Dylan
Binky
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Two Weeks!
Ok, so we are going to need a new block to shoot on, but that isn't a problem. Let's plan on a Tuesday 4/28 shoot.
Whoooooo!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Important News
The top is a good representation of the spot where B and D take their lunches.
The bottom will be saved for the last lines of the episode, a consistent parting shot.
And there only 20 feet away from each other in real life!
Hi guys,
We're looking at an April 22 permit acquired shoot date to get all of the park interiors, ie the bulk of the episode, while possibly using the couple of days prior to pick up shots with and without the actors and/or rehearse.
English, hope California is treating you, see you this weekend at work*.
CJ, you need to get a job* to make enough gas money for a New York road trip, roundtrip.
Eric and Gene, I think we said this works for you guys too. If not, I'm just around the corner*.
Hi guys,
We're looking at an April 22 permit acquired shoot date to get all of the park interiors, ie the bulk of the episode, while possibly using the couple of days prior to pick up shots with and without the actors and/or rehearse.
English, hope California is treating you, see you this weekend at work*.
CJ, you need to get a job* to make enough gas money for a New York road trip, roundtrip.
Eric and Gene, I think we said this works for you guys too. If not, I'm just around the corner*.
Working my ass off as well 'cause money talks! And it says shit!
C J
Friday, March 13, 2009
More Notes on the Opening
So, using the Odd Couple as an opening here are some shots to reference:
Long shots of each character walking toward the camera, pedestrian traffic, edited into a split screen side by side shot.
Closer now, and Dylan is getting coffee, Binky is perusing vinyl at a record store (and subtly pulls out a Japan Fried album) or Dylan is tieing his shoe, reveal to see his foot is posted up on the Wall St. bull's balls.
Quadruple split screen (did he really just type that?) with Bink and Dyl side by side both screaming, in the two remaining squares their feet to reveal their shoes, Bink's sneakers and Dylan's wingtips. Then the reveal, Dylan screaming into his phone on some business deal and Binky screaming into a microphone at band practice.
This maybe at the beginning, (and maybe not at all because I think they did this in the Devil Wears Prada) a shot of Binky coming up from the Subway and Dylan coming out of a cab.
Random shots of their tall office building and of the makeup of the park, pigeons, a lake, old men playing checkers, a jungle gym or see saw, a couple kissing.
Binky and Dylan now together, still in split screens, playing rock paper scissors, fighting on the monkey bars, spinning one another way too fast on the go-round.
The last shot, the title animation over a scenic shot of the park they are in, maybe we can steal a shot of Central Park for this.
Other ideas for titles, first appearances Craig Strauss as Binky, Chris Dunlop as Dylan, The Park as The Park et cetera.
The music: "See Saw" by Jay Reatard. Anyone know how to get an instrumental version of this? I saw some Karaoke software online but its forty dollars. The only problem with the lyrics being in the final 20 seconds of the song Jay repeats the verse, "She creeps me out, she creeps me out, she creeps me out" which is a terrible way to introduce the audience to our little show.
Long shots of each character walking toward the camera, pedestrian traffic, edited into a split screen side by side shot.
Closer now, and Dylan is getting coffee, Binky is perusing vinyl at a record store (and subtly pulls out a Japan Fried album) or Dylan is tieing his shoe, reveal to see his foot is posted up on the Wall St. bull's balls.
Quadruple split screen (did he really just type that?) with Bink and Dyl side by side both screaming, in the two remaining squares their feet to reveal their shoes, Bink's sneakers and Dylan's wingtips. Then the reveal, Dylan screaming into his phone on some business deal and Binky screaming into a microphone at band practice.
This maybe at the beginning, (and maybe not at all because I think they did this in the Devil Wears Prada) a shot of Binky coming up from the Subway and Dylan coming out of a cab.
Random shots of their tall office building and of the makeup of the park, pigeons, a lake, old men playing checkers, a jungle gym or see saw, a couple kissing.
Binky and Dylan now together, still in split screens, playing rock paper scissors, fighting on the monkey bars, spinning one another way too fast on the go-round.
The last shot, the title animation over a scenic shot of the park they are in, maybe we can steal a shot of Central Park for this.
Other ideas for titles, first appearances Craig Strauss as Binky, Chris Dunlop as Dylan, The Park as The Park et cetera.
The music: "See Saw" by Jay Reatard. Anyone know how to get an instrumental version of this? I saw some Karaoke software online but its forty dollars. The only problem with the lyrics being in the final 20 seconds of the song Jay repeats the verse, "She creeps me out, she creeps me out, she creeps me out" which is a terrible way to introduce the audience to our little show.
Title Thoughts
Other ideas for titles besides Friends From Back When and Ferraris and Fax Machines:
This is Your Lunch
We'll Do Lunch?
Let's Do Lunch
Real Business
Official Business
Lunch Meetings
Taking Lunch
Take A Lunch
Recess(ion)
Free Lunches
Second Square (a reference to three square meals a day)
Lunch Money
The Pot and the Kettle Black
Full at Noon
Friends at Noon
Same Time, Same Place
Power Lunches
Art + Commerce
Nothing in Common
On Break
Official Lunches
This is Your Lunch
We'll Do Lunch?
Let's Do Lunch
Real Business
Official Business
Lunch Meetings
Taking Lunch
Take A Lunch
Recess(ion)
Free Lunches
Second Square (a reference to three square meals a day)
Lunch Money
The Pot and the Kettle Black
Full at Noon
Friends at Noon
Same Time, Same Place
Power Lunches
Art + Commerce
Nothing in Common
On Break
Official Lunches
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
EPISODE 1 rewrite (beginning)
Ext. lunchtime. Episode 1
DYLAN
Here Binky, street meat, just like you asked.
BINKY
I think my favorite thing about this meal is the way I can feel it stick to my colon. Did you get extra special sauce on it?
DYLAN
Of course. Now sign here.
Binky signs a small notebook Dylan has brought out.
DYLAN
And initial here.
He does.
DYLAN
And date here, here and here.
He complies.
Then starts eating.
DYLAN
How is it?
BINKY
It's cold. What did you get?
DYLAN
Mexican.
BINKY
I know, I see it. But what did you get?
DYLAN
I got a burrito.
BINKY
It looks good. Is it hot?
DYLAN
Yeah.
BINKY
Is it hot spicy or is the temperature of the food what you are describing as hot?
DYLAN
(beat)
Do you want some?
BINKY
No, it's probably cold anyways.
DYLAN
I was going through the ledger the other day and I've come to realize that we're almost squared off.
BINKY
Can't be.
DYLAN
It is. After you finish that construction worker special, I owe you five more official lunches and we are even.
BINKY
So I've got a couple of months.
DYLAN
No, Binky. You're coming here once a week until we straighten this out because I don't owe debts, I am owed them.
BINKY
Free lunches remind me of elementary school when Binky Sr. was laid off and Mom had to start scrubbing semis at the local car wash.
DYLAN
(makes 'jerking' hand motion)
Scrubbing semis?
(beat)
So what'd you do this weekend?
BINKY
Not much. Wrote some songs. Watched a lot of VH1 Classics. You?
DYLAN
I got a new personal trainer. She's a former Cowboys Cheerleader.
BINKY
Nice, what did you do?
DYLAN
That IS what I did.
BINKY
I had a personal trainer for a while but it didn't work out.
Cut To:
Binky sitting on his couch stoned out of his mind and eating popcorn watching Jane Fonda mesmerized. Or watching Richard Simmons and laughing his ass off.
Back:
DYLAN
That's good. It's really important to stay healthy.
BINKY
I know, preventative medicine saves lives.
DYLAN
Well, no, a good healthcare plan saves lives, but if you want an enviable sex life and career you have to look good.
BINKY
I talked to Lola this weekend.
DYLAN
You keep up with Lola?
BINKY
Yeah. Kind of.
DYLAN
Where is she, she's out West, right?
BINKY
Yeah, she' in LA. She's been really busy with the photography. She sounds good though, I might try and visit her over the summer.
DYLAN
You should let me know, maybe I'll come along.
BINKY
Oh, right. Are you going to fly coach with me?
DYLAN
Coach? Look at this belt I'm wearing.
Dylan stands up with his crotch uncomfortably close to Binky's face.
BINKY
It's a nice belt.
DYLAN
What do you think that it is made out of?
BINKY
I don't know. Felt?
DYLAN
Felt? What the, what kind of answer is that.
BINKY
It's not felt.
DYLAN
No. It's not felt.
BINKY
Well it looks nice anyways.
DYLAN
Take another guess.
BINKY
Nylon.
DYLAN
What?! No. It's ostrich. Ostrich leather.
BINKY
Wow. Cool. I've eaten Ostrich once, a long time ago.
DYLAN
Well this, Bink, you cannot eat. Do you know how much I paid for this?
BINKY
Should I?
DYLAN
Absolutely not. But take a guess.
BINKY
Was it on sale?
DYLAN
It was not on sale.
BINKY
Did you get it at a department store?
DYLAN
No, Binky, I did not get it an department store.
BINKY
Did it come with a pair of pants?
DYLAN
Eleven hundred dollars. I paid eleven hundred dollars for this belt, because it was handmade from an ostrich hunted down in it's natural habitat, not slaughtered on a farm.
BINKY
That's cool. I don't imagine ostrich are that elusive of a predator. But that's cool man.
DYLAN
Eleven hundred dollars!
BINKY
That's more than I have in my bank account. How can you tell it is ostrich?
DYLAN
I mean, it doesn't look like any of my other belts. And I don't have any other ostrich belts.
BINKY
What about shoes? Do you have any ostrich shoes? You could compare.
DYLAN
I don't have ostrich shoes. Why would I want ostrich shoes.
BINKY
I've had ostrich before. That definitely looks like ostrich.
DYLAN
This british guy that sold it to me, he said it was Ostrich.
BINKY
Dude was British?
DYLAN
Yeah, and he wore a safari outfit.
BINKY
Why?
DYLAN
Why?
BINKY
Yeah, why? There's no safari in England?
DYLAN
He looked legit.
BINKY
I'm sure he was.
DYLAN
He said, "This belt is made from the finest Ostrich in Europe, expertly hunted down by a friend of mine with a bow and arrow from 200 yards." I mean, he was definitely legit.
BINKY
Definitely not fraudulent. Dylan. Show this weekend, you're invited.
DYLAN
I'll be there.
BINKY
You always say that.
DYLAN
DYLAN
Here Binky, street meat, just like you asked.
BINKY
I think my favorite thing about this meal is the way I can feel it stick to my colon. Did you get extra special sauce on it?
DYLAN
Of course. Now sign here.
Binky signs a small notebook Dylan has brought out.
DYLAN
And initial here.
He does.
DYLAN
And date here, here and here.
He complies.
Then starts eating.
DYLAN
How is it?
BINKY
It's cold. What did you get?
DYLAN
Mexican.
BINKY
I know, I see it. But what did you get?
DYLAN
I got a burrito.
BINKY
It looks good. Is it hot?
DYLAN
Yeah.
BINKY
Is it hot spicy or is the temperature of the food what you are describing as hot?
DYLAN
(beat)
Do you want some?
BINKY
No, it's probably cold anyways.
DYLAN
I was going through the ledger the other day and I've come to realize that we're almost squared off.
BINKY
Can't be.
DYLAN
It is. After you finish that construction worker special, I owe you five more official lunches and we are even.
BINKY
So I've got a couple of months.
DYLAN
No, Binky. You're coming here once a week until we straighten this out because I don't owe debts, I am owed them.
BINKY
Free lunches remind me of elementary school when Binky Sr. was laid off and Mom had to start scrubbing semis at the local car wash.
DYLAN
(makes 'jerking' hand motion)
Scrubbing semis?
(beat)
So what'd you do this weekend?
BINKY
Not much. Wrote some songs. Watched a lot of VH1 Classics. You?
DYLAN
I got a new personal trainer. She's a former Cowboys Cheerleader.
BINKY
Nice, what did you do?
DYLAN
That IS what I did.
BINKY
I had a personal trainer for a while but it didn't work out.
Cut To:
Binky sitting on his couch stoned out of his mind and eating popcorn watching Jane Fonda mesmerized. Or watching Richard Simmons and laughing his ass off.
Back:
DYLAN
That's good. It's really important to stay healthy.
BINKY
I know, preventative medicine saves lives.
DYLAN
Well, no, a good healthcare plan saves lives, but if you want an enviable sex life and career you have to look good.
BINKY
I talked to Lola this weekend.
DYLAN
You keep up with Lola?
BINKY
Yeah. Kind of.
DYLAN
Where is she, she's out West, right?
BINKY
Yeah, she' in LA. She's been really busy with the photography. She sounds good though, I might try and visit her over the summer.
DYLAN
You should let me know, maybe I'll come along.
BINKY
Oh, right. Are you going to fly coach with me?
DYLAN
Coach? Look at this belt I'm wearing.
Dylan stands up with his crotch uncomfortably close to Binky's face.
BINKY
It's a nice belt.
DYLAN
What do you think that it is made out of?
BINKY
I don't know. Felt?
DYLAN
Felt? What the, what kind of answer is that.
BINKY
It's not felt.
DYLAN
No. It's not felt.
BINKY
Well it looks nice anyways.
DYLAN
Take another guess.
BINKY
Nylon.
DYLAN
What?! No. It's ostrich. Ostrich leather.
BINKY
Wow. Cool. I've eaten Ostrich once, a long time ago.
DYLAN
Well this, Bink, you cannot eat. Do you know how much I paid for this?
BINKY
Should I?
DYLAN
Absolutely not. But take a guess.
BINKY
Was it on sale?
DYLAN
It was not on sale.
BINKY
Did you get it at a department store?
DYLAN
No, Binky, I did not get it an department store.
BINKY
Did it come with a pair of pants?
DYLAN
Eleven hundred dollars. I paid eleven hundred dollars for this belt, because it was handmade from an ostrich hunted down in it's natural habitat, not slaughtered on a farm.
BINKY
That's cool. I don't imagine ostrich are that elusive of a predator. But that's cool man.
DYLAN
Eleven hundred dollars!
BINKY
That's more than I have in my bank account. How can you tell it is ostrich?
DYLAN
I mean, it doesn't look like any of my other belts. And I don't have any other ostrich belts.
BINKY
What about shoes? Do you have any ostrich shoes? You could compare.
DYLAN
I don't have ostrich shoes. Why would I want ostrich shoes.
BINKY
I've had ostrich before. That definitely looks like ostrich.
DYLAN
This british guy that sold it to me, he said it was Ostrich.
BINKY
Dude was British?
DYLAN
Yeah, and he wore a safari outfit.
BINKY
Why?
DYLAN
Why?
BINKY
Yeah, why? There's no safari in England?
DYLAN
He looked legit.
BINKY
I'm sure he was.
DYLAN
He said, "This belt is made from the finest Ostrich in Europe, expertly hunted down by a friend of mine with a bow and arrow from 200 yards." I mean, he was definitely legit.
BINKY
Definitely not fraudulent. Dylan. Show this weekend, you're invited.
DYLAN
I'll be there.
BINKY
You always say that.
DYLAN
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