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We’re asking again for some help to (for the time being at least) finish this project. Right now we want to film eight episodes of a behind the scenes spoof complementary series ‘In Production’ plus complete four episodes we’ve filmed most of and the most ambitious and longest episode yet we haven’t done anything of. That’s the one with Pat Sharp.
We have a new role to cast to go into each episode as a talking head. We also have to record the narrator, a new character called Mary. Episodes one to four remain essentially unfinished until we do this. Our ambition to do all this is why we need your help. The plan is, for each episode, you’ll get (for free) three-seven ‘parts’ ranging from three to five minutes, a behind the scenes/outtake video, the cast summarising the episodes in ‘Looking Back with Dave Benson Phillips’, extra bonus bits AND ‘In Production’ which would stand alone as a mini webseries in its own right. There’s an awful lot of stuff you’ll be able to see if you like this. Something like 40 videos to go out… IF we can do it all. If you think that’s worth something, please contribute anything you can. Support our crowdfunding campaign to finish the series: https://www.indiegogo.com/campaigns/getting-back-spoof-documentary-webseries/ One year ago I was taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and for a bit of different marketing responded to a tweet looking for people to do ‘Get Your Own Back Live’ – the live version of the TV show presented by Dave Benson Phillips.
We decided two of the cast from ‘Follow/Unfollow’ would do it in character, Jay Podmore as obnoxious vlogger Ryan Marten and Leanne Martin as his frustrated manager Dee Sinclair. They had a great time, buoyed on by my family and a home crowd of Merseyside supporters in the audience and won the show! Dave's son picked Jay to win as he was impressed with his range of voices. We all had a chat with Dave afterwards who was remarkably friendly to everybody and we kept in touch. You see, as my family were keen to remind Dave, we had all (minus my then unborn sister) met before. At Chessington World of Adventures. When I was six. I started thinking about doing a webseries project with Dave playing himself and thought a big persuading factor for him to do it would be to have Jay revisit the Ryan Marten character and build on the relationship in the silly little video we made on my phone. It sort of made sense to have Ryan as a modern vlogger character in the series to avoid the whole thing being about niche references to 1990s television. I also appear in a minor capacity as Dave’s unlucky work experience assistant, Darren who featured in one of the Ryan vlogs for Follow/Unfollow. |
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