Post by loverofbeers on Apr 3, 2012 22:56:30 GMT -5
Tonight is/was the premiere of Holliston on teevee. I have no cable, so I'm going to catch it on itunes tomorrow. So support Adam Green and David Lynch. Pirating from Mr. Green makes him sad I've learned.
So this is straight from Dreadcentral.com. Copy and paste. I'm lazy. Credit them and the horrorchick.
By thehorrorchick
April 3rd, 2012
On April 3rd FEARnet is set to unleash its brand new horror sitcom "Holliston" (review here) at 10:30 pm EST/9:30 pm CST in the hopes of breaking new ground with the unusual project.
Bucking usual industry trends, "Holliston" will feature a longer-than-average running time, and the show's two stars aren't your usual suspects; they're horror filmmakers Adam Green and Joe Lynch, who promise to bring the funny and more with their groundbreaking show.
Recently Dread Central met up with Green and Lynch as well as their two lovely co-stars - Laura Ortiz (The Hills Have Eyes) and Corri English (Killer Pad) - in anticipation of "Holliston"'s premiere to hear more about their experiences working on the brand new sitcom as well as how Green's script brought in the cast's own personalities to their characters and how the stakes have never been higher for anyone involved with "Holliston" than they are right now.
Dread Central: Since you both are used to the world of film, how hard was it to adjust to the laugh track mentality of the sitcom format?
Joe Lynch: No one has ever seen Adam and I together like this; usually things are more linear and more cinematic like our Road to FrightFest projects to the shorts. We've never had to deal with a more theatrical aesthetic applied to our kind of humor before. Just discipline-wise, the fact that the four of us were here rehearsing for months ahead of time just to get those beats down and get that rhythm down was great, but then Adam reminded us that once we got on set, we had to prepare ourselves to be able to space out everything to make room for the laughter. I mean, I had done theater years ago but it had been a long time since I had to do anything like this.
So this was a whole new experience for us but it was also kind of cool because we were getting an instant response while filming, and doing it all live was interesting because some things that worked great between the four of us in this room worked even better in front of an audience and a few times things didn't work so that allowed us to take a moment and refine things better; and in a lot of those cases, it was just a matter of us slowing things down. But it was a great challenge to have because it forced us to hone in on things like our delivery and how we interacted with each other, too.
Adam Green: The thing about the laugh track, though, is that if you tried to watch Holliston without it, it wouldn't work at all. Holliston is a classic sitcom; we're not trying to make fun of sitcoms with this or spoof them in any way. It's just a sitcom that's centered around horror in a big way; it could be something on a major network but then we'd have to take things out like stabbing each other in the face or exploding heads or the monster that lives in the closet.
Thankfully, FEARnet embraced all of that and just let us go with all of the craziness built into this world; even the episodes are weird lengths but because we're now a flagship show on an up-and-coming network, they just let us do what was best for the show at all times and it's really worked out great. We wouldn't have that kind of freedom anywhere else.
Dread Central: So how long did you guys rehearse for "Holliston" then?
Corri English: It was five months, but there was a lot of this (holds up wine) involved so that could have been part of it (laughs around). But we all knew each other really well before we started working on Holliston and we just really bonded even more over sweat and wine when we were practicing.
Adam Green: We would read through everything and just drink and discuss everything about our characters, and we really didn't even move into blocking until a few months into rehearsals.
Joe Lynch: I'm so glad we had all that time because it allowed us to take the 350-plus pages of script for the first season and really hash it out between the four of us, and I think it was through the rehearsal process that the scripts got infinitely better as we would go along because we could go through it so much and make it feel as 'real' as possible. You can tell what works and what doesn't and take the things that don't and play around until they do work, and I think that's what will make this show stand out a bit.
Dread Central: So how long has the process of bringing "Holliston" to life been for you, Adam?
Adam Green: Well, we came up with the current story ideas for Holliston over the course of two years, and it's been something in my mind ever since making Coffee and Donuts. I had originally developed a sitcom for UPN a few years back so I've had a few years to really think about everything and refine it all in my head.
But the idea - two guys who want to be horror film directors - has always been at the heart of it so making Holliston now, where Joe and I are at in our careers presently, is kind of like looking back at where we both were 10 years ago, struggling to make it, which is an interesting perspective to have on that part of your life now.
So this is straight from Dreadcentral.com. Copy and paste. I'm lazy. Credit them and the horrorchick.
By thehorrorchick
April 3rd, 2012
On April 3rd FEARnet is set to unleash its brand new horror sitcom "Holliston" (review here) at 10:30 pm EST/9:30 pm CST in the hopes of breaking new ground with the unusual project.
Bucking usual industry trends, "Holliston" will feature a longer-than-average running time, and the show's two stars aren't your usual suspects; they're horror filmmakers Adam Green and Joe Lynch, who promise to bring the funny and more with their groundbreaking show.
Recently Dread Central met up with Green and Lynch as well as their two lovely co-stars - Laura Ortiz (The Hills Have Eyes) and Corri English (Killer Pad) - in anticipation of "Holliston"'s premiere to hear more about their experiences working on the brand new sitcom as well as how Green's script brought in the cast's own personalities to their characters and how the stakes have never been higher for anyone involved with "Holliston" than they are right now.
Dread Central: Since you both are used to the world of film, how hard was it to adjust to the laugh track mentality of the sitcom format?
Joe Lynch: No one has ever seen Adam and I together like this; usually things are more linear and more cinematic like our Road to FrightFest projects to the shorts. We've never had to deal with a more theatrical aesthetic applied to our kind of humor before. Just discipline-wise, the fact that the four of us were here rehearsing for months ahead of time just to get those beats down and get that rhythm down was great, but then Adam reminded us that once we got on set, we had to prepare ourselves to be able to space out everything to make room for the laughter. I mean, I had done theater years ago but it had been a long time since I had to do anything like this.
So this was a whole new experience for us but it was also kind of cool because we were getting an instant response while filming, and doing it all live was interesting because some things that worked great between the four of us in this room worked even better in front of an audience and a few times things didn't work so that allowed us to take a moment and refine things better; and in a lot of those cases, it was just a matter of us slowing things down. But it was a great challenge to have because it forced us to hone in on things like our delivery and how we interacted with each other, too.
Adam Green: The thing about the laugh track, though, is that if you tried to watch Holliston without it, it wouldn't work at all. Holliston is a classic sitcom; we're not trying to make fun of sitcoms with this or spoof them in any way. It's just a sitcom that's centered around horror in a big way; it could be something on a major network but then we'd have to take things out like stabbing each other in the face or exploding heads or the monster that lives in the closet.
Thankfully, FEARnet embraced all of that and just let us go with all of the craziness built into this world; even the episodes are weird lengths but because we're now a flagship show on an up-and-coming network, they just let us do what was best for the show at all times and it's really worked out great. We wouldn't have that kind of freedom anywhere else.
Dread Central: So how long did you guys rehearse for "Holliston" then?
Corri English: It was five months, but there was a lot of this (holds up wine) involved so that could have been part of it (laughs around). But we all knew each other really well before we started working on Holliston and we just really bonded even more over sweat and wine when we were practicing.
Adam Green: We would read through everything and just drink and discuss everything about our characters, and we really didn't even move into blocking until a few months into rehearsals.
Joe Lynch: I'm so glad we had all that time because it allowed us to take the 350-plus pages of script for the first season and really hash it out between the four of us, and I think it was through the rehearsal process that the scripts got infinitely better as we would go along because we could go through it so much and make it feel as 'real' as possible. You can tell what works and what doesn't and take the things that don't and play around until they do work, and I think that's what will make this show stand out a bit.
Dread Central: So how long has the process of bringing "Holliston" to life been for you, Adam?
Adam Green: Well, we came up with the current story ideas for Holliston over the course of two years, and it's been something in my mind ever since making Coffee and Donuts. I had originally developed a sitcom for UPN a few years back so I've had a few years to really think about everything and refine it all in my head.
But the idea - two guys who want to be horror film directors - has always been at the heart of it so making Holliston now, where Joe and I are at in our careers presently, is kind of like looking back at where we both were 10 years ago, struggling to make it, which is an interesting perspective to have on that part of your life now.