I start my interview with online sketch comedy duo Alberta Poon and Cara Swift with a question about a shit pile. It appears in the first episode of their web series Scorpiono and—to me—it looks like real dog shit. “My late doggy shit in his little area and I didn’t pick it up for days,” sighs Poon.
“It still wasn’t that much,” Swift adds. “We put a plank over a rock so we could prop it up and we shot it from an angle to make the dog shit look huge.”
“Ever since—” they say in unison.
“The angle of looking up at something—” Swift continues.
“To make it appear monstrous,” Poon cuts in, “has been the Dog Shit Angle!”
“Every videographer that didn’t work on that first episode has to deal with it,” Swift says, before Poon cuts in again.
“We’re like, ‘Y’know. Make it look epic. Dog. Shit. Angle.’”
