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How it Should Have Ended
How it Should Have Ended is an American web-series by Daniel Baxter, Tommy Watson and Tina Alexander, which is dedicated to making parodies of popular films by creating alternate ending and pointing out various flaws. They use an original digitally hand drawn cartoon style and their first animation was "How Matrix Revolutions Should Have Ended" (How it Should Have Ended, 2007).
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Nancy Basile from the About Entertainment website interviewed Tina Alexander from the How it Should Have Ended team about the channel, (Basile,2015).
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Nancy Basile
How did HISHE come about?
Tina Alexander
Truly just from a love of movies and discussing them. There were a couple of films that sparked conversation about 'movie logic' and it just took off from there.
How do you decide what movies to parody?
Nancy Basile
That's definitely something that's morphed over time. When we first started we chose to parody films that we really loved but wanted to 're-write' in a way that would make people laugh. Now the popularity of a film definitely comes into play and we certainly pay attention to what our fans are requesting.
Tina Alexander
Nancy Basile
How long is the process to produce a short, from brainstorming stage to final production? What are the steps the writers/animators take?
Tina Alexander
Traditionally we spend about one week brainstorming ideas and writing the script. During this first week, Daniel [Baxter] will also be working on character art for the main characters that we know we're going to use. Week two is spent devoted to art, both characters and backgrounds. We usually lay down an audio track (voices and sound effects) during this week as well. The final week is all the animation and final music score. And I can promise there are often writing tweaks all the way up to the end!
Are projects divided between individual writers/animators, or is each one a collaboration?
Nancy Basile
Each cartoon is a collaboration. Daniel and I work together to do the writing on everything except the HISHE: Video Games series (those are written by Machinima). We are very fortunate to have found [comic book artist/writer] Otis Frampton who works with Daniel on the art and [comic book artist/writer] Brian Andersen who has assisted on animation several times. That said, a lot of the production is on Daniel's shoulders and he puts his heart and soul in everything we do.
Tina Alexander
Nancy Basile
How do you collect revenue from HISHE? Is it more of a passion project?
Tina Alexander
For a really long time we didn't and it was definitely a passion project! Each episode requires a lot of work and time though, so it's nice to finally see some profits from ad revenue and be able to legitimately call this our job.
What are your future plans for HISHE?
Nancy Basile
This is a really exciting time for us - reaching a million subscribers and having Stan Lee voice a cameo - that we're kind of just soaking it all in. It's gone so much further than we ever could have imagined and it's extremely fun to see the fans embrace what we're doing with such enthusiasm. I think this 'Fan Collaboration' on our Amazing Spider-Man HISHE has really made us want to work more with our fans and other writers. So as far as the future goes, there are still lots of films left to parody and we hope to bring more people on our team to tackle them!
Tina Alexander