“Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday!”

Growing up, some of the most exciting commercials I remember were for monster truck rallies. A booming announcer would shout “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!” over roaring engines and music, making it sound as though missing the event would be a terrible personal decision.

Government meetings usually take a different approach.

I attend a lot of them, and while the subjects matter, I understand why people might find hours of reports, documents, and agenda items a little difficult to get excited about. Late one evening, I wondered what would happen if I gave a Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting the monster truck treatment.

Five supervisors. One agenda.

Questions will be asked.

And the reports… will be reported.

That became “Extreme Supervision,” a parody commercial made from footage of the October 6, 2026 meeting.

It Started with a Question About Software

Earlier, a friend had asked for recommendations for video editing software. A few people mentioned Canva, and I started writing a response about the tools I use.

For relatively simple editing, I mentioned iMovie and CapCut. For custom jobs, I sometimes write scripts around FFmpeg. I also brought up Adobe Premiere Pro, although I am not particularly enthusiastic about expensive subscriptions and restrictive contracts, and DaVinci Resolve as an option with a free version.

Then there was FilmCraft, which I had been seeing on social media alongside the other ArtCraft applications. The project describes itself as an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of the Premiere Pro workflow, rather than a port of Adobe’s code. GitHub

I could have kept going with software I had used in the past, including Sony Vegas and Windows Movie Maker, but the comment was already becoming an essay.

Later that evening, I ended up making a video that used several tools from my own list. Apparently, writing about video editing was not enough. I needed homework.

Finding an Announcer Who Would Stop Singing

I had some phrases in mind, but I am not a radio announcer. I needed a voice with that particular combination of gravel, excitement, ridiculous emphasis, and the conviction that citizen appointments were about to change your life.

I often use Google Flow Music, formerly ProducerAI, so I tried generating the audio there. blog.google

The difficulty was that I wanted a spoken commercial from a platform built around making songs. I tried prompt after prompt to describe the announcer’s voice and delivery. Sometimes I got closer. Sometimes I got a song. It also had problems where it would pronounce words funny, like “Reports” would sound like “Reportez.”

A small change could send the whole thing in another direction. I was trying to get the speed, enunciation, excitement, and pauses right, and a version that handled one phrase well might completely miss another.

Eventually, I had several candidates that were not good enough on their own. Together, however, they had enough useful pieces to build the commercial.

There were also a few surprises. One track began with something resembling an explosion before the music started. Another decided to advise people to bring a sweater in case they got cold in the annex.

I had wanted it to tell people to silence their mobile phones.

Apparently, the AI had concerns about the thermostat.

Building the Audio from Parts

The useful feature here was the ability to download separated audio tracks, commonly called stems. The downloads I used had four parts: vocals, drums, bass, and “other.” In these tracks, “other” was largely the guitar riff or melody.

That let me use the guitar, bass, and drums from one candidate while taking the vocals from two others.

In Audacity, I cut the vocals into smaller phrases and rearranged them. I shortened the gaps to get the fast delivery I wanted, while leaving the pauses that made the jokes work.

“And the reports…”

A pause.

“Will be reported.”

There is only so much urgency you can attach to a report before it becomes funny.

The finished announcer was assembled from several generations. The AI gave me material to work with; choosing the pieces, timing them, and making them fit was still an editing job.

Nearly Four Hours of Source Footage

With the audio taking shape, I opened the meeting recording in iMovie: a 3.5 GB video containing three hours and 47 minutes of footage that I needed to reduce to 45 seconds.

I started looking for clips of myself speaking and close-ups of each supervisor. I wanted moments with a little movement or expression, rather than shots where everyone was mostly still and reading documents.

I also exported a frame of each supervisor and assembled a transparent PNG in a 16:9 layout. All five were evenly spaced across the screen in the same relative order as their seats. I added borders and drop shadows, with enough transparent space around the portraits to make placement easier.

For the line about moving to the next agenda item, I found a useful moment with the VDOT representative. He stepped to the side to hear a supervisor repeat a question. In the parody’s sequence, that movement worked visually as though he were about to leave, only for the meeting to have one more thing to discuss.

That was the fun of looking through the footage: ordinary movements could become surprisingly dramatic with the right narration and timing.

Making the Paperwork Exciting

Of course, an extreme government meeting needed supporting documentation.

I wanted an agenda page to begin tiny and then zoom up to fill the screen. In the iMovie setup I was using, I could not get the zoom to pull back beyond the image’s boundaries. I settled for starting slightly zoomed into the document and then pulling out as far as the controls allowed.

Later, I realized that picture-in-picture could have helped me achieve the original idea. By then, I had become comfortable with the version I had made. Throughout the whole process, I didn’t know how the final video would appear. Most of it was experimentation.

I also wanted something like a spinning newspaper effect, but I could not find a way to freely rotate the overlay in iMovie. The rotation controls I was working with moved in 90-degree steps, which did not give me the animation I had imagined.

Getting a single agenda page into the project was straightforward. I opened the PDF in GIMP and imported the page I wanted.

The “supporting documentation” sequence needed a little more spectacle.

The meeting packet had 85 pages, which is fairly manageable compared with some meetings involving public hearings. I considered exporting every page and animating a stack that spread into a mess, but that sounded tedious for a quick joke.

Instead, I decided to turn the packet into one very long image and scroll through it.

A 55,088-Pixel-Tall Stack of Paper

I found ImagesTool’s PDF-to-long-image tool, which could convert the pages and stitch them together.

The result was a roughly 12 MB image measuring 500 by 55,088 pixels. Wider output was available, but I was after the visual effect of an enormous amount of paperwork, rather than something viewers could stop and read.

I expanded the canvas to 1,024 pixels wide and centered the pages, leaving transparent space on either side so the meeting footage would remain visible behind them.

Adding the Ridiculous Titles

I used ChatGPT to generate transparent text graphics with oversized lettering, metallic edges, and flames. The idea was to make routine county business look worthy of an arena announcer.

The opening got three versions of “Tuesday,” so each repetition could have its own appearance. Other phrases became separate overlays, including “One Agenda,” “Supporting Documentation,” and “One More Thing!”

“Reports…” and “Will Be Reported!” were separate graphics so the visual punchline could follow the announcer’s pause.

At the end, the reminder to silence your phone blinks on the screen. That was simply the same image repeated as separate clips, each fading in and out.

I added transitions between the video clips, experimenting with different ones while keeping a consistent transition through the sequence of the four remaining supervisors.

Then I ran into the layering problem.

In the arrangement I was using, iMovie did not give me all the simultaneous image overlays I wanted. “Warren County Board of Supervisors” and “Extreme Supervision” were separate graphics, and I needed them to appear together. The supervisor image and the “One More Thing!” titles moving around created similar problems.

My workaround was to export the movie, import that finished video into a new project, and add another layer. I repeated the process when I needed one more overlay.

It worked, although it certainly made me appreciate why more advanced editors have multiple video tracks.

The Final Round of Effects

Once the sequence was assembled, I moved it into CapCut.

Many of CapCut’s effects are behind a paywall, but I could still use enough of the free ones for this project. I often think those effects help separate a slideshow from a glorified slideshow: they can add movement and energy to an otherwise still image. That’s how I got The Bard of Bizarre video for Time is a Flat Liar to look much better on the second round and feel more like a story rather than still images. The other part of the magic is to use short clips to keep from breaking the immersion as the mind starts to process mistakes and unfamiliar things if you pause too long.

I split the video around the places where I wanted effects, particularly the different appearances of “Tuesday,” and applied them to those sections.

The unexpected explosion at the beginning turned out to be useful. It gave me the perfect place for an effect that made the screen rumble.

The video below shows the edit progressing through successive iMovie exports as I added each overlay layer, followed by the final CapCut effects. Throughout, the original meeting audio plays instead of the commercial soundtrack. Hearing routine agenda changes, reports, and a motion to adjourn underneath the dramatic graphics makes the transformation even funnier – and shows just how much the announcer, music, and timing contributed to the finished parody.

After all the audio cutting, document scrolling, title graphics, exports, and effects, I finally had my government-meeting commercial.

I posted it, and the laughs started coming in.

“Extreme Supervision” began as a late-night idea after a conversation about editing software. Making it involved a patchwork of AI-generated audio, manual editing, transparent images, and a few workarounds that were good enough to get the joke onto the screen.

A board meeting already has a cast, dialogue, suspense, and plenty of supporting documentation.

I just added the guitar riff.