Pride with Bleach. Filmed this last summer for SuperDeluxe and it never made it to air. I wonder why.
The latest sketch!
animation courtesy of the uncannily talented Mike Parker
Original Message:
From: (Redacted) Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:19 AM
Subject: Filming on “Halo: Crime Scene Investigator”
To: dutchwest at gmail
Hello, I’ve been with DW close to its beginning on the web, and I’ve always liked your filming however in the past few months you have gotten more professional, which is good and bad. However I was wondering if one of you could list an overview of what you used to get that look? I’m an independent film maker and I always like to know how people come up with their desired effects, obviously I don’t expect a tutorial or a how to, was just wondering, would be awesome if you guys could do this, just maybe list what lighting techniques, camera and other equipment used, brief editing techniques, obviously color corrections right? Just a curious party I guess who loves your guys work :D.
Idk if Sam remembers me but a long time ago I had some conversations with him on your forum, handle and name is Marc. We talked about me wanting to get into film and other shorts and stuff, thought it would be cool if by some miracle he remembered, anyways now I’m sounding like a crazy fan =P, thanks in advance any help you can lend.
Dutch West responds with…..
Hey Marc,
Sam Reich here, that old Dutch West guy.
Believe it or not, we shoot all of our material on the Nokia E65. It has a 2 MP camera, which is really all you need for shooting web video. To light, we use the headlights of Josh’s dad’s Jeep Grand Cherokee. To edit, we send the footage over to a witch doctor, who’s responsible for most of that high production value look, although he does demand the occasional sacrifice.
A word of advice: don’t tell someone their work is “good and bad” and then ask them to reveal their secrets. Unless of course you want to be our next sacrifice.
That might now be my favorite quote of all time.
(And as a side note can I just say Im so glad that we have the internet so that we all have a forum to express how much we hate the internet)
(via stokan)
Andy nailed it. Happy Burfday, buddy.
My response to why I don’t blog that often, followed immediately by Sam saying, “Oh my god I’m gonna blog that right now.” And I hope you appreciate the irony of me blogging and reblogging all of this.
“So what did you do today, Elaine?”, “Oh, you know, just pretended to have sex with everyone who works with my boyfriend.”
Highlight of the shoot? Breaking Vinnie’s bed in a 12 guy/ 1 girl pile up.
Digg it. And don’t tell my parents.
You’ve seen where Matt was, now see what his girlfriend was up to.
Made by our talented production team in a single afternoon last Friday.
Digg if you dig, of course.