Youtube parodies

I’ve learned over the past years that the best way to procrastinate is to watch videos, specifically YouTube Videos.  On YouTube there are so many different things you can watch, a How-To video, a vlog, parodies, the list is endless.

Parodies are really funny to watch because they recreate something, and sometimes it makes the original look better. When I’m in a parody-watching mood I look up The Hillywood Show: http://www.youtube.com/user/JckSparrow and The Key of Awesome: http://www.youtube.com/show/keyofawesome. The Hillywood Show is something I recently discovered, and the videos are made by these two sisters Hilly and Hannah and they make parodies of big-time movies like Breaking Dawn, or Harry Potter. The videos are not that long, maybe 8 minutes and they’re done well, editing is good, sound is good. After the videos are made, maybe a few days later they release a Behind the Scenes video, these videos are really long, like 30 minutes but they basically show you every aspect  of making a complicated video like the ones they do. The Behind-the- Scenes videos is what I like the most because they show you the mistakes that happens, and  its really entertaining, I find myself bursting out into laughter a lot. Check them out!

The Key of Awesome is something I found out years ago, and what they do is make funny parodies on #1 Music Hits. Unlike a lot of parodies ive seen, The Key of Awesome change the lyrics around and make it their own, their videos are only 3-4 minutes long. Like the Hillywood Show, the Key of Awesome also have Behind-the-Scenes videos, showing the “special effects” they do, for example, how they show puke in a video, and how they had a girl fall down the stairs. Check them out too!

- Zakiyyah Mandisa