Hi again,
Dave here, one of the more vocal bloggers on the Mint-blog. Up at a stupid time in the morning as I injured myself during the latest bit of filming for our web series “Unlocked”. Nothing major, just threw my back out, but it’s meant that I’m sat up, unable to sleep, frustratingly on the Anniversary of the proper formation of Cheesemint.
A year ago today we filmed the bulk of our first adventure into video production. Our tribute to Felicia Day’s music video for their excellent web series “The Guild” called “Do you Want to Date My Avatar?” It wasn’t a complicated video were were planning, it was really just a group of us replicating scenes from the music video, adding a “breaking the 4th wall” element as our lead actors became more annoyed at being dressed like Felicia Day (complete with make up and wigs).
Inspired by us messing around with videocameras while we were playing “Rock Band 2″, we thought we do something fun, and post it on the internet to see what happened. So we headed off to the park and acted like idiots with loads of people staring at us, and it all kinda escalated from there.
Seventeen videos on Youtube later, and we’re in the middle of our most ambitious project yet. A full webseries that captures our love of all things nerdy, gamer related, and stuff like that.
For example, today’s filming was in some woods and driving around. We’d not really filmed in a moving car before – so that was an experience! Luckily, the driver had nothing to do but drive, and our actors were all on the back seat, but the wonders of filming in Hi-Def meant that we couldn’t really “fake” driving along as you could see out of the windows. Easiest option, drive around the countryside and the outskirts of the city.
The bits in the woods went very well, and we managed to get all of the bizarre references in there. When Episode 3 hits the internet after the usual mass of editing, music, effects and so on have been added, see if you can spot the references to Resident Evil, Aliens, The Blair Witch Project, Red Dead Redemption, Halo: Reach, Fight Club, and even Hello Kitty…
Our three leading ladies were fantastic, really going for new levels today, and I can’t wait for everyone to see what we’ve been working on.
Meanwhile, I’m going to try to rest up a bit more – see if I can get my back working so I can celebrate the Cheesemint Anniversary in style and only way I’d choose – to be in the company of awesome friends like my fellow Mints.
- Dave