| Director: Michael Blieden |
| Producer: Inman Young |
| Starring: Chris Dotson, Brian Husky, Brian Bradley |
| Written By: Michael Blieden, Jason Nash, Joel Church-Cooper, Erin Gibson, Mark Lawson, Jeff Guenther, Greg Mills, Carl Loeb |
A dude named Gerald Lewis called me out of the blue one day. Turns out he found me through this very website, and was curious to know if I'd be interested in writing and directing a web series for Microsoft, a client of McCann-Erickson which is where he works. We met here in Los Angeles a few days later, and he told me the basic concept: a guy who has vowed to stay in his apartment and send IM's and emails for 30 days straight to raise money for social causes. Inman worked up a preliminary budget, and I got together with Jason, Joel and Erin and we brainstormed about 30 short episode ideas. I then had to pitch those ideas over the phone to the entire creative team at McCann-Erickson, which was insanely nerve-wracking. Luckly, everyone at the agency had a great sense of humor and they liked the ideas. I worked on the scripts here in LA with Nash, Erin and Joel, then Nash and I went to San Francisco to fine tune the scripts with Mark, Jeff, Greg and Carl. This job was hugely fun from start to finish. I got invested in these characters and Chris, Brian, and Brian brought them to life with alacrity. Yeah that's right, I said alacrity. |