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RiffTrax are downloadable sound commentaries featuring comedian Michael J. Nelson heckling (or riffing) films in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a TV show in which Nelson was the caput writer and, subsequently, host. The RiffTrax are sold online where users can purchase and download the commentaries. The site was launched by Nelson and Legend Films in 2006 and is based in San Diego.

ane History
2 Use
- ii.1 RiffTrax Player
- 2.two RiffTrax On Need
3 Featured catalog
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The movies chosen for Mystery Science Theater 3000 were predominantly low-budget B-movies considering the show itself was low-budget and producers could just afford films with expired copyright or had otherwise cheap licenses.^[ane] The idea of RiffTrax came about subsequently Mystery Scientific discipline Theater 3000 was canceled and Nelson had researched and consulted a lawyer about the possibility of straight releasing DVDs of films with the commentaries included. But Nelson realized this initial idea was not viable since he would exist "sued out of existence."^[two] Instead, the best manner to distribute the commentaries would be to sell them independently of the films, to avert having to obtain the rights to distribute the movies themselves.^[3] There would exist no legal or monetary restrictions to foreclose Nelson from producing them,^[4] though viewers would have to provide the movies themselves.

Nelson has been accompanied by old Mystery Science Theater 3000 co-stars Kevin Potato, Bill Corbett, Mary Jo Pehl, and Bridget Nelson, in addition to Internet personalities Richard Kyanka (of Something Awful fame), Josh Fruhlinger (writer of The Comics Curmudgeon) and Chad Vader, besides every bit actors Neil Patrick Harris and Fred Willard, British author Matthew J. Elliott and satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. Nelson has said that he would like to bring in other guests.^[five] Though Nelson first released RiffTrax primarily equally solo efforts, there are now more tracks bachelor with guest riffers than by Nelson alone. This spun off into RiffTrax Presents, which are tracks by guest riffers and sanctioned by Nelson.^[half-dozen]

User feedback section of the 1/28/09 live RiffTrax.

As part of SF Sketchfest in San Francisco, California, Nelson, Murphy and Corbett take appeared several times performing live riffs aslope a screening of a film. As of 2008, they accept appeared three times, having riffed Daredevil and Over the Top in 2007 and Plan 9 from Outer Space in 2008, the final being shown in the celebrated Castro Theater.^[vii] ^[8] Recently the RiffTrax crew take done live internet broadcasts on Ustream.tv, riffing public domain movies and taking viewer questions.

In 2008, RiffTrax launched iRiffs, which allows fans to upload commentaries to be sold on the website. iRiffs users are paid fifty% of the net revenue generated by their products. iRiffs differentiates from normal RiffTrax in that both serious and humorous commentaries can be uploaded.^[nine] In February 2009, a contest was held past RiffTrax, in which a winning iRiffs user would be given $1,000 and a gamble to develop a RiffTrax Presents title, receiving instruction and critique from Nelson, Murphy and Corbett.^[10] The winners of the contest were Doug and Rob Walker and Brian Heinz of That Guy with the Glasses, who contributed an iRiff of The Lion King.^[11]

Following the inception of Joel Hodgson'southward Cinematic Titanic project, which involves merely about every MST3K writer and performer who is not a RiffTrax regular, rumours circulated in the fanbase of a rift between Mike and Joel, simply the pair take ever denied that any sort of sick feeling exists and support each other's projects; in fact, Cinematic Titanic cast member Mary Jo Pehl has appeared equally a guest riffer on RiffTrax, and the official RiffTrax forum includes a subsection for give-and-take of Cinematic Titanic episodes.

[edit] Use

RiffTrax commentaries must exist synchronized at the start of the motion-picture show using a cue.^[12] To reassure consumers that the MP3 file is synchronized with the movie, a fictional character named DisembAudio occasionally speaks a line in exact synchronization with the movie.^[13] ^[14] DisembAudio has also occasionally been known to bring together in on the riffing. "RiffTrax Presents" commentaries feature a female person synchronization voice, Debbie.^[15] Though RiffTrax are suggested to be played on an MP3 player or with estimator software, they are sold every bit unrestricted MP3s, allowing users to choose the viewing method that suits them the all-time. A Rifftrax Player is also offered as a free download.^[16]

The movies called for RiffTrax are based on two criteria: whether the movie lends itself towards a funny riffing, and whether the film is widely available on DVD.^[12] ^[14] These criteria have resulted in a wide variety of genre and era of movies chosen to exist riffed. The beginning sound commentary fabricated bachelor through the web site in July 2006 was for the 1989 moving picture Road House, long cited past Nelson as the cheesiest flick ever fabricated.^[17]

[edit] RiffTrax Player

The RiffTrax Player is a program which automatically synchronizes the commentary playback to the DVD playback. The RiffTrax Player makes use of a hybrid file (.riff) containing the MP3 of the original commentary as well every bit synchronization information. The crew at RiffTrax has said that future commentaries will exist released in both MP3 and RIFF formats, and older commentaries will as well run into RIFF-format releases in the futurity. As of this writing, the RiffTrax Player currently only supports NTSC DVDs.

[edit] RiffTrax On Demand

RiffTrax On Demand features DivX video files of films with RiffTrax commentaries embedded. The service offers permanent files available for purchase or temporary files bachelor for rental at a lower price.^[xviii] A majority of the files available through RiffTrax On Demand are sourced from Fable Films DVD releases. Recently, RiffTrax On Need has begun releasing brusk, public domain, educational films, like to the ones that MST3K would sometimes mock before a full-length movie began.^[19] The colorized version of Forbidden Zone is also hosted on RiffTrax On Demand, although it was not riffed.^[twenty]

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[edit] References

^ Penny, Damian (2006-08-x). "Review: Rifftrax". Blogcritics Magazine. http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/x/125254.php.
^ "Interview: Michael J. Nelson". TeeVee. 2006-10-16. http://www.teevee.org/archive/weblog/2006/10/12/150746.html.
^ Jurgensen, John (2006-eleven-18). "Everyone's a critic: DVD commentaries by fans". Wall Street Journal: p. P2. ISSN 0099-9660.
^ Kaiser, Andy (2006-08-07). "Delight talk during the pic". The Grand Rapids Press: p. D3.
^ Salas, Randy (2006-08-eleven). "Derisive remarks at present on RiffTrax". Deseret News: p. W06. ISSN 0745-4724.
^ "RiffTrax Presents". RiffTrax. http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-presents . Retrieved on 2008-08-20.
^ torgosPizza (May 20th, 2007). "RiffTrax Alive! for San Francisco Sketch Fest". RiffTrax. http://blog.rifftrax.com/2007/05/xx/rifftrax-alive-for-san-francisco-sketch-fest/ . Retrieved on xviii Nov 2008.
^ Lastowka, Conor (December 11th, 2007). "RiffTrax Alive in San Francisco". RiffTrax. http://web log.rifftrax.com/2007/12/eleven/rifftrax-alive-in-san-francisco/ . Retrieved on 18 Nov 2008.
^ "iRiffs FAQ". RiffTrax. http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs . Retrieved on 18 November 2008.
^ Fable Films, Inc. (February 4, 2009). "RiffTrax Announces Chance for Fans to Piece of work with the Stars of Mystery Scientific discipline Theater 3000". PR.com. http://world wide web.pr.com/press-release/130229 . Retrieved on 28 February 2009.
^ Walker, Doug (March 19, 2009). "Rifftrax Winner!". That Guy with the Glasses. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/video-updates/5482-rifftrax-winner . Retrieved on 2009-03-nineteen.
^ ^a ^b "RiffTrax FAQ". RiffTrax. Archived from the original on 2008-01-21. http://spider web.archive.org/web/20080121141119/http://world wide web.rifftrax.com/faq.php.
^ "Mystery Science Theater, round two". The Democracy Times. 2007-02-08. http://media.www.commonwealthtimes.com/media/storage/paper634/news/2007/02/08/Spectrum/Mystery.Science.Theater.Round.Two-2707873.shtml.
^ ^a ^b "Mike Nelson Interview". Buzzgrinder. 2006-10-fourteen. http://www.buzzgrinder.com/2006/mike-nelson-interview/.
^ Spud, Kevin; Corbett, Bill. (May 13, 2008). RiffTrax Presents: "Saw". RiffTrax. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
^ "RiffTrax Player". RiffTrax. http://shop.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-thespian . Retrieved on 2007-11-10.
^ "'Route House' -- it's the cheesiest, book says". CNN.com. 2000-08-16. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/08/16/cheesymovies.roadhouse.ap/index.html.
^ "OnDemand FAQ". RiffTrax. http://shop.rifftrax.com/ondemand-faq . Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
^ "On Demand Catalogue". RiffTrax. http://shop.rifftrax.com/ondemand . Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
^ "Forbidden Zone - VOD". RiffTrax. July fourteen, 2008. http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/forbidden-zone-vod . Retrieved on 2008-07-17.

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Mike Nelson's RiffTrax

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Media

Episodes · Video releases · The Moving picture · Net series

In-universe

Satellite of Dearest coiffure	Joel Robinson · Mike Nelson · Crow T. Robot · Tom Servo · Gypsy · Cambot · Magic Vox · nanites

"The Mads"	Dr. Clayton Forrester · Dr. Laurence Erhardt · Television's Frank · Pearl Forrester · Professor Bobo · Observer

Minor characters	Jack Perkins · Dr. Peanut

Mads' hideouts	Gizmonic Establish · Deep 13 · Castle Forrester

Cast (All-time Brains)

Trace Beaulieu · Patrick Brantseg · Paul Chaplin · Frank Conniff · Bill Corbett · Joel Hodgson · Jim Mallon · Kevin White potato · Bridget Jones Nelson · Michael J. Nelson · Mary Jo Pehl · J. Elvis Weinstein