I absolutely
believe that the amount of hours it takes to make one
Trinitrons show is equal to a full length feature
film. Without a doubt. And I flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy at
post-production stuff. This final go-round however has
gone to an all new level of intricacy and editing.
It's really trying my skills as a director as keeping
tone throughout the 30 minutes is surprisingly
difficult with as many cuts as I have in this show.
I believe when people see this show, they'll have
no doubt why I'll be making films after this. T3 is
now every bit short film as it is live
show.
Cameron is in a
sense the star of this final show. True, G and Spencer
will probably have the most memorable bits, but we
finally see Cameron come into his own in what takes
every moment of the past two shows and the beginning
of this one to see develop. This time however, Cameron
finally loses his shit.
Tiny bit
lost.
Plop....plop.
Here it
comes.
It has
officially been lost.
I've somewhat
bucked the trend from the previous two Cameron entries
that would show variety, but as you'll see from the
video
- that's the story to tell. The other story to tell
I'll get to in just a moment, but first the shoot last
Friday the 25th:
Again, hard to
start. I wonder if every first shot of the day is
like that? It's a pattern I'm noticing especially
since I'm wearing all the hats here. It's just really
difficult to stop the constant prep and say: "Time to
hit record". Once I did however Cameron
fleeeeeeeeeeeeew by. 3 hours and everything was done.
The bits, the song, everything. I was amazed at the
ease. All but 2 of the 9 scenes were done on the first
take and although I did them again to be safe, I
always used the first one. I think that's where
writing it really helps. I've done this a million
times in my head already so I feel the part sooooo
much. Everything else is just the technical timing of
4tvs...which after 5 years of doing it I'm pretty damn
good at. So Cameron was very good, very fun and very
quick...
...then, came,
Mikey.
The story is that
Adam long ago promised his (and Cameron's) brother
"Mikey" that the NEXT band he was in, Mikey could
be in it. Knowing of course it would never happen.
Well it does happen in this show and he begrudgingly
has him replace Cameron when he quits with the rest of
the band. Mikey is the biggest loser on the planet. An
embarassment to the family and in the truest sense of
the cliche: not the sharpest tool in the
shed.
In an effort to
look different than Cameron, even when wearing the
exact same outfit (as all the replacements do) I had
to go all out. I shaved my goatee differently, wore my
clothes inside out and the piece de resistance: the
glasses. At Christmas 1999, my grandmother got me and
my uncle these pop-bottle glasses and I remember at
the time thinking "I gotta save this for a 4tvs
character". The time had finally come and the result?
Whew...
After watching all
the footage, I got a really sinking feeling. It's
funny to laugh at the stupid character. Not so funny
to laugh at someone pushing mentally retarded. My
heart just sank for about 3 hours after the shoot.
A year of trying to write this clean inoffensive
show, struggling over every word and now I'm gonna
look like I'm making fun of retarded people?
GREAAAAAAAAAT. So I made some clips and sent them
to various people online and just about everyone said
I pass for just a big dork.As long as I don't
call him "Slow, retarded, special" I'll be alright.
I'll be very careful on how I introduce him and
already have some ideas on introducing all 3 brothers
with pictures of them together as kids. Gonna be very
funny photoshopping 3 of me at different ages into
pictures. Anyway, it looks like disaster is averted.
But for a moment guys, I really thought I was
screwed. Aside from redoing G, G's replacement,
Cameron and Mikey - there was no turning back.
Whew.
Now that I've
edited all the footage and synced up the audio (as
well as using some great de-noising software) I'm
pretty pumped. This is an extremely complex show that
is coming along perfectly. I now direct all my
attention to finding the Dewey and Spencer
replacements in an effort to shoot during my boss's
vacation in the second week of July. I could of course
do Dewey as early as July 3rd if I have a
replacement, but with everything being so perfect - I
want to be sure I find the right person for the last
two spots.
So if
anyone knows any stoner dudes in their
late teens - early twenties, lemme know.
Otherwise, enjoy the video
and lemme know what you think.
