Working with Mike

Firstly, welcome to my new blog. This will be behind the scenes of videos and extra insights into my life, stuff I like and projects I am working on. Think of it as a combination of my vlogs and my own little press release updates.

If you are a fan of my channel you have noticed I have been collaborating with internet comedian Mike Fallek.

I have known Mike for a while as an animator and editor, and one of the fastest and most productive. Firstly I came to Mike so I could make more sketches and make them more efficiently. My pages have to be a combination of both a business and art on youtube and any where.

Sometimes that decision has to go closer to one way than the other. Sometimes I totally make a film for me, a passion project. Other times my decision is to make sure that a concept gets out the door to keep creating content. All my movies on youtube and instagram are well thought out based on how much time and resources I have to best keep everyone happy.

The benefit of working with Mike is his vast knowledge of skills. Mike is an independent animator and freelancer with his own studio and a one man production team. So if the sound goes awry but we have no time to re-record, Mike can fix the audio in post because he is a professional podcaster and his own sound mixer for movies. This applies to most everything in filmmaking.

Our New Years Video is the start of us getting on a rhythm to create together. Mike's philosophy of comedy is to translate his stand-up into sketch ideas. This can be good and bad. Sometimes the sketch is clever but has to be in a voice more like my style of comedy. Other times the writing is a totally different problem because of two people combining thoughts, it's weird when written down but simple to understand:

For the most part, my channels are an extension of me. So if something is funny but I don't relate, it has to be scrapped or re-written for my perspective. The writing process goes like this: Mike or I have an idea, one of us creates a script, we punch it up (adding and editing jokes), then record and edit. When it came to this New Years Sketch the punch up involved a major restructure.

Ok so I love New Years; I think it's romantic and fun, and my Mom's birthday is around then so for me i have great memories with it. Now granted, there are annoying things that get in the way of that fun so a video making fun of New Years is a great idea.

Mike on the other hand REALLY doesn't like New Years. The original sketch was much longer and involved a lot of things I think are nice about New Years.

This stuff was clever and observational but not how I felt, which can be a problem. The solution was to rephrase stuff as potential issue and to cut what was really Mike trying to rewrite the whole Holiday to be different.

I think the end product is great though. Go check it out and see more in the future.