Hey you!
My name is Thomas 'TomSka' Ridgewell and welcome to Scrap'd Week.
A week dedicated to videos that didn't quite make the cut.
Today's video is called 'Literal Drinks'.
(Titles)
(Music)
Yeah, you should have seen her face man. It was everywhere!
Haha! You're mums awesome!
Yeah, she was.
Oh, this place looks nice.
Yeah, this is my favourite pub. Craziest drinks.
What's that you're drinking?
This? This is an icebreaker.
Hmm, can I get an obscure reference?
Cheers.
*Cough*
You alright?
Oh it's just a pig me stallion. So, my throats a little horse.
Ahh. Hey can I get a total overreaction?
Look Tom, there is a reason I brou-
WHAT?!
I need a stiff drink...
Recurring gag.
(Chris sounding like it's having a big poo)
Ohh that's awful!
This is so hard. Spanish soap. The... The thing is...
(Spanish)
I have no idea what you just said... Give me a horse mask.
Tom...
Ohh, that's the recurring gag.
Tom...
Can I get an awkward silence?
Tom I...
And a perpetual motion please!
TOM!!
WHAT?!
Tom! I'm trying to tell you I love you!
(Silence)
Can I get a white wine and lemonade?
(Whine) OOOOH I WANNA BE MORE THAT JUST FRIENDS!
Chris I like my friend how I like my whiskey.
Huh! Let me guess? Straight!
NOT TRYING TO SLEEP WITH ME!
Huh! I need a more understanding friend.
Well, I need a platonic relationship.
Why don't you give me a shot!
Can I get 5 minutes to think about it?
Well, can I get a little consideration?
I don't see us working out...
Oh! I don't see a future without you!
Yeah, we're out of that i'm afraid...
Well! Could I get a reluctant compromise?!!
Are you guys going to drink any of these?
I'm sorry...
Me too...
Can we still be friends?
Goodbye Chris.
Tom... Wait...
One more drink? For old times sake?
That's not bad... What is this?
Hahaha! ... Sex on the beach!
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
So, that video may have seemed a little familiar to you and that's because immediately after
shooting and editing it we went and shot and edited it again.
Literal Drinks is a sketch that I came up with a couple of years ago and I always imagined
it being played by my friends Mike and Jacob also known as the Fratocrats. And the basic
premise of the sketch would be that these two guys goto a pub and all the beers are
local brews and they all have really weird names and those names have the affect of the
name of the drink on the person and they drink it and...
Basically all I really wanted to do was tell the joke of the perpetual motion drink and
I thought OH I'll just make a whole sketch out of this! Why not?
When Cancer Research UK approached me asking me to promote their Dryathlon campaign, which
is basically where you give up drinking for a month and people sponsor you and all that
money goes to Cancer Research. I said well instead of making a vlog to promote that why
don't I make a sketch about it that then links to a vlog so basically it guarantee that more
people are going to find out about it. And they were like OKAY THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA...
Stupid decision on their part...
When Eddie and I finished writing the sketch we were very proud of it and proud of ourselves
because it was full of wordplay and clever jokes and we just didn't really notice that
the script was about 5-6 pages long... So, when Chris and everyone got together and we
shot the video and then edited it only then did we realise OH NO THIS IS WAY TOO LONG
TO BE A YOUTUBE SKETCH... Oops...
We cut loads of stuff out of the video to save the pace, but then the video just wasn't
funny enough. So, with about a week until the deadline I got in touch with the client and said
SORRY IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH I'M GONNA MAKE IT AGAIN. And they were like NO, ITS GOOD
ENOUGH PLEASE JUST RELEASE IT and I was like NOPE NOT GONNA HAPPEN MAKING IT AGAIN
and they were terrified and they were probably right to be terrified, but in an amazing turn
around we set the shoot up for near enough the next day and we just got back there and
we worked with Mr Jack Howard to edit the script down quite tightly and he helped co-direct
it and just make it a much tighter nicer thing and voila! The video actually turned out pretty
good the second time around.
I'd like to say that is the only time i've had to film a video in it's entirety, but
it's not. And on that note I would like to apologise to Mr Chris Kendall because roughly
half the videos i've ever shot with him have wound up on the cutting room floor...
Sorry Chris! I'm Sorry...
Come back tomorrow for more Scrap'd Week videos because boy... Do I have a lot of them...
TomSka Out!