Monday, February 9, 2009
What would Zach Braff do?
The first official podcast. Wow this was fun to make and who knew what crazy stuff would happen from when we started shooting it until the end.
But it kills...KILLS me to watch this podcast. Why? Because of the freaking fish eye lens on Dillon's camera. Because of this podcast I learned exactly how NOT to do an interview. And the worst part is, this is where I'm giving the meat of the story, how it all happened! The stuff about my friends, about John, about everything and its so not interesting because I'm slouching, un-enthusiastic, Dillon who shot it got a terrible angle on me and I look 40 pounds heavier. No joke. Wes and I thought about pretending like I got so stressed out I lost a lot of weight due to the film in the next podcast. ha!
Aside from my own vain thoughts on my interview. It really serves as a testimony to the friendship I had with Mallory, Niels, Nathan, Colin, Trevor, Dillon. Because that summer where we hashed out the script was so much fun! All of us would stay up till 4 am playing guitar hero, watching movies, drinking, biking, running around, going to the beach and occasionally working on Happy Holidays. And I think a lot of that spirit made it through into the script. It's sad, many may wonder what happened to the friendship. I wonder sometimes too. People change, and I know I did. But if you can learn to appreciate the times you have with people and truly cherish them...well they're just awesome. And I can never thank these people enough for giving me the strength to do this film.
But maybe the best part of this podcast is the auditions! And of course our drunken filming the night before talking about the auditions. What's great about the auditions, is I barely knew the 5 actors I would get to know and love so dearly. Here you and I get to watch meeting them for the first time!
As we list off the names, it's always funny looking at Brigitte (the blonde) as I say Michael Sasso, because they of course would go out and are still together 3 years later. See Robert actually take a swing at Russell in the auditions which is when I knew he was perfect for the part. And of course to top it all off, we also realized that I shouldn't act out traumatic things that happen. Ever.
But if you can gather anything from this podcast, is that we were learning as we were going. Testing out stuff, and because of this podcast we learned a lot about what to do, what not to do. It was as shakey as we felt, but we were just a bunch of kids with a big idea about doing a movie. Somewhat committed, but mostly just thought it was fun. It wasn't until the next podcast that we realized just how much we wanted to make this, and how much we'd have to sacrifice to do it.
Finding the Story - Podcast #1
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February 11, 2009 5:07 PM ,
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This is awesome! I think this podcast looks perfect!
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