VlogCast

This is a radio show I did for my Radio Production class this semester. It was my first attempt ever and I think it was ok for a first time. On the show we had a call from Danny Archer in Australia, and talked a little with Nannette Wiskur along with great songs from Benny Hester, Wayne Watson, Steve Green, and many more!

So far this is the my favorite out of all the movies I’ve helped with this semester in my Media 365 class. This film is about the dangers of misjudgment and how things aren’t always what they appear!

This is a music video based on the Weird Al Yankovic song, “Do I Creep You Out.” It was my final project in my intro to film class here at MSU!! I know that this has been a long awaited adaptation ever since “You Don’t Love Me Anymore.” So here it is and I hope you enjoy, as you try not to get too creeped out...

Here is the first-fruits of my labors here at MSU and so I present The Elevator. This is a little sketch my group came up with after receiving a paper that said we had to shoot a scene where person A sees person B at an elevator. Person B runs to catch them, but by the time they see each other the door closes as they recognize each other. Well I guess that’s about it!

For the veteran watchers of Smates Studios productions, you’ve probably already seen this one way back when. So it probably really ought to be a Smates Classic, but I didn’t make it one :D Its a really great one that Natalie did as a music video off of Weird Al’s song, “You Don’t Love Me Anymore.” So I just had to put it up on a VlogCast! I guess that’s it! I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!

Here for the first time ever in its unfinished glory is Chrono Travels. This was the start of a movie idea that Jesse Cochran(The Suit, Preacher and the Bear) and I worked on a while ago. I rediscovered the footage. At the time I thought it had all been edited, but I looked closer and saw that many of the shots were still pretty raw. So I fixed up what we did have shot and I present it now to you as more of a preview for a show that, sadly will probably never be finished. This was also the first movie that made extensive use of blue screen. Well I guess that’s the rundown! Enjoy!

For all the Homestar Runner fans out there Bryan has taken the audio from the “Parsnips A-Plenty” cartoon and redone the video, using only... WORDS MISSING... Tada!! Hope it gets a few laughs!

This is the start of some international correspondence. Danny Archer of InBeta.org has sent us this footage of a great look into some good Aussy bush poetry! We are very excited about the opportunity to get these looks at places and cultures around the World and hopefully we’ll have more to come for you in the future!

Here is another scene done on campus for the Who Cares public dramas. The audio is a little hard to hear because of all the background noise, but I tried to fix it up as best I could. My favorite part would have to be when security comes by :D That and the innocent bystander who doesn’t even flinch at the ensuing violence behind him! So here it is for your enjoyment, “Middle-East Side Story!”

Well with the semester winding down I’m finding more time to get down and edit a lot of old footage that I just have sitting around gathering dust. So that’s kind of what this is.It’s footage from the trip we took with our cousins to the Omaha Zoo!

Ok, so I know my birthday was back in April, but I was looking through some old mini-DV tapes and found this footage so I thought I’d post it up. This is footage from my 21st Birthday in Australia. Come join us for words of wisdom and our quest to find a way to light the candles for my birthday cake! Take a step into the Australian birthday tradition!

Bum Fights, MSU Extreme! This is some footage shot from a theatre class that a friend of mine was in. They did some of their scenes out in public and had pamphlets they were handing out that said, “Who Cares?” and then went on to talk about homeless people, abused people, etc. This scene takes you inside the fictional Bum Fights 3 a show where your normal ordinary campus bums are asked to duke it out for a prize of food! Who will win the ultimate prize of chicken tenders? Watch and find out!

Here it is the exciting continuation of MSU Football!! How about that amazing Pride Band!?

Alright, I know its been a great long while since I’ve gotten anything new up here in the VlogCast section. I do have plenty of footage, but Its just been hard to find time to sit down and do some decent edits. I have managed to get a little done in my spare time, so here is the first of a two part football series featuring... THE MISSOURI STATE BEARS!!

Are you ready for some real life footage from my flat in Springfield!? If so then this is the Vlogcast for you! This was from last tuesday at Megan’s Surprise birthday party. They picked her up blindfolded and drove her around a little and brought her over here. It was a pretty fun time! Thanks for coming everyone!!

Here’s some footage I took back on the way here to college. I was planning on doing an intro tour thing of my new home here in Springfield, but I haven’t gotten around to it, and wanted to get something out here anyway. So here is some stuff from the trip down here, and some of the friends I have here!

Ok, so I’ve got my computer back now, but I haven’t been taking any footage down here in Springfield yet, because I had nowhere to put it. So here is the last installment of an acting gig I did over the summer. It was a video for the HEART Speech and Theater Awards Banquet and each year they do a life and times video. Because of my similarities to Bruce, I landed the star role of playing him!

Ok, so I’ve got my computer back now, but I haven’t been taking any footage down here in Springfield yet, because I had nowhere to put it. So here is the second installment of an acting gig I did over the summer. It was a video for the HEART Speech and Theater Awards Banquet and each year they do a life and times video. Because of my similarities to Bruce, I landed the star role of playing him!

Ok, so I’ve got my computer back now, but I haven’t been taking any footage down here in Springfield yet, because I had nowhere to put it. So here is the first installment of an acting gig I did over the summer. It was a video for the HEART Speech and Theater Awards Banquet and each year they do a life and times video. Because of my similarities to Bruce, I landed the star role of playing him!

Here is the continuation of when we we’re up at Grandma’s and took a trip down memory lane with her and drove out to the one-room schoolhouse where she went to school growing up. So this episode continues to document that visit! Come join us once more on a trip to the past!

While we we’re up at Grandma’s we took a trip down memory lane with her and drove out to the one-room schoolhouse where she went to school growing up. So this episode documents that visit! Come join us on a trip to the past!

Lol, it looks like I’ve been doing too much archival cleaning lately! Here’s another older recording that was put on an InBeta video blog, but when the Smates site was restored it was lost from the server. So here digitally rerun through iMovie is me lipsyn... I mean singing Elvis Costello’s “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again.” Ok, I know enough already with the reruns! I’m really going to try and get motivated and creative enough to bring you something new and fresh... Really! :D

Well here was really a pilot of the InBeta type of broadcast that was done during my time earlier this year in Australia! The location we filmed looked great, but the audio isn’t that great. I tried to clean it up as much as I could, so I hope it’s not totally unintelligible! :D If I can just get my act together we’ve got lot’s more great VlogCast episodes on there way... Really! New fresh ones! So stay tuned!

Well while I’m still working on editing some of my other footage here’s a look at yesteryear with another scene from H.E.A.R.T. Speech and Theater’s production of “Once Upon a Mattress” in which I played Prince Dauntless the Drab! Hope you enjoy!

Well while I’m still working on editing some of my other footage here’s a look at yesteryear with a scene from H.E.A.R.T. Speech and Theater’s production of “Once Upon a Mattress” in which I played Prince Dauntless the Drab! Hope you enjoy!

Well yesterday I had my Spanish 101 final!! So until I go back to school(about 3 weeks) I’m free! So as part of this new found freedom I’ve been able to feel like I can divert some of that creative energy back into VlogCast! This is just some fun footage before and during my Spanish final! So hopefully in the days to come we’ll be keeping things fresh and new a lot better. We’ve got some great stuff headed this way, such as the rest of the Peru footage, camp footage, and a look back to some things from my acting past! So stay tuned, and don’t go away!

First off today is Ana’s 20th Birthday!! Hip, hip! Hurray! Hip, hip! Hurray! Hip, hip! Hurray! So have a happy birthday Ana!This is the second installment in what I have planned as a trilogy of my trip to Peru! In this episode Ana and I will travel her home town of Tacna. Be scared, be amazed as you see the Spanish Barney and friends... Live!! See some of the local restaurants. Walk around the Tacna square, see the Tacna Cathedral, the Tacna Arch, and laugh with us at the strange and sometimes disturbing translations at a very popular Tacna restaurant!

Well in case anyone has wondered why the VlogCast episodes had stopped for a while, and didn’t read the previous posts, I’ve been at Older Youth Camp. So here is the first installment of my week at camp! Come see my cabin and cabin mates! Check out the softball game! You can even see my dad playing! If that still doesn’t sound exciting enough then take a look at Jesse’s frisbee baseball game!

Well in case anyone has wondered why the VlogCast episodes had stopped for a while, and didn’t read the previous posts, I’ve been at Older Youth Camp. So here is the first installment of my week at camp! Come see my cabin and cabin mates! Check out the softball game! You can even see my dad playing! If that still doesn’t sound exciting enough then take a look at Jesse’s frisbee baseball game!

Yes! Here it is! The first installment of my trip to Peru video! Come join Ana, her mom, and I as we trek off south of the border into... Chile! See the Peruvian poles, doors, cars, and people! :D Get stopped at the border while they search for drugs! Learn some historical facts about a Peruvian hero. Learn about the gypsies of Chile and how to get them to go away. So come and join us on this great adventure!! We hope you have fun! :D Once I am back from camp look for more great installments of our Tours with Ana series like, Tacna Tour, with Ana, and my going away party!

Oh, boy! Lol, I can’t believe I’m putting this one up here, but alas it is another one of my early attempts at film making and is therefore classed as a Smates Studios classic. This was my first stop animation film. I filmed it while everyone else was gone and in the middle of the day. So because it’s the Night of the Zombie Apples I had to go around getting the comforters off the beds and trying to cover up as many of the windows as possible within my filming areas. I’m sure you’ll be able to see several instances where there is light shining in, but hey think of it as a Brett Smith B movie or something :D Also when the zombie apples are foaming up because of the salt I wasn’t sure what I could use, so I got some soap lathered up in a bowl and used the soap suds to make it look like they were bubbling up! So I hope you enjoy and it doesn’t scare anyone too much! :D

Come with me now into the land of yesteryear. To a time when I was much younger than I am now, well I guess not in the terms of my whole life, but it sure seems like it was so long ago. This is a scene I did for Art in the Heart one year with Tiana Ziglinski. It’s a comedy written by Neil Simon about a girl who has locked herself in the Hotel bathroom because she doesn’t want to get married! But why? Is it that she doesn’t love the groom? Did she get something on her dress? Or is it just cold feet? Well you’ll have to see it and find out for yourself! As a side note, I’ll be away at camp this next week, so I’ve planned to release a mass of episodes in an effort to make up for the time there won’t be any new ones. So only watch one a day, and you should be good :D

Here is a funny original movie by my best and oldest, in terms of time I’ve know him, friends Jesse Cochran. He did all the drawings in Microsoft Paint! This is a funny musical story about why we should keep the Sabbath day holy. Look and see if you can find me! In there :D (hint: Who wants smores?) Well I hope you enjoy this funny little animation! Thanks Jesse for your continued creative and hilarious work!

Well due the incredible ease of iWeb Bryan has set up and been working on his foxtrot fan site! So this is a short film he put together for it. I put it on here because it makes a good ad for his site :D I don’t know if any of you follow Foxtrot, but Bryan sure does, and he reminds me a lot of a certain character in the comic... In fact maybe that comic is part of the reason he’s the way he is... :D Alright, so the address of his site is www.foxtrot.smates.us Well I guess that’s it!

Ok, last one of just Lauren for a while :D I’m putting this up so I can stick with my commitment of one new episode a day, and I still have some fine tweaking to do with the Peru stuff, so Here you go the video we had playing over and over again at Lauren’s open house! Hopefully I’ll get everything together tomorrow! Enjoy!

Now I know this file is a lot larger than usual, but I cut out as much as I felt I could and still leave some good content in. This is the Families for Home Education(FHE) region 3 graduation ceremony. It was a pretty neat ceremony, it’s so neat that how in these graduations every year there’s just so much talking about God and Jesus. You won’t see that in a public school graduation ceremony! Well congratulations to the class of 2006!

Well here is the fruits of days of planning and labour to bring about this wonderful party for my dear sister Lauren. Thanks to all those who came, and wanted to come. We had a great night good food and good company!

Well here’s a clip I found from my last Art in the Heart performance playing my violin! I just thought this was kind of neat, I do have proof that I payed! This is only a partial clip, there was more, but it’s been lost over the years and this is all that’s left. Oh, and in the same folder I also found one of my original Smates Studios copyright notice that I also included. Originally all the Smates films had either this clip at the end, or one of our cat Isaac jumping all around. Well that’s it for this time. Keep your eyes out for my Peru trip video and Lauren’s graduation video! Hope you enjoy!

Here in Tamworth we’ve been blessed with really, awesomely great neighbors at our flat! Some nights we’d all just hang out, get some KFC, some Ice Cream, and a movie! Join me on a small tour of Tamworth, between the KFC and Shopping World. Learn about the reject shop and why if you’re like me you should be careful around it!

Join jet trekker Brett Smith as he travels from one continent to the other on this journey of epic proportions to the land down under... Will they get through customs in time to make the train to Tamwoth? Not a chance! :D

Well, It’s been good. I might do it again, but then this really could be it! Join me for a look with me at my last day at Comp USA. Learn those things you’ve always wanted to know, like what my favorite McDonald’s breakfast is. Where to get a good quick lunch, with gummy worms for desert of course! Hope you enjoy and that you will join me for these special moments! :D

Well um, this is me singing. In my room. Like a madman. So just thought I’d put it up here so you can laugh at it? :D

Ok here’s Bryan’s first independent short. Attack of the Toys follows the story of a young boy who walks into his room to find strange flashes of light, with some pretty weird effects on his toys. Will his lightsaber skills be enough to save this young Jedi?

Here’s another great Bryan hit! Join Dr. Crazy to learn why you shouldn’t play with chemicals! :D

Framing Roger was my final project in my film class at UMKC. It’s the Story or Roger Smart and his desperate attempt to finish his final film project. But with the doors to the editing lab locked and no one in sight, what can Roger do to finish his project? Will his attempt to get help land him as the chief suspect of a school robbery?

Let’s take a look back into yester year, or RetroSmates at a classic preview. Caesar was made as a school project for my cousins. They shot the footage and I edited it all together and added the effects! Enjoy!

Here is a sneak preview from The Suit DVD. All the mistakes, the plans, a behind the scenes look at the making of the parody of the TV series “The Saint”

This is just a fun still picture movie I did for my film class at UMKC. It is a touching short about an orange who becomes an important part of a boy and his family’s life, until one day he meets with an untimely demise...