A SNL Digital Short is one of a series of comedy videos and music videos made for NBC Saturday Night Live . Generally produced and written by The Lonely Island (Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg), this series comes from Adam McKay, in collaboration with host, writers and cast. Segments were originally recorded with consumer-level digital video cameras and edited on personal computers. It's unusual for host and guest music episodes (the latter on rare occasions) to take part in short episodes, and some shorts have included brilliant acting celebrities.
Shorts usually take less than five days to complete. Akiva Schaffer has directed most of them, with Taccone as director or co-director occasionally. Taccone, along with his brother, Asa, has produced music for the necessary shorts.
With Samberg's departure from SNL in 2012, it was speculated that the era of an "An SNL Digital Short" branded video has ended, although the episode on January 26, 2013 featured Short Digital, and two during the summer that Samberg attended. on May 18, 2014. Another was aired during Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on February 15, 2015 (featuring Andy Samberg & Adam Sandler). On May 21, 2016, another short film was aired to promote the new movie The Lonely Island, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping .
Video SNL Digital Short
List of shorts
2005-2006: Season 31
11 shorts were aired during the 2005-2006 season.
2006-2007: Season 32
A total of 12 shorts were created for 2006-2007.
2007-2008: Season 33
A total of 11 shorts were created for 2007-2008.
2008-2009: Season 34
A total of 16 shorts were created for the 2008-2009 season.
2009-2010: Season 35
A total of 19 shorts were created for the 2009-2010 season.
2010-2011: Season 36
A total of 17 shorts were created for the 2010-2011 season.
2011-2012: Season 37
A total of 14 shorts were created for the 2011-2012 season.
2012-2013: Season 38
One short aired during the 2012-2013 season. It was during an episode hosted by Adam Levine featuring a live cameo by Andy Samberg.
2013-2014: Season 39
Two shorts aired during the 2013-14 season, in an episode hosted by Andy Samberg.
2014-2015: Season 40
One short aired during the 2014-15 season.
2015-2016: Season 41
One short aired during the 2015-16 season.
2017-2018: Season 43
One short aired during the 2017-18 season.
Maps SNL Digital Short
Replace training shorts
These shorts are filmed and shown to studio audiences during the weekly rehearsal, but are not included in live performances and have not appeared in the air.
Other Lonely Island Shorts at SNL
Produced by The Lonely Island, and/or labeled Digital Shorts on official YouTube postings, these shorts aired on the SNL episode but not with the official SNL Digital Short title card. Like Digital Shorts, this is directed by Akiva Schaffer. However, according to LonelyIsland's official website, MacGruber shorts directed by Jorma Taccone and written by Will Forte.
Reception
The brief "Lazy Sunday", aired December 17, 2005, was seen over five million times on YouTube itself before it was removed for copyright infringement. In late 2006, NBC began uploading SNL shorts on YouTube itself. The short "Dick in a Box" that was broadcast in December 2006, has been viewed over 28 million times on YouTube. It is available cut on YouTube with a special warning, stating that the sketch contains explicit language censored from the television version. Short also won an Emmy Award.
Shooting
The Shooting , also known as Dear Sister , was aired during an episode that aired April 14, 2007. Short satirize of the last scene The OC ' Saturday Night Live and had previously recorded their own short version. The NBC network, which normally uploads Saturday Night Live short digital to official sites and YouTube channels immediately after the broadcast, does not do it for Dear Sister due to licensing issues. It nevertheless became very popular on YouTube with artists making parodies, re-enactments and other references.
Plot
Keith (Bill Hader) writes a letter to his sister, when Dave (Andy Samberg) asks what he's doing. When Keith responds, explaining that he has not seen his sister in a long time, Dave suddenly and accidentally shot him. In an overly dramatic slow-motion death overlapped by "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, Dave looks shaken when Keith, in shock, collapses. When Dave collected his shoulders, Keith suddenly shot him in return, after recovering from his injury long enough to get his revenge on the same musical cues.
After the two men fell to the ground from separate shooting, another man, Eric (Shia LaBeouf), went in search of them (saying he "just thought of the funniest thing"). Dave came back to life to shoot Eric in the stomach, which collapsed, once again into the same music. The sister himself (Kristen Wiig) enters the scene, and begins reading the letter ("Dear Sister, By the time you read this...") until she is also shot in the intestine several times by each of the three men on the ground , with the music gesture resuming with every shot, until he collapses as well.
The short ends as two police officers (Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen) were looking at the scene. Someone found the letter, left on a table near the brother's body, and began to read. The letter was revealed to be a prediction of each shooting, in detail, and ended by claiming that two police officers would find the letter and then shoot each other after reading it. While the reading officer laughed at him, his partner turned around and shot him when the reading officer shot him as well for the overlapping "Hide & Find" instructions.
Controversy
On April 16, 2007, two days after the sketch's initial air date, the Virginia Tech shoot took place and became the deadliest school shoot in US history today. Noam Cohen from The New York Times criticized the short fans for being insensitive as they continued to make YouTube videos based on it.
External links
- Dear Sister Videos on the Lonely Island Website
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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