Roomies- Season 1- Episode 1: The Pilot- Part 2 of 2

Film Description: Steven, Joseph, and Chris go through a series of misadventures during their first day on campus. Film History: Ah, the pilot episode. Man, do I hate this episode. Now only because of the content but because of the hell it put us through. It’s amazing the episode was even finished. It was a long a shaky road and in the end content was sacrificed, sleep was lost, and some people probably got hurt. When writing this first episode, I had higher hopes for it. It was a story starter but the content we had seemed funnier on paper then what we got in the final results. For instance, in the original script, we had this gross fat lunch lady walking around yelling out “Peas! Do we have any peas?!” during the scene where Chris was having a pee problem of his own. Instead we had to replace it with someone drinking out of a water fountain. It may seem simple, but I think it made a big difference for that scene. And some of the jokes I had hoped for fell flat in the end (this wasn’t the fault of the actors). Speaking of the water fountain scene, that almost didn’t get done. Over half our extras didn’t’ show up. So, we had to pull people who were walking around campus, have them sign release forms, and then make them stand in a line. Michael Nodine actually played three different parts in that line scene by dressing up as different people (ah, movie magic). Also, the night we were filming this, some work study thing was going on in the office we were filming at. So we …