Production Blog: 300

Planning the Podcast

After watching horrible and so so films, we decided to treat ourselves to watching Frank Miller’s 300. We knew this was the movie to podcast because the style it was made and the creativity of the artwork that went into making this movie looked phenomenal. Also, with the success of Sin City, another Frank Miller film adaptation, the anticipation of this film stretched across the world. So of course Movie Menu was there!

Day of Podcast

After a few scheduling problems, (mainly on my part because of work), we finally met up to record the show. However, discussion was created over the fact that one of us didn’t particularly enjoy the movie. The name will remain nameless until you listen to the show; however, it raised some questions. So we recorded the banter, of course checking out the levels prior to the recording, that way everyone is evened out and not fighting to talk over one another, even though it still happens. However, the first recording wasn’t enough. It seemed like something was missing, so we ended up scraping the first recording and doing another one. Then we figured what was missing, the gross comedic jokes that Movie Menu is famous for!

Post Production

So we had three ideas for an intro. However, we couldn’t think of a correct way to execute them. The first idea was of someone yelling “PODCASTERS! TONIGHT, WE DINE IN HELL!” And then cuts to us actually eating in hell with the Devil. However, so many ideas were tossed and different variations were created, that we shifted ideas to us actually dining either at norms, to heaven, then us just burning. Then someone, I say someone because I can’t remember who it was, and I know it was me, came up with doing a Richard Simmons Parody of Sparta Work out Video, but didn’t translate too well with audio. So we scrapped the whole Intro Idea. Figured the show was strong enough that it really didn’t need one, since the first 5 minutes aren’t really about the movie, we thought that it would speak for itself. SO ENJOY!