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LOGAN'S TALENT AGENCY
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Logan's Talent Agency Year of Release: 2000
Directed by: Ryan DiGiorgi
                      Logan Lee
Writing Credits: Ryan DiGiorgi
                            Logan Lee
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Searching for Talent that Doesn't Suck Since 1999.
Description: Mild-mannered talent agent Logan Lee is approached by a wild foreign inventor named Sid Sheplar who shows him his fantastic new invention and teaches him just a little about love.  All in 5 minutes!
Background: Ah, Career Shadow Day, the day at good ol' Brentwood High where seniors are sent out into the working world to spend 8 hours or more with a professional in there future field of interest.  Naturally Logan and Ryan opted to hang with star video editor Marty Reeder over at Russ Sturgeon Video Productions which just happens to be owned and operated by Logan's uncle Russ.  We learned a lot under Marty's tutelage, but the coolest part of our stay was filming our own little feature and putting it all together on Marty's high-tech computer editing package.  Logan plays the straight man as Ryan makes quite a buffoon of himself while electrifying Logan's pants with the help of some neato computer special effects!  Take note kids, this is the first time Lazy Bear Productions has even had special effects!  All and all, Logan's Talent Agency is a priceless piece of LBP history.
Runtime: 5 minutes

Cast
Ryan DiGiorgi....Sid Sheplar
Logan Lee....Himself

Edited by: Marty Reeder
                  Ryan DiGiorgi
                  Logan Lee

Camera: Logan Lee
               Ryan DiGiorgi

Note: This film produced in association with RSVP .


Trivia
• The movie has no title screen and wasn’t even given a title until it had been completed.
• Logan’s Talent Agency is a result of Brentwood High School’s Career Shadow Day. Logan Lee and Ryan DiGiorgi were given a day off and asked to spend it at work with someone in their future field of interest. The boys headed straight for RSVP, a video production and rental facility owned by Logan’s uncle. There they met up with Marty Reeder who spent the day showing them the ins and outs of professional video editing. Then Marty let them run wild with a mini DV cam and all the props and costumes lying around upstairs. The rest, as they say, is history. Incidentally they got A’s on the assignment.
• This movie was filmed and edited within 4 hours.
• Since the costumes, props, and editing equipment, not to mention the services of Marty Reeder were provided by RSVP, Logan’s Talent Agency is credited as a Lazy Bear Productions / RSVP co-production.
• This is the only Lazy Bear film to be edited by anyone other than Ryan DiGiorgi. Both Logan and Marty contributed, with Marty, the resident pro, doing the complicated stuff.
• This is Sid Sheplar’s first appearance. He also appears on www.lazybearproductions.com: The Album, and would have been in Dr. Logan’s Day Out if his trademark sparkly jacket had been available. Sid is Logan’s favorite Lazy Bear character, he considers him Ryan’s Dr. Logan.
• The sign on the door to Logan’s Talent Agency reads “Walk-Ins Welcome”. This also appears on the poster.
• Most of the costumes and props at RSVP had been left there by an actor who had previously worked with the company. After completion of Logan’s Talent Agency, he returned and reclaimed everything including Sid Sheplar’s jacket. However, Logan suspects that Sid’s remote control is still there.
• There is a small price tag on Sid’s coat for $12.
GOOF: The Christmas record can bee seen on the table before Sid takes it out of his suitcase.
• The yellow legal pad Logan writes on at the beginning of the film belonged to Ryan and contained the original outline for Blender Agenda. It was mistakenly left at RSVP, forcing him to write a new one. Two years later while RSVP was receiving an overhaul, the pad was found and returned.
• What Logan writes on the pad is actually his name twice followed by a series of weird scribbles.
• Sounds from this film were harvested for “Dr. Logan’s Day Out: The Game”.
• This is one of few Lazy Bear productions in which Logan Lee plays the straight man.
• Ryan had just seen “Shock Treatment”, the obscure sequel to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, and used Barry Humphries’ character Bert Schnick as inspiration for Sid Sheplar.
• This was Lazy Bear’s first DV film, the second being Dr. Logan’s Day Out. The sound quality and focus are sub-standard because Logan and Ryan hadn’t learned enough about the format yet. Additionally, mini DV cameras have notoriously bad camera mics.
• Even casual viewers will notice Ryan does the sound effect for Sid’s joy buzzer with his mouth.
• This is Lazy Bear Productions’ first film to utilize professional special effects.
• Sid Sheplar’s suitcase contains a basketball, Christmas garland, a Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Christmas album, a little black dress, a pair of silver high heels, a Whammy board, and a light bulb.
GOOF: The sound of the basketball bouncing after Sid throws it behind him is late.
• Logan’s reaction to the suitcase props were shot separately and sometimes don’t match, but it seems to fit the Lazy Bear style.
• The clock above Logan’s desk jumps 15 minutes ahead in only a minute or two of screen time.
• The film was shot in sequence (except for reaction shots and cut-ins), mainly because Logan and Ryan were making it up as they went.
• Logan never gets Sid’s name right, calling him Sheepsprinkler and Sidescraper.
• Logan and Ryan consider “Enable!” to be the funniest line in Lazy Bear history. It was recorded close to the microphone and sounds like it’s badly dubbed.
• Buttons on the remote include: ENABLE, TEST, SELECT, PHASE, RGB, VIDEO, ANALOG, TTL, CONT, and MUTE. If anyone knows what this thing controlled, email us here.
• Originally, Sid was supposed to show many inventions to Logan, but it was decided the electric pants were enough to steal the show.
• This was the first in a series of films that had Logan’s name in the title.
GOOF: Sid initially plugs the wire for the electric pants into Logan’s pocket. In all other shots, it is wrapped around his belt loop.
• Though the Lazy Bear writers have written a “heart-shaped iris-out” (meaning the screen is black except for a heart-shaped window around someone’s head) into countless scripts, this was the first time they had the technology to do it. However, it wasn’t a pre-configured effect, so Marty Reeder literally spent hours creating it from scratch. More than once, he muttered “What the hell am I doing?”
• The laser effect that surrounds Logan during the electric pants bit is actually a visual representation of his screams.
GOOF: The green laser in the electric pants sequence exits the screen, then returns briefly in the lower left before the shot changes.
• Logan smiles when he says “I love it!” because he didn’t think the line would be used, but it was just too funny to leave out.
• Stick around past the credits and see a stinger-style tag with the Lazy Bear copyright.




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