Making sure every dollar of the budget winds up on-screen is for suckers. Director Tom Scharpling — or, at least the fictional version of him played in this video for The Ettes by comedian Patton Oswalt — knows better: Scharpling/Oswalt (Scharwalt?) opens the video with an apology for spending all the money on personal items and then challenges the audience to imagine the awesomeness that would have ideally replaced the green screen and the ambitious storyboards. And in Scharpling's defense: I would guess that the vast majority of the budget did indeed get on-screen. --> watch "Excuse"
The Ettes
"Excuse" (Krian)
Tom Scharpling, director | Robert Hatch-Miller, Puloma Basu, producer | xxx, production co | Paul Yee, DP | Adam Besheer, editor | Zack Soto, illustrator
