Fake Character Email Ductape Blader/Jamming

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Ductape E-mail 13: Jamming

Summary: During a jam session in a keyboarding lab, Ductape gets his track broadcasted on the radio.

Cast (in order of appearance): Ductape, Marzipan, The Cheat, Strong Mad, Bubs, Strong Sad, Debbie (Easter Egg).

Places: Ductape's keyboard terminal, Side of Bubs's Conses5ion Stand, Recoding Studio.

Date: December 3, 2006

Length: Don't know, don't care.

Transcript

{Ductape is not at his regular compy. He is at a compy that is elevated over a shelf, with a piano/synthesizer adjacent to it. A Cakewalk program is open, and Ductape is jammin', playing the keyboard and recording music.}

DUCTAPE: Yeah! Now we're talking. My filmscore project is almost finished. Why not check an e-mail?

{He opens up a web browser and checks his e-mail. The following message appears.}

 Hey, Duck-Tape!
 Are you in some sort of rock
 band that travels the world,
 solving mysteries with their
 lovable dog? If not, how about
 just a normal band?
 -- PP

DUCTAPE: Double-P, you couldn't've come at a better time. I'm not in any band, and I don't have a lovable dog, unless you count The Cheat, but he's more awesome than any talking Great Dane. {He lifts the keyboard on one side and puts it down} I pretty much play some synthesizer music as you see in front of you, and so do too many people around here.

{Shot changes to a scene on the side of Bubs's Conses5ion Stand, where the members of Cool Tapes are playing rockin' music. Zoom in to Marzipan, who is plucking measures on her guitar. Pan right to The Cheat, who is drumming a beat. More right is Strong Mad is plucking a couple long notes on his bass until the hard rock part comes, where Marzipan is jamming in tune to his notes and The Cheat is accompanying it with a fast, loud drumbeat. The band plays really nice music. Then, Bubs comes in with an accordion.}

BUBS: Hiya, Cool Tapes. Might I jam with da band?

THE CHEAT: <We need an accordion player for this song, and our next song. So yeah. Come on down.>

{Bubs sits down in between The Cheat and Strong Mad, playing measures that time when Strong Mad is plucking long, high notes. During the rock instrumental, Bubs stays quiet. Cool Tapes finishes the hard rock song in a flourish.}

MARZIPAN: That was wonderful. Now let's play our next song. Strong Mad, you're going to sit this one out.

STRONG MAD: JAM TRANSMISSON!

{Strong Mad drops his bass with a low note escaping from it as it crashes offscreen. He turns around and faces the others like an audience as the next song begins, bobbing his head in time with the accordion. Back to Ductape.}

DUCTAPE: As you can see, joining a band would be unoriginal. But that doesn't mean I can't jam on my own. Just listen to my project.

{Ductape clicks play on his compy. Two tracks of audio plays. One is of a crossfade sound, relatively low with scattered high notes. The other track is a stratified sound, which is more abrupt in ending than the crossfade, also with scattered high notes sounding like creepy dissonance. A third audio track plays many quiet gong sounds, a door opening, and at the end, a lightsaber igniting. The song ends.}

DUCTAPE: Did you like it? It's a part of my filmscore project. I'm supposed to write scary music for a two-minute scene from some movie and add in the foley artistry, too.

{As Ductape is talking, Strong Sad comes in from the left.}

STRONG SAD: Ductape, I heard your tracks, and I really like them. Would you mind if I put them in my radio show? It's for a sketch involving the Twilight Zone.

DUCTAPE: Would I? That would be awesome.

{Fade to a recording studio. Ductape's track is playing as Strong Sad records his voice on a mic.}

STRONG SAD: It was a dark, moonless night and young Zita's parents were not home from their midnight errands. She couldn't sleep, and she heard some footsteps down the hallway. Frightened, she slowly had walked up the dark stairs and opened a room she had never been to before, finding many strange silohetted things all creepy and terrible. Zita was just self-concious of everything, always turning around to check for an intruder, when the lights powered on in a quick display. What happened afterward, we do not know.

{Ductape's track ends.}

DUCTAPE: That was so creepy. So, can I pick the next song?

STRONG SAD: Sure. Which one?

DUCTAPE: How's about... "Science Fiction, Double Feature"?

{Strong Sad's voice changes abruptly as he inputs a CD and announces}

STRONG SAD: That was our program of The Twilight Zone radio, and now we give you a personal request, Science Fiction, Double Feature! Don't you ouch that zabbityblough!

{The song starts and fades away as the scene goes back to Ductape's terminal. A window appears on the computer saying, Click here to e-mail Ductape Blader}

Easter Eggs

• Click on the "play" button on Ductape's cakewalk program to see this scene.

{Debbie is listening to her radio in a non-descript room. Ductape's track accompanied by Strong Sad's voice is playing once more.}

DEBBIE: The DJ at the local station has really outdone himself this time. Usually the air is more dead.

Fun Facts

• This e-mail was originally conceived in a school synthesizer lab, which is why Ductape is there.
• Ductape mentions a Great Dane. This is a nod to Scooby Doo, where the crew solved mysteries with their dog Scooby, which was a Great Dane.
• The Cool Tapes scene was described in a fashion similar to The Time Warp Of Dr. Brain, where the four cavemen would be in a position of guitar, drums, accordion, and bass from left to right, and the songs described were those of Genius-level puzzles.
• Jamming a transmission means to not let it reach the place it was meant to be sent, which is unrelated to a jam session.
• Ductape's filmscore project is based on mine, from the tracks to the sound effects. It was to accompany a two-minute scene from "The Ring", and what happened to it was the same, my teacher liked it so much she put it on her radio show.
• Foley artistry is used to put sound effects in situations to eccentuate an event.
• The Twilight Zone was a science fiction TV show meant for mysteries and irony.
• Strong Sad being the DJ is from SBE-mail "radio".
• "Science Fiction, Double Feature" is a soft rock song on the RHPS soundtrack, which was later remade into a faster tempo harder rock song with the same lyrics.