So now we're back to the zombie attack. We're gonna follow two different
characters this time through the same line of, or I guess, thread of time, but
instead I'm going to simply just talk about the nightmare that happened on
this production. So if you're from the last part of the commentary I explained
that we had just basically gotten caught like we were in this building and we
were actually right around here right around this area and security came in
and they saw Big Mike and he just started helping take stuff to the car.
We were rapping like we just finished the shoot for the night and basically they
were like oh is he supposed to be here is he allowed to be here and I was I had
never said he was but I just always kept saying like everything's fine we're done
making the movie we're just we're gonna be gone in like 20 minutes I was giving
him a ride home because I think at the time he lived with me yeah he did and
basically so instead of calling the cops because they interpreted that as oh
he's allowed to be here so instead they called Peter Romero at like 3 a.m. and oh
my god he was upset he was so upset he had already pulled up every email that
I had had with the people and they even they had already informed me that I
wasn't allowed to bring Big Mike on campus and he had all the documents he
like this guy was just meticulous about his research and basically he was like
telling me that it was gonna affect my production very negatively and so it's
like 3 a.m. I finally get home I was just I would I wouldn't I say to that I
don't even know what I said to that I was just like I was just like everything's
fine nothing happened like everything is okay like nothing happened I don't know
if the big deal is and he was not seeing it in that way so basically I didn't
really get much sleep and then early in the morning I had to go and have this
meeting with them and I and I understood what was happening and they were
basically gonna tell me that I was no longer really allowed to finish my
project I could not finish it because I was not allowed to film on campus I
seen that that was because he this Peter character was the head of the physical
plant and anyways up until this point like I had lost so many fucking locations
on campus because there's a what was the production of Longmire oh my god this
that piss poor show Longmire and they took like they started just expanding
their production and taking more and more and every time they expanded it
happened to be this fucking location that I needed or whatever you know the
next one first it was the barracks where we actually shot it the next after
that Christmas break those were gated up they were with barbed wire like we
couldn't even enter it enter there so I lost that one because of him and then
the next one was gonna be on Yachtay Hall and they and then the Longmire
stretched beyond that and then it was gonna be oh my god I don't even know
but they finally gave me new town hall which was actually really ironically
where all those people worked pretty much that were kind of like in this so at
this meeting so at this meeting I go in and I take this notebook and I like my
whole production notebook and I'm here there to give them a this explain that
at this point we're like 85% done with the production and it's not my project
anymore it's like this is the beat I was like look at how much how many of your
students have worked on this project like look at how much like I was like
really being trying to be sentimental and like I was like look it's really a
big project and you guys should really try and help me make this as as well as
I can't and like Big Mike is not a threat and all that stuff and and they the
amount that they didn't care and I could just tell from the blank stairs they
were given me like what the fuck are you do it was like why are you boring us
with your fucking stupid project like it was so I was so angry I've never been
so angry I don't know if I've ever been so angry in my life like I literally got
up so quick that I knocked over the chair and slammed the door I was I didn't
care I didn't give a shit I was so upset and I couldn't oh man it was oh it it
pissed me off and I remember going to my roommate Tim who was in London or Miss
Things was actually seeing someone in Mutant Hall while I was having this
meeting and I would like swung the door open just interrupted their meeting and
I was just like that I'm so mad and he was just like and I was just I was like
probably to the point of like almost tearing up and so I you know I walked
out and I you know you know I think I even said I'm I just have to kill
someone and basically and they were you know man it was crazy and basically I go
I had to go to work right then so I go to work and I kind of cool down and then
I realized that I'm not going to high school in the Middle East and that they
can't just you know strip my rights oh well what the outcome of essentially the
outcome of the meeting was one I couldn't film on campus anymore and two I
couldn't check out equipment from the campus cage which is essentially what
I was paying for and you know the teachers and the classes but like the
main thing is the fact that I have all this equipment that I can use like how
could the fuck could I make this movie without using any of their equipment
they even said that if anyone gets caught checking out equipment for me that
they are gonna get banned from checking out equipment like they were super
serious about this it was crazy so then I go and I and I'm like wait this is
I'm like unbelievable like they can't just take my rights without any due
process without you know I'm paying their salaries like I like I'm the reason
that they have a job or part of the reason at least you know and like this
is a complete outrage and so I decided to basically retaliate in the same way
that they did very extremely immensely extremely so first thing I did was I
emailed all of them and I said I'm demanding a hearing according to and I
read the student handbook and I was according to the student handbook it
said that I that I the hearing is only legitimate if it includes a member of
all these different groupings like you know it's like all these people and you
know it was like someone from the student government for someone from the
administration someone from a student whatever student life and someone from my
department from the MOV the film department and then I could have my
friends there too and so you know I demanded all this and then I started a
petition which I got signed by like pretty much everyone and then there were
like two kids who didn't who are not okay who were like you shouldn't have done
it because you knew that you weren't allowed to do that or to bring an actor
on to a film set for your film project at your film school I wasn't allowed to
do that so basically then I emailed Lauria okay so Lauria is this big
corporation that owns a bunch of educational you know facilities and you
know they own all these colleges and stuff that they bought us out when the
school closed down anyways long story look up see College of Santa Fe but
basically I emailed everyone at Lauria and I was like this is what's that it
was very upset it was right around the 99% versus 1% rally and I was like this
is you know I'm gonna make it into this and I'm gonna go to the press and I did
all this you know I emailed them this is like so by this point I have a hearing
by this point I have a hearing and this is like I'm literally emailing them like
five hours before the hearing all of this happens over about three days this is
all like the night I get in and like then like literally the day after my
meeting I have my hearing and of course I mean basically I emailed them and I
it's like it's like this is unprofessional I'm trying to make my
movie this is all like they are getting in my way of my education I am paying
good money you need to make sure that this is taken care of ASAP I was and I
was like I am contacting the press right now and I emailed the press like two
hours before my hearing and I told them this whole story and within two hours
they were at my hearing with the rally of students oh my god I've created such
a nightmare for the fucking school I I mean but I was so upset I just couldn't
I couldn't really like just stop making I dedicated so much I mean every day not
every like second of every day I had other classes and I had other stuff but
as much time as basically possible I put to this project but up until this point
and it was just not gonna slip away from me I was about to graduate and
basically the press showed up I go there and I have my hearing which of course
was gonna be like no it was not gonna be legitimate at all and so I would have
been able to delay and continue I mean they'd already shut down my production
they had shut it down like I was not it was not filming in any of this time and
basically they just it was all I had to talk with one of the people that it
wasn't really that wasn't really involved Laura Nunley who was the main
like she was like the head of students whatever and she was out of town this
that week and that's why all this bullshit happened because it probably
wouldn't have happened if she was there and she was just like look like don't
bring him on campus anymore and you know like you can do you have all your
rights back and basically and I didn't see Peter again and he was the one who
was really upset a like he was but her I'm sure that he was just so upset that
I had just defeated him because I mean there was no there it was like I caused
the biggest fucking it was like but I and I I do regret how big of a splash I
made I didn't talk to the press because they had given me all the stuff back the
press did show up but I said I'm sorry they gave me everything I wanted so like
you know the stuff between Big Mike and them is between Big Mike and them and
it's you know it's not really my you know right to step in and make this a big
thing it was a very very big and immense response to what they were doing and I
almost got people fired but I stopped you know pursuing anything like that once
I got what I wanted but it was a good say like message to the student through
the administration that you like yeah you might be able to do this with some
people where you can just take their rights if they you know whatever but
there and so a lot of students will just kind of like burrow I've seen it happen
they'll just like bend over and take it you know I've seen it happen a lot of
students in colleges think that they are part of this you know communistic thing
that because they go to the school they have to listen to all their rules and
stuff and and like they then things like that can happen but there's also the
potential for someone to respond in the way that I did all right and with that
story time coming to its finale now we're done with the show kind of I knew
from the beginning that I wanted to have the credits quote unquote credit
sequence be a sort of vignette of sketches just random ideas that didn't
fit anywhere else and yeah this is the end of the last acting lab I mean this
that we filmed was that part of the acting lab we filmed much later I maybe
this is technically the final sketch that we filmed I don't know if Ariane
but he was really after this so that is Tantric Picasso right there and Matt
Tanner's playing the drums that's my good good friend everyone in that band is
awesome but so basically I guess I'll just go over I mean how I feel it's been
about it's been a four or five years since I started writing the project and
it's been about a year and a month since I officially released it and finished it
you know obviously there are definitely things that could be done done better and
more legitimately but I kind of like the haphazard just what's you know run and
film and you know just throw stuff together and you know have a lot of
good talent and you know like you like this joke right here with the boom mic
coming in that was not in the screenplay and that was just thrown in by Michael
Pep who was actually doing sound there to give you an example of how small the
crew was that time it was probably maybe just me but um so these are all the
people that shot it that meaning they I didn't really touch many cameras on this
production not that I don't like to but I kind of wanted to give someone who
really was into I'm not into filming as much as a lot of film majors I'm more
into the storytelling aspect and editing and stuff so I decided to get a bunch of
people who loved filming and let them just kind of do their whole thing
themselves and you know most of the visuals I had very little to do with so
yeah okay so the main cast I guess is Michael Pep, Leanne Pipin, Garner Jarrett,
Michael Curtis, Talis Geo, Higgin Freifeld aka Talis Rose, Corbin Alba, Maddie
Knox, William Thomas Hodgson and Torian Najaka and but in all about 50 people
helped I would say on this project 50 different students maybe a little more
maybe a little less during the time I was also working on a documentary which
is also available called The Age of the Artist and a lot of these people helped
on that as well so there's the final like purse gag the follow-up the follow
through rather of that joke that happened very very near to the end or to the
beginning and this so for some reason I decided I wanted to write a second episode
during the summer in between writing this episode and the actual production I
didn't write the acting lab segment but I wrote some of the sketches and one
that I actually didn't write but this was gonna be the main sketch I was gonna
kind of like be there are gonna be three different parts of it throughout the
whole episode and it was gonna be Tuesday's journey through personally and
I guess and it was gonna kind of like meet up at the end with the acting lab
somehow and I don't know we I mean we I don't know why I wrote it because I knew
really I knew in my heart that I was never gonna make or not like you know I
mean unless it somehow got really popular which it didn't and I would never
make another sketch show right now not for probably at least half a decade
this song I knew was gonna be the credit song this song is called oh it's
called it's by RJ D2 good times roll part two and I knew from like very early
on that this is gonna be the finale the final the actual credits but I was they
had it was gonna be totally different it was actually gonna be all the school
was gonna be more of a focus and it was gonna be kind of like originally and
it was gonna be kind of like there the all these kids are like you know they
represent this art school and I thought that it was gonna be something that the
school would want to use but due to our current our animosities I mentioned
earlier and all that just all that stuff that blew up they kind of didn't
really want to do have anything to do with me and I kind of didn't want to
put the effort into doing this credit sequence I was gonna go around the whole
school be really like orchestrated everyone was gonna actually be in it
like as their title appears over their face so you know I'm very kind of like
this but in one continuous shot or what would be a slightly continuous shot but
and that zombie that right there was actually Matt Tanner he got a cameo
room really super happy about that I was so stoked that he's in it so yeah I
guess I I mean I what I opted out to do is just kind of edit to this song that
I was so attached to and make just kind of I guess a blooper reel which is I
mean very befitting and probably the better route which is essentially Tim
Enaker the guy in the star of loves enormous wings he kind of convinced me
like just do you like dude you got an hour of footage already the credits you
should just do more of it and have more to look at and yeah there's actually like
this is one of my favorite outtakes it's I actually like made an outtake reel and
this one I laughed so hard it's just like she got so disgusted it's a lot
longer it's I mean I cut oh just took a little bit of that but there's Matt right
there pushing the trash can he actually was able to perform at our house right
I think it was like right after this shoot so that was cool but yeah so I mean
I guess I don't know it's in the end of it and I think I said pretty much what I
wanted to say but we got a couple more minutes I don't know this is you know
it was just it was a really fun project I really tried to embrace allowing as
much input to be put in as possible from as many sources you know a lot of like
this I mean this whole sequence was completely improv like this was not in
script this was just like hey we want to do this and I you know I was just like
sure like you're here for me but I'm also here for you you know like let's do
this and you know if it works it works stuff like this like I would have I
mean I think this stuff's funny but it kind of broke up the you know of this
you know just you know but a lot of it actually made it in there's a lot of
times that I mean if you read the script and tried to line it up with what we
actually filmed it's very similar but a lot of the deeper or kind of more
subtle and more actually sometimes rewarding jokes are just thought of on
the spot because you know my goal was to basically cast a relatively diverse
grouping that I could pick cherry pick from my classmates of you know funny
people and it was fun man this project was really fun and like I don't think
anyone would really look back at this and just say like that was bad or that
was a waste of time or that was like I'm you know everyone learned something I
learned so much on this project and you know I really I really just enjoyed it
and it was my last year of college and it was just really the best way to end
my college career my educational career with just spending great time with all
my close close talented allies and that is the end of what will always be the
end of comedy comma sketch my senior thesis all right thanks for listening
