Ape Zone is a surreal horror-comedy webseries set in 1995, in which a man in a gorilla suit holds 10 people hostage in a dank room and has them elect someone to get killed off each week. Like Survivor! It was shot in April 2015 over three busy days.
Ape Zone was then followed up by its spiritual successor, “Nixone,” this time set in the ’70s, featuring a man in a Richard Nixon mask holding another 10 people hostage, and forcing them to again, chose one to die each week.
The series were shot two years apart, first in 2015 and then in 2017. I managed locations and handled production management from start to finish on both projects. The most fun part of this project was finding ways to bring the decade and production styles into the mix. For “Ape Zone,” set in the ’90s, we cropped the picture to 4:3 and spliced in a handful of commercials from the time. In “Nixone,” we played with overdubbing at sporadic points to give the project a low-fi, found footage feel.
I also created a number of promotional items to help boost the profile of the projects.
Fashion of the ’90s 
Games of the ’90s 
Scandals of the ’90s 
Snacks of the ’90s
