The latest from my UCB team, The Brig. If there’s one thing I learned from this, it’s that I enjoy writing cheesy awards intros way too much. Keep that in mind, next year’s Oscars producer.
Jon Gutierrez wrote this one, I directed it, Nathan Russell shot and edited it, and Mike Costabile and I did the animation. But the real hero on this shoot was our producer Mackenzie Condon who called every theater in New York City to find us place to shoot after our first theater didn’t work out, and organized getting 16 extras for a 1 second joke at the end.
I wrote it, Matt Mayer directed it and Nathan Russell shot and edited it.
This was an easy concept to pitch but a really difficult one to write (It’s hard to find facts you can state in a single sentence that are depressing, but in context make the commercial’s point of view funny and not just depressing). I did a first draft that was all over the place in terms of tone and approach, and the rest of the team really helped me refine and organize the idea. Also, my favorite line (about marriage) comes courtesy of Crystal Delahanty.
Zack Phillips e-mailed us this idea fully formed and then within about 2 hours Nathan Russell (director) and Matt Mayer (editor) made it. I think it came out fantastic.
I wrote, directed and animated it. Matt Mayer did narration. Zack Phillips was also really helpful during the rewriting process, batting around ideas and forcing me to really figure out what I was going for. Hurray teamwork!
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater recently put together Beta teams to make videos for their UCBcomedy website. I tell you this because I am on one of the teams. Our name is The Brig (we’re on Twitter @TheBrigComedy), and we just uploaded our first video.
Working in a group is a lot of fun. Having 7 other comedy people look at your writing and give feedback really helps to improve scripts. Some of my favorite lines are punch-ups that Jon Gutierrez added.
It also really helps having great performers like Thomas Middleditch and Andrée Vermeulen be in the video and add some improvised lines.
A few years ago, my friend Andy Kennedy and I directed and animated a music video for the song Gifts to the World by his band Sin Destroyers. A lot of people think they know the story of Christmas, but only Sin Destroyers–the world’s Christianest rock band–know what really went down.
The band has since broken up, but since ’tis the season and all, here’s the video:
Movies, Television, The Brig, Video | Adam | 
March 3, 2010 10:34 am | 
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