“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl
This series of two videos began their existence as a series of experiments designed around the loose theme of getting to grips with Adobe After Effects and the series of filters and special effects it had to offer. The first idea for content was based around a certain TV cook from the 60s and 70s. The footage was taken from a repeat of a Christmas special - unfortunately I couldn't get a sample of dear husband Johnny, although there is a passing mention of him from the footage being a dab hand with the UHU in making decorations to go on Christmas Cake. The second piece of footage was originally a trip through the digestive system, made with an endoscope, though when it passed through After Effects and came out of the end, all versions were something completely different.
But then, while editing things together, I was hit by a dilemma - whether to include the original footage of Fanny the C or leave it with just the endoscope footage. And so two versions emerged - the deluxe version using both sources of footage, and a slimmed down version being based purely around the endoscope.
The muzak made for each video was based around samples of Mrs C in action, a timestretched sample of gargling, a little bit of white spacenoise as an intro from an earlier session with a Kaossilator, and a sequencer section played from an Arturia Microbrute.
The title for this first version is an oblique reference to made by husband Johnny after a show by Mrs C which has now passed into Urban Legend.
The title for this second version, now cut off from our favourite childhood celebrity chef, simply refers to the version without Fanny.
Enjoy!
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