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S4 Ep31: Micro Horror Movie: Autonomous - Kyle Valle & Erin Aine
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This week on Magic Making Mischief, we get the opportunity to have the returning guests of Kyle Valle and Erin Aine. They are talking about their new micro horror movie – Autonomous! The reviews are out! Find out for yourself what this movie is about from Kyle and Erin on 28JUL at 7PM CT! This is one podcast episode you do not want to miss!
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Hey magic makers, I'm Momby Rabbit.
SPEAKER_00I'm Yukita Kosclay. And I'm CJ Peterson. Apparently, we've got some little magic makers in. They're making some mischief with our sounds. You're going to have to forgive us just a little bit. We solemnly swear we're up to the little magic makers out there in the beyond. So we're going to have to bear with us just a little bit with our magic making. I don't male and Aaron Ann are going to be talking about our autonomous A micro horror that I've heard. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Honestly, the worst I heard when the autocar started coming out. I originally thought it would be, you know, what happened if somebody like actually hacked into the car. But the idea of the car taking over completely actually terrifies me even more. Why don't you guys tell us about the movie itself? I know where it kind of did, but go ahead and do it. Aaron and Kyle Vloggone.
SPEAKER_04Awesome. Thank you guys so much for having us. It's great to be back. And uh yeah, a little bit about Autonomous. It's an original Screamify micro horror. So it's shot vertically. You binge watch it on your phone. It's 28 minutes long, but it's divided into 16 episodes. So it's a really quick watch. You just fly through, you can't stop scrolling. It follows a couple play one of the one of the unhappy people. Uh Amy and Garek are arguing back at the driverless. And yeah, long story short, mayhem ensues the car takes them off course. They start realizing way too late. They're locked out of the app.
SPEAKER_05They can't get out of the car, and then the real world will just start again and get it.
SPEAKER_00That's not okay. That is seriously like one of my worst nightmares. I mean, with the like how much cars nowadays, I would like to say that's like my worst nightmares about my car getting hacked. But I I thought part of this thing. In the backseat, what are you gonna do? How do you get out of it?
SPEAKER_04It would be awful, awful. It would be I agree with you. I already was interpretious about getting anything in these vehicles in real life. And after filming them from them as well, I definitely don't care about it.
unknownYeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Unfortunately, I don't know very many people who actually carry that around. Especially when it's somebody in your car, right?
SPEAKER_00And you're gonna I just I just I mean, okay. That that is a horror movie in and of itself, but whose idea was it? How'd you come up with it? And yikes, yeah.
SPEAKER_04So this one actually written by Sean Overbeek, who's the founder of Screamify. And Screamify likes ZombieCon Volume 1. We hopped on a call with Sean after us getting along really, really well telling us about they were launching a show for micro horrors. He told us about this that he'd written for one. At the end of the code, we're like, yes, yes, we're interested in. I think it was an SA that we were already on contract and Kyle was already starting the pre-production.
SPEAKER_01Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_04Fast.
SPEAKER_00You guys sent Mommy the film? Is that accurate?
SPEAKER_02Uh no, they told me that it was coming up, and uh, so I couldn't resist to watch it before we got a chance to have them on here. And I have to admit that I was like seriously impressed with the way that they got this footage. It was almost claustrophobic because they were in this tiny car the whole time, and I literally was wondering if you had to have uh contortionist filming this because this was insane how great they did in this confined space filming this. It was so crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yes, uh, your strictness performer uh right here. It was it was a bit of a challenge, especially because we shot on the Aria Lexa. That was extremely difficult. Sorry, I'm just trying to mess with the microck on here. I apologize.
SPEAKER_04I can't like and he is not a small man, he's a tall guy, he's a big guy, and the camera itself weighs like 30 something pounds when all is set up. So he's he's in the front, just like crunching down, trying to get all the different angles. And from the backseat, I I always joke like literally my view of Kyle, regardless of where he was, was of the camera and his dreamify hat just like poking over.
SPEAKER_01Wildly uncomfortable. Uh they named for the way we ranked the idea versus including the tree or all Prince Prince photography. And it is a by size comparison, a fairly large VIP, but for some reason the internal structure of the bar is like smaller than a compact car. It made filming it more difficult.
SPEAKER_02It was amazing. I mean, it was very impressive watching this. I mean, it was a micro horror with a micro space to film it, so I think it was on point.
SPEAKER_04It was an absolute blast. It was unlike any project we've ever done for sure. I mean, the subject matter being so timely, Waymo is kind of really just hitting the ground running, unintended. And then also it being shot vertically, meant to be binge washed on your phone like that, and format of 16 episodes, a minute or two each. It was felt very much of the moment and kind of like where everything, not everything is headed, but there's a niche and a space for this type of content. And it feels really good to be on the forefront of it.
SPEAKER_00So I gotta ask, taking taking a poll from my sisters, would you guys get in a car where there's no driver?
SPEAKER_01We have uh for a film mill for principal photography. We actually had the actors get in one and we did some filming in there. And then we actually for I guess the building out to the project in pre-production, I had to get in one and drive around parts of Atlantis so I could recreate it uh you know, you know, properly. And it was absolutely terrifying because it's all it feels uh big future while also being uh extremely horrifying, especially when you come to an intersection. You've got like 50 cars coming straight on, and you're waiting for it to stop, you're waiting for it to stop, it's pulling up, it kind of slows down, the cars are getting closer. You're kind of like, okay, it's just and when the cars get within like a hundred yards, it's like okay, and traffic ahead coming to a stop. You're like, yeah, there's still traffic coming up with like 50 cars down there. What are you doing? So a little bit of hair hair.
SPEAKER_02Nope, nope, nope, not I was in uh Atlanta, Georgia, and I mean the driving's terrible enough there anyway, from what I've experienced, but like there were a lot of those driverless cars. I'd never seen them before. And so seeing them out there, I was like, what is it? I thought it was a police car at first because it has all the cameras and stuff. And they told me, I'm like, uh-uh, no, I'm sorry. That's no like certain things, but that right there, that one I'll pass on. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03Not a fan of robots or anything that can do the anything by itself and no.
SPEAKER_02Would you like to pick taxi skynet? No pass, please.
SPEAKER_03Good idea.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. I could thank you. Thank you. Seeing the movie, why are they doing this stuff now? I don't understand.
SPEAKER_02And gasped that solidified my opinion. Seeing the movie, I was just like, and the Skynet ensues. Okay, there we go.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god, I know you're not afraid of a robot, but I am afraid of a robot car.
SPEAKER_03It's like, why not ask a sci-fi? I've also seen a robot. And and I imagine good.
SPEAKER_02I gotta say that, like, I think y'all did a really great job with this though, because being a micro horror, you know, it's these little all these mini episodes and stuff, but uh it's it is got a great horror story to it, and it keeps you invested and you want to know what's gonna happen next in each one, but you also did a good job like creating the characters too, and having a story with it. You know, sometimes I know a lot of times with horror they struggle to kind of really get characters that you are following the story with because like you get the story of them, and sometimes they just they're so excited to get into the horror story itself, you know, that it's like, okay, what's happening here?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, have micro horrors been around because that's something new, right?
SPEAKER_04Actually, Screamfy launched this, they trademarked micro horrors. Um, I mean the vertical space has been really exploding, especially out of China, out of Asia, but but even in America here, as you've been scrolling on social media, um is in y'all's feed that happens to me now all the time, too. It'll pop up on like episode one, and you're just thrown into the middle of this over dramatic, crazy scenario. Maybe it's with like fantastical creatures, or it's like billionaire, or maybe again again, all kinds of other episodes and watching that way, but yeah, yeah, I think horror horrors.
SPEAKER_00How long have they been around though?
SPEAKER_02It's really new, right? Were y'all one of the first ones? Uh well they're they're just launching it.
SPEAKER_04We're one of three micro horrors that they launched on I think it was last month. Um yeah, they have a brand new analog horror for them.
SPEAKER_00I thought that that was new. I've never heard of it before, and I'm like, oh that's kind of like a groundbreaking, that's awesome. Yeah, because uh the hashtag microhorrors doesn't have a huge following, but I started hashtag him with it. Um it's kind of a low number, but it's growing fast. I thought that was kind of wild, but I like the idea of it. It's almost like a novella.
SPEAKER_04Sort of sure. It's like look if you're gonna be binge watching something and it's already created social media style because you're doing it on your phone in little bites, you're watching it vertically, but instead of kind of endlessly scrolling on just your mini feed on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube shorts, you're actually watching some premium content.
SPEAKER_02So you've got a whole story you're following along with with each little piece too. Yeah. Right, right. Um, I wanted to kind of clarify for those who don't know about Screamify. I have fallen in love with this. It is a uh a streaming service that is all independent horror films. And it's I mean, okay, it's good, it's growing a lot already, I think, personally. But like I I love that they have got some of my favorites, like ZombieCon Volume One is on there. Never heard of it. But yeah, if uh if y'all want it, they've got an app, and then I think I've got it on my Fire Stick too, actually, that I use as well. And so I've watched it on my big screen and on my phone. And uh it's got it's and it's all specifically independent horror films, and there's a couple of classics in there too, like Night of the Living Dead, which of course that's a must-watch for you know, spooky season coming up.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, they're awesome. They just launched last year, but they've been going like crazy. Like you said, their library has been expanding, and catalog is expanding, and and they launched the premise of we're here to support independent filmmaking, indie indie board, especially independent filmmakers. And that was definitely our experience. They were so supportive, they gave us great freedom, you know, they were funding the project project, but we're in no will, you know, overseeing us and a lot of lot of some greater freedom.
SPEAKER_01It was fantastic, a really great experience. Um, so rarely do you get kind of the funding and the story coming from a place, and then having so little kind of direct oversight and their I guess test on the filmmaking is ostensibly we trust the guys to make this project. So go forth and make it make it. And I kind of have my Christopher Nolan moment where I was like, wait, you're not gonna sit on my shoulder the entire session. No, you're fine.
SPEAKER_04And they even had uh documentary and reality cruise like follow-up for an entire day and put together behind the screen. We have a whole episode on there. And was it from just that day that it was all the other scenes that we were gathering? And they were rendering us. It was it was gonna show start off with my narration and they've pulled from other other IMDB faces who knows where like images of Kyle and Anna from the years, years past me you know, telling our story and how we got into you know, you know, autonomous. So it's it was it was a cool experience, but I thought I didn't want it, or especially horror films, like like I don't like because it was a behind behind the look of you know how needs being made.
SPEAKER_02I used to see that. I thought they did a really good job. I I loved it. Uh it got me interested in wanting to see um the the the micro core stuff too, whatever. I think I saw that right before I got a chance to actually watch it. So I was like, okay, okay, I gotta pick this. There, this is interesting. But we didn't really get the the the full view of the contortionism. I wanted to see more of that after seeing it. I'm like, okay, how are you getting that shot?
SPEAKER_01No one no one wants to see that, trust me.
SPEAKER_02Like the legs on the dashboard bent up around. You look at your own horror movie up in there with like the crawling on the ceiling with the arms back.
SPEAKER_01After almost every take, right? We were doing 15-page blocks. So Aaron and Dominic. Dominic plays Derek, they did a fantastic job. We ran it very much like a stage play, uh, shooting it in all chunks when we didn't have to cut away for special effects or you know, no spoilers plus the monster specific stuff stuff. So I'm sitting in the front seat of the car fairly much as you described it, with legs kind of going out everywhere. I can put that you know, this 30-pound camera rig on top of me, sitting on a beanbag, and I'm and I'm trying to balance on a sandbag so we don't like tear up the inside of the spring to the car. And after each like 15-minute take, I like my butt locked up. I just there's shit shit. Help help, help, help, somebody would come in and grab the camera from me. And then I think my friend Chad Tolson, who's the sound guy on the project, would come in and he'd be careful to help like like unstretch all my body parts so I can like squeeze my way back out of it.
SPEAKER_04He'll file out of there, like he's a C out of the car. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01It didn't prepare me at all. False advertising.
SPEAKER_04I don't even think yoga could have could have cared you.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_00So we're trying to start them in mind.
SPEAKER_04So we got a couple different scripts, feature films, and like development deals that we're putting together, but ultimately it just depends on with the financing which one comes through first. We do as well have our feature film, It's Watch, that is still in post-production because we shot it, it was ready to go, basically, just the littlest still needs to be done on sounds. And then ZombieCon got released, and we shifted focus to its release and the marketing. And then Autonomous, like literally pulled up, and we got in that car and sailed away onto that.
SPEAKER_01Fantastic time.
SPEAKER_04Yes, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Wheels, wheels, turns, turns. Um, and so hopefully we'll be able to get back to its watching soon. Um it's a fun film, it's definitely a bottle from its small pile is a spring actor and did like like like her usual, it's got comedy. It's it's we're looking forward to that too.
SPEAKER_01Yep, and we're working on zombie con 2. So we're we're basically gonna finish this at a do we go with the opportunities that we have at this moment or kind of paradigm script? Because I did write the script with no budget in mind, or do we hold out and see if we can get a little more money for it so we can kind of uh explore the more crazy side of that cinematic vision. So that's currently in like the biggest holding pattern. And then there are a number of projects that fall below that. Uh one might be starting in January, um, like the financing is coming together with that right now. I can't really say too much more about that, but but that's that's on a good track. It's gonna be a horror, like comedy. Clearly, horror is like our bread and butter. It's the go-to.
SPEAKER_04We we we don't have experience with it by this point.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00You're good at it. So that's that's we're excited.
SPEAKER_02We're excited for ZombieCon volume two, but we're we're ready.
SPEAKER_03From um that the comments are talking about the echoing link in the back. Guys, we know there's some some picnic, some some pick pics that got everywhere. Because you know, you know, Gilderlow. He'd be doing things so until we can get to come back from her potions to help us out. We're gonna deal with the the pixies. Sorry guys, it kind of makes us scary. Try your hardest.
SPEAKER_05Sorry guys.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, technical issues are happening, and uh, we apologize, but it's worth it, so stick around. And we're talking about uh autonomous, the micro horror, and uh Screamify was it is where it's on the independent horror and uh films streaming and uh all their awesome projects that are coming up as well. Uh so it's worth it. Stick around.
SPEAKER_04Listen, it's just so nice that you get to hear it twice.
SPEAKER_02I think I think it gives it a nice like horror context to go along with the topic. I think it works, you know.
SPEAKER_04AI doesn't like us talking and put in a bad light, you know, the way that we have with autonomous, so it's clearly seeking revenge on us right now. I'm okay.
SPEAKER_00We all have an echo. That's okay.
SPEAKER_03We all have an echo duty. We get it.
SPEAKER_00It's the global ride we're stuck. We try to fix it for 15 minutes. We've been trying to fix it and now we're just getting double the fun. Unfortunately, that's not gonna work. We are still having fun with Kyle and Aaron tonight talking about their movies and what they've got what they've got going on. So we'll go back to Kyle and Aaron and what they've got going on next in line. Um so where do you guys get all of your ideas? Because you guys' mind is wild.
SPEAKER_04Oh, this is this is all Kyle when it comes to the story creation, writing.
SPEAKER_01Well, no, uh Sean actually wrote for Autonomous, yeah.
SPEAKER_04This was the founder of Screamify, Sean, but ZombieCon and our web series and shorts. This is like Kyle just comes up with the craziest things, but his most impressive quality is how fast he writes scripts too. We've been on a vacation for the last almost month with other work things in between. And he still wrote two feature film scripts just you know, casually.
SPEAKER_02My mic was up for a second there. Uh so I have to ask, like, in your notebook of ideas, how many do you think you have in the works? Like, I know everyone has that little list of ideas of ones that they've got coming, and I'm I'm figuring there's probably like a good hundred as a minimum in there somewhere.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's hundreds. I've got like a stack of probably I don't know, 50 notebooks that I've pulled out that are just kind of like treatment lines or script mix, you know, you know, just a couple paragraphs for each story. And then I just Whenever I finish a notebook, I toss it into the safe and move on to the next one.
SPEAKER_02That's go later later. Right.
SPEAKER_01Hopefully. I don't know. I've got one of those fireproof safes. And I follow the instructions where it's like open it every single month for 30 minutes. And uh I let it go for like two years and I open it up. And I was like, Oh. Well, that's why they tell you to open it because now everything's covered in mold.
SPEAKER_02Oh no. I don't think I ever read that on my instructions. And I need to open mine too. Oh my gosh. I've never heard that. That's crazy. Oh no. I think maybe convert it to digital, like take pictures of it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. That'll be the next step for sure.
SPEAKER_02Put it on the cloud at this point. Except like I get paranoid, like because sometimes I say an idea to somebody, and the next thing I know, someone will make something out of it. And I'm like, was that my idea? Or like, did someone else have that idea that at the same time I did? Or what? I get paranoid. I'm like, I can't tell. I know I had that idea, right? Like, I had that idea. And now there it is. What is happening? I'm a trendsetter. That's all there is too. I was like, I don't know. What is weird? So I don't know. Maybe like don't upload it to cloud, but like make it digital and put it on like a put the hard drive in the tape, and that won't go like actually the uh hard drive's been worse.
SPEAKER_01It's okay. I dried them out. Like everything's fine. I recovered everything.
SPEAKER_04But you know, most people in their safe like cash or a gun or something, you will find storybooks and journals. Hard drives.
SPEAKER_02Okay. I guess you don't want any of that molding though, technically. So open your open your waterproof safes for like half an hour every once in a while, guys. Okay. Let it air out. Apparently it gets gamey in there. Alright, sorry, that was a that was a sidetrack subject there, but like that I never heard.
SPEAKER_03CJ was anything. Huh?
SPEAKER_00CJ say anything? I was I was just basically saying the same thing she did. I started it and she finished it. I said say she said make sure to open your things every couple of years every couple of weeks.
SPEAKER_02I want to ask this because we didn't really get to ask this before. So um Erin, um, you do these uh these great characters, but I wanted to say what started you acting? I don't remember that we ever got on the subject because we were really caught up last time y'all were here in ZombieCon Volume 1, but I wanted to ask that. Like, what what inspired you to start acting?
SPEAKER_04I always have been such a absolute lover of the stage and spotlight and performing, and even as a child, I just just any stage there happened to be, like I was there, even if there were supposed to be like kids on there, like I would find my way on. Um but it literally got going when I went to Metaphysic Camp. I followed my sister's action camp. And I found out while there that you could audition for an agent. And I watched these kids do their monologues like live in front of us, knowing there were talent agents in the audience. And I just I was so upset. I went home and I was crying to my mom. I'm like, I missed my chance. This has always been my dream. I'll never I'll never have a talent agent. She's like, You have never told me you wanted to do this. So yeah, hi. But I went back week, week went to the back. Just to do a monologue, everything went well. I ended up getting an agent in Atlanta, and I went at starting to be on the track where it is now. Um and things went well, and I was basically acting all the way through college and graduating early and booking enough roles and features and you know series and stuff where I'm like, I could do this for a little. I think this thing's you know really gonna be happening. Um so yeah, it's it started as a fashion, but kind of fell into the professional way of it, never looked back.
unknownNice.
SPEAKER_02That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00Very nice, very cool.
SPEAKER_04And you never know until your push comes to shove and you're watching other people do what you feel maybe it's your dream, and it just is like screaming out of you, like, no, I can't sit back. I've gotta be in the next two. And that was that was definitely my inspiring experience.
SPEAKER_00Very cool. That's awesome. It's very, very inspired. So we have two minutes up. Is there anything you guys would like to add?
SPEAKER_01Anything you'd like to add, guys?
SPEAKER_04Oh, about Tottenham Adams, Foundy Comic Bird, Life. Yeah, we've uh just highly recommend um going for it. There's never a perfect time. I know I was just talking about auditioning and being represented professionally, and it was definitely its own journey. But you know, when Kyle and I got together and we both were in LA, we're getting sick of waiting and doing auditions and feeling like we didn't have any control over our own career and this life back. And we just started bit by bit trying bigger and bigger things and learning as we went. So definitely just jump in and don't wait when it comes to your dream dream.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, 100% what you said.
SPEAKER_02Love that.
SPEAKER_00Cool. Well, thank you, Kyle and Aaron, for coming. It's always a joy to have you guys on. Um, you can learn more about them, and you can learn more about what's going on in their lives on Big Squid Films on Instagram. That's G-I-G S-K-U-I-D-F-L-I-M-S. Aaron Ann A E R I N A I N E on Instagram. Um Instagram K Y K Y B 71. You're good. Also, it's also on Instagram. I get everybody that guys might know where they are. Um and you can also go over to the screen Wi-Fi app itself and check out the film. Uh the audio is on there. So check it out. Uh terrifying. It's all get out. Unlike I said that's probably my worst nightmare is eating. I'm gonna level the card, not that I would ever do it, because that's not something I would do. Um that is a nightmare in and of itself. Um but yeah, it is kind of scary. What do you think about it?
SPEAKER_02I'm honestly hoping for more episodes at this point, too. I want to know what happens next again. So Hey, never say never. It would be pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00No, I'm I'm gonna say never. I will not do it. I'm gonna go with C Jesus, thank you.
unknownThank you.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna do it.
SPEAKER_03Because people already drive like they're not in the cars anyway. I don't even want to see what it looks like when they're actually not in the car.
SPEAKER_00Get on a bicycle than get in a car without a driver. It's not happening. Right now, not gonna happen. That's a definite never say never. Um, in the meantime, next week we will have Bat Putin Comics Gino uh Starita Astarita. I'm doing good tonight. Um, so get your wands ready. Margaret is gonna take us out. Thank you, Kyle and Aaron, for coming on tonight and sharing with us your micro horror. Thanks for having us.
SPEAKER_05Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00Guys, sorry about the technical difficulties.
SPEAKER_02Sorry about that, guys. Yeah, I was gonna say sorry about the technical difficulties. Especially for those who stuck around the whole time. Thank you so much. You guys are rock stars for sticking through the X and technical till next time, guys. Um make sure that you smash that thumbs up and that you are subscribed and follow us, CJ Peterson, Mommy Rella, uh on YouTube. And uh make sure to follow CJ if you've got TikTok too, because she's got TikTok going too. And uh uh Juju. Oh my brain just glitched.
SPEAKER_03All of us on all the social media, wherever you can find us.
SPEAKER_02I got it. Okay. I think the echo is echoing in my head. Okay.
SPEAKER_03That's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna need a special floor. Don't forget to follow Kyle and Big Squid's Instagram. Instagram.com.
SPEAKER_04Thank you. Thank you. Thanks again so much for having us too, everyone. We love that.
SPEAKER_02Um 97 days, I think, too. This is a great way to get the uh to get the uh spooky season you know vibes in there, right there. All right. Until then, guys, get your wands up because it is mischief managed.