Gazmo & Friends - my puppet comedy video

[theshadowfan]

I've just released my very first puppet video. It's called Gazmo & Friends. The premise is an alien from outerspace crash lands on Earth meeting two college students.

You can find it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZqwhfzpiOE

Any comments welcome! :)

[Nojoy]

I dug it.
Like others tho, I felt the laugh track was out of place. Between the great camera work, writing, directing and acting it can stand on it's own without it.
I understand you were going for the sit-com angle, especially with the great opening credits.
It was also too short... the mood set up in the "discovery" was on the suspensefull side, then boom, end credits. A little more humor on the end, a sitcom back to the status quo would have rounded it out nicely.
I'd also like seeing a better title font on it... hmm, it may seem like I'm picking it apart, but I think it's because I really did like it so much... A lot of potential there.
Opening shot was straight out of a John Hughes movie... totally cool.

Yeah, you know I'm gonna watch the next one.

[Onath]

Great Job! I can tell you put a ton of work into it.

However, I feel as though the ending was rather abrupt. I will also agree with Nojoy that the laugh track was not needed. I would also like to see more of Gazmo in the next episode.

once again great job and I'm excited to see how it progresses.

[theshadowfan]

Thanks Nojoy for all the critques! We're definitely going to keep the laugh track but minimize it or something else. I didn't notice that the ending was that abrupt when editing it, but now that people are mentioning it I can see why.

Right now we aren't really sure if there will be more episodes. We have them planned out but the video hasn't taken off to an extreme success. It took us about 3 weeks to make it which is on the high end production time for us. Although I believe we should be able to cut that time down for new episodes.

In addition to that right now we're going through finals and then winter vacation so we definitely won't be making any new films till next semester. :(

[theshadowfan]

Here's a new short with Gazmo. It's slightly different than the previous one. There isn't really a story, just a odd sequence for laughs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBgg1lx-Nac