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Boyet's Brownies: A Tutorial

blend and scream nodding, taking notes

love the colours in this vid

we filmed Tragicomic in a similar area, and one of the shooting days was the hottest day of the summer, so when we wrapped a bunch of us left the set and walked directly into the ocean. beautiful place to swim

google earth, always taking pics, took a pic one of the days we filmed at Vegan Fred's and for a very long time Harriett's old car (also used to send John home) stood memorial online to filming lolilo

everyone go try whittaker's chocolate nowwww

#Doesn'tSmellLikeBeans

#HowAreThereBeansInThere

#BeansAreAGreatSourceOfProtein

really enjoy how vegan fred is a different kind of awkward in front of the camera in the end with balth; and how balth is in control when he is often projecting an image of himself more similar to what vegan fred is putting out here. okay it's 10pm i hope that made relative sense

friendship is the secret sauce to those brownies and why VF also is like "No, I also have not eaten a brownie this good."

YES THE GULL

okay thank you for your service fredrazar

script sillies... "Meg may challenge Pedro to “save” Balthy."

"Vegan Fred makes the brownies. Beatrice, Meg, Balthazar and Kitso sort of help him but sort of don’t."

oh, i stand corrected, "VEGAN FRED: The secret ingredient is almond milk. And love."

"BALTH: Vegan Fred, is it too forward of me to propose? VEGAN FRED: How about we start with you moving in?"

RUSSIANFUDGE

the title of this one is to encourage bea to watch

it's nice we did manage to have all the flat mates do a challenge, lowkey wish we'd been able to do more

ben playing steven universe the jam song

robbie literally being one of the best comedians in Aotearoa tbh (BUT ABBY HOWELLS IS BETTER GO GO GO TO HER SHOWS AND SE HER ON TASKMASTER NZ OKAY WE LOVE ABBY (who is dating robbie))

ben <333333

gotta go hit up a pick and mix lolly wall again soon

early december in wellington? yeah, all the flatmates are on their way out of seasonal depression

script sillies... "It’s suggested that they will go woo their peeps in Russian accents, then they’re like, nah let’s do it tomorrow."

"This is the last challenge, and they are again opting out of doing teams. This time because Balthazar is not here."

oh, true, no balthazar=no milk... their milk angel...

"JAQUENETTA: No. But. If someone wrote fanfiction about me. I mean. That’d be pretty awesome."

^ jaquie said rpf is okay

"Text Onscreen: FRED -10 control, but gains +50 respect!"

A Sonnet

this vid was originally filmed outside on the "stairs to nowhere", amongst the plants featured in the title drop here. BUT, because it's shakespeare, it was genuinely very hard to get a sincere take. we wanted a take without the wink wink nudge nudge so much we gave it another go during pick ups. and that's why it's in peter's room.

or, turns out, as it says in the script "Peter could be sat on the steps outside the flat, echoing A Merry Note, and also symbolising the fact that Peter is waiting for Balthy to come home.”

so symbolism vs realism FIGHT

Gifts?!

meg should have received a gift !!

fred seeing peter and ben do romantic gestures and going "oh well i don't want kit to feel left out"

when bea is angry she really is unable to #holdspace for anything else

jaques the dog in background for those with eager eyes

no balth for the drama

+confrontation+

i think this was my favourite email preview line, thank you lolilodaily team

originally, we were thinking the video description would be from ben and look something like: “Keeping you updated.” but in editing it made sense for jaquie, who helped with GUNGE, loves the “reality show” of the flat, and created the video would get a real kick outta uploading this one (and also cos ben’s too sad)

this one was a hard film, a hard edit, and a hard in-world justification for release; probably the one i'd most like to film more takes and b-roll for today - i wish it felt more real

yay costa and ben breaking in !!

yay vegan fred offering #violence

evil!balth of the darkest timeline choosing vegan fred and wearing this shirt to all the friend hangs

#9Cocoas

fred smiles and i glow

and they hug bc their relationship is, well, queer is the word i'd use today

pedrazar gets the gorgeous romantic background for their kiss bc this was their rom-com (among other things)

beadick background whited out, future uncertain yay conflict

script sillies... "COSTA: But I must say it’s nice to have more screen time- Jaquie pans away from Costa."

"Everyone is talking all at once. One voice carries over the rabble. VEGAN FRED: If you guys want to take a couple of deep breaths, let everyone have their chance to speak, and I can make cocoas while you sort this out."

"Everyone ignores [Vegan Fred]. Peter steps forward."

"Costa is miming the emotions he’s feeling along with his ‘actor’. Like he is conducting an orchestra with his face. He’s also mouthing things. It is far more complex than the conversation Peter has."

"Kit looks at her expectantly. // Kit goes to speak. // Kit goes to speak. // KIT: Thanks, Fred."

we had scripted versions of fred and kitso with and without using the word "love"

"Note: Which is like our saying “Should’ve, could’ve, would’ve” but essentially translates as “Should’ve, should’ve, bicycle-chain”, because it rhymes. Ask Etta for the proper pronunciation."

BIAB: Beatrice and Ballads

do tcw love a play against or something?

peter/pedro feeling secure in his relationship so comfortably turning his attention to his besties (vs. love gods)

~*~SWORDFIGHT Practice~*~

costa is wrong and that is why he will never have an audience bigger than 5. #freefaustus #theatreforthemasses #thepoweroffilm

to be fair, costa does not care about audience numbers #everyshowmatters

i love how well known Marlowe is in this world #forfaustus

BIAB: Narwhals and Nothing

kazoo is still there, feels right for the last biab

peter making balth a scooby doo sandwich for a date 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

love them hyping ben's cooking here, if only balth had purchased corn chips and salsa with paige

and so they burri-go

okay oh my god i have to go to bed sleep ins don't exist at this stage of parenting but we're sooooo close let's burri-go: see you tomorrow

FEATHERS

aka right now bc you are reading this some unknown amount of time after i wrote ahaha

thanks for sticking with [this show for 10+ years???!!] guys <3

OKAY i've been thinking about this and muppet costume party (i'm not doing everyone, this is just how it came to me, wow creativity) -> Ben - Fozzie Bear -> Bea - Rowlf -> Hero - Kermit -> pedrazar - Gonzo + Camilla (the chicken) (they argued abt if it should be rizzo or camilla)

"skip to the end" spaced reference

i stand with balthazar, he said he was heading off!! in his jacket !!!!

augh it would've been cool if damian haunted this story more

first 6 months balth's unseen crashout my beloved

hand hold number one thing that had to happen in a pedrazar ending

pedrazar symbol should've been the fishing reel gesture from love gods

winter's tale ref

so this was gonna be entirely a food fight but the idea of the amount of food wastage involved (bc we were amateurs) / encouraging that wastage did not sit right with us lol - enter the pillows

that cheek kiss, thanks reuben <3

stop it, hero/pearl looks so gorgeous

this was an "every cast member who is available" shoot, so if they'd been free we would've seen more of the non-speaking in this episode cast

script sillies, not that this first one is very silly... "Ben is sad, but doesn’t show it, which is depressing, because people will be expecting to see him sad, and then he’s not, and it means he’s very good at faking it."

"PETER: ...Just me steadily making myself more and more unhappy, trying to convince myself that you weren’t unhappy."

"Peter and Balth exchange a look of agreement, they’re done."

"BEN: I’ll give you a clue, I’m looking right at it. BALTH (He gets it): Let’s go."

"Fred punches Costa in the arm."

"Rosa and Bea hitting Ben"

"[Bea and Ben] laugh and Bea tackle hugs Ben"

FAREWELL

centering hero in this video really cements this as an nmtd follow up

love harriett here, love how out of it with shock bea is

script sillies... "Ben stands up and holds her."

SO we scripted, but never filmed (it felt too cheesy/unrealistic), an alternative version of the end where all the main couples say goodbye, really tempted to share it but you can just imagine i think - a little parade of farewells ending on...

"PEDRO (CONT’D): You go that way; we’ll go this way."

Break 'Dem Rules

how do you end a play like love's labour's lost? how do you keep a wave upon the shore? 🎶

p. donaldson, we will never know your name

maude knocks it out <33333

i do love these little losers, i think they made it

such a beautiful coastline, what a damn treasure

(((uh oh)))

SO circling back to that one LOOPHOLE bulletpoint; this video was originally going to be filmed on the day of Balth's party, "Ben, Peter, Bea, Fred, John, Rosa, Kit, Paige, Chelsey, Jaquie, and Costa as backup dancers. They clear the living room of stuff, fairy lights are on, couples and friends dance together."

"Costa is here which means he met the flat before the audience meet him, which is nice. But BEA doesn’t really acknowledge him as she doesn’t recognise him in [+confrontation+]. She forgets him."

so obvi we ran outta time for this and we refocused the idea on the flat itself and got it in pick ups

still cool you don't really know when they filmed it, but like the og plan to end on a throwback/what had already been seen feels very in line with everything else going on in the show (and serves a nice parallel to BIAB)

Credits

Ava, Bug, Gal & Ron, thank YOU so very much for making this happen

Jessi Golding truly the unsung MVP of NMTD, LoLiLo, and BSN

totoro phone case, miss you

shout out the kickstarter backers who are still ~around in the fandom, i see you, thank you

that last photo is still absolute gold

such lovely comments on this video, i am having a cry

btw, amongst many of the friendships forged through these shows (and some before), i will comment on two to end: 1. me n claris live quite literally next door to each other and our tamariki are buddies

I don't know why, but I just love this moment. It's Dewey and Louie in the same tune, I think we haven't see them like this before.