hey everybody its norm from tested and one of my favorite things about
comic-con is that movie studios TV studios let fans get up close and
personal with some of the props and costumes and even filming miniatures
that are used to make some of their favorite shows that's great news for
fans of Fox's the Orval that's the science fiction show run by Seth
MacFarlane because here at their Orval experience they've brought tons of
costumes and props and yes even the filming miniature of the Orval itself
here for us to get a close look at we're gonna get close with all these costumes
chat with some of the pro sirs on the show and take a look can see what the
orbitals all about
join I'll bite Jon Cassar the EP and director of some episodes on the orbit
are you and John I'm gonna I'm really good now because I've just walked into
this place and it's it's kind of like my job this is what I do I check the
costumes I check the concept art I check though sorry boards the visual effects
so it's all here for people to see it's fantastic it's like the world building
that you do on the show against the walls for the fans to see the final
products and some of them actually using some concept the art is really
interesting because you'll be able to look at the art and go oh look it
started like that but then it look different in the show so you'll see the
progression so the progression some I want to talk about the Orval now Seth is
a well-known science-fiction fan he loves like a certain era of science
fiction is that what you guys were going for the design of the look and feel the
show I came in I came in the first year only did one episode and I was brought
in by Brandon Braga who is not only a producer and writer on Star Trek but
also on 24 and that's where we met and he said look we're looking for directors
and then I said well isn't it a comedy I heard it's a comedy he said well it's
not really and and we want drama directors who don't want comedy guys oh
okay well that's what I do so I came in for an interview hit it off with
everybody and they hired me to do the one episode and then I came in I
remember doing that episode thinking there's something there's a lot of funny
stuff in here but then the ending was so serious I thought wow totally there's
nothing like this this is really its own its own thing and so and I really
thought this is either gonna be a hit or it's gonna be a massive failure because
it's taking such a chance and of course it did become a hit because what it did
do really well is what Star Trek did at the beginning it told it told those
human stories it told those social issues stories which are really
important and then still had the space and the action and the and the end of
space battles and the new planets and the aliens and all of that but then
wrapped up in the in this kind of bit of a comedy so it was just a really totally
interesting thing and you guys are unafraid of making that connection
because there aren't a lot of shows doing that this day with the bright
interiors it really feels like that the comfort that I remember of watching
next generation and yes not you know that's interesting that you use that
because that's what Seth uses all the time
he said I want the ship to become yeah also has a theory and that theory
is if you're on that ship for like two years of your life it's kind of gonna
look like a cruise ship because it's gonna be comfortable for you you know
you don't want to be walking down dark hallways you want to be locking down
hallways that make you happy and I think that's part of it the part of what he
loved about the original Star Trek it had that feel to it that it was a
comfortable place and he uses that word all the time we want the audience to be
comfortable to come unto our ship and so yes and I mean look we've we've turned
the ship dark sometimes when other aliens take it and whatever happens but
it's all story related but he really he really feels like that it should be a
comfortable space not only to watch but to live in for them for the people that
are on this earth in the sandbox of being a science fiction show allows you
to do all sorts of interesting things with the fancy the creature is that he
can be created that can be effects there's wonderful jobs of the makeup the
prop design is a lot must be a fun place that's right it is undertand challenging
you know the advantage we have which again I give to Seth and his writers is
that we get all the episodes before the season even starts so something like
identity part two with that massive space battle we started working on that
the second we came in to work on the first episode even though that was
episode nine because we knew that it was going to take forever to do that because
it's such a massive space battle so so we have the advantage to get ahead on on
things knowing we have a new planet coming up what's it gonna look like what
are they gonna wear what this is funny but what the chairs are gonna look like
we're always a deal because you've got to figure out what fits that planet and
how it's different than Earth now or how it's the same as Earth one or the other
so we get the script way ahead of time so we get to do that which is really a
benefit for us otherwise we couldn't do this show because as you could see in
the work this is not work you do in seven days or prep this is work that you
do in months leading up to the show and now the
having two seasons under your belt developing the third season the
relationships are more cemented there's history there and as a director a
storyteller what does that allow you do with the characters well it's actually
right from the writing stage right away look what they've done on the show again
which is you know Seth going back to Star Trek is that they keep touching
back on four episodes what he did what identity
was just brilliant the fact that Isaac who we learned to love became our mortal
enemy and and had a whole planet filled with other Isaac's that became the
biggest enemy that you know that the human race is like being challenged on
our show was just brilliant and and no one saw that coming
and so that's the kind of things that you'll our guarantee is I'll have even
though I haven't seen a script yet I know for a fact that they'll he'll keep
touching back to the way we touch back to the krill the way we touch back to
the woman that was a krill and we brought her back like they'll keep doing
that because that's what keeps the world alive you know you're seeing people
you've seen before and stories you've seen before and you keep going back to
them makes it really entertaining for the audience are you seeing it in the
fan base as well the core of a fan base and people cosplaying and doing makeup
so yeah I mean I can't wait this year because last year we were you know we
only had the one season under our belt second season what hadn't started yet
and there were just a handful of people I think that's gonna probably be a
little more this year you know and so that's exciting for us and we love our
fan base they they connect with us we love connecting back with them I think
everybody on the show is constantly giving giving about social and and I
think we've got a new fan base I think we've had our hardcore base from the
beginning but I think after identity I think a lot of people that were sitting
on the fence jumped over the fence and now there are there with us and part of
our fan base and that's exciting to us because we we love that episode and we
knew that episode was gonna be a turning point for us so great to see and all
that passion and labor of love being rewarded with confidence from the
network in the studio and this city here it's a pleasure to meet you
you