Entry #60
 
1:20 PM, Tuesday, July 18th, 2000:
 
Man, this Movie Minded shouldn't land on entry 60. Oh well. It's somewhat funny. Introducing pilot #2:
 
MOVIE MINDED
PILOT EPISODE 2 - 6.10.00
"BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE"
 
YouTube link added 02.13.09
 
This actually wasn't the next movie we saw. But it came out before Titan A.E. so it got the number 2 on it. We saw this one for the good of Movie Minded. Neither of us really wanted to see it, but we knew it would suck and that we could balance out our 3 pilots for syndication. Oh yeah, we found out we needed 3 pilots for syndication. Damnit. So more work for no pay, just to meet some testing requirements for I-Syndicate, the syndication company.
 
We filmed both pilot 2 and 3 on the same day, and it was quite a simple set-up. The hard part is always the TVS and the timing, which I film at home. I filmed the TVS in a shower stall. The bathroom is always a great source for light. I enjoyed these tvs. The writing was a lot more fun and smart-assish. We now had the set-up pretty well down. The bottom right tv was a guy we named: "ANAL", and Bottom left was a guy we named "GRUFF" - Basically the first 2 clones from Mutiplicity. The Top Left TV was a character from the movie, and Top Right would simply be words representing my thoughts. I wanted it to be pictures and video representing my thought, but time and money constraints made that impossible. As it is, each 5 minute episode is basically 25 minutes of footage because of the tvs, so we had to just leave top right as words.
 
As you'll be able to tell from the episode, I can't play a black woman for shit. I just yell a bunch. It's pretty comical. This was definitely a step-up humor wise from the first one, and a step in the right direction. A lot more enjoyable than the movie. Heh heh.
 
 
JULY 2000