Yeah, the text intros are really long. It wasn't part of the joke. I just wanted the text to animate on and off to the melody, and I picked a really slow melody. Some people thought the "before" scenes (without the eye of tiger music) were boring and tedious, but that was the point.

I shot the film on DV and everything had the cold crisp video look. I wanted a warmer film-look. To create that look, I used a lot of adjustment layers. First I played with the levels of the actual quicktime. (crushing the red values so there are blue shadows)

On top of that, I created an adjustment layer and applied Gaussian Blur to it. (I blurred it to the point where you can't see any lines or details) Then I made the opacity of the adjustment layer 40%

Then I created another adjustment layer and placed the Noise filter. About 1-5%

Then I used a black solid and masked out the middle and feathered for the vignette.

Then I used stock footage of dust/scratches and set to Overlay and opacity down to 80%

Rendered out at 24fps to mimic the film frame rate. (youtube and playable DVDs will convert it back to 30 fps, but it will still play less smoothly than regular 30fps DV footage - which is the effect i wanted)

Hope that helps.