The Making of “Make Love Not Warcraft”
Machinima.com has an interesting interview with the principals behind Make Love Not Warcraft.
I thought this was fascinating:
We had 5 "shoot" days, the first on the 20th of Sept. which lasted about 3-5 hours. The next was on the 26th of Sept. which also lasted about 4-5 hours., and then we shot almost every other day up to the last few days of production Monday and Tuesday were full days, with the last day going from 10am Tuesday morning to around 3am Wednesday morning the 3rd of Oct,, the day the episode aired. We have been producing our episodes in this fashion for years, routinely finishing within 12 hours of the episode going on the air.
For my little production (Thanksgiving deadline is starting to look grim btw), we have aproximately 16 hours invested into 3 hours of footage to provide a 14 minute video, and it's taking us weeks to edit. Granted, we're noobs and the South Park guys have been doing this for years, but color me impressed.
Also notable:
ES: I think 75% of our office is addicted to the game. Me and the rest of crew stick with Hello Kitty Island adventure. It gives us more of a chance at having a "life".
Had to be said.