LAZY BEAR PRODUCTIONS

Cast

Logan Lee	....	Himself, Himself, Suit
Ryan DiGiorgi	....	Himself, (Dead) Guy, Italian, Syd Field
David Chilton (as Bewick Finzer)	....	David's Cameo

MUSIC

I'M ONLY SLEEPING (REHEARSAL)
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Performed by The Beatles
Courtesy of Apple Records

SUPPIE
Written and Performed by The Allentons
Courtesy of Steady Beat Recordings

PRODIGAL SON
Written and Performed by Checkmate!
Courtesy of Steady Beat Recordings

DANCE CLEOPATRA
Written and Performed by Yeska
Courtesy of Steady Beat Recordings

SIE LIEBT DICH
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Performed by The Punkles
Courtsey of Wolverine Records

Trivia
• The Package was shown at the first annual FireFly Film Festival in 2004 which Ryan also emceed.
• This was the first Lazy Bear Production to be shot, edited, and presented through entirely digital means. The final product suffers no degradation, though as with any Lazy Bear film, the viewer does. It was also the first film to be made available in its entirety on this website. Check it out here!
• The glasses Logan wears are his prescription lenses. This was the first Lazy Bear Production filmed after he got them. Years of wearing the Dr. Love glasses no doubt warped his vision.
• While looking for props in his room to inspire the story, Logan found a box he had received his freshman year, his Italian-made suit, and a flask. While the first two items appear in the film, the flask was notably forgotten as the script progressed.
• The box used in the film was from a package sent to Logan by his friend who runs keephoggin.com.
• While many films have ended with the Lazy Bear head logo, this is the first to begin with it, although Holy Cow?! and other unproduced early films included this opening in their scripts.
• David Chilton's cameo was thrown in because he'd appeared in all of the boys' college-era films up to that point and they didn't want to leave him out. Otherwise, Ryan and Logan were the only members of the cast and crew.
• The stack of photos of Italian and Suit's bodies that the Guy gives to Logan is actually the script. The scripts or outlines for Blender Agenda, Dr. Logan's Day Out, The College Show, and Demon Alcohol can also been seen in those films.
• Because Ryan's grandparents hate stereotyped depictions of Italians, this, along with Cost of Living, is another Lazy Bear Production he can't show them. UPDATE: They saw the film and either didn't notice or didn't care.
• Unbeknownst to Logan and Ryan, the way they were taught to connect the microphone to the particular camera they were using resulted in their only recording the left track of audio for some scenes. Fortunately this problem was fixed in editing.
• To achieve the second bus stop shot (the longest shot in Lazy Bear history), Logan and Ryan hid the script in the comic Ryan is holding so they wouldn’t have to memorize lines. This shot was also called "the 'Week End' shot" in reference to the ten minute shot in the French film "Week End".
• Suit's line in which he accidentally refers to the package as a pancake was a mistake on Logan's part in the writing process. Needless to say, he thought it fit the character so it was left in.
• Logan wrote the first half, Ryan the second.
• While actually performed by David Chilton, David's Cameo is credited to the Edwin Arlington Robinson poem Logan was taking notes on while writing the rough draft of the credits in his American Lit class.
• Much of the clothes that Ryan's characters wear were borrowed from his roommate Adam DeCosmo. Logan's expensive Italian-made suit that he wears as Suit was a gift from his Grandfather. Both receive credit under "Special Wardrobe".
• “Screenplay” by Syd Field is a real book, considered the bible for screenwriters. However, the physical appearance of Ryan's Syd Field is not at all accurate. Moments before filming, Ryan threw on two mismatched shirts, borrowed Adam DeCosmo’s glasses, and fluffed his hair up to heighten its goofiness.
• Logan wears a vintage Triumph shirt, a British made motorcycle. Among the pins on his jacket are a pin of Gumby, a VBS perfect attendance pin from the 70's, a pin for the Nashville-based indie band Popular Genius, and another pin from the 70's which reads "PRESIDENT NIXON- Now more than ever."
• Ryan wears a Lazy Bear shirt with picture of Joel Schumacher which can be purchased here.
• Filmed in and around Stagmaier Hall, the same location as much of The College Show and Dr. Love Strikes Out.
• The credit joke "If you enjoyed this film you might also enjoy..." is a reference to the credits for the unproduced Lazy Bear film Yo, Homey, Wanna Go Bust Up Some Skinks? or Quit Sending the Spies!
• This is the only Lazy Bear film that Logan has actually liked his acting in.
• A spin-off film for the Italian and Suit characters was discussed at one point during filming.
• A series of companion films that would focus on what the other characters (Ryan, Italian and Suit, the Guy) were doing while Logan was delivering the package has been discussed. These films would use footage from the original incorporated with newly filmed scenes.
• Suit's walking off camera and into crates of stuff at the end of the package drop-off scene was improvised.
• The building Logan is seen entering to deliver the package is actually a Merrill Lynch building located right next to the world headquarters of the Krystal fast food company (which can be seen briefly as the camera pans down).
• Although it's the eighth film Lazy Bear Productions has made, it's only the third to actually have a full script.
• The second "Thank You's" to feature a reference to Cost of Living character and high school friend Tommy Paige. The same credit also references his now infamous appearance as "Nipple Guy" in Logan and Ryan's Wacky Comedy Hour.
• Despite the fact that the official Lazy Bear website was down due to our infamous server move at the time this film was released, the credits still beg the viewer to visit it.
• The only other digitally edited Lazy Bear film up to this point was the much shorter Logan’s Talent Agency, meaning this was the first time the editing process was slowed by long periods of computer rendering time. Ryan’s most common activity during these periods, and even during the actual editing was watching “The Fairly OddParents” on Nickelodeon.
• In Ryan's opinion, The Package represents his best editing work.
• The original script notes called for the Guy’s death to be a bloody one, achieved through copious amounts of catsup. The idea was dropped because Logan and Ryan neither had catsup, nor the money to buy it. Also the Guy’s jacket was Adam DeCosmo’s and they didn’t want to stain it.
• Logan and Ryan happened to start shooting the opening scene right around the time the Chattanooga bus was supposed to come, so they set up the camera and got ready to film Ryan’s exit. Unfortunately the bus was almost an hour late. The two were just about to work around actually showing the bus when it finally came.
• Because one of the passengers exiting the bus chose to walk right in front of it, the driver had to stop and then start again, making the shot too long and awkward to use. Because Logan and Ryan didn’t want to cut away to something else, parts of the shot where the bus is standing still were sped to twice, and sometimes three times their original speed, making the shot quick enough to use.
• The script notes always called for the final meeting of the two Logans to be shot with split-screen allowing both Logans to appear on screen at once, however the brief shot of Logan playing both himself and Suit as he puts the package on the table was done on a whim while shooting.
• The first bus stop scene was filmed at an actual bus stop, but the buses coming and going, and the people waiting for them rarely interrupted the shoot. The second bus stop scene was filmed in a secluded section of campus outside the library, far away from any entrance, but that shoot was interrupted at least a dozen times by people wanting to pass.
• Ryan purposely chose Marvel’s “Strange Tales” for the comic book he’d be reading because it was a special edition made as a throwback to older comics, and thus looked classier.
• In the second bus stop scene when Logan and Ryan switch roles and do the scene over again, the only major difference is that the line “You know what’re good? Tabbies. A little drawn butter…” becomes “You know what’re good? Calicos. A little steak sauce…”.
• When Logan shows up at his surprise party, the original idea was to show the room filled with random people yelling “Surprise!” who would only appear in that one shot. This idea was scaled back to several random off-screen voices yelling “Surprise!” all performed by Logan and Ryan.
• The box was originally going to glow with an eerie light as Logan opened it, causing Ryan to remark “Is it a light bulb? …For kittens?” Since a flashlight couldn’t be found, the line was changed to “It’s kittens isn’t it?”
• Ryan had just read and disliked Syd Field’s “Screenplay” prior to writing the ending of “The Package”, which explains the unusual, perhaps unnecessary, amount of contempt it shows for the screenwriting guru. In “Screenplay”, Field can’t stop praising (and relentlessly excerpting) “Chinatown”. He describes his unproduced film “The Run” in almost exactly the same terms as Ryan’s Syd character, and includes most of the opening scene. Be thankful we didn’t put you through any of his dialogue.