Mario Party 3 in tha Hood

Ok I'll first admit...

I've been drinking... So don't take anything to heart. That's a lie, take in everything my friends. What's that you ask? What am I doing? Oh Well have my Ipod on shuffle and I'm currently playing Mario Party 3. Yes Mario Party 3. I bought it at Cash Converters for 30 dollars.

Fuck, when this shit came out in the year 2000 it was like 60 dollars. and like 3 years later I wanted a PS2 I sold it for 8 bucks. Yes, I'm looking at the receipt, Eight Dollars. WHY SO MUCH TO BUY IT BACK??? Apparently it's a rare N64 game to find... Shit, hold on I've got a Mini Game...

Sick I won.

You know when GoldenEye came out, that shit was TIGHT. Except for that one level where you gotta protect that Bitch from those Communist Fucks in that Level that involves Boris and shit. You know the one I'm talking about. What the fuck was with that. Shit son, to this day I can't beat it. I of course blame this on Quantum of Solace. I don't know why, I'm drunk and it makes sense to ramble about it's shittyness. From the first car chase scene, I knew it was gunna be shitty. What the Tits? I know the Bourne series was pretty cool, but why copy it? I want to kill the editor.

Any way I sold GoldenEye (the best Video game ever) for 5 cents. I'm not kidding you folks. 5 god Damn cents. Shiiiiiit son. And it was 20 dollars to buy back in 2008.

I like Rum and Coke.

It's funny how today day's junk can be the future's gold.

I sometimes wonder how today's stuff will look in the future. For example I saw Avatar opening day. In 3d! That blew my neck off my face! And fuck the critics who was the visuals where good but it lacked story. FUCKING JAMES CAMERON. ALIENS, T1, T2, ABYSS .. TITANIC (best edited movie ever)

Anyhoo the story was sweet, and you know what. When I go to the movies. I go to be entertained. I want to see Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Dirty Harry, Etc. Kick ass'ness. I don't go to the theaters to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (great film in it's own rights), I go to see Big Films on the Big Screen. All the others can be watched on your tv or laptop. And Avatar Eternally Blew my Mind.

It's Funny, 3d used to be gimmicky. But Avatar makes it... Real. In every sense.

So in 10 years, 20, 50. How will we look upon it? Or by that time will we be already visiting other worlds? I know, you probably think I'm nuts. But they plan on having humans walk on other planets before 2030 (Mars).
And Voyage I and Voyage II have left the fucking Solar System! God Bless you Carl Sagan. Hmm god bless you Carl Sagan... That doesn't sound right. Laugh Out Loud.
How about this. Thank you Carl Sagan. Yes that should do.

Shit another Mini Game, hold up...

Damn I'm good, take that Donkey Kong, Mario, and Yoshi.

The funny thing, when I started this rant I wanted to segway over to how my ex was fucked in the head... Which one? BOTH! ahh Fuck it I'll rant about them later.

Yes I just won a star... Take that N64!

That's pretty much it... just let me reread what I wrote for grammmaticallyer erroerz.

Ya seems to be good enough to my goldenEYES. HAHA YEA! PUN or Play on words... I'm not really sure right now.

Anyhoo,

Stay White... I mean classy.

-Bryan

PS for the racial joke above... well Braz always tells me to stay Black so... Like what's the difference right? Besides 200 years of oppression.

What the Film?

Bad title, I know... I've never been good at title making. Like my critically acclaimed film Noir film... "Cop does some fucked up shit, and there a hot bitch there".

Anyhow,

I've (bryan) finished up the "That's what she said" skit. Which is out now on the old 'Tube page. It is about some guy named Bryan, who says "that's what she said" too much and his friends tell him to shut up. Bryan's mum picks up him and his friends. All the while his mum keeps on making unintentional sexual innuendos. And it's Bryan's struggle to not say that's what she said. and then there's a twist, and boom credits. END.

There, I just saved you 2 minutes and 46 seconds from wasting you life away!

But really, it's quite good.

How it all began? After Bye Bye Braz Braz I wanted to get another skit out quickly! So I decided to do Aaron's script. Aaron wrote this script and never intending it to be filmed. I liked it though. The problem was, we didn't have any actors, let alone good ones.

So, being desperate, I called up my ex (I was then kinda friends with her at that time). The week before she was crying about some bullshit about me getting other girls to act (ya maybe because they can actually act). God I hate her so much, I just want to punch her in her Fake Fucking Feminist Face.
So she's all excited that I let her do this. And of course the morning of the shoot I have to go pick up her lazy nasty ass. And what do you know. She was sleeping. I hate her so much. I wish she never woke up.

But 30 mins. later I get a call from her to pick her up (this is after I drove to get her, waited outside for 15 mins., drove back home). So I finally pick her up and she's mad at me for being upset at her. WTFUCK seriously?
I wish Verne Troyer could get really drunk and then piss on her. Bitch.

Stuart and Aaron are waiting for me back at my house. I was embarrassed.
So we go to location and it goes smoothly. My Mum had read the script before and agreed to do it (oh ya PS, my mum is acting in it too). Then when we start shooting her parts she wanted to back out. Thankfully she stayed. It was uncomfortable for me and her. But I thought, the comedy needed to be done.

Now that it's edited, she didn't wanted it posted and all this BS. I just agreed that I wouldn't send it to anyone she knows.

Kinda suck, I usually whore out all my work. But I didn't this time. And in a week I got 210 views. That ain't too bad I suppose!

So recap. Shot a skit to keep the flow going with Bye Bye Braz Braz... 3 months later this skit comes out, Mum doesn't want it up, do it anyways. And somewhere in there I want my Ex shipped in a 4 x 4 crate to Easter Island... They have cannibals there right?

Stay Classy folks,
Yours,
Bryan Brooks

here's the skit if you haven't seen it yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYX4iwItS0k

Cheers.

Back to being us again...

Dear listeners.

Aaron and myself have made it through the wretched blazing depths of the deepest volcano. Through ice and fire, tears and much consumed alcohol... We are finished. We have completed a 2 month long writing/prepping/building/acting/lighting/directing/shooting/editing/promoting, Process.

I speak of the damned Scene Card Commercial Contest for Cineplex Theaters. I wish I could tell you every single moment of Aaron and myself paying attention to the finest of details of this whole project. But that would be a works of a novelist. I wish I can tell you how bad I personally felt when I "spammed" the facebook world with our version of the cineplex commercial. But that would be a works of a Liar.

I'm more or less lost for words. I don't know what to say. perhaps?

Kaboom boom Shakalaka?

Yes, indeed.

It frustrates me to see all these other commercials doing so much better than ours. When ours looked better, acted better, and were edited better.

We did two amazing commercials (both finalized in the top 10 out of like 200) I did a cop scene sketch. And Aaron made a absolutely brilliant 1950's sitcom parody starring myself Aaron and the beautiful Holly Hunter.

Well I don't know folks, thats on my mind. just a couple more things, Kate also did a fabulous job acting, and Stuart Gummer, as always, gives 110% by far the most determined great spirited persons I've know. I think it's safe to say that he is officially in FOTF.

Lastly thank you everyone who voted and voted and vote. I owe you all a round of brews and wine!

Cheers,
now back to just makin' skits

Props to props

I don't think Aaron or myself (Bryan) really have much interest in Set Design. But the last week we've been building these giant props for a commercial we're doing for the Cineplex Scene Cards and it's been a lot of fun. So Aaron and I are hacking away at that.

I've learned a lot about paint though. I've never painted before and now you'd think I'm a pro at it!

Now I need to use my high school math again to measure different stuff. I promised myself I wouldn't use math ever again after I failed it on 2 occasions in High School... *Shutters* But using my brain in a different way is exciting for me.

So we're going to shoot this next week hopefully!

HOWEVER... we don't have a good camera, my Final Cut Pro (editing program) doesn't work on my Mac. Aaron's Mac DOES have a working version of FCP... BUT it doesn't have a Fire Wire port to connect the camera to... (thus making it impossible to put the video on the computer, thus meaning we can't edit it)... How are we going to edit this?!

That's on my mind right now...

Yours,

-Bry

FOTF - The next step!

Last week, we watch our first video that Aaron Mike Mikey G. and myself (bryan) made (5 years ago) Called "BAMM".
I remember when that first came out and how AMAZING we all thought it was. BAMM was just a series of cheesy skits with nonsensical plots, edited and shot so budgetly. And half of the movie was the bloopers.
We all laughed at how bad it was. Yet we were all amazed on what we did.
We were about 15 when we did it and just eager to film, to do something creative with our friends. And we had something to show for it.
Now it's just memories; more over, now it's a reference point. We can see how far we've come from.

I wonder, in another 5 years will we look back at the stuff we're doing and laugh at it? I hope not, I hope our stuff now can be laughed at in the future for comedic purposes and not laughed at because of it's B-film quality.

Or maybe I do wish for it to be laughable at it's cheesyness (if there is any). If we can grow again as much as we have from BAMM to now, we'll be in the big leagues by then!

Either way I'm very content with how our progress has come along. I mean, Bye Bye Braz Braz is getting 20 views a day. In viral video terms, that's not a whole lot!
But perhaps if you can visualize 20 different people a day watching your video across the globe, you can see my joy in 20 views each day!

Until more news or different thoughts,

Yours,

Bryan Brooks

Fresh off the Wikipedia Pages and onto your computer screen

Dear Readers, Watchers, and avid Bird enthusiast.

We found a Wikipedia article about us (FOTF). It was quite accurate to the truth. We were flattered that it was on there.
Unfortunately those Wiccans over at Wikipedia took it down, as they deem it as "Not valuable".
Those Dinks. Oh well, just a fun fact about us we guess we wanted to share. We had our day of fame on Wikipedia.

Til Next Time,
Don't do something we wouldn't do.

FOTF

Fresh off the Gratitude

Hey Internet,

Aaron "Subsaharan" Rajan here. How have you been? You look plump with a fine balance of actual information and seedy adult content. But I digress...

The last few weeks have been quite exciting for us at the "Fresh off the Film" labs. It's an interesting business, this film industry innit? It really has it's ups and downs, but as with many things in life, it's important to realize when you're on the upswing. And I would definitely say we're on the upswing.

Our first chunk of good fortune has come in the shape our latest video, "Bye Bye Braz Braz." Not only have we been lucky enough for it to have reached over 800 views in its first week and a bit, we've most importantly created something that we really enjoy. While we're definitely keen to have people watch our stuff, we've realized that our best work is the stuff we genuinely like, and without a doubt, "Bye Bye Braz Braz" surely meets that criteria. At that same token, we're really appreciative of everyone that's watched it and who will continue to watch our flicks as we develop into solid filmmakers.

The next tidbit is regarding the last skit we just shot this week. This is our first production in which we actually used extras and characters outside the "Fresh off the Film" world. It's a quirky piece that takes place in a group sex etiquette class. That's right, there is etiquette to a body-party. While we were shooting, we had a rendez-vous with the boys in blue. Let's just say, there was a half naked man in a trench coat, which is never easy to explain. Bryan "Charbroiled" Brooks will be taking the reins on editing this one, which means it's gonna be good. Real good. So stay tuned.

A friend of the family, Mike Koncan, is setting up a variety show at Ryerson called "Friday Night Live." It is an SNL-type show featuring the work from students in my program, Radio and Television Arts. He's been kind enough to ask that we submit our skits and create new ones to work as fillers and commercials. This will be shown over campus, online and (fingers crossed) could be nominated for an award in the RTA program come next May.

Cineplex has a competition to create 15 second commercials featuring their "Scene Card." Bryan and I have been brainstorming and we've come up with 12 creative ideas for commercials. We'll need your help, Internet, to win this and you haven't failed us before (not counting being "Rick Rolled" weekly).

That's all for this week. There is going to be a plethora of new skits and shorts in the months to come and we hope you'll be there to watch them.

Yours,

Aaron

Man oh Man!

Aaron "Taj Mahal" Rajan and I just got back from shooting the next skit "Group Lessons" Which is about a teacher teaching night school for proper Etiquette in a Orgy.
All joking aside. I'm scared.

Well, I'll tell you from the start.
Aaron "The Wife Fucker" Rajan shitted out 4 short scripts in one night. Due to extreme exhaustion. They all turned out to be Hilarious.

Months later we shoot one of them called The Mustache skit. Which did well for itself.
Aaron "Sheba" Rajan and I have many skits written, or just the ideas of them. The last one, Bye Bye Braz Braz was just my idea that I mentioned to Aaron over the phone. I said "Imagine a skit were you desert your unwanted pets, but instead of pets, it's Braz!" So we're always doing what we can do to get this ball rolling.

The deal was I was supposed to use an HD camera. But that flopped (that's one thing in filmmaking that I've learned. A mixture of Murphey's Law and to learn to except the worst.)
Then we tried to find some last minute places. I managed to find one! But when shooting we noticed how bad the echo was. Man, I wish it was like the movies where I could just do a montage to get things done fast!

So we get there me, Aaron "The Drunk Tank" Rajan, and 6 other actors. (by the way thank you so much TJ, Holly, Kate, Courtney, Nunu, and Woozle). We act it all out. and then the COPS drop in because they think we're B & E'ing (No, not bacon and eggs like the in last Blog Bn'E, this is Breaking and Entering bn'e).
Well luckily we had 4 beautiful girls there Holly, Kate, Courtney and myself to make them leave!
Anyways we ended up wrapping at a good time.

I really wish we had a proper crew, lights, SOUND, other equipment, etc.
If we did have a proper A.D. we'd know what shots we'd still have to get. I felt like we missed a lot and won't have enough coverage. You see it's easy for me Braz and Aaron "Cop Killer" Rajan to shoot. Because we're not worrying about the well being of others!
So lots of stress with a big group. But I know Aaron "Baron" Rajan and I will make this skit work!

- Bryan

Fresh off the Confession

Dearest reader.

This is Bryan from FOTF. OH Tis hard to really make it big in thy film Biz.
Really, I mean, I know when I wrote "Dear reader", no one is reading this.
Aaron Braz and Myself and beginning to have our doubts about this project.

Insanity is beginning to strike. I know when ever I look into Braz's eyes, he's going to
eat me. For you see, I am the weakest one on this boat and since starvation has set in,
people do strange things.
I woke up this morning and saw that Aaron was pretending to make B + E, or Bacon and
Eggs for all you none school goes. The life vessel is now withering away from all the poo and
sun rays. I'm not quite sure why we needed to keep the poo, why couldn't we have just pooed off the side of the boat. But Aaron and Braz both think this to be unladylike of us.
Save us, SAVE US!

There you guys go,, that's the story-metaphore or Storaphore for all you non school goes, for this week's update, I hope to never do it again. What I was getting at is that the three of us want to get this ball rolling. The Ball being the scripts and the hill being, hmm. I let you folks decipher that one.

Until next time,
Yours, FOTF

Fresh off the High Tech Computer Lab.

According to our Commodore 64, the views for Bye Bye Braz Braz have reached the galatic space number of 700 views within one week! This is our best to current date.

So thank you fellow FOTF'ers (or F'ers for short), who watched it over and over and sent it around to many other friends.If you STILL haven't seen it (lame), or just want to watch it again and comment on it while sending it around; meanwhile, you're subscribing to our youtube page (awesome), here's the Link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVxREdaiRAM

We are wanting to shoot another skit this next week. We need about 8 actors. So if any of you like acting, msg me or Aaron or Braz back with your Name and number. (If in Toronto Area)

-FOTF

Fresh off the Second Draft

Dear Lady Internet,

How is your health? I pray you are doing well and are in good company. Here are some recent updates in the life that I sometimes partake in:

My colleague/friend/brother/M to my S in S&M, Bryan "Corrugated Box" Brooks, and I have of late developed a few new ideas. Morcels of ideas, if you will.

This upcoming weekend, Bryan and myself will be aiding in the shooting of a music video directed by Rodney Dwire. In addition i'll start over her for some reason: we are planning on shooting our next skit. As well, in the week of next, our latest skit "That's What She Said" will be up and running.

Standby, you sultry temptress.

Yours, truly & sincerely,

Aaron "Imma let you finish" Rajan

Fresh off the Blogs

Hello, this is Bryan from FOTF. Aaron and I were talking about making a Blog because we've had like so many fans tell us we needed one (2 fans. It's actually a lot because the amount of fans we have is like, 6 ((3 including me aaron and braz)) SO in the ratio is like 35% of our fans want blogs. So here we go.)

Dear Diary, Captains Log, President's Journal,
Sept. sumthin' or other, 2009

I'm writing in my blog for the first time and don't know what to write.

all the best,

FOTF