October 21, 2008

• Halloween Short – ‘THE TiVO’

  For the past 10 years, Adam Green (the director of “Hatchet”) has filmed a Halloween short for his supporters/family/friends – and it’s garnered quite a cult following since.  This year, he was awesome enough to ask me to come and play.  So I present to you, The TiVO — enjoy!

  I love doing sketch/short stuff like this — used to do it all the time with friends at college.  It also reminded me of the fun times I had shooting “Asia Street Comedy” a few years ago on the now defunct AZN Channel. 

  My favorite parts are all the stuff that they added in postproduction.  Like with the stabbing scene at the end, on that take I had decided to: stab, sob, then start viciously stabbing again — and in post, they added in TiVO noises in between to hint at TiVO being still alive, hence justifying my second wave of stabbings, Paul Solet adding his funny quips in between my phone conversations, syncing TiVO “boops” to its footsteps walking backwards after watching me sleep –  I love collaborative moments like that, where everyone pitches in to elevate the project as a whole.  

  In three weeks I’ll be getting back in the saddle with Adam again to shoot a pilot for XBox Live subscribers playing a cop in “Fairy Tale Police“ with Rachael Leigh Cook as my partner.  It looks to be a darn fun time again.  Pretty sure I’m not supposed to reveal anything but let’s just say we get to pull over a certain Jolly Bearded Man’s sleigh and interrogate some reindeer!

  If you dug the short above, last year’s Halloween short, which I make reference to on the phone in “The TiVO”, you can find here: The Tiffany Problem.  And the short the year before that, here: King in the Box.  Happy Halloween!

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