New Sketch Filmed! Hardaway MIGHT Be a Ninja?

Hardaway might be a ninja?

Saturday morning, as part of our "One Sketch in, One Sketch Out" iniative, Hardaway Might Be a Ninja? was filmed. We filmed pretty quickly, in about two-three hours and have since edited together a rough cut. It won't be airing soon, but this week "Bonk!" will air, our first sketch on YouTube, thus far.

Ninja/Director has zero tolerance/patience.

Phil wrote the script and I directed it and it stars Hardaway, Mk and Anthony. It's part of our lower-cost-in-our-apartment-playing-ourselves line of sketches, that someday, with bags of money, we'll be free of. But for now, more of the XL1 and iMovie!

Phil. On set. Brooding?

New Sketch Filmed! SQUEEZE.

Oh yeah. Fuck yeah.

Today, bright and early at 9am we began filming "SQUEEZE" by Anthony Herrera, directed by Sean Hardaway and starring Phil and I. Filming went spectacularly as it was nice and cool outside and so not having air-conditioning/the fridge on and having lights on all day was pretty nice. Also, there's a lot of action/dialog/special effects, or at least more than we've done before, so it was nice to get that one going so smooth.


Starting this coming week, We Did It! is going to start airing/onlining one sketch per week now that we have a back log of about six sketches. So, there'll be a little gap between the sketches we film and the sketches that are finished. This is due to the time in editing sound, graphics and adding in special effects in post. The more competent we get, the more sketches will air per week.

Burning calories.

Here's some of our promotional photography! Enjoy!

New Sketch Filmed! Bad!

Anthony, Nick Reed and I got out there today and shot our sketch "Bad." We had only about an hour or two of daylight, so we had to shoot quickly and I didn't have any crew, so I had to get good audio and video just by myself. It was nice to rely on myself for once, and the shots and audio (for the most part) are all good enough, so I'm glad that I didn't mess up huge on anything.

After we had been shooting for about five minutes, a dad and his two sons came on to the basketball court and just started playing. They didn't seem to care that we were filming. Then when we told them we were shooting a sketch comedy show, they said "Awesome!" and then started playing football... On the basketball court. They wouldn't leave and soon a kid from the neighborhood came in and started "bonding" with this family too! It was my mistake, I should've been more prepared with a more private location and a larger window of opportunity (these kids played for the entire hour we were there, I have a hard time running for twenty minutes straight). Needless to say, fuck families.

I had a pretty cool little setup though, what with our AudioTechnica plugged into the GL2 and Hardaway's sweet ass Sony headphones on. I looked like the modern-man, all cyborged out. We got in there and shot for fourty-five minutes and came away with twelve minutes of recorded footage. From that twelve minutes of footage, I cut it down to about a three-and-a-half minute sketch. That means I had about a 1:4 ratio of production time to shot footage and then another 1:4 ratio of shoot footage to footage used. That at the very least was something I was happy about.

One man crew, two man cast, shot for about $40 total ($20 for Gatorade and DV tape, and then $20 on sweatbands, basketballs, and Nick Reed's costume). An hour to shoot and hour to edit (the rough cut at least). I think if I pick my sketches right, I can come away with this kind of product more often. Nick Reed and Anthony work really well together, though, so you just let them run wild and they're consistently hilarious.

After I tidy up the rough cut (some foley and color correction left, but that's about it. These pictures are actually saved frames from the rough cut that I color corrected in Photoshop) I'll post it up here as well as on the We Did It! blog. And then also onto our as-of-yet-created We Did It YouTube Channel!