Microwave Show: Behind The Scenes Special - The FAQ Video!
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?
The Behind The Scenes Special
2009 REMIX Edition!
Join host Jonathan Paula as he takes you behind the scenes of “Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?” - to ONCE AGAIN answer some of your most frequently asked questions, on location from beautiful Hollywood, California!
Information on the REMIX edition:
This Behind The Scenes Special was originally filmed and released in April, 2008. I have gone back to the master tapes and re-edited the video into this new version, complete with new footage, new questions, and updated information on the show.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS… and the answers!
Q: What have you already microwaved?
A: Click here: http://tinyurl.com/TMSList
Q: Who are you guys?
A: I am Jonathan Paula - I produce, edit, direct, co-host, film, and control this YouTube account; Jory Caron is the host, Riley McIlwain is the sidekick, and still-photographer.
Q: Age, location, jobs?
A: I’m 23, I live in Quincy MA - and YouTube is my full-time job - I graduated Emerson College in 2008 with a degree in Television Production & Radio Broadcasting. Jory is 21, he lives in Roxbury, MA, and also lives off of our joint YouTube profits - he dropped out of Emerson in 2008. Riley is 18 and lives in Lynn, MA - he’s still in high school.
Q: What’s the history behind the show?
A: We found a bunch of microwaves… and wanted to “test” one of them.
Q: Where do you get the microwaves, how to pay for them all?
A: I buy them used on Craigslist.com for around $30 each - the show’s budget pays for them.
Q: Where do you film?
A: In a specially made tent-area in my parent’s backyard in Nahant, MA.
Q: When do you film?
A: We film each season of the show all-at-once over the course of a long 3-day weekend. Typically, production for 35 episodes takes about 12 hours a day, 3-days in a row.
Q: Is the show scripted or improvised?
A: The introduction skits are pre-rehearsed, but mostly the show is improvised by us on the spot.
Q: What software do you edit your videos on?
A: Programs from the Adobe CS4 Master Suite: Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop
Q: What equipment/cameras do you use?
A: The show is shot using 3 cameras: My DVX-100b for the main angle with Sennheiner ME66 shotgun-mic for the main audio; a Canon Elura-100 for the microwave-angle attached to a dangling proximity mic for the microwave’s audio, and a Canon S3-IS for Riley’s sidekick-cam - that we don’t use the audio from.
Q: Do you get paid to make this show?
A: No, not exactly… but we do earn revenue through YouTube advertisements thanks to the Partner Program. We make enough for this to be our full-time jobs, and to live comfortably on it.
Q: How do you get those banner graphics, and video thumbnails?
A: I am a YouTube Partner - besides getting paid, we get special perks: YouTube.com/partners
Q: How many microwaves have you used?
A: 13 (so far): Unnamed, Diane, Sandra, Helga, Lacey, Vanessa, Tracy, Whoopi, Jasmine, Susan, Beatrice, Jackie, and Samantha.
Q: How do I donate something to the show?
A: Please send me a private message here on YouTube. Please specify what you’d like to send in your initial message… don’t tell me, “I’ve got something cool to donate” - tell me exactly what is is.
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Check out the episodes featured in this special:
Jonny’s Leftover Emporium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm1E04oWZm8
Microwave A Light Bulb:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I294xoqGcE
The original Behind The Scenes Special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPlDgIHtlw
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Starring: Jonathan Paula
Filmed by: Ezra Horne, Joe Collesano, Rebecca Fitzgerald, & Riley McIlwain
Original Footage featuring: Jory Caron, Riley McIlwain
Edited & Produced by: Jonathan Paula
An ideo Production - © 2009 / 2008
Duration : 0:7:28
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The “Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?” guys travel to New York City for 3 days to meet their loyal viewers, MicroKnights - and hang out with lots of other famous YouTubers!
Excerpt/Outtake from Biography
Excerpt/Outtake from Biography
This is a video I compiled form a lot of long, boring footage of the TV production crew that popped up in my neighborhood a couple of months ago. One morning I wake up to the sound of trucks and generators and found an entire television production crew had taken over our street and some adjacent ones too. The show that was being filmed is called ‘Bored To Death’, a comedy series on HBO or so the set guys told me. The video is not some great production but it was shot with my new HD cam. Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman, and Zack Galifianakis, all comedians, star in the show. So now the long awaiting nothing of a video, enjoy.