In last night’s marathon Skype call, there were a few ideas discussed for the upcoming fancast. Here are a few of them:
1. In the previous episode we did, everyone sent in an “EVERYTHING!” In this episode, we are looking at everyone sending a “HAPPY RYAN AND MATTHEW APPRECIATION STATION DAY!” to use in the intro.
2. The plan is for Kristen to write questions for the show like last time, but if there is any F.A.C.E. who assuredly won’t be able to participate due to [censored] reasons, speak up for the opportunity submit a question for the episode. There should be one question that will involve an answer that has [the four-letter word describing the substance that is ejected by a cow’s udder] used, but censored. (Only one such question will be used in the episode, as we’d rather not have to censor tube much in the episode; it’s quite a bit of editing.)
3. Rather than individual F.A.C.E.s answering individual questions, we would like to break into groups of two or three to answer questions over Skype (or other collaborative means). During each answer the F.A.C.E.s will be introduced by their T.O.P.H.A.T. rank if applicable (and a different creative intro otherwise). It is recommended that each group have an outline going into their Skype session so that the question gets answered even if there is some sort of digression in the response.
4. A timer will go off during each question-answer session. (Possibly multiple timers; still unsure about this.) Each timer will be different, and will be a notable clip from the Aux Cable. Suggestions so far have included:
In the arms of aux cable
Fierce beard
Andthat’sallthetimewehave…
Hmm…. (from Josiah)
Autotune
What we will need is a list of timer suggestions and the applicable timestamps (if from an actual episode). I’m not sure if we ought to have them picked out before the Skype calls themselves or if the editor ought to add them in afterwards and surprise the listening audience.
5. The commercial idea suggested, according to my notes, involves:
Pop music
Carbonation Station
“Plays all your favorite songs”
Rickrolling
6. Toward the end of the episode will be an appreciation station poem composed specially for the occasion. According to my notes, it is tentatively called “All-Star Ryan & Rick Roll Matthew”. Brooke is the head of the poem project.
7. We want as many F.A.C.E.s (including possibly Angie & Sarah) involved with this project as possible to show Ryan & Matthew maximum gratitude. There were suggestions for “celebrities” that also may be called upon to make appearances in the episode, including Yours Truly, Chris, Corban Garcia, and Rick Astley. However, the main participants we want are the F.A.C.E.s; after all, this is a fancast, not a celebritycast.
This is what we talked about, but there are plenty of ideas that we didn’t discuss or that I either missed or misunderstood. Feel free to bring up more ideas & their implementation in this thread. It’s less than a month before this episode releases, so now is the time to be thinking, planning, praying, contributing, and listening for this project.
