May 30, 2008 by me.

The soundtrack of a show often sets the tone and hints at the subtext of the characters in a TV show or movie. And along with the songs we’d like to air re: our karaoke scenes, we’ve also been granted permission from some talented (and local) songwriters to use their works in our pilot.

Winston Chang’s “That Theme from ‘Wingmen’”, for example, combines contemporary Midwestern urban edginess (yes there is such a thing) and a clarion call-out-to-Asian-American-men charm that’s buddy-buddy and yet insightful.

Meanwhile, Jeff Chan’s “Twilight” and “Sunbeams” add a little extra to our night montage that shows off Chicago’s Chinatown as both familiar and mystique-like at the same time…

Whoops, I’m out of time. I’ll have to continue this topic on my next blog…

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May 30, 2008 by me.

As of today (5/30), our first posted video clip (the restaurant scene at Mandarin Kitchen in Chicago’s Chinatown) has achieved a rating of 3.05, which fulfills half of what we need to qualify for Producer rewards. The other half is more viewers! So even if you’ve already seen this clip on our website, please see it again at metacafe.com to help us out!

And share it (along with our underwear store scene (shot at the Venus Underwear and Handbag Shop, in Niles) with your friends, your family, your colleagues — anyone you feel who could benefit from a 21st century view of what Asian American men are really about!

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May 27, 2008 by me.

So much to do and so little time with which to do it! Trite I know, and yet true. So yesterday I finally sent in the form needed by one of the music publishers we contacted re: licensing of songs and I still need to contact the music publishers for the other three songs we want to use as well. But at least the first one is done!

Meanwhile the hits for our clips on metacafe.com are still happening, slowly but surely. And we still have one more to air, too! Can’t wait to hear what you think of this third one, once it’s up…

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May 12, 2008 by me.

Been trying to forward the channel to my friends and family about our clips on metacafe.com and it’s been quite a challenge. Don’t know why exactly when I do, half the time it looks as though we have no video clips online, but we do!

Anyway, what seems to be working today is if you go to metacafe.com and type in “Wingmen” in the search engine, that should finally take you to our clips so you can view (and rate) them.

Strange what’s been happening, huh? And now my creative side (i.e. my imagination) starts getting the better of me and I’m starting to wonder if someone (don’t know who) might be trying something computery-technical to keep us from being able to represent ourselves, the way we’ve long been wanting too…!

But we shall persevere and, in the end, prevail!!!!

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May 5, 2008 by me.

For those of you who’ve gone onto the metacafe.com site and can’t seem to find our clip, when you get to their page, type in “Wingmen” on the search line and that should take you straight to it. Currently we have (besides a clip from our restaurant scene, at the Mandarin Kitchen) a clip featuring our very own Carl Anderson (as Hans) and Steve Yeun (as Julian) at the Venus Underwear and Handbag Shop (this is an actual store, we didn’t make this up)…

And let us know what you think! Because the more feedback we get from you, the less we need to prove that “Wingmen” is an idea whose time has come…

Thanks!!!!

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May 4, 2008 by me.

And we’re off! Thanks to Kyle for getting the first of our currently scheduled clips onto metacafe.com. This first one is a remastered version of the restaurant scene currently on our site (for better sound and visual quality). The second and third will be clips from other scenes in the pilot, scenes we haven’t been able to broadcast on the internet yet — so for most of you, it’ll be entirely new content!

Anyway, since we’re now officially approved to broadcast this first clip, friends and family and folks from all across the US and around the world can now get a glimpse of “Wingmen” 24/7. Even more helpful is that the more people that view our clips, the better the chance we have for getting paid by metacafe.com. So we can finally pay our actors, (hopefully) pay for our music licensing fees (we need to do this, if we’re ever able to air the entire clip, from start to finish, on the internet) and to make back the seed money we first contributed, back when we first learned of the Chicago Comedy TV Pilot Competition last year.

And the way metacafe.com works is this: after the first 20,000 views, metacafe.com pays the creator of original & copyrighted content $5 per additional 1000 views. So spread the word and not only help us earn needed cash (no need to view commercials to accrue clicks for “Wingmen” on this site) but prove with solid numbers just how many people are interested in what “Wingmen” has to say about Asian Americans — and especially Asian American men!

Thank!

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