One Hit Wonders

One Band
One Hit
One More Shot at Glory
One Too Many Problems
One Hit Wonders
In 1985 the band The Frizz had a Top 40 single, but they soon broke up after the death of their freewheelin bass player Seth Collinswiggle. Now 20 years later, their song is a hit again thanks to a hit TV show. Can the band get back together for one more shot at glory? And even if they do, can they stay together without killing one another?
One Hit Wonders is not a short film exactly, but a teaser for a show idea. In the Spring of 2006 Team Playomatic found out about the Myspace.com/Sunnyfx TV comedy pilot at the last minute with less than a week to the deadline. This, however, did not deter us from coming up with an idea and creating this teaser on short notice. The idea was conceived on Tuesday, June 6, 2006, hammered out in a group meeting on Thursday, June 8th, and then shot at the Peabody Jam Rooms on Friday, June 9th. It was edited on June 11th and posted to MySpace for the FX competition on Monday, June 12th after many repeated attempts to upload it. To date it has not been screened anywhere but on MySpace.com/playomatic making it a web exclusive.
Tune in. . . well, we arent sure when you'll get to tune in, because we are disappointed to report that our teaser did not make the Top 20 out of over 3000 submitted films in the competition. Still, we all like it. Maybe you will too. Let us know.
Copyright 2006 - Playomatic - All Rights Reserved

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 80's
• Bands
• eighties
• Playomatic
• Stuart
• MTV
• 1985
• Spoof
• breakdancing
• Erik
• Rodenhiser
• Chip
• English
• dancing
• party
• peabody

[czerwony45]

lol at first I thought it was for real

the ghost bass player was really funny!

[Playomatic]

Thanks, Czerwony45. We thought it had potential as a tv show pilot. We didn't win.

[Earthlinked]

I can see YEARS of story lines - on a half hour sit com!!!! But it should have that feeling of "Oh - yeah - I remember them - I think"!!! Sort of a take off on a real 1970's one hit wonder group!!!

Cool idea - good luck pitching it!!!

[Playomatic]

Thanks, Earthlinked. We did pitch it and nothing came of it, so now it's online here at Youtube for everyone to enjoy. We were kinda going for an 80's one hit wonder band, but there is a touch of 70s in there too for sure. But thanks for recognizing what we worked hard to achieve: we wanted to pitch a show that looked like it would have years of fun story lines to look forward with plenty of character conflict.

[Earthlinked]

Well - keep the faith - the script for Forest Gump bounced around Hollywood for 5 or 6 years!!!!!

[Playomatic]

What's really strange is that I just watched Forest Gump again yesterday before I got your comment. How fun is that?

[ArtHennessey]

Just watched this again after a bunch of years. It's really fun to see it. We created this in a very short amount of time. But it came out pretty well.

[Earthlinked]

Inspiration!!!

[Playomatic]

Thanks, much appreciated. We are very pleased that this has been so well received here on YouTube.

[MyMastersHouse]

This one has to be my favorite.

It's so funny. =)