Doctor Frank

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Chapter 1 - "Doctor Frank"

Chapter 1 - "Doctor Frank"

Submitted 9/21/2008 by rootclip

Doctor Frank and his assistant Igor flip the switch on their latest experiment. What diabolical plan are they up to this time? Only you know. Thanks to KillerRobotNinja for writing and filming this round's Rootclip!

Credits

  • Writer/Dir/Edit/Cam - Les Lanphere
  • Igor Johnson - Joe Costigan
  • Doctor Frank - Les Lanphere

Comments

9/22/2008 at 12:08 p.m. by bryceanderic

wtf!

but in a good way

9/22/2008 at 12:08 p.m. by Praxis

Hmm... Okay.

9/22/2008 at 12:12 p.m. by Blichfeldt

Rad

9/22/2008 at 12:21 p.m. by FungusRidden

Great concept, DIRTBAG! >:3

I can't wait to get going on this story-line! :>

9/22/2008 at 1:24 p.m. by root

Joe Votero in the hizouse! Great Job! Should be cool to see where this one goes.

9/22/2008 at 1:43 p.m. by davidmoon

Um. I'm not sure about this one ...

9/22/2008 at 3:10 p.m. by joec

Joe Is back and doing product placement!!

9/22/2008 at 4:17 p.m. by vote082

Great characters!!! It's like frankenstein with ask a ninja. :D

9/22/2008 at 4:52 p.m. by lobsterdouche

I love the constant Ben Stiller impression!

9/22/2008 at 4:54 p.m. by lobsterdouche

It's relentless...

9/22/2008 at 5:03 p.m. by RockstarProductions

Dude someone! have the monster be like Brittney Spears or something. That would be kinda funny.

9/22/2008 at 5:11 p.m. by vote082

It doesn't have to be a monster at all. And I would be pleased if it also was not Brittney Spears.

9/22/2008 at 5:12 p.m. by erik

Rockstar!!! The man himself, is back from the dead! Any chance we'll see some of your work on this contest? C'mon, whaddayasay?!

9/22/2008 at 5:17 p.m. by davidmoon

Please ... no one bring Jim back from the dead ... Can we put that in the official rules?

Initially, I was not feeling this story... It's growing on me now.

9/22/2008 at 5:19 p.m. by davidmoon

And it's good to see you again, Joe.

9/22/2008 at 5:32 p.m. by allen

David, you read my mind. Although this contest does wrap up in December. Maybe a re-animated Jim is in order. Don't forget, Rootclip is the place Santa comes to get naughty.

9/22/2008 at 6:50 p.m. by bellvis

At first I didn't know what to make of this turn, but after a second viewing, I admit it's pretty fun.

9/22/2008 at 7:43 p.m. by wblank

The characters are distinct and that's a huge plus. I wish more had happened, however, and that it all had happened quicker. Any reason why this couldn't have been 1:30 or even 2 min?

Happy to see the product placement. I hope it brings in some more funds!

9/22/2008 at 7:45 p.m. by JakusB

Haha, great! Its nice to have a lighter video for a change. Everything in the past has been so serious (okay, minus Hold On April!). But I do see good ol' Jim coming back. If I wasn't so busy with chapter 6 I might even do it myself. Fun stuff though.

9/22/2008 at 8:20 p.m. by root

@wblank it could have been shorter, but then the characters wouldn't be as distinct. Good character development, Les & Joe. I thought that scene where he was on hold was hilarious. LOL "i'm super hungs". I agree, it's even better the second time.

9/22/2008 at 9:10 p.m. by erik

Raise your hand if you read our blog.

Click the link below if you don't.

http://rootclip.com/blog/2008/sep/22/new-contest-doctor-frank/

I just wanted to make sure that errbody knew what we were hoping to accomplish with the chapters on this story. To help with the flow, we've broken out the chapters in the following general story outline:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Conflict
Chapters 3 & 4: Rising Tension
Chapter 5: Climax
Chapter 6: Resolution

Oh, and if you want, we have an RSS Feed for our blog that you can subscribe to. That way you'll always get the latest news on what's going on with Rootclip! Subscribe, dang it! Subscribe!!

9/23/2008 at 9:47 a.m. by joec

Thanks David, good to be back

9/23/2008 at 9:56 a.m. by vote082

What's with the name of the building? Is that an inside joke?

9/23/2008 at 10:25 a.m. by JakusB

Raises Hand I read the blog constantly

9/23/2008 at 12:27 p.m. by killerrobotninja

Ingolstadt is a city in Germany. It's the birth place of the monster created by Victor Frankenstein, in the original (Mary Shelley's) Frankenstein.

9/23/2008 at 12:55 p.m. by gluns4d

I'm gettin' in on this one! Looks funny! And could be a blast to make!

9/23/2008 at 1:18 p.m. by erik

@gluns4d looking forward to seeing your submission!

Hey, how do you like the DVX100b? Any complaints?

9/23/2008 at 10:05 p.m. by davidmoon

Ingolstadt is also the home of Audi -- where Volkswagon makes a more expensive, crappy version of ... well ... Volkswagons.

9/23/2008 at 10:17 p.m. by Tony

well, allrighty

9/23/2008 at 11:23 p.m. by erik

@Tony update your profile, son! Hahah!!

9/24/2008 at 12:01 a.m. by RMag

These characters are great, and the story starts with a great place to go.

I wish I had a camera so I could start filming and submitting my projects. I'm trying to grab one on ebay but the bids get pretty high above my limit.

Sweet product placement. Reminds me of Truman Show.

9/24/2008 at 2:47 a.m. by frahs

Some guy needs to come alive from under the blanket and then start beating up frank and igor meanwhile advertising for those old sock-em bopers because He uses them to beat igor and frank up.

9/24/2008 at 2:33 p.m. by SomethingsAwry

You make it really hard for us to transform this into a spy/action movie about kidnapping or extortion you know. Really hard.

9/24/2008 at 3:16 p.m. by killerrobotninja

lol, somethingsawry, i think you're on to me. But alas, I won't be surprised when it ends up in spy/mafia land. After all, Igor looks like a well known nephew of a Crime Boss.

I want to see hungrymother back in this game.

9/24/2008 at 3:19 p.m. by killerrobotninja

I wonder why I capitalized crime boss. Must've been important.

Need one of those last chance edit countdowns before a comment is finilaized.

9/24/2008 at 3:54 p.m. by JakusB

Person comes to life, knocks Igor out, and kidnaps doctor frank. Igor turns out to be the nephew of a big Crime Boss, who's been keep watch over doctor frank because he owes them a bunch of money. Now the mob has to track down the kidnapper, and Igor is the main man.

There ya go, spy/mafia right back on RootClip...

9/24/2008 at 4:03 p.m. by killerrobotninja

dang nabbit!

9/25/2008 at 7:35 p.m. by Tony

ask and ye shall receive erik

9/26/2008 at 9:56 a.m. by rocknessmonster

why would anyone comment here no one reads them

9/26/2008 at 11:30 a.m. by kevin

I read the comments. tear

9/26/2008 at 1:51 p.m. by killerrobotninja

what do you mean no one reads them?

9/26/2008 at 5:42 p.m. by vote082

I can already feel Santa Claus trying to get out from under that sheet. The suspense is murder.

9/27/2008 at 1:44 a.m. by bryceanderic

I read them. Killerrobotninja, nice work, I love the Neil Patrick Harris reference! I may not be able to stay out of this one....

9/27/2008 at 12:10 p.m. by killerrobotninja

This whole clip is kind of a NPH reference. You guys would do awesome! You seem to have a knack for funny voices.

9/27/2008 at 2 p.m. by SMRG

This looks like it could be a lot of fun... LOVE the NPH and Ingolstadt references. Feeling the need to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog again... ;-)

Ugh. I guess I'm officially hooked on Rootclip now. Too bad the only camera work I've ever done inevitably winds up with shots of turf because I forget to shut the equipment off... Guess I'll sit on the sidelines and enjoy the view, though! Looking forward to it. :-)

9/28/2008 at 5:17 p.m. by davidmoon

If I see Jim in this contest, I'm abandoning Rootclip and moving to France.

9/28/2008 at 5:53 p.m. by killerrobotninja
9/28/2008 at 5:54 p.m. by killerrobotninja

They call Santa Claus Pere Noel

9/28/2008 at 6:13 p.m. by davidmoon

Oui. J'au vu la Clause Santa aussi.

9/29/2008 at 12:33 a.m. by PowerchordProductions

Hey If Rockstar "comes back from the dead" Maybe (just putting this out there) he could be the monster!?! Eheeeh? It would be a guy dressed in black with black paint on his skin and a question mark on his face! HAHAHA

9/29/2008 at 9:55 a.m. by JakusB

Rockstar... I thought you were "done with that gig". Don't make me make another mocumentary!

9/29/2008 at 12:41 p.m. by gluns4d

Hey, Eric... I love the camera but I'm still learning all it's functions. So far I'm thrilled with the image quality and it's really much lighter than I thought it would be. It's pretty easy to set up for basic operation though and this is my second project shooting with it. I'm a long way from being comfortable with it but hopefully I'll get better with each shoot! Good luck to everyone!

9/30/2008 at 2:12 p.m. by FungusRidden

I will be --woefully-- disappointed if Santa does not appear in this. In fact, I think someone should make a tasteful Santa background for this website. After all Jim's been through for Rootclip, it just seems like we should give something back.

9/30/2008 at 5:07 p.m. by bryceanderic

Funny voices? No sir. I, tragically, always sound that way.

10/1/2008 at 9:47 a.m. by killerrobotninja

lol... Eric's voice in "are you santa" sounded like Clint Eastwood.. But then there's the mad scientist in the equally under appreciated "Tightly Knit". I think you guys would do a really good job with this concept. You've got that wacky, clever thing going on.

11/3/2008 at 12:15 a.m. by twogirlsonecup

fu=k you guys that didint like it .that was the snhit