Greetings! Yang Miller here. Director of Photography and Editor of AV Club. I'll tell ya a little about creating the look of AV. When we met in the preproduction stages of AV Sarah, Rebecca and I talked about how we'd like it to look and how to approach it. We had very limited time to shoot as the location, Poly Prep in Brooklyn, had specific chunks of time available. And the actors had crazy schedules that needed to be accommodated. Also, the original script was a beefy 35 pages while the final pilot was 22 minutes; we left a lot on the cutting room floor. We had a fast and furious shoot schedule so we decided to shoot handheld run and gun style, we used mostly available light and minimal additional lighting except in the AV Room scenes which were relatively tediously lit, by the great Neils Dachler, to achieve the "cavernous eerie noir look" we were after. Having been a documentary videographer and editor for several years I was comfortable shooting quickly with a handheld camera. But to study handheld camera moves and how to intercut them in over the shoulder dialog scenes, which doesn't come up much in single camera doc shoots, I watched 2 seasons of my favorite show Arrested Development RIP, a pretty good homework assignment! The Poly Prep location was amazing! It was already art directed with great kid made fliers for activities and cool kid art everywhere. The great work by Production Designer John Pollard only made it that much cooler. The location was so diverse and had tons of cool places to shoot, only a handful of them actually made it into the pilot. But after our initial visits to PP I watched Wes Anderson's Rushmore for the 20th time. The shooting style in that piece and ours was completely different but the "vibe" of the spaces seemed very similar, again a nice homework assignment. Super stoked to be in the NYTVF this year! AV Club was an amazing experience; I hope you come check it out on the screening days. Also, check me out in The Calderons, where I play the voice of an animated toaster and an infomercial host named Jim Summerville. www.yangmiller.com

This is AV's first blog entry, my first blog entry ever. How's my bloggin? We are super psyched to be a part of this year's TV Fest. I am originally from NY and lived there up until last December so I'm happy to be representing Brooklyn. AV CLUB is set at a private school called Parker Prep. We actually shot the whole thing (with the exception of the Factory stuff) at POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where I went to school for 6 years. A lot of the characters in AV CLUB originate from the downtown play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which we developed into what is now the Broadway Musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Sarah Saltzberg, my co-producer and co-writer, plays the character LOGAINNE SCHWARTZENGRUBENIERRE. You can catch her playing that lovable lisper 8 shows a week on Broadway. Martin Dockery, Lennon Parham, and myself are also playing characters we created in 2002 for the bee. Jesse Tyler Ferguson created a role for Spelling Bee but he's playing a different character in AV. Jesse will be starring in the new CBS sitcom, THE CLASS, this fall. Karl Kenzler, another co-writer, plays the high school peer counselor. And Dan Adhoot and Brian Berrebi are newvies to THE FARM. We cast them cause they were very funny, they are great improvisers and they looked like they could play dorky weirdos. Our entire cast has a lot of improv experience and I think that makes a huge difference in keeping the comedy from getting too broad. I'm feeling a little self conscious. Here's an alternative blog entry if you weren't so into the above: Day 1. YES! We got accepted to the NYTVF! AWESOME Day 2. SHIT! We are using a song in our pilot that we don't have the rights to! Day 3. FUCK! We're supposed to get the rights to the song by next week. Day 4. DAMN! Rockstar won't give us the rights! Now what do we do? Day 5. OH NO! Our composer's out of town getting married! Day 6. JESUS! Let's call Dan? Maybe he can do it in 24 hours? Day 7. WOOHOO! Dan did it! He wrote us a song!!! Now we just have to edit, mix and score a trailer in 72 hours and we'll be all set!