The Mechanicals Web Series (2011)
TITLE: The Mechanicals
YEAR: 2011
Director: Charles R Pearce
Producer: Sara Pearce
Costume Design: Sara Pearce, Doug Burbank, Charles R Pearce
CAST:
The Red One: Doug Burbank
The Orange One: Sara Pearce
The Blue One: Charles R Pearce
Surreal short stories from robot roommates that don't know how to love. 7 Episode Web Series. (2011) Comedy, Micro-short.
Right after I completed school my wife and I moved to Chicago. I didn’t have much free time, equipment, or money to do many projects of ambition. Therefore this became the first of many explorations into reductive filmmaking and experimenting with story structure. We really didn’t know what we were doing, but it was a great scrappy first project that walked us through all sorts of production phases. Admittedly, the writing could be better and our voice over recording process was buggy…but for a Nikon D5100, a few lights from Lowes, and some vintage photography lenses…we still made something.
With a complete nine episode run we all learned a lot and laid the foundations for far more ambitious projects. And in 2013 The Mechanicals was briefly picked up for after hours re-broadcast on SkyTV in the UK as a part of an “online sketches” late night review program.
We had a couple really clever moments and learned a ton about what we could and what we couldn’t get away with. Not necessarily a great show, but it was a great practice exercise!
SOFTWARE: Final Cut Pro 7; Photoshop CS5; After Effects CS5; Garageband; Color
