- Y'all are gonna, so the vlog is gonna walk with me.
- [Hallease] Hm?
- Oh, I'm talking to the vlog.
(heavy breathing and laughing)
Some test shots.
(upbeat orchestra music)
- When is the last time I did a straight vlog for y'all?
It's been forever.
Don't get me wrong,
I'm loving the Tryna Be Somebody video podcast,
but I always want to make sure that I'm still getting
the opportunity to just, to just well, be me, here,
on this channel.
Everything has been a whirlwind
since I got the Adobe Creative Residency
back in June of this year,
but I made sure that part of my residency project
was continuing to document my chaotic, good life,
and the process of producing this web series.
(digital static)
Okay.
What up?
So, hey everyone, it's me, Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere, as always.
(whispering) As always.
I am currently in Austin, Texas,
because I am looking at locations today with my producer
for Hardly Working, the five-part comedy web series
that I'm writing with Evelyn from The Internets.
I decided to come to epoch over here,
just to get some work done.
Whenever I come to Austin,
I usually try to drive up like early,
even though I'll usually have something
around like 11:00 AM or so,
I'll just take off from San Antonio at like 7:00 AM,
just to like miss all the traffic.
Austin's only about an hour and a half away
from San Antonio, where I live.
So, we here. I'm about to go location-scout with Grace.
For those of y'all who don't know,
we're going to be filming a,
we're going to be filming the pilot, straight up.
We're going to be filming the pilot.
I've locked in my producer, Grace,
who y'all, some of y'all will probably know and recognize
from another channel.
And then also I've locked in my cinematographer already.
So excited.
I actually used to work with him on Say It Loud,
so I'm excited to just have him, collab with him again,
cause I felt like he just had the right vibe,
you know what I'm saying? He had the right vibe.
Yeah, we got to find a office,
and it's actually been really hard to find an office.
Like, Grace has been giving me so many options,
but then it's like, can they film for,
can we film there for four days in a row?
No, because it's an office, you know?
So, it's been really hard to kind of lock in a spot,
but I think Grace seems pretty excited about this spot,
so hopefully it'll be a fit.
Yep. This looks corporate America-y.
There she is.
- Hi.
(funky piano playing)
- So this is where we're shooting the web series.
Say hi, Hallease.
- Hi
- And, so we're on location, doing some test shots
for the director, because we have a director
- [Hallease] And a cinematographer.
- And a cinematographer!
And so they need us to do some test shots
(heavy breathing)
so that they know what it looks like
in the conference room, in another office,
what the light situation is.
So that's what we finna do.
- [Hallease] What does it mean to be cinematic?
That's the real question, you know?
What does it mean, Evelyn?
- All right. So we're done.
(laughing)
Every time Hallease gets existential, I walk away.
(laughing)
(slow lo-fi music)
- Shoot a static, wide shot with the subject walking
around the room.
- [Evelyn] Oh, okay.
- All right, so this is conference wide S-Log3,
ISO 640, which is native ISO, so the lowest you can go.
You can go lower, but whatever.
(laughing)
- Press the intercom. (laughing)
Evelyn and Vanessa are in scenes together,
in the HR director's office, which I don't actually,
does that happen?
That never happens.
- It does.
- I thought--
- Oh! In episode--
- They end up in the conference room. (laughing)
What did we write? If this happens.
You need to walk in
and then pretend the HR director's there.
(slow lo-fi music)
I feel like Maya slash Juan are going to be like,
what are they doing in these shots?
(slow lo-fi music)
(camera equipment clicking)
- So we have, ooh, sweaty. (laughing)
So we've done the test shots.
Hopefully Juan is satisfied,
so that he can do his, story boarding?
Who does that?
- What?
- Story boarding, do he do that?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so he--
- No, that's him.
- He do, okay.
- Him and the director.
- So, yeah.
So the director and the cinematographer
will do the story boarding.
They will figure out what is what.
Me myself, personally, I just wrote it,
and then Imma be in it,
but the rest Imma leave to the pros. (laughing)
How are you feeling?
- I mean, let me try not to be existential.
- [Evelyn] Okay.
- I feel like (Evelyn laughing) things are moving forward.
- [Evelyn] Okay.
Not bad.
- That's what I'm, (laughing) that's what I'm saying.
- And from Hallease, that is good enough.
- Can't say I didn't get test shots,
cause I got test shots, you know?
- [Evelyn] Yeah.
(bag zipping)
- Are we funny? Remains to be seen? (laughing)
Who knows?
Who knows? I don't.