The boys of Studio 8 have grown up, and are moving from the front steps of the Union to the big screen.
Studio 8 Entertainment will premiere its first full length feature film “Everything is Everything” Tuesday at the Varsity.
Studio 8 members want people to know “Everything is Everything” is not just a “Jackass” movie.
“We are sick of being known as the guys that drink pee in front of the Union. People assume because we are young it’s going to be a ‘Jackass’ movie,” said Brock LaBorde, one of the Studio 8 members.
Studio 8 has been making people laugh for years in different facets.
Abercrombie and Fitch recently named the Studio 8 Web site, studio8.net as the best college humor Web site.
The Web site is updated on a weekly basis, offering a fresh batch of music, articles and pictures to make people laugh.
Studio 8 also has maintained a newspaper, The Campus Dirt and a television show “Lost in the Woods,” but “Everything is Everything” is their biggest undertaking yet.
The movie required the group to be more focused than they ever had before.
“Last June, we decided that we wanted to make a movie – so we quit our jobs, found some money, and shut out everything else in our life and filmed,” said Chris Trew, co-owner of Studio 8.
LaBorde said the filming took about two months.
“One month we filmed for 14 hours a day. It was a month of 100 percent devotion,” LaBorde said.
The group taught themselves most of the necessary skills to make the movie. From editing to sound to filming techniques, they learned as they filmed.
“There was a lot of trial and error … really a lot of error,” LaBorde said.
“Everything is Everything” is a mockumentary about 3 guys from Baton Rouge. Each character has a relatively impossible goal but they take their dreams seriously.
Each tale is weirdly linked and the movie covers the pursuit of achieving their dreams.
“This is the best collaboration we’ve ever done,” LaBorde said.
LaBorde wants people to know the movie has a plot and it can hold its own with other independent films.
“You aren’t going to get bored in this movie, and that is the major problem with independent movies. People spend a lot of time mugging for the camera because they are filming themselves. They videotape each other eating a bowl of cereal, and our movie doesn’t have any of that,” LaBorde said.
The group filmed more than 19 hours of footage. When LaBorde edited the movie, the good stuff amounted to three and a half hours long.
LaBorde edited again and now the movie is a more palatable 90 minutes.
The film will premiere Tuesday to plenty of anxious fans.
“A week ago I was freaking out like no one is going to see our movie, and now there is possibility to sell out [the venue],” LaBorde said.
If the show does sell out Studio 8 hopes to play the movie again, including some deleted scenes the next time around.
The group already has sent the movie off to most of the major film festivals.
Studio 8 has fans across the U.S. who want to see the movie, and the group is hoping this is something distributors and executives will recognize.
Still, “Everything is Everything” is meant to make people laugh.
The group admitted they casted the funniest actors they knew – themselves.