For my investigation, I will be looking at the director of The Eric Andre Show, Kitao Sakurai because I am planning of making my next film in the same genre as it. 

Adult Swim's Tim and Eric, Amazing Show! Great job and The Eric Andre Show ushered in a new era of on-screen comedy. Their new perspectives were so irradiated, shocking, non-linear, and "random" that explaining them seemed impossible. Those who "get it" are part of a community whose bond is unspoken and whose litmus test is laughter. You understand what cannot be explained, what tickles you not through logic but through the unexpected and awkward pauses in its rhythms. However, this ineffable thing you consume has been painstakingly prepared, not blindly, highly intuitively, by a group of artists. Kitao Sakurai, the mind (where one might not assume) behind The Eric Andre Show, does some of the articulating everyone has failed at. It turns out that randomness on-screen necessitates a great deal of discipline, work, and deliberation. Maybe this is the effort we didn't want to admit we needed. 

According to Sakurai, the show was conceived as "a deconstruction of the late-night talk show format." We're approaching all of the classic late-night talk show elements (opening monologue, celebrity guests, desk pieces, man-on-the-street segments) with a psychotic, low-budget public access mindset." We asked them about the tropes they're tackling and what inspired them to create what the New York Times has dubbed "the anti-talk show."

From a Rolling Stone article, Kitao says that because the format of a late-night talk show is so traditional, it's an interesting medium to work with. It's fueled by conventions that haven't changed in decades, pioneered by Johnny Carson and carried on — with varying degrees of irony — to the present day. We were all raised on David Letterman and Conan O'Brien, but also on shows like "Space Ghost" and "The Tom Green Show." Actually, if you look back at Letterman in the 1980s, he was consistently doing transgressive and strange bits and actively making fun of the medium from within, so we naturally drew a lot of inspiration from that energy. To us, late-night comedy and the act of mocking that genre are inextricably linked.

Work Log:

Monday: Brained storm different ways to shoot my film

Tuesday: Started to storyboard

Wednesday: Worked on the storyboard

Thursday: Worked on storyboard and script 

Friday: Looked at different preset packs to help my film look like it was shot on an old type of camera