the making of hungry beast

I've worked on other tv shows before, but Hungry Beast is the first one I got to work on from scratch.

So far, the process has been strange, scary, frustrating but mostly a fuckload of fun. Throughout it all, I've been irritating everyone by taking photos with my iPhone.

So if you've ever wondered what it's like to make a tv show... welcome to:

Marc's iPhotographic History of Hungry Beast

19 of us were chosen from around Australia but before we could make the show we had 1 month of training/planning with lots of fancy people inc. ABC Overlord Mark Scott and of course our bosses Andy Nehl & Andrew Denton.

So, on July 20 we descended upon a cavernous rehearsal space at ABC Ultimo:






First order of business: we needed a name.

Between the lot of us... we came up with 500+ contenders.


After much deliberation these were our finalists:

And down below is all of us standing around realising that none of those were going to work:


On the upside, the shortlist did mean that Andrew et al could tear down the 500 names - a cathartic moment for all.


So we brainstormed some more...

Everytime someone suggested a new name we were like small children who'd just found shiny new playthings. We'd abandon the old ones instantly and run with the new one... which is eventually how we landed on this...


Okay, name sorted. But then there was... um... everything else. So we went into production...





Buried deep underneath the ABC TV studios this picture below has been stuck to a wall.


Down below you can see us shooting those mysterious super slo-mo promos for the show

But the really fun part was shooting the opening titles:









Then our first look at the Hungry Beast studio set which is made entirely out of recycled electronics:


If you look closely up the back of the set there's this amazingly disturbing red eye made out of circuits and keyboards. fuckn amazing.




And just before we started shooting the Pilot, I took this...

Oh and this is my first grey hair