Week 109: A Bit On The Personal Side

Weekly Video Review


Sunday, October 14, 2012 

* Stayed home. Talked on the phone with...

Monday, October 15, 2012 

* Power Struggle Improv Meeting

Free Monday Night Iimprov Class 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

New Late Night Experiment Promotion

* Industry Minds minds event at their new location Busbys on Wilshire. There was a screening the The Boys. The Sherman Brothers documentary. I also had a particular conversation with the founder Dmico after the event which may change some things in the near future.  

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 

Read Post: Bing Originals: Supper Club

Read Post: Mid Week Update: Not Much To Report


Thursday, October 18, 2012

* McDonald's Audition - Role Name: GUY 4 - Mr Chic-Geek. I thought I had two separate auditions but I somehow I was double submitted.

Steve Royall & Motown Maurice 

Video (1) Here:


Friday, October 19, 2012

Read Post: Lessons In Love (All Day, All Night)

Read Post: Official 1st Episode Shoot


Saturday, October 20, 2012

* I developed and submitted information through my agent for a show called "Your Comments Please." Its a politically based show. I know nothing about politics but I said why not. (The results included the word unfortunately. At least I got a response).


Final Thoughts

I failed to mention in my weekly video review above that I finally received the check for my last excused appearance. Its only $150.00 but its just enough to get me through an episode and a half of my web series. I actually didn't realize it came in, even thought I've been anticipating it. The check went to Tampa and my mom mailed me a package including other mail (as she always does). I got it on Friday and barely browsed through the mail. The next day she called and told me I may of received my check. Talk about a mom that looks out. She's the only reason I'm surviving right now.

Love you ma.


As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Official 1st Episode Shoot (aka also Episode 2)

Post Represents: Friday, October 19, 2012

After this shoot, the first episode of The Late Night Experiment web series became official. Last week was the planned 1st episode shoot but due to improper capturing of the audio it had to tossed. Which ended up being the best thing that could of happened to the project. I certainly believe the audio mishap happened for the best. Over the years, I've learned how to make the best out of adversity. Not long after I found out about the audio setback last week, I took a moment to reevaluate and simplify the production by focusing on the most important components (talk about deja vu). Initially I was planning to shoot 10 episodes to complete the first season by Christmas. That was super crazy ambitious. Post the audio disaster, reality sunk with a list of new ideas. Now I'm shooting 5 episodes and the week before each episode I'll be releasing an episode teaser/commercial. This plan is much more creatively manageable. Through it all, the audio catastrophe became an production blessing.

Here is a snippet of the email I sent to my team upon making the decision to shoot episode 1 over again.

Allow me to tell you a story. November of last year, myself, Kevin Boot and a wonderful young lady named Raewyn Bailey set off to produce a 5 commercials for the 2011-2012 Doritos Crash The Super Bowl Contest. We shot 5 commercials in one day and moments after we wrapped, our hard drive fell while it was transferring footage. It was devastating. We had only two options. We could give up or reshoot. Thankfully, we had some of the footage on memory cards but a lot of it was lost. In the end, shooting over was the best thing that ever happened to us. Some of our original footage wasn't the best and we mastered what we really wanted in the reshoot. 

The Doritos Story: http://www.motownmaurice.blogspot.com/p/doritos-crash-super-bowl-2012.html

I'm mentioning all of this because we had a audio technical difficulty on Friday. It wasn't captured properly. Although, the internal mics on the camera picked up the sound decently well, I had the opportunity to reevaluate our project and I came up with many more great simplistic ideas. With that being said, lets count what we did on Friday as a rehearsal and we'll reshoot episode 1 this Friday. 

I have also decided to only shoot 5 episodes to complete our first season. 

I'm even more excited then before. 

Note: To all the actors, review your scripts because we're shooting over and its going to be so much better. 

Reevaluating after a mishap and making the product better seem to be a common trend lately. Moreover, I took a lot more photos last week. I didn't take as many photos/videos at this shoot because I wanted to stay focused on getting it down.

Video (1) Here:



Video (2) Here:

Mark Sipka, Ed Magik, Julio Hanson, Raj Jawa, Adrien Delstanche, Kevin Cárdenas,
Kevin Boot, Kritika Kapoor,  Rebecca Purdum Honett

Mark Sipka, Ed Magik, Julio Hanson, Raj Jawa, Adrien Delstanche, Kevin Cárdenas,
Kevin Boot, Kritika Kapoor,  Rebecca Purdum Honett

Mark Sipka, Ed Magik, Julio Hanson, Raj Jawa, Adrien Delstanche, Kevin Cárdenas,
Kevin Boot, Kritika Kapoor,  Rebecca Purdum Honett

Like: 
www.Facebook.com/LateNightExperiment

Photos courtesy of Adrien Delstanche: 
Official Episode 1 Photos Behind The Scenes 


Next Related:  
Double Shoot Success!!!

Previous/Team Related: 
1st Episode...I Mean First Rehearsal


Adrien Related: 
The Mallory Show - Taboo Episode - Behind... 


Kritika Related: 
Classified Screening at Panera Bread


VIEW FULL EPISODE 1 HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNr0kNWLtMM&list=PLARX0FIqV8gUEMcGmC6SJBdChrhyfk_vz&index=1

VIEW FULL EPISODE 2 HERE: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XCko99OG4I&list=PLARX0FIqV8gUEMcGmC6SJBdChrhyfk_vz&index=2

As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Mid Week Update: Not Much To Report

Post Represents: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 

Video (1) Here:



Video (2) Here:




As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Lessons In Love (All Day, All Night)

This video was released about 3 days ago and no one has noticed me as of yet but I'm proud to have located it myself.

Scene Locations: 1:07, 1:11, 1:46, 1:51, 1:56, 2:32, 3:12, 3:23, 3:25, 3:32, 3:39, 4:01, 4:07
...Not including all the scenes where you can see the back of my head.


In recent weeks there have been some anticipation for the video.

Lessons In Love, Neon Trees behind the scenes with Buzznet.com 

A lot of behind the scenes footage starting becoming available (The link below links to recent behind the scenes footage) and I was Facebook tagged by a fellow cast member Pandie Sg with the photo above.

Overall, I'm happy with my exposure in the video. I have nothing complain about. I can't complain as I did in the previous Neon Tree's video I was in. lol,

I'm very happy. Thank you Neon Trees.

Previous Related: 

Neon Trees is Full of Surprises


As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Bing Originals: Supper Club

I honestly thought I would of never seen this commercial. This past Saturday, I ran into Nassali who I met at the shoot in May, and she told me how to find it on youtube. We took a photo together at the shoot and she discovered the photo and left a comment on my blog on Oct. 11th. Ironically, two days later we saw each other for the first time since at the HBCU party.

Surprising enough. I can somewhat  be seen in the commercial.

Scene Locations: 0:13, 0:14 & 16


Final Thoughts

I remember them liking my look and asked me to stand and walk in a few scenes. No one I know noticed me but I certainly pointed myself out.

Related: 

Bing - Supper Club Extra

Without Swag, Non-Swag-able...(Video # 3)

As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Week 108: Garage Upgrade, a Home Run and possibly a New Friend

Weekly Video Review:


Sunday, October 7, 2012

Read Post: Packing It Up Temporarily

Video Here:



Monday, October 8, 2012

Read Post: Auditions From Studio City to La Cresenta



Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Read Post: A Day Before The Inspection

Read Post: Tuesday Night & Wednesday Morning



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Read Post:The Mallory Show - Taboo Episode -...

Read Post:Mid Week Update: I Wish Every Wednesday...

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Hair cut time with Mike Lowery. 

Mike Related: Week 102: Thursday, August 30, 2012


Friday, October 12, 2012 

Read Post: Audition Home Run

Read Post: Garage Upgrade 2.0

Read Post: 1st Episode...I Mean First Rehearsal



Saturday, October 13, 2012 

Read Post: Out of the Program...

Read Post: Without Swag, Non-Swag-able Swag-less...

Without Swag, Non-Swag-able Swag-less (HBCU Party)

Post Represents: Saturday, October 14, 2012

The Juice Crew Presents: School Daze - HBCU Party of the Year.
Rooftop 3100 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA

Video (1) Here:

Calling all HBCU Alumni, Greeks & PARTY PEOPLE HBCU young alumni on 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13th at Rooftop 3100 Wilshire Blvd. 

Video (2) Here:

The girl with the white jacket, with braids in the right hand corner is who I was to chicken to ask for a dance.
I didn't realize I took a photo of her until now. I'm not stalking her. 

Style! 

Video (3) Here:



In video 3, I talked about the one person I did end up talking for a while after the event. I met her here:

Related: Bing - Supper Club Extra

Note: I've been talking to that particular young lady ever since.

Final Thoughts:

I can't say I had the greatest time only because I'm not a party person. I am very glad I went. I met a officially befriended someone and enjoyed watching others have fun. Everyone I spoke to had a blast.

Big up's to Yo Yo Lander, she's one of one of the individuals who spear headed the event. I briefly got a chance to met her that night. She's a very sexy young lady. Keep up the great work Yo Yo Lander.

About 12 hours after the party they posted video review of the event. Now that's fast.

Video (4) Here:

As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Out of the Program...

Post Represents: Saturday, October 13, 2012

Qishanda recruited us to create a skit and perform it in front of a few big wigs today. Her aunt is connected to a particular program. We've been rehearsing the skit for the past couple of weeks. However, a couple of hours before it was time to leave we were informed that they took us out of the program. Oh well...The photo was too was well worth the preparation 

Video (1) Here:

Trent Bruce, Frank Ebels, Motown Maurice , Qishanda La'ree,
Kyriaki Rossi, &  Mark Sipka 

Trent Bruce, Frank Ebels, Motown Maurice , Qishanda La'ree,
Kyriaki Rossi, &  Mark Sipka

Video (2) Here:

Trent Bruce, Frank Ebels, Motown Maurice , Qishanda La'ree,
Kyriaki Rossi, &  Mark Sipka

Trent Bruce, Frank Ebels, Motown Maurice , Qishanda La'ree,
Kyriaki Rossi, &  Mark Sipka

Video (3) Here:




Trent/Frank/Kyriaki Related: 
Week 105: Anniversary Burn Notice 

Qishanda Related: Industry Minds Workshop Series  

Mark Related: 1st Episode...I Mean First Rehearsal


As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

1st Episode...I Mean First Rehearsal

Post Represents: Friday, October 12, 2012

There is no reason to hold back. The shoot was fantastic. The energy and excitement from everyone was phenomenal. Unfortunately, the audio wasn't recorded properly. However, this set back became a set up for a wave of ideas to simplify the project. Therefore, I decided to focus on producing 5 episodes instead of 10. I also decided to use 30 seconds to a minute of each episode as a commercial to fulfill my goals on Tuesdays. I'm not worried about this mishap at all. In addition, I also plan to perform 100 times better in the next shoot, next Friday.

The Late Night Experiment Episode 1 Shoot aka 1st Rehearsal Behind The Scenes. 

Video (1) Here:

Video (2) Here:

Video (3) Here:

Andre Dupuis, Mark Sipka, Raj Jawa, Kevin Cárdenas, Julio Hanson, Kevin Boot,
Ed Magik, Rebecca Purdum Honett & Motown Maurice

Andre Dupuis, Mark Sipka, Raj Jawa, Kevin Cárdenas, Julio Hanson, Kevin Boot,
Ed Magik, Rebecca Purdum Honett & Motown Maurice

Andre Dupuis, Mark Sipka, Raj Jawa, Kevin Cárdenas, Julio Hanson, Kevin Boot,
Ed Magik, Rebecca Purdum Honett & Motown Maurice

Andre Dupuis, Mark Sipka, Raj Jawa, Kevin Cárdenas, Julio Hanson, Kevin Boot,
Ed Magik, Rebecca Purdum Honett & Motown Maurice

Like: www.Facebook.com/LateNightExperiment

Team Related: Week 107: (Friday) 

Kevin C. Related: Mid Week Update: Prior To Creation...

Kevin Related: Week 103: (Sunday) 


Video (4) Here:






Video (5) Here:

Motown Maurice & Michael O'Garro Jr.

Next Related: Official 1st Episode Shoot

Michael Related: 

Mid Week Update: Location Meeting

Like: www.Facebook.com/LateNightExperiment


Final Thoughts

I have truly learned to love adversities. I'm confident re-shooting the first episode is the best thing that could of happened to this project.

As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Garage Upgrade 2.0

Post Represents: Friday, October 12, 2012 

Video Here:

Old Sleeping quarters. 

On the way to the new quarters. 

Side door. 

As the quest continues...

The Future of Late Night

 Motown Maurice