Interview with the Filmmaker: Greg Bergan and Barry C. Miller

Greg and Barry are the writer/director/producers of "Being in Sync," a comic short that pokes a little fun at the boy band craze of the 90's.

Minimovie Channel: What made you want to make this film?

Barry and Greg: Well, Greg is a musician and we thought it would be fun to combine our passions of screen writing and music so we decided to make a film together. We knew we wanted to make a comedy and the boy band thing was really hot at the time. We thought the concept of the aging boy band was a funny concept. Our dream would be to turn this into a full-length feature.

MMC: Which bands were you thinking of when you wrote the film?

B & G: We named the movie “Being in Sync” because we liked the play on words, but the Backstreet Boys were the real inspiration. We had a Backstreet Boys tape playing at the audition and had all of the actors dance.

MMC: Who were the players involved in putting this project together?

B & G: It was just the two of us. We had collaborated for the writing of a full length feature and so decided to do this project. We produced the film from A to Z and directed it ourselves. To find actors we got a casting director and held a three day casting call. There were a lot of respondents, over 200 people for one the roles.

MMC: Who did the choreography?

B & G: We actually found a choreographer on craigslist. Her name is Eli Shaylor—she’s great, she came up with the dance in the final scene in one day.

MMC: Did you face any particular difficulties in making the movie?

B & G: Filming went relatively smoothly. We had a couple of funny mishaps—accidentally burned the carpet with lighting, and ripped a hole in the wall of a friend’s office. We also had a few bad sunburns. The first two days of filming were for the music video—it was on the beach and people got burned pretty badly.

MMC: What projects do you guys have going on right now?

B & G: Greg is releasing an album with his band Flea Circus, you can check them out on myspace. Barry is working on a superhero comic called Billy Banes.