I’d just about forgotten about it. Back in 2007, old pal Jay Leibowitz called me with a proposition. Six months of plotting, writing, contract negotiations and headaches later, I was in Jay’s living room making five original episodes of Jigsaw for AT&T’s Tech Channel. Jay’s buddy Justin Newman did triple duty on camera/lights/sound, Jay directed, edited, acted as second puppeteer, and helped make the song at the end of the final episode. All I had to worry about was performing for the three days of shooting (well, there was also the last-minute addition of opening credits that had me in my new apartment in Charlottesville a day after moving unloading boxes, filming, with my computer set up in the middle of the bedroom floor, stealing the neighbor’s WiFi long enough to upload the massive files… but you know, that’s how it goes).
I haven’t seen these episodes for a while (I really should get Jay to burn me a copy one of these days). It’s weird, because at the time, the production values were so far above anything I’d produced — this is in-between seasons 2 and 3, mind you. It still looks a bit slicker than the current stuff. I’m not totally sold on the writing, though, at least the first episode; I spent a long time on these scripts, long enough that I may have lost some of the spontaneity that comes from when I just wing it. Or it could just be that I’m looking back at stuff I made a year and a half ago. I’ve doubled the number of episodes since then. Naturally I’ll be a bit better at it than I was.
Enough babbling. I got the email today that AT&T were finally going to go live with the episodes. Might as well, seeing as how they paid us for them and everything. Episode 1 is up today, the rest should be up over the next few weeks.