[TWP08] Fat

This was by far the hardest wonderment for 226 to make. First off, we only had one camera, instead of our usual two. Then I was a bit hungover and Jeff was tired from working on his research. That made it really hard for us to remember our blocking and lines. It took us 30 minutes to get the first shot done (which is the opening shot to the piece). Then once we got to my big speeches, I kept forgetting the exact wording and stumbling all over the place. The only part that was easy was the end which we did 3 times (1 time I forgot where I was then screamed fuck me into the camera…I am thinking of a wonderment call outtakes…too macro?)

Greg Allen did a really nice job writing this one. His original script didn’t have a real opening so I came up with the whole running in matching outfits bit, with some input from jeff. Then Jeff helped tweek the end a bit and that part about Victorian times and modern times is a hybrid of ideas from all three of us. That is my favorite part though! When there are a group of us all trying to make the script better by playing around with the exact wording, making it fit our speech patterns and trying to make it work even better. I love it. I feel that if I was ever a real actor, wriers would hate me because I would change almost every line in order to make it feel more like me…

Anyways, so yeah, we went over an hour to make this one which is why there is no tail time ID. I think it was about an hour 25 minutes. But to be fair, we used none of the footage from the first 25 minutes, so it was still sort of shot in an hour. Also, because we knew we were running long, we just got one take of everything so editing became a breeze because I was like…”well that’s the only take we got. I guess it works!”

I really like the way it looks. I think we are starting to find our “Wonderment” style. It is sort of a dirty form of doc-realism that takes the time to frame stylish shots here and there. As we keep doing these, I feel that that energy and visual structure will grow stronger.

Thanks Greg for the submission. I hope you enjoyed it.

--Bryan