Yeah, what's up?
Yo! Uh... just so you know, there's like a big production out here in the parking lot.
You'll see us, we'll wait for you.
Okay, okay
We're on location scout for Anime Crimes Division
This is a place called Willow Studios, which is kind of well known, I guess, in town.
Yeah, it's pretty well known
They shot 24 here, uh... Resident Evil shit
Yeah. This is a film location. We're gonna try and get as many locations for Anime Crimes Division as possible
Let's do it
So, right now, we're looking down here for different locations we can use
But, as you can hear, the problem is the echoing
Echo! Echo...
Probably wanna keep the amount of people to a minimum
Oh, but check this out.
Ain't no echo in here at all!
So then, that's- that's one day
For the location scout,
Most of it is looking for the look, the size of the space,
what we might want to do with blocking or lighting or vacuuming stuff, but it's very general
This can be the... upscale gambling den
And we can cover it like this, basically.
Then we're fine.
There are certain ways to cover it "anime style,"
and there are certain ways to cover it "detective."
So, give me an example
Reading the script, there is a lot of like... certain ways to reveal people
There's a lot of like this, in anime
Like you focus on somebody and then
all of a sudden like someone's standing way back here and like speaks up
But how much of that do you... like...
Here, when she comes in for the first time, it feels like you want to do it more, like, movie style.
So, like, behind the shoulder, come around, have her see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But then when we get into the back and forth, it feels like it's gonna be a mix, but...
Okay. When we do the shot, let's- let's highlight the points that want to feel "anime-ish"
Alright, so...we're making decision by tomorrow. Like, we need to lock everything in tomorrow, so...
Let's go to RocketJump now, I'll go see if we can stop by envision a
See you guys! Bye!
A little history, uh, this idea... Will came up with the idea of like, "Hey wouldn't it be cool to see a
"Airsoft gun fight scene who would have just an airsoft gun." We came up with this whole, like,
Total, you know, insane-o weeaboo character
People are coming after him and he's gotta, like, fight 'em off.
Then they're like, "who could it be?"
It's gotta be, like, the cops, right? No!
It's gotta be the MPAA because he's pirating so many movies
And then Will was talking about, like,
"What if it was it wasn't movies he was pirating, it was anime?"
And then the end, like the end scene, like, in The Fugitive, where, you know
Tommy Lee Jones has cornered Harrison Ford. Rather than Harrison Ford, like, jumping out the storm grate,
Tommy Jones is just like, "No, all your animes on Crunchyroll Network.
That's hilarious. That would be a hilarious Crunchyroll ad
Through Twitter, I was like, "Hey Crunchyroll, hit me up, we have a really ridiculous idea."
So this didn't even start in the world of anime, it started in the idea of just doing a fun ad for Crunchyroll
Which is like, it just kinda came down to the idea of using Pocky as cigarettes. That's really all it is
Right now we're casting, we're casting for various roles.
So, what happens- the way that that works is we put a project up on various websites
Actors, then, can search and submit for projects
I f*cking hate this process
We're asking, like, for example, "We're looking for Mills, male or female, principal, all ethnicities, 18 to 20
Most of these motherf*ckers are not 18 to 20.
Like, this dude looks like he owns a gas station
This motherf*cker... not even a six pack, he's just showing off
Like, this guy looks like he's still in high school
Also, the other thing that's incredibly crazy about all this is looking at everyone's heights
Apparently everyone in LA is 6 feet tall
Are you gonna hold auditions for these people, or no?
So, what- so the process that you'll usually do is
You don't actually do a full audition thing because a lot of times
We just have, like, one or two line rolls
What you'll do is you'll send, like, "Here's some lines"
And then they'll send the video, and you can just tell. If someone's good, they're good.
There's no, like, nuance to it.
You're either good enough for it, and you're fine, or you're bad. It's like a binary decision most the time
Circus skills. Where are your circus skills?
Circus skills? I can juggle two balls, at once
That's not juggling. That's just throwing things between your hands. That's not juggling.
My skill list wouldn't be able to fit on one page. I would fit so much crap in there.
My name is Andrew Spieler, and I'm 1st ADing this shoot. The majority of my work, uh,
happens before we step on set. When I come in, I come in and take a look, and I break down all the scripts and
Then I go in and I do the scheduling process and actually start
Breaking every element out and putting the schedule together.
If you have great prep, you'll have a good shoot.
Good prep, you'll have an okay shoot.
Okay prep, mmm, not so good shoot
Not so good prep, don't shoot.
It's just paramount to the whole process
It's Monday, we're one week away from shooting Anime Crimes Division
And the first of three model Gundams will show up in Episode 3 have showed up
And Brandon here's gonna just build it.
You look so nervous, Brandon. I'm telling you, people would literally...
So you can't find- you couldn't buy ones that are pre-built?
Can you buy a Gundam that's pre-built, Matt?
I'm sure somebody could
Would you- I mean, yeah... but
So no joke, we spent across the three of them almost a thousand dollars
Jesus
So, don't f*ck up.
So Jimmy Wong is, when we were kids, really into Gundam.
He is probably, of everyone we know, the one who has maybe some of the most experience building guns
Uh, today we're going to be-
Well, I guess you're gonna be building the Rick Dom
But it's 160th to scale so it's gonna be pretty big, as you can tell
I don't know, it's probably gonna be, like, this big total
Yes!
The detail is amazing. Okay. There are a ton of pieces.
Oh my God, these pieces are so small.
Your fingers are gonna hurt. There's no tips about that. They're just gonna hurt
The nice thing about Gundam though, is that you don't actually need super glue
They usually have a lot of inner- like little holes and sockets and things and it's gonna all fit into itself
Make sure you look through the manual and understand what it's saying because it's all in Japanese
So you're not gonna be able to read any of it, but it's highly visual. It's like IKEA
Japan knows how to do this stuff, man.
If you start on page one and just double check all your work as you go through,
You're gonna have yourself a Rick Tom in no time
It's been about six hours, and I've gotten this much done, but they have a lot of work left ahead of them
They still have, like, 30 pages left of instructions. Either that or I'm just slow. Probably that one too
It's tech scout day
Woo!
That's mostly- That's mostly your day
Yeah
Tech scout happens after the location scout and after you pick the locations that you want
So you can go in and figure out all the technical, hence tech scout, specifications
Things like power and what the space actually looks like.
What do you look for on tech scouts?
Safety first: making sure the floors are stable, roofs are stable. We got enough places to park
Logistics
Logistics, yeah.
Ashim what do you look for?
Just make sure everyone else is doing what they need to do
I make sure that you're looking for whatever you need
That's kind of it
Alright, so we're here next Tuesday and Wednesday.
We're doing the basement for the underground gambling scene and... the lair
We should do something cool with this door.
You want, kind of, like, a beam of light?
Like, kind of...
Yeah!
One of the most useful tools I've had for location scouts... is this guy.
This is the Ricoh Theta, which is just a 360 stills and video camera.
But it's just super easy because then you don't have to take, like, tons and tons of pictures.
You can just walk and go "nnn nnn" and then you're good!
So yeah!
This is a scene where they're trying to crack the case they're looking at on the board
Did they change the color of this room?
It's still, like, a mint green
Mint green looks terrible on skin tones, just FYI
Oh, wait. What? What the hell? What is this?
Like a real police station. What?
So there was- there's 2 police station sets, but this one's not neon green. So...
We're 100% moving here then?
Yes
Let's move out of here and get in the car
Okay, let's head to the parking lot then
We could jump to that corner instead
Nah, this is more spacious, man
Let's see what the Sun's gonna do
So it's gonna be on this side for most of the day
So when do you want it then?
Noon?
I'd say before 11:00
Okay
You like this picturesque view, really? Interesting
So basically, this path will be ours
Yeah
Awesome
Uh, so this is a actual working shipping yard as you can tell,
but we're essentially finding- trying to find like a dead end of shipping containers
Oh, I like this
This is so cool!
Freeze! Drop it!
So theoretically, we can move this to make this a dead end, right?
Yeah
We're good here. We don't need to see anything else
Yeah, let's go
Really, we don't have to all meet. I figured you guys just talk about gear
I'm gonna try to stick to more LED stuff
As long as you guys can bust out a draft of a gear list today
I'll revise the schedule a little bit based on today's scouts and send it out to you guys, if it makes sense
Alright, cool guys
So, uh...
That was our tech scout
Basically, everything's in place
Everybody, department-wise, knows what they're doing, so...
Meetings scattered throughout the week still
But that's basically it, yeah
My man, talk to you guys soon
Peace out
That is not creepy in the least
Dude, if we walked back past that room and the mannequins would be gone
Okay, they're there, we're good
It's not gonna be that kind of day