Creator's Corner » Suck and Moan - Brendon Fong
Tell us about your sci-fi web series.
Suck and Moan is best described as overly analytical vampires stressing about the depleted food resources brought on by a zombie apocalypse or Seinfeldian vampires in Zombieland. It's the story of a group of rather passive vampires, who have mastered living amongst and feeding on humans, and the
sudden predicament they find themselves in, when the world is suddenly overrun by a zombie outbreak. It's hard to run your own damage control when someone else comes along and destroys everything you've worked so hard to keep under wraps. Besides losing their food reserves to the newly open human buffet, one of them contracts the virus by accidentally feeding on a zombie...and satirical hilarity ensues!
Where did the idea/concept for your web series come from?
I'm not a fan of the horror genre by any means, but wanted to write within that world in my own way. I've always had an interest in extraordinary people who are challenged by the mundane, so this was a perfect avenue. Zombies have always been boring to me, because most zombie apocalypses involve sitting and waiting. Humans don't like leaving places that are safe. So, I found great interest in having a group of vampires who could go wherever they wanted in the midst of this pandemic and very well slaughter zombies en masse, but were more concerned about contracting a virus via the rotting body parts flying all over the place and how a virus that resurrects the dead would effect the undead. So, the battle is more about their hesitation to deal with the epidemic, than the actual fights themselves.
Name some of your sci-fi influences. Any favorite movies, TV shows, novels?
Clearly, being a kid of the 80's, I loved the holy trilogy growing up. Every film school essentially makes Blade Runner part of the syllabus. And who didn't want to time travel Marty McFly style? But more recently, sci-fi flicks I think have stuck with me are City of Lost Children, Dark City, 12 Monkeys, and even Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Spike Jonze is a big influence, since I think he's been able to find a good blend of scifi and fantasy, while still remaining in the real world.
Tell us about the technical production of your show. What camera & equipment did you use? Editing software & hardware? For visual effects, etc?
We shot on the Panasonic HVX200. It's a great workhorse with the indestructible P2 cards, but with the rise of the Canon still cameras and the ability to slide footage from an SD or compact flash card over to your hard drive, without losing your camera for the file transfer, we may be
moving on soon. As a testament to indie creativity, all our lighting was done via par cans, work lights, and lighting trusses we borrowed from the DJ company we work for! You'd be surprised how well two par cans can light a scene! The entire show is edited on Final Cut Pro and the minor smoke effects were done on an old copy of After Effects.
Can you tell us any interesting facts or trivia about your show? Any funny stories?
All the vampire fangs are custom made and the process of making them took about a month to perfect. Kyle Eliason (who plays Harold) was the initial guinea pig for the dental impressions and we learned a quick lesson about homemade dental trays when he almost suffocated from excess dental alginate sliding down his throat and up his nose at once!
Suck and Moan can be found online, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
Suck and Moan - SciFinal Page
More behind the scenes on the set of Suck and Moan below:

Eric Hailey on set of Suck and Moan

Jared Young (Lauren Baldwin and Amanda Rowse, background, D.P. Craig Ouelette, foreground)

Jared Young (Brendon Fong foreground)

Elena Mitchell & Alex Weed On set of Suck and Moan

Chris Mollica on set of Suck and Moan

Joel Bryant (actor/producer) on set of Suck and Moan
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Posted by haittictiow, 02/02/2012 9:45am (2 days ago)
Wow - this sounds awesome!! "Seinfeld-ish" vampires??? That is so un-Twilight that I am totally in. Funny concept, looking forward to watrching.
Posted by J-Rockafella, 09/06/2010 3:07pm (2 years ago)
Thanks for the "Creator's Corner" shout-out! Well-done article - spotlighting a truly unique creator.
(...and I'm not just saying that cuz I'm involved with "S&M," it's a completely unbiased compliment...)
In fact, kudos to all of the spotlighting you do of web creators' work. There need to be more like you out there!!
We appreciate the love and hopefully some of that "S&M" love gets back to SciFinal -
Posted by Joel Bryant, 08/06/2010 9:10pm (2 years ago)
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