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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Scissor Cop Finale Behind the Scenes Pics

Well, as the old saying goes, "All good action/comedy web series must come to an end," so through the following pictures (and extensive therapy sessions), let's all work through our grief and bid a fond adieu to Scissor Cop.

We shot everything in a day and our first scene was in a nearby park. We lucked out with the discovery of this oddly shaped concrete slab that had the word "TELEPHONE" on it which doubled as our grave stone (through the magic of Photoshop).

NERD ALERT!!
From far away, it kind of looks like one of the Dharma hatches on Lost.

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE BELOW PICTURES/COMMENTS!! (just watch the goddamn episode already!)

This was the first "flash-forward." I've had the idea to end Scissor Cop with flash-forwardS for a while and I feel that we executed it very well. Scissor Cop was always viewed as an action-y show and likened to "24" or "Die Hard" or "Lethal Weapon 4." However, for me, "Lost" was always the biggest influence on writing and structuring the episodes, especially with ripping-off (I mean, "blatantly stealing") their brilliant flash-forward storytelling device.

Most of the episode was shot in the basement of my building where we had shot the bookends for Scissor Cop 6.

We actually shot the beginning of the finale way back in October, on the same day we had finished #6. We knew it'd be too tough to try and match the continuity of the blood splattered newspapers, so we had to think of a way to get Johnny out of the room, hence the ol' "kick to the balls" trick (a plot device used since Shakespeare, I believe).

Here's Benny laughing at his reprehensible thievery from Mr. Verde's "Box of Guns." That box is strictly "honor code" and he's taken advantage of it! The nerve!

"Cocaine Bananas" - now sweeping the drug dealing world!

R.I.P. McDunnough, beloved baby thief with the Unibomber's fashion sense.

R.I.P. Raymond Driggs/Mr. Verde, beloved secret villain with an enthusiasm for all things bananas and fake mustaches.


Be seeing you!

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Scissor Cop Finale

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, February 4th at Channel 101 NY: the finale of Scissor Cop, and the debut of our new show, Sandwich of Terror. We have a few other surprises in store. Also, our buddies at the Big Honkin' have been working hard on the finale of Defenders of Stan! Rory and Craig will have a pilot debuting as well! It's gonna be a jam packed evening! 10 great shows!

In Manhattan. 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St.) Only $5!

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Scissor Cop Tubed

We had prepared to hang up the camera, to give up and resume our previous lives as moisture farmers... but then YouTube went and featured Scissor Cop Episode 4 on their front page! Thanks, Mr. YouTube!

In other Scissor Cop news, we are hard at work on episode 7, which will premiere at the Channel 101 NY February screening. Be there!

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

STABBED!

Hey everyone, Jeremy Westphal here.

It's becoming quite popular these days to kill yourself on the internet so that countless others may watch. Without further ado, I give you my death:

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This rater UNCONVINCING footage was a part of a test shoot that me and Chris Prine filmed to work out the kinks with a digital blood effect.

Here's how we did it:
We took a squeeze-bottle full of ketchup and squirted it several times while in front of a green-screen. Then, Chris keyed out the green background during editing and placed the squirts (sped up and closer together) over some footage. Watch out for shadows! Casting shadows will make your green-screen footage look like shit after the green has been keyed out.

Originally this blood effect was just going to be used in "Scissor Cop: Episode #3" when Billy stabs his eye out, but we've used it again in "Scissor Cop: Episode #5" and AGAIN in "Scissor Cop: Episode #6".

Can you see where?

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Scissor Cop 6 Production Stills

Hello, bloggernauts! Tom here. I wanted to put up some behind the scenes pics of Scissor Cop 6 (aka "Verde: The Color of Evil").

With this episode, we finally had the chance to shoot in the creepy alleyway construction we had ours eyes on since episode 4. It was worth the wait, since it makes a handsome location for our back alley medical scene.

In this picture, Backalley Medical's finest prep Mrs. Driggs for her surgery.

Here's a shot of Chris in our lovely and cozy Waiting Alley.

It was really cold and windy that day, so for a few shots we tried to block the boom for sound (and cuddling) purposes.

We rented a room at a music/acting rehearsal studio for the interrogation scene. It was the same place where we shot the piano flashback for episode 2.

Slap.

Movie Magic Alert! The hospital scene wasn't actually shot in a hospital. Rather, it was Chris's apartment. How'd we do it? Lasers.

Mitch Magee ("Mister Glasses") gets into character with the help of the greatest fake goatee...we could afford.

And finally, here's a pic of Benny and Chris in Verde's torture room. How's the Scissor Copper gonna get out of this one? Stay tuned...

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Scissor Cop Fan Art

Detective Raymond Driggs.
Scissor Cop fan art, courtesy of little Erin Farrell.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Scissor Cop Kids and the NY Channy Awards

We've posted Scissor Cop Kids, a little self spoof animated by our own Greg Erskine. It also includes a nod to our friend Mitch Magee's Mr Glasses.

Scissor Cop has been nominated for 5 different Channy Awards at the first Channel 101 NY Awards show!

  • Best Production Design
  • Best Actor - Benny Baldwin
  • Best Writer - Tom Silvestro
  • Best Director - Jeremy Westphal
  • Best Show

There's some great competition, it's an honor to be nominated, yadda yadda, WE WANT TO WIN!

Anyway, we've been working on some of the pre-taped content for the awards show, which you'll later be able to see online.

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Scissor Cop 5: Behind the Scenes

Hello! Party like it's 2003: we finally got a blog! To kick things off I thought we'd do a little behind the scenes of the action packed Scissor Cop Episode 5!

We intially set our sights on using an alley way, but abandoned it (we had previously abandoned that poor little alley during episode 4, but finally used it in episode 6) after lucking out with a totally sweet warehouse.

For the car stunt we had 3 cameras, with 1 running at 60 fps for slow-mo. With some careful placement of actors, camera angles, and a wall of boxes, this stunt looks much more dangerous and spectacular than it actually is. That said, don't do stunts.

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