Watch the full film & presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s43rVJn1SE
On March 24th, 2015, I traveled to Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry, which is located just south of Los Angeles. On this evening, from 6pm to 3am the next morning, I would be filming a short film that I would use to open my keynote presentation at New Media Expo in Las Vegas, just a few weeks later.
It became so much more than I could ever dream of. This video – Episode 14 of SPI TV, is a behind the scenes look from filming that evening.
Here’s the backstory:
I always go big when it comes to the presentations I do on stage. I try to be different, entertaining and memorable – while also providing a ton of take home value too. The opening keynote at New Media Expo in Vegas was going to be my biggest presentation ever, so I decided to think BIG for this event.
I started to plan this talk in mid-2014, giving myself almost a year to hone in on the message and figure out how to make it memorable.
I decided the talk was going to be about how to become “future-proof”. In the world of media and online business, specifically this is about how to survive and thrive as technology and communication change so rapidly over time. What are the core principles and ideas that have always worked in the past that can keep us going into the future?
Because this was about time, and I wanted to go big, I decided to enter the stage in a Delorean – the time machine from my favorite movie of all time, Back to the Future. And because 2015 is the 30-year anniversary of the film and is also the year Marty and Doc travel to in Back to the Future Part II, it seemed like it would be the perfect fit.
I couldn’t just arrive on stage on a Delorean though without any sort of lead up, so I also decided to write the script for a short 3-minute film that I would star in, which would have me getting into a Delorean and disappearing. Then, arriving live on stage at the event.
It was a huge idea, but I was lucky to have a connection in Hollywood, my good friend Mitchell Peck, who hired me a while back to work on the website and social media campaign on an independent film. Mitchell, who works as a professional screenplay consultant and has helped several others get their scripts turned into real Hollywood films, helped fine-tune my script, and he connected me to a producer, Taylor Hart, who would gather the team together and make all of this happen.
Now, when I arrived at Puente Hills Mall, which is actually the same exact mall they filmed Back to the Future in (which is why I selected that location), I had no idea what I was in store for.
What I thought was going to be a few guys with cameras and maybe a sound guy too, became this full-scale Hollywood production, including other actors, background people, make-up artists, and so many others who each played their own specific role in this film. Over 30 people were involved in the shooting of this, which totally blew me away.
So many amazing things happened that night. From being able to sit and drive a real Delorean, to watching a Drone film us from high up above, to meeting all of these crazy people who love what they do – I couldn’t be happier with the results of what we put together.
Thank you to everyone who was involved, and once again I’d like to share the cast and crew with you here below:
PRODUCED BY:
Taylor Hard
Mitchell Peck
WRITTEN BY:
Pat Flynn
DIRECTED BY:
Maxwell Albert
Pat Flynn – Himself
Doc Brown – Allan Murray
Tour Guide – Charlie Farrell
Tour Guide – Angie Sanchez
Storm Trooper Fan – Brennan Schloo
Ninja Turtle – Nik Glazer
Tourist – Jeff Jessamine
Tourist – Justin Baraglia
Tourist – Inger Tudor
Tourist – Heidi Schooler
Tourist – Angela Patterson
Tourist – Simone Wasserman
Tourist – Nihan Gur
Van Couple Man – Van White
Van Couple Woman – Katie Danza
Director of Photography – Neil Fernandez
Production Manager – Van White
Production Designer – Matthew Harvey
1st AD – Will Lambe
2nd AD – Justin Hopper
2nd 2nd AD – Dean Schaller
1st AC – Drey Singer
Sound Mixer – Ryan Agostino
Gaffer – Ronnie Gotch
Key Grip – Marlon Obrien
Script Supervisor – Evan Hart
Costume Designer – Camille Calvin
Hair & Make Up – Katie Danza
Production Coordinator – Travis Berens
Catering Woodys Grill Truck
Delorean Provided by Adam Kontras
Edited by Jeff Osborne
Sound, Color and VFX by ReAgent Productions
Additional Lenses Provided by Panavision
Hollywood Tour Bus Provided by AmazingLATours.com
VW Euro Van Provided by Mariana Abaroa
Cameras – Red / Blackmagic
Post-Production Software – Adobe Creative Cloud
Shot on location in Southern California
Special Thanks to SAG-AFTRA and Robert Zemeckis
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