My goal for this assignment was to create something that kept people guessing. I wanted the audience to wonder what was really going on behind the curtains. Is it a talk show? Where is it? Is anyone really watching? Who exactly IS Johnny Philipini? All questions I have no business giving answers to. It’s all about, you guessed it, your magical interpretation. A magician never reveals his tricks…. Myyeehh… What I will reveal, however, is the fact that I had a lot of fun with this assignment. I’ll take any excuse to talk like Rodney Dangerfield, that guy was a legend. I watched some of his stand-up on Johnny Carson for the first time a few weeks ago, which I believe was the inspiration for the whole talk-show type premise. It was also, obviously, the inspiration to include Dangerfield as a character. Mister Philipini’s voice was basically me doing my best Marlon Brando if Marlon Brando were a Jimmy Fallon type of character. Well, actually that’s not quite true. It’s more of a mix of Marlon Brando and this character from the TV show Home Movies, Junior, who is essentially a Brando parody himself. I did this project using Audacity and Premiere Pro. The vocals were done in Audacity and the more complicated techy stuff was done in Premiere.