Teaching Jake | Script and Sound Effects (Patreon)

So... let's talk about how there's no music in this video.

It sadly means that I have no new music to give to you Novelty Instrumentalists, but it was an intentional choice! I often lean on music a little too hard to get people to really connect with a video (Jonah's music for $20K was exactly what it needed to make it fit the cheesy salesman vibe while amping up the horror, but it wouldn't fit for this one), so I wanted to try making something where all the sounds could have actually happened in the context of the video itself.

But as you might have seen in the behind the scenes video I just posted, these sounds did not happen in the context of the video itself! It was all recorded after the fact. So if you need any VHS/VCR sound effects for a project you're working on, feel free to download these noises and put them to use!

You'll also find the PDF for the script here. I ended up staying pretty dang close to the script, since the video is a series of loops. I couldn't do many ad libs. But I did end up cutting out this line in the edit:

It felt a little heavy handed as I watched it, and I think it stretched the clip out a little too long. I did like the fact that it called back directly to the scene where the dad is yelling at the scary figure in the hallway (lots and lots of WHO ARE YOUs) and might have made people believe "the viewer" of the TV is the same scary figure. On the other hand, I like how ambiguous "the viewer" ends up being in this version, so I'm happy I cut it. Sometimes cutting three words is all it takes to change your opinion on what a video means! Or maybe I'm the only one who was thinking that much about this vid.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the random VHS noises! The next vid should be a song vid, so expect new tunes soon!