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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 31, 2014 0:32:23 GMT -5
I was scurrying out cause he was scurrying out. I wasn't really embarrassed, just more "Holy shit, he is leaving me here, RUNNNN". As I said, it's more of a fun experience than it is an embarrassing one. A lot like when he talked to the dog in the moving car, or when we were talking to the chick at Wal Mart about face-nylons. All of our movies have been like that. Part of the reason making movies is so fun.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 31, 2014 1:14:41 GMT -5
I have to agree. Most of the things we shoot are completely unscripted. It's just "ok, be here, look at this thing... and action!" And then it's Justin keeping me in frame while I basically be a personality of myself. I have like ten personalities that I embrace DAILY. They all have names:
1. Roger
2. Siggy
3. Percival (the puff puff train)
4. Lionel (the scholarly lion... which I've embraced and make AWFUL lion jokes - originally a character developed by Justin)
5. Terrence (Lisp Guy)
6. Herman (A douchie valley-girl type character who named himself herman because he is her man.)
I guess there's only six currently. And about once a week, in bed, when my fiancée and I are nearing sleep, I will literally create an argument with punchline after punchline of these people talking to each other. She HATES the fuck out of Percival, so it's always him accusing her of "going off track/rails" and make him feel like "a crazy train" and then praising Ozzy Osborne.
All of this shit is present every time Justin and I hang out/film. We look at something, say "what's funny with this?" and then we find it, shoot it (or not if a camera isn't on us) and continue on.
Hell, we thought it would be funny to constantly fail at passing a tractor trailer as we continued to admire its artwork on the side until we nearly caused a collision with a vehicle in the oncoming lane.
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 31, 2014 3:30:11 GMT -5
I have to agree. Most of the things we shoot are completely unscripted. It's just "ok, be here, look at this thing... and action!" And then it's Justin keeping me in frame while I basically be a personality of myself. To be fair, this is a pretty small/medium-sized exaggeration. 1. Most of our films start with a core idea. Attached to this, we usually want to make sure we have 1 or two jokes or scenes that make at least one of us laugh out loud. (We do more of this now that Mike lives in the middle of Boares' arse and we only have a weekend to complete a project) - In Jimmy Sparkles, the core idea/initial joke was an idea of someone searching for a missing boy and using something the boy likes surrounded by mouse traps to catch the boy. - In The Legend of the Crippled Irishman, we came up with the title and contrived the entire plot backwards to make it fit the title we liked. Plus, we knew Roger searching for shit made things funny and easy the first time. 2. From there, we develop general scenes, and again, make sure they have a very general direction so the film has a direction, and scout locations. Sometimes we find the locations, then work the scene into it.- In Jimmy Sparkles, we wanted an interview with the boys parents to express how little of a fuck they gave about this missing boy. The comic goal there was obvious, but plot-wise, we wanted a reason for Roger to be searching for this boy, and the fact no one else was was amusing enough that we went with it. - In Crippled Irishman, we went to a church, saw a cow, and interviewed the cow, cause why the fuck not? We also interviewed a dog in a moving car, and my friend who was told to remain motionless the entire time. 3. We walk around, and come up with ideas on the fly, usually having a general "we want to accomplish this" feel. This is where most of the improv comes from.- In Crippled Irishman we wanted to do a lot of location stuff, with lots of locations, so we started grabbing ludicrous places, filming them, and saying "There are ghosts in there", because Roger is stupid. - Also in Crippled Irishman, we had someone ask to be in the movie. So we said sure, and made up his scene on the fly, the the goal of accomplishing him in the movie and it being funny.  4. We struggle for an ending.- After everything is hilarious and finished, we realize, "Fuck, we have no ending for this thing". Then we usually throw shitty ideas back and forth until we come up with something good (Crippled Irishman), or something that worked better in theory than in practice (Jimmy Sparkles). That's our general Pre-Production/Production process. I do more than just keep Mike in frame, and he does more than just randomly be wacky ol' Mikey. We do definitely have a direct and re-take/re-shoot process (thus standards), and sometimes I/we are pretty picky. I think not mentioning that part would undermine the fact that we do actually take it seriously, even when we are doing stupid slappy-sticky comedies. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 10:26:08 GMT -5
Looks like fun  |
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 31, 2014 13:21:03 GMT -5
Epic fun happy good times rolling type fun. Plus, it's absolutely exhausting and physically and mentally draining, so when you get done, it's very rewarding to watch the finished product.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 31, 2014 16:49:50 GMT -5
True, for instance, The Golfer. As you can see, I do not train regularly. I think I ran a few miles for that one minute film lmao
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 19:34:14 GMT -5
Lol. At my school for gym we have these 3-5K runs that are easy but when you're already tired that shit is like a nightmare.
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 31, 2014 20:22:20 GMT -5
Yes, and we kept having to redo various shots for one reason or another. I think Mike was wondering if I was just making him redo takes to be a prick, but really I wasn't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 20:24:17 GMT -5
Or were you?
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Post by The Rocketmen on Sept 1, 2014 11:08:50 GMT -5
lol it sucks when you have an audience for running. The one location where I run past a sign, we were technically shooting from the side yard of someone's house, and they were staring. Then the one where I run through some grass and a baseball park, there was an important baseball game going on at the field behind us. We bought hot dogs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2014 11:26:02 GMT -5
Ya like when we run our 3-5K runs it is right in public where everybody can see us so you don't wanna stop because you don't want to look fat.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Sept 1, 2014 17:16:58 GMT -5
lol yes, exactly. but when i run back and forth to start over, im exhausted. so then i try to act NOT exhausted, and i look like superman who is having an asthma attack.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2014 17:55:46 GMT -5
At least you run like a normal person |
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Post by The Rocketmen on Sept 1, 2014 18:17:59 GMT -5
That is true. Superman can't run because of horse-back riding incidences.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2014 18:46:24 GMT -5
Ya "horseback riding incidents".
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