The Silver Spring Penguin

It’s time for episode 3 of Silver Spring’s “The Videomakers”. In this installment, brainstorming leads to competitive prescription-drug use. Meanwhile, Lowball Production staffers court a client with a bizarre business idea and a curiously low budget.

Video courtesy of Final Cut Productions.

Episode 2 of Silver Spring’s “The Videomakers” delves deeper into the unreal world of reality TV. The network is squeezing the production budget at “Top Shots”, so the crew had better hope that the Taser incident won’t cost too much. And that the coffin prop holds together from all the use.

Best line of this episode: “These hamsters had no idea they were part of the machinery of death.”

Video courtesy of Final Cut Productions.

Final Cut Productions presents the first full episode of “The Videomakers”, an online comedy about small-time documentarians and their big-boss network. The show oozes downtown Silver Spring, from the scenery to the soundtrack.

Some of the language isn’t safe for work, unless your desk is at Penguin HQ. Tune your computer’s speakers accordingly.

Best line of this episode: “That’s for wearing my bikini bottom, bitch!”

Video courtesy of Final Cut Productions.

Starting next Friday, The Penguin drops a new weekly episode of “The Videomakers”. The comedy series — about a small TV production crew hustling reality programs to a bigger cable company (ahem!) — is cooked by local guy Walter Gottlieb and Final Cut Productions.

The web series is set in downtown Silver Spring (holler!), and each episode features familiar footage of the fountain, the acorn, Silver Spring’s Metro station — you name it, it’s in there. The actors are local. Even the soundtrack is local, performed by Silver Spring’s Echo Boom.

Check out this teaser video, then catch the first full episode next Friday.

Video footage courtesy of Final Cut Productions.