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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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