listening to comic bomb and answer CCR questions, they were all very kind and more than happy to play along.

Me on stage @ Boston Johnny's!

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One difficulty that I ran into was the poor lighting of the indoor bar, but this can be fixed in post editing.

I attempted to base my cringeworthy performance off of the likes of fellow awful comedians like Dax Flame. No one is really sure if he's joking or not. 

Notecards really helped me lock into the persona of an awkward, nervous comedian who had no chance of engaging an audience. They also helped guide me through answering the CCR questions as I wrote down a loose script and key points to help guide me.

Overall, the CCR production process was long, but so so fun, and I would do it all over again if I could.