Episode 2 Trailer
Finally!
Where is Episode 2?
Hola internet friends! Director and co-creator of the Webseries ‘The Dirty Do Gooders’ here. I want to talk with you all about episode 2 and when it will be coming your way!
*the crowd goes wild* But just so you know, I don’t have a release date *pelted with tomatoes*
Ladies and gentlemen, fruits and vegetables, I am more than what is considered to be a socially expected level of grateful to all of you who have watched and enjoyed The Dirty Do Gooders thus far. We have already released our first episode ‘slash’ pilot and introduction to the characters, in seven six minute chunks starting on Christmas day of last year. To our wonderment the show has been viewed favorably, all toilet humor and crass language aside, a story is there that people want to see, and we think that is pretty damn cool. We have also seen a mass of ‘WHERE BE EPISODE 2 YE SALTY DOGS!” comments and that sort of thing, you damn pirates… why’d it have to be pirates!
Well, I talked with my heterosexual life mate and co-creator Ethan Wolfe about this and how we should tackle the release of Episode deuce of our web show that we have worked our asses off making for the last three years. The conversation was revelatory, and a few decisions were made:
No more chunks, parts, minisodes and whatnot. We have ALWAYS intended this show to be presented as TV-hour episodes. Had you watched episode 1 back-to-back it would have been so, alas, it was not presented as such. We ‘gonna fix that.
-EPISODE 2 will be presented in TWO PARTS ONLY, each will last around 22 minutes, in a sense still following the format of a TV-formatted time slot but in miniature form. They will be released 2-3 weeks apart from one another; we feel this is a better way to deliver this show rather than the 5 minutes a week alternative.
What does this mean? Until a few weeks ago we planned on releasing in 5 minute installments, now with this new plan, we have far more editing, sound, and picture work to do before we can release ‘The Dirty Do Gooders Episode 2 Part 1.
Why can’t I give a release date? More people than me are working on the post-side of this project, cutting, scoring, coloring, and compositing must still be done and since the people who accomplish this VOLUNTEER their time it can’t be treated as a solid deadline – yet. The only promise I’m willing to make is that we will have episode 2 part 1 ready and released as soon as it is finished.
YOU BASTARDS! APPEASE ME WITH REPARATION FOR THIS GREVIOUS ERROR IN JUDGEMENT!
Alright! I’m sorry! There are some cool things for you to consider while you wait-
-A overhauled website with easier controls for watching DDG content and discussing it via a more robust forum of interaction. Translation- New website, redesigned video player, new community page for DDG fans.
-Episode 1 will be recut into the part 1 – part 2 format and re-released! Expect some minor tweaks and a better viewing experience all hosted on this website! (no more YouTube tomfoolery!)
-A trailer for episode 2 in time for Halloween, scare your friends with a preview of our Ludacris show! (not a show about the rapper known as Ludacris, mind)
- A sneak peak of episode 2 (ooh sneak peak!) to be released sometime after the trailer.
I hope you guys are excited about the re-launch as I am, this show has been made possible by an amazing group of people that without- our show would never have had a chance. Trin Miller has joined the executive ranks to help the (many) shortcomings of Me and Ethan, she’s already done so much work for us she might as well be a producer too!
Thanks for sticking with us folks, keep na eye out for the TRAILER OF EPISODE 2! Out this Halloween!
Try Harder, Do Gooder.
Director/writer/wanna-be time lord
-Sam Shideler
A decent proposal
Hello everyone! I hope you all have been well and enjoying this belated summer sunshine.
I have come to discuss some things with you all, namely Episode 2 of The Dirty Do Gooders. It has been said that we would be releasing new episodes this Spring, however, we says lots of things, why do you even listen anymore?
Seriously though, we want to get the new episode out to everyone ASAP but we are treating it a little differently than episode 1 was. Episode 1 was a labor (emphasis on the labor) of love for me and Ethan. It involved long hours of editing and sound scrubbing by yours truly which had me hacking at a computer for what seemed to be most of my daily existence. This is a process I will say nearly bankrupted my sanity and drove me to swear and say intelligible things to Ethan from time to time in a rough, cave-man-like dialogue.
THIS TIME, however, we have enlisted help, in fact I have only edited a few scenes of episode 2 for the screenings while the bulk is being handled by the wonderfully talented Matthew Ralston.
Here’s the snag.
I am supposed to graduate from school with my film degree this Fall, however, I have STILL not begun working on my Senior Thesis film which is required lest I delay my graduation another quarter, which I do not want to do. In fact, for all my school knows I’ve already shot my senior thesis, and I’m currently editing it, drinking wine coolers, and cracking jokes with the soulless redhead (Ethan). The truth is that the script isn’t even finalized yet; this is a big problem for me. The truth is I’ve been too wrapped up in Do Gooders to break out and start work on this Thesis film, It feels like I would be cheating with another project, something I vowed to never do until Do Gooders was well and done being released.
However, life intervenes, and I need to re-prioritize my time and what I should be working on. We still have only a few weekends of shooting left on Do Gooders, but tons of editing and sweetening before we are ready to give you Episode 2. Basically Do Gooders is taking a 3 month break in which I will need to ready, shoot, and edit my thesis film. By no means are we giving up on Do Gooders, we just need to set it aside so I can finally get the ‘F outta my school and stop spending my time ‘learning’ something I’ve already been doing for three years. Worry not, editing will still happen while we work on my Thesis, but not by my hand. Matt has been a godsend for us, an angel of the edit I would say, but he is busy producing his own feature, so it seems more people than us need a little break from this thing. In the end we don’t have a major audience that is waiting for this thing to be released, though we are VERY grateful for all the fans we do have, you people are awesome. If it wasn’t for those of you who have already watched and enjoyed it we wouldn’t be trying as hard. With all that said, you probably won’t see Episode Two until late Fall of this year.
Thank you all so much for your patience and love of this project, we will be ever vigilant and ready to bring you all-new (and HD) episodes of The Dirty Do Gooders this Fall!
Be Better, Do Gooder.
Sam Shideler
(Director, Writer, Crash-Test Dummy)
To Everything, There is a Season
Usually I try not to get nostalgic, but for some reason humans have a way of coloring the past that removes all faults. That, and I just watched Firefly again.
Oh well.
This project has been huge for me, in several ways. In terms of scope it is easily the largest undertaking. Filming three TV-hour episodes in a row with a shoestring budget isn’t something I’ve done before.
But gorammit, I’m glad we did.
Now that the first Episode is out and I’ve had time to sit and think on it all, it seems a lot farther than it actually is. Over two years ago Ethan and I started this project; we were very different then, with very different ideas about how to make a movie. We evolved, much like a fish learning to walk, we grew as film-makers, as project heads, as people. Granted, it’s easy to get sick of something you’ve got your face in so much. But now that I’m sitting here, pondering the past and future of this project, I realize I’m still as excited as the day I made that call to Ethan and told him about ‘capes’.
Looking ahead there is a lot to be stoked about. For one, Episode Two of The Dirty Do Gooders will be breaching the darkness, forming itself into the light for all you lovely people that watch it. I’m real excited about this one and I think your all going to enjoy it. Aside from that it’s gonna be a busy rest of the year for me. Aside from editing and shooting the (potentially) last stuff for The Dirty Do Gooders, I’m graduating film school, and about to start shooting my thesis project; a thing you will hear much more about I’m sure.
Even if I failed, and this thing doesn’t pan out the way we dreamed, the experience I’ve had and the people I’ve met alone have made it worthwhile. I ain’t giving up hope though, I believe in this project and the people in it. I believe this series has an audience out there; we just got to let ‘em know about it. And for all you who showed up first, who believed with us, thank you. You’re more a part of the crew and apart of those that made it at this point. This will continue, it will grow, and we’ll see by the end if we can find our season.
Be Better, Do Gooder.
Made Ya Click
Hi friends in the computer!
I’m kinda writing this for folks who are new to the series so if you’re here because you followed one of my links on another site: Welcome! (Also, congrats to me for my internet spamming success! I am spam monster. Hear me RAWR.) If you’re here because you heard about the series some other way I guess that’s cool too. I guess.
Anyway, since you’re here, hopefully you have a few questions. Like, I: “what is this website?” And perhaps, II: “who are you, you weirdo?”
I. You’ve landed on the site for a new webseries called “The Dirty Do Gooders”. The series follows the adventures of some foul-mouthed, lovable nerds who wake up one day with superpowers. Instead of sitting around and whining about what it all means, Rudy, Finn, Jason, and Toby decide to slap on some masks, don some cool hats and fight some crime. Y’know, after they’re done playing video games and stealing Girl Scout cookies. As you do.
‘Course things get a bit trickier when our heroes learn that, like in the comic books, just because someone’s a super doesn’t mean they’re a hero…
Why should you watch the series? DORKS WITH SUPERPOWERS. If that doesn’t at least pique your interest you might be in the wrong place. But even if you’re not into superheroes (now who’s the weirdo?) this show’s got something for everyone: dirty jokes, fight scenes, pratfalls, furniture destruction, even a little romance…and a band of brothers united by a love of comic books, video games, and table-top gaming. (If you want to get all deconstructionist and liberal artsy on it, the show’s also about 4 guys struggling with what it means to be a man in the modern world. But I digress.)
So if you haven’t seen it yet: go watch! I’ll wait. They’re all up on Do Gooders home page (www.dirtydogooders.com) or step on over and give us some love on the youtubes.
NSFW. These nerds swear a lot.
I promise it’s a lot more fun to watch the entire episode all at once (Full episode here: http://www.dirtydogooders.com/full-episodes/) but you can see it chopped into pieces here:
Ep. One (part 1 – meet the dorks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVSjMRrYc0
(Part 2 - the dorks together) http://youtu.be/xLqR6qa6w1w
(Part 3- dorks get superpowers!) http://youtu.be/8-6F-yH5X6o
(Part 4 – dorks figure out their powers) http://youtu.be/D4DY2cpdw4k
(Part 5 – they decide to be heroes) http://youtu.be/e0u1Q8mlajg
(Part 6 – how exactly DO you be a hero?) http://youtu.be/K6TMtQEhGKg
(Part 7 – evildoers beware!) http://youtu.be/sG_7wJyjjAo
We film in the greater Seattle/Tacoma area in Washington State and hail from same. We are an all-volunteer production, currently working on filming Episode Three. Each episode is about 45 minutes long and new installments will be released on Tuesdays. Episode Two will be premiering this spring.
Where do I fit in to all of this?
Well as of this blog post my character, May Collins, has yet to really appear in the series. So I’ll leave it at this: I play a girl being hunted by a serial killer and desperately in need of some superhero protection. Instead, she gets these four jokers. Crap.
II. So who are you, you weirdo? I’m Trin Miller and I am a redhead. This is very important. I’m not strawberry blonde or any other such euphemism. I’m also a literary geek and will freak out about books (talk wordy to me, baby). Besides books, I tend to be obsessesd with sci-fi/fantasy stuff, the Whedonverse, comic books, and kick ass boots.
Another thing that you should know about me is that it’s become one of my personal missions in life to evangelize this show as much as possible. In ridiculous proportions. ‘Til you’re sick of hearing about it and want to punch me in the mouth to shut me up. Not that you’d succeed even if you did – if you read my other blog posts (http://www.dirtydogooders.com/2010/12/im-a-door-able/) you’ll find out that even a door falling on my face can’t stop me from talking about this series. At least until the episodes with my character appear and y’all figure out that I can’t act. Then I will never speak of this project again and die quietly of shame in a corner.
Why should you really watch the show? Because it will make me happy. You see, I’ve grown to love our little Do Gooder family and I love my character and the ‘verse that Sam and Ethan have created and, more than anything, I just want to know what happens next in the story. The only way that happens is if you watch and help us tell the world about our humble little show. After all, you can’t stop the signal.
So. You might as well watch the show and become a big, mangy, slobbering fan of it right now. Resistance is futile.
Stay tuned, True Believers!
Trin Miller
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http://www.cheshirecatstudios.com/forum/dirty-do-gooders/
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Technical Difficulties
Recently some new hardware was bought, basically a brand new computer that was going to replace our current editing machine.
Well, getting this behemoth up and running took a bit longer than anticipated, as a result some things went wrong with re-linking old media, hard drives being renamed and ETC. All the data is still there, but the machine took a few extra days to get up to speed, as a result the current episode (part 7) suffered a bit in terms of release schedule.
Because of this, we are pushing back it’s release until probably Wednesday night. I know it sucks, I wanted thing thing out there as much as you, but I don’t want to put out anything unless it’s the very best quality I can make it.
If you haven’t read Ethan’s post below mine please do, it sports some crucial information about the chunks, namely dealing with a stupid mistake about chunk counts and how chunk 7 is indeed the last part for this episode, and chunk 8 will be a blooper reel to make up for our failures.
Hopefully you can look past these failures, however many, and you can still check out the next chunk up this Wednesday night!
Be Better, Do Gooder
We Are Stupid.
No, it’s true. We are fucking stupid. At times at least. I must now confess to one of those times for both of us.
For six weeks now you have been watching (we hope at least) installment after installment of the Dirty Do Gooders, Season 1, Episode 1 – “The Dirty Do Gooders”. Along the way you have been promised 8 chunks of that episode. 8 glorious, small punches in the brain of entertainment to eat away the dull hours between when you sit down at your computer and when you leave it. Well, I hate to be the one to do it, but I have to tell you, that you have been lied too. That’s right. A bold-faced lie has been placed before you, and you believed it. That there are eight chunks of this episode is a fabrication. A defamation. A fairy tale, a tall tale, a weapon of deceit. I know, it is painful to be lied too. For this we apologize.
I know this is causing your world to shake. The very pillars of the internet quiver under the rage you must be feeling at being bamboozled like this. But please, take a small bit of comfort in knowing that it was not done out of spite, but out of stupidity. Yes, back to the fact that Sam and I are stupid.
It all began one fine Monday morning in December, gearing up for editing. Well actually we were returning gear to the Art Institute. We had a copy of the Episode 101 script and Sam had a pencil. We talked through it, counted out the pages and decided where the breaks would happen. In the script Sam labeled each break like this:
—– End of Chunk 3
and so on and so forth. But little did we know that doing this, while driving after about three hours of sleep was possibly a bad idea. Well, after writing all the chunks in, we never really looked at the binder again. Just to check and see where something ended exactly but not closely. It was not until last week that we discovered our misstep. In the labeling of the chunks, “Chunk 3” was skipped and went straight on into 4. So while it read “— End of Chunk 8” at the end of the script. There were actually only 7 chunks. Had this been discovered earlier, steps could have been taken. But as it is, we lied to you.
Yes, that’s right, the guys making a web-series about being a superhero, they lie.
I understand your depression at this discovery. It has all been false. A fib. A falsehood. A work of fiction. I cannot offer you any more comfort in this. I mean, 7 is a cooler number than 8. That’s got to count for something right? No? Fine.
I can offer this though: Chunk 8 may not be part of the episode, however, we will give you all of the bloopers from Episode 101. So, there. Chunk 8, is the fuck up that the counting made it to be. I’ve admitted it. We’re fucking stupid. Now, as good adoring fans, I hope you can all pretend this little incident never happened and we can all just go on with our regular lives, where you guys still think we’re smart.
Until Next Time,
Keep Reading, True Believers
I Don’t Want to Work…
Sam and I lead difficult lives. I say this with a hint of sarcasm that many would say is dripping. Much like Hershey syrup dripping off of a spoon full of ice cream. Mmmmm, ice cream.
For those of you who don’t know, I buy and sell scrap metal in the Greater Seattle Area for a company called Binford Metals in Kent. On a side note, if you have any metal you need to sell, drop me a line. But I don’t think anybody can realize how difficult the life of a scrap dealer is. The main thing about scrap dealers is that we like to drink. So many nights I find myself at our local watering hole, the Spot, having drinks with customers, with my boss, with cast members if they want to show up, day after day after day. This can be exhausting. And then, after drinking I have to make it out to Sam’s to edit and work on things related to the project. I like to tell myself I am of little help in editing particularly after the refined rough is done, but Sam keeps telling me I’m lazy. He’s right. Sometimes I go home and say: Well, I’ll just do the schedule tonight. That way I’m still accomplishing something. That’ll be productive! But then I get home, and the jug of Carlo Rossi is there, and I’d way rather read whichever Robert Jordan book I’m on at the time (re-reading the Wheel of Time Series is proving most enjoyable, currently on Shadow Rising), watch Venture Brothers, or just plain sleep (beer and wine and bourbon make you sleepy, go figure). It’s a hard life.
Sam is enrolled in the Art Institute of Seattle. I don’t want to insult the institute, or anyone who goes there, but let me put this gently. THEY ARE SUCKING HIS LIFE, SOUL AND WILL TO LIVE FROM HIS BODY IN A MANEUVER SIMILAR TO THE DUTCH RUDDER BUT INVOLVING AN IRON MAIDEN. Every day that he goes there he comes home and a small piece of him is dead. It’s not just the dull grind of education, most of the time he enjoys the actual learning. The fact that he is surrounded by “artists” who can’t see past the end of their own nose because it is A) up some so-called great’s ass and B) because it’s way up in the air, is what is slowly killing him. You can only watch so many three minute films about suicide, smoking crack, and break-up sex before you want to kill yourself. The result is that when he gets home he feels as if he has just run the original marathon, while being pursued by mutated jellyfish that have grown not only legs, but dicks. With teeth. He is exhausted and numb. It’s a hard motherfucking life.
So what I’m saying is this. Between all that other stuff, we have chosen to bring onto ourselves the task of putting out a video of good quality every single weekend. Inevitably we have much to do on Friday night and we have yet to prep a video for release without Sam having to stay up all night to finish it. We were supposed to be filming last weekend, but in the end of all things we were just too plain fucking tired. So we took the weekend off, watched some football, played some D&D and tried to get past the numb feeling of despair that seems to have lodged itself in our taints. We failed. So now, we’re limbering up and preparing ourselves to get back into filming this weekend. A couple of night shoots so that we can get the shots we need with the ever wonderful Don Speirs done before he leaves us and moves to Florida. People who work on this project moving to other states is becoming a theme. Note to self, work on manipulating actors better for the sake of yourself.
So we’ll be picking up shots hopefully from Episode 2 (entitled “May Day” by the way) including the exciting and mysterious opening sequence involving the villain from the beginning of Episode 1, May, and introducing the unfathomable Mr. Shaw and also hoping to grab some of the more touching moments from “May Day” involving Shaw and May again. Based on our trajectory of launch you’ll receive the last chunk of Episode 1 on February 15th.
So keep watching, subscribing, and commenting. The feedback has been great so far and we really enjoy hearing what people like and don’t life. If you find yourself so inclined, head on over to www.cheshirecatstudios.com and hit up the Dirty Do Gooders forums, there is some pretty good discussion of each chunk as it comes out over there.
Until next time…
Keep Reading, True Believers.
-Ethan Wolfe
DDG is releasing on Tuesdays!
Digital Jiggery Pokery
Hey all! Some good suggestions have been brought up about the site, namely making our video page the focus of the site and have the posts on an ancillary page. Im also going to fool around with the video gallery options and get something a bit sleeker looking put in here.
Also, After a discussion with Ethan we think that the video chunks on you tube are good enough for us and we are gonna pull down the local hosting from our own site. Simply put, having our videos as a separate entity here is a tad redundant. We will, of course, still release the episode as a solid 45 minute piece only here on the site. From a viewer standpoint nothing will change, you will still be able to watch all our stuff here on this page. This way we can save ourselves some bandwidth and the pain of uploading the videos twice and splitting our audience between outlets.
Aside from that I want to put in a little work on the site visuals, get a new banner up at the top, add a working RSS feed, get some nice forums put in and fix the Avatar icon issues among other things. In short, this is a small warning that stuff will change on the site over the next week or two, bear with us!
Be Better, Do Gooder
P.S. I’m just throwing this up as an announcement post, it shall disappear once it becomes irrelevant.
