This is a short film I shot during a week of downtime almost 4 years ago. It was during the dark, horrible bankruptcy sphincter days at Big Idea. I had just read Robert Rodriguez's book, "Rebel Without a Crew" and talked my fellow artists into acting in a little adventure. We shot it in and around the Yorktown Mall in Lombard, Illinois. I wrote it as we were shooting it. It was a lot of fun and a great diversion.
Make sure you watch it all the way through to the end of the credits.
The cast is pretty much everyone who was left in the studio after all the layoffs. Brian Roberts didn't want to be in the movie, but he was help quite a bit behind the camera.
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That's great! It's like one of Bruce Block's excercises. Lots of fun.
Thanx Eddie!
I should add a little more production information for the curious. Even though I shout this nearly 3 yers ago, I didn't finish it until last year. I had almost completed the edit within a week of shooting, but I started having technical troubles with the audio. Then my computer crashed and I lost all my digitized footage. By that time the other equipment I needed to re-download the video was either busy or repossessed. So everything got put on the back burner. It wasn't until after we moved to TN, that I found the DV tapes and was able to digitized the raw footage again and try and remember how I edited it the first time.
Very cool. Very very cool. Very very very cool.
I miss you guys...
Good flick, Tim. I actually did a short with almost the exact same premise a few months ago. Not as developed as yours, but that's why they pay you the big bucks. Mine was an excercise for a video class at school.
By the way, what's this I hear about Veggies on NBC this fall?
~Randy
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Not as developed? Man, mine was totally on the fly. I didn't even work in the inhaler angle until Andy had to take a break from all his runnning and take a dose for real. I thought, "Hey! let's throw that into the mix!"
Can you believe I started without the key element that makes the whole thing work?
I just wish I had figured out a way to work in the Hula girl at the end since I opened on her.
Yeah, we're gonna be broadcasted. Check out the full story at www.bigidea.com
We signed a deal to get Veggietales, 3-2-1 Penguins, and the LarryBoy cartoon series on NBC, Telemundo & Ion. On the downside, NBC content standards for the "educational" time slot required us to take out all the God references. Plus we had to make room for commercials and such.
So tune in and watch your favorite shows, but not quite like you remember them from the DVDs on your shelf.
Yeah, mine had to be done in-camera, so no editing, no music, and only 1 minute long, in about two hours. We had a large number of restrictions on where we could shoot at the school, but we couldn't take the equipment off-campus, and...
Let's just say that it's not by any stretch the best video I've ever done.
Here's a better one.
http://drawinglife.com/videopage.htm
Thanks for the info on my other question as well.
~Randy
Yeah, my son (and classmates) did an in-camera video last a couple of years ago for a school project. They actually did manage some music by playing a CD off camera while the scene was being acted.
chuck vollmer was AWESOME in that!!!!
That was great, a chase scene worthy of the "Apocalypto" chase scene, all the chaser in your video needed was a Mayan costume. What a great hilarious twist at the end....I'm still laughing at it and I saw it about 15 min ago....
made me want to go for a mall-walk *sniff*
I felt a little cheated that una mas didn't get any screen time. Surely they would have sponsored a little product placement!
Free elCheapos for life?
I was dodging Mall Security as it was!
(Not that it was difficult)
Man! and elCheapo sounds good!
- T
I am late with my comment, but this was sooooo funny! I have a 4 yr old and an 8 yr old, and I am constantly hearing "you're it"...followed by assorted grunts, bumps and falling noises. Boys will be boys, huh?
It was a lot of fun to watch, Tim.
Great video by the way. I just found your blog and saw that big idea was making another film about the pirates who don't do anything, Thats great! But one question, What happend to the bob and larry movie? Wasn't that the next veggie tales movie?
At the time of the bankruptcy/buyout almost three years ago, Phil had written two scripts. Yes, the Bob & Larry Movie was to be the follow up feature, and was in preproduction. There are boxloads of storyboards and visual development currently in storage. But Phil had also writen a little 75 minute Direct to Video featurette (The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything). The thinking was that we could do this low budget video on the heels of the popularity of their appearance in Jonah and get it out before B&L. But financial woes put a halt to everything.
Now that we are pretty solvent again, and in the market to produce another theatrical feature, the choice was made to move ahead with the Pirate script first. Frankly, it was in a lot better condition than B&L (That's all I will say about that). Pirates is still a low budget film, but it's almost twice what we were planning on spending back in 2003.
Thanks. I can't wait for the pirates!
Spring 2008!
Thanks again.
i love your craziness. dont ever change. lol
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