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YFIAS Video Production Diary #1 – Audio Equipment

This is the first behind-the-scenes video production diary for Your Face is a Saxophone. Once every week or two, we’ll be posting a video showing off the happenings of what happens with things happening.

In this video, Andrew Camenzuli and I test out the microphones and mixer that we were able to buy with the help of our esteemed benefactors. If you’d like us to be able to afford more awesome things, like computer equipment and epic car crashes, please donate. This is your last chance to get a lifetime Plankhead membership for just $5 before our pricing changes on June 15th.

Music used in this video by xIk.

    YFIAS Casting Change — Andrew is Now Alex Green


    A few weeks ago, Vin Vulpis sent us an email saying that he could no longer commit to playing Andrew in Your Face is a Saxophone. We understand completely — in January 2010, when we recorded the pilot, Vin was still living close by, but he’s now very busy studying in Pittsburgh. I’d feared that it might not work out to bring him back, and, unfortunately, that turned out to be the case. We’ll be sad to see him go.

    Fortunately, my brother Alex is available, and he certainly has the chops to fill Andrew’s gigantic pinhead. So, allow me to formally announce to the Internets at large that Alex Green will be playing Andrew in the remaining six episodes of Your Face is a Saxophone.

    Alex has acted for me before, most prominently as everyone-but-the-main-character in this film I made for English class when I was 15:

    He also appeared as the only redeeming factor in this thing which you absolutely should not watch. The fact that I have linked to it in no way implies that you should actually click on that link and watch it. Please don’t.

      Script Excerpt From YFIAS Episode 2 – “Miss Anthropy”


      The script for Episode 2 of Your Face is a Saxophone is finished. In writing this episode, I wanted to improve upon a couple problems I’d noticed in the pilot:

      1. Leora wasn’t as well-developed a character as everyone else.
      2. It didn’t pass The Bechdel Test.

      So, I decided the second episode would be a good time to bring in Janet, a recurring character glimpsed briefly at the end of the pilot (She’s the one in green). During the episode, she talks to Leora about things other than men. Problem solved. Oh, and she’s also a fairly interesting character in her own right. As is Leora, now that I’m giving her a chance to show herself.

      Anyway, this episode’s gonna be about sexist advertising, and how it’s stupid and all that. And also how sexism is stupid. I know, real profound, right?

      Hit the jump to read a scene from the script. If you were a paid Plankhead member, you’d already have been able to read the full, entire script, and for a limited time, you can get a LIFETIME PLANKHEAD MEMBERSHIP!!! with your donation of $5 or more at the Your Face is a Saxophone Donation Page. I just did a sales pitch. I feel dirty.

      Okay, anyway. Script excerpt. Here it is:
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        Voice Acting Source for Your Face is a Saxophone is Now Available

        You can now download all of the voice acting audio files we used in the pilot episode of Your Face is a Saxophone.

        It is legal for you to copy, share, modify, or reuse these files for any purpose. Please give credit to Plankhead if you do.

        Or, more specifically, they’re licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

          Your Face is a Saxophone

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