1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,459 JASON SCOTT: Hello, everybody, I'm Jason Scott I'm the director 2 00:00:03,459 --> 00:00:05,918 of the DEF CON documentary. 3 00:00:05,918 --> 00:00:08,626 RACHEL LOVINGER: And I'm Rachel Lovinger the producer 4 00:00:08,626 --> 00:00:11,292 of the DEF CON documentary. 5 00:00:11,918 --> 00:00:15,999 JASON SCOTT: So we are going to talk about how we ended 6 00:00:15,999 --> 00:00:20,125 up with this project in our hands, what we learned, 7 00:00:20,125 --> 00:00:23,959 along with hopefully at the end bonus footage 8 00:00:23,959 --> 00:00:28,918 and strange stuff that didn't get into the documentary and or 9 00:00:28,918 --> 00:00:34,584 in some cases doesn't exist anywhere except for this room. 10 00:00:34,959 --> 00:00:38,292 So let's get started with the fun! 11 00:00:38,626 --> 00:00:42,000 So basically what happened was, last February I was on a trip 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 with Rachel in Helsinki and she was at a presentation for a conference 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,751 and I said I want to go too, I'm doing documentaries of my own. 14 00:00:55,999 --> 00:01:01,959 So I had the smallest set up there and it is freakin' cold in Helsinki. 15 00:01:02,125 --> 00:01:07,999 When I wanted to interview people they would say "you're going 16 00:01:07,999 --> 00:01:11,209 to come here, I'm not going outside" 17 00:01:11,209 --> 00:01:15,999 and we get a phone call from Russ Rogers of DEF CON 18 00:01:15,999 --> 00:01:19,999 and through a Skype call I talked to him and 19 00:01:19,999 --> 00:01:24,459 he put forward this interesting idea. 20 00:01:24,459 --> 00:01:26,709 He said we're coming up on the 20th DEF CON 21 00:01:26,709 --> 00:01:30,876 and I said "great" and he said "and we've been thinking we 22 00:01:30,876 --> 00:01:34,167 want to do a documentary about it. 23 00:01:34,459 --> 00:01:37,584 I can think of no finer person than yourself." 24 00:01:37,876 --> 00:01:42,292 I said and he was like "and we'll pay you" (Laughter.) 25 00:01:42,292 --> 00:01:48,876 Now, I'd been attendee at DEF CON for basically since 1999. 26 00:01:48,876 --> 00:01:51,918 I gave a presentation there about running textfiles.com, 27 00:01:51,918 --> 00:01:56,125 the web site that I run and I have progressively spoken pretty 28 00:01:56,125 --> 00:02:00,626 much every year since then with a few exceptions so I have been 29 00:02:00,626 --> 00:02:04,876 to many of the DEF CONs, I think I missed one, so I was part 30 00:02:04,876 --> 00:02:08,999 of the group, I knew what it was, but I was also well aware 31 00:02:08,999 --> 00:02:12,083 of the rule that there are no cameras running 32 00:02:12,083 --> 00:02:15,667 around taking pictures of everybody! 33 00:02:15,667 --> 00:02:17,999 And that tell be punched in the face! 34 00:02:17,999 --> 00:02:22,459 So the problem here was, you know, we have this wonderful event 35 00:02:22,459 --> 00:02:25,709 and didn't to take on that pain? 36 00:02:25,876 --> 00:02:28,999 Then Russ mentioned the money again (Laughter.) And 37 00:02:28,999 --> 00:02:33,167 the funny part was I came up with, okay, this is what I would do it 38 00:02:33,167 --> 00:02:36,999 for and it was like that on the button and I was like, okay, 39 00:02:36,999 --> 00:02:39,375 you know me very well. 40 00:02:39,626 --> 00:02:41,999 So I said, I think I shall do this. 41 00:02:41,999 --> 00:02:47,584 And bear in mind I was shooting three other document tears at the time. 42 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:50,751 We will talk about how I handled that, I was busy, 43 00:02:50,751 --> 00:02:54,125 it wasn't my first documentary. 44 00:02:54,834 --> 00:02:58,542 I made two other documentaries that people have seen, one called "BBS 45 00:02:58,542 --> 00:03:01,417 the Documentary" which is about computerized bulletin 46 00:03:01,417 --> 00:03:03,125 board systems. 47 00:03:03,125 --> 00:03:06,209 That one took four years, had 205 hours of footage, ended 48 00:03:06,209 --> 00:03:10,167 up being 7 hours split across eight episodes. 49 00:03:10,167 --> 00:03:12,083 And then GIT Lamp, because I thought VBS was way 50 00:03:12,083 --> 00:03:13,792 too general. 51 00:03:14,999 --> 00:03:20,999 I made a high definition documentary about text adventures, and I went 52 00:03:20,999 --> 00:03:24,459 out and interviewed people from Info Con, 53 00:03:24,459 --> 00:03:29,626 and that one took 4 hours, had 120 hours of interviews, went 54 00:03:29,626 --> 00:03:34,999 out very well, in 2010, so I had decided to do more. 55 00:03:35,250 --> 00:03:37,667 I had some experience with technical document tears 56 00:03:37,667 --> 00:03:39,417 and making things about computer people 57 00:03:39,417 --> 00:03:42,584 and getting people who weren't used to cameras to talk on the camera 58 00:03:42,584 --> 00:03:43,999 and so on. 59 00:03:43,999 --> 00:03:47,375 So I had that experience and I had done a kick starter. 60 00:03:49,626 --> 00:03:54,250 So, yeah, signed on, went for it, but there were some fundamental 61 00:03:54,250 --> 00:03:57,918 issues that I wanted to know about. 62 00:03:57,999 --> 00:04:01,959 The thing was, I knew my previously films had been 63 00:04:01,959 --> 00:04:06,999 about subjects that were general like text adventures, I'll talk 64 00:04:06,999 --> 00:04:12,417 to people about text adventures until I have so much footage I'll do 65 00:04:12,417 --> 00:04:16,292 a movie about it and same with bullet tin boards, 66 00:04:16,292 --> 00:04:21,334 but this was about four or five days and is filmed in Las Vegas 67 00:04:21,334 --> 00:04:24,584 and then never happens again, it's a lot 68 00:04:24,584 --> 00:04:29,999 of pressure and completely different than how I make my films so how 69 00:04:29,999 --> 00:04:33,667 the hell are we going to do that? 70 00:04:33,918 --> 00:04:36,626 How about the fact that nobody wants to be filmed! 71 00:04:39,292 --> 00:04:43,999 Traditionally people have been driven away for doing sweeps, for screaming, 72 00:04:43,999 --> 00:04:47,501 there has been stories of people talking one person talked 73 00:04:47,501 --> 00:04:50,709 about he was running a booth and how he was talking 74 00:04:50,709 --> 00:04:54,999 to one of the Goons and suddenly the Goon said "you will stop that on!" 75 00:04:54,999 --> 00:04:57,667 And who was he yelling at? 76 00:04:57,667 --> 00:05:03,292 Somebody in one of the sky boxes in the old Riviera aiming 77 00:05:03,292 --> 00:05:06,292 down at the booth. 78 00:05:06,626 --> 00:05:08,250 So they were strict about "let's not get 79 00:05:08,250 --> 00:05:12,999 with the cameras" and now they're saying "let's film everything" ? 80 00:05:13,250 --> 00:05:15,375 So that was a nightmare to consider. 81 00:05:15,918 --> 00:05:20,083 And finally how do I make it not suck? 82 00:05:20,626 --> 00:05:22,876 How do I make a film that's not going to be looking 83 00:05:22,876 --> 00:05:25,834 like something that G4 shit out in four days? 84 00:05:27,626 --> 00:05:30,250 (Laughter.) How am I going to bring something special 85 00:05:30,250 --> 00:05:32,959 to it and put a movie together. 86 00:05:33,501 --> 00:05:37,959 Originally it was going to I'm going to direct this and Rachel was 87 00:05:37,959 --> 00:05:40,999 like "I'm going to help you" RACHEL LOVINGER: 88 00:05:40,999 --> 00:05:43,751 (Away from mic.) JASON SCOTT: I know, 89 00:05:43,751 --> 00:05:48,083 but she said "I'll help you do this and we'll approach it together 90 00:05:48,083 --> 00:05:50,375 from the beginning." 91 00:05:50,375 --> 00:05:53,876 Like this wasn't where I got weird and I said "what do I do?" 92 00:05:53,876 --> 00:05:58,334 And she was like "oh, I want a piece of this" and she reminded me 93 00:05:58,334 --> 00:06:03,876 she had a degree in film and maybe she wants to help with this. 94 00:06:03,999 --> 00:06:06,751 Finally, how do you do it in six months 95 00:06:06,751 --> 00:06:10,542 because they wanted me to release the film on Christmas 96 00:06:10,542 --> 00:06:13,083 as a Christmas present to the "gang!" 97 00:06:13,083 --> 00:06:17,167 How am I going to shoot a film where we have less than that 98 00:06:17,167 --> 00:06:20,626 to film, edit and put it together? 99 00:06:23,584 --> 00:06:27,375 We ended up moving straight into planning and I'm going 100 00:06:27,375 --> 00:06:31,709 to let Rachel describe her thought process on how she started 101 00:06:31,709 --> 00:06:36,751 to bring this together for this unbelievably huge project. 102 00:06:36,751 --> 00:06:40,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: There is me in Helsinki. 103 00:06:40,209 --> 00:06:45,083 It was very cold as Jason said. 104 00:06:45,083 --> 00:06:48,417 One of the reasons I thought I could help without with this is I 105 00:06:48,417 --> 00:06:51,751 like planning and I really like documentaries and I 106 00:06:51,751 --> 00:06:54,375 like planning things so this is an example 107 00:06:54,375 --> 00:06:56,999 of a spreadsheet that I made at my office 108 00:06:56,999 --> 00:06:59,667 at work I show a documentary once a month 109 00:06:59,667 --> 00:07:04,334 and my colleague and I brainstormed the kind of documentaries that we want 110 00:07:04,334 --> 00:07:05,999 to show. 111 00:07:05,999 --> 00:07:07,792 We have a list of enough documentaries we could 112 00:07:07,792 --> 00:07:10,876 show once a month for, like, seven years. 113 00:07:10,999 --> 00:07:15,459 We tracked which ones we have seen, what they're about, how long they are, 114 00:07:15,459 --> 00:07:17,375 all that stuff. 115 00:07:17,375 --> 00:07:20,167 Just to give you an example that I like planning things! 116 00:07:20,167 --> 00:07:23,250 JASON SCOTT: She really likes planning things. 117 00:07:23,250 --> 00:07:25,250 RACHEL LOVINGER: I've been to DEF CON a few times 118 00:07:25,250 --> 00:07:28,999 before that so I had some idea what to expect. 119 00:07:29,125 --> 00:07:31,209 That, I think, was helpful. 120 00:07:31,417 --> 00:07:33,999 I've known Jason for a long time. 121 00:07:34,167 --> 00:07:40,999 So that's his senior year high school yearbook photo and I took that! 122 00:07:42,834 --> 00:07:46,083 JASON SCOTT: Quickly for this gang, so what do you pose 123 00:07:46,083 --> 00:07:49,834 with to somehow your fine times in high school? 124 00:07:49,999 --> 00:07:56,417 Your Roger Waters radio chaos album, you can see my figment cap 125 00:07:56,417 --> 00:08:01,626 from when they used to sell those in Epcot Center, 126 00:08:01,626 --> 00:08:07,501 a stolen highway flasher, a stolen pay phone, just there, 127 00:08:07,501 --> 00:08:13,250 just evidence thrown into my high school yearbook photo, 128 00:08:13,250 --> 00:08:20,626 and then, of course, holding in my hand a linemen's test set. 129 00:08:20,626 --> 00:08:22,584 This is basically an evidence photo. 130 00:08:22,584 --> 00:08:24,709 RACHEL LOVINGER: And the dust buster. 131 00:08:24,709 --> 00:08:26,459 JASON SCOTT: And the dust buster. 132 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:27,999 Right. 133 00:08:27,999 --> 00:08:29,584 There are five photos in the yearbook, and in each 134 00:08:29,584 --> 00:08:32,584 of the photos I'm holding a dust buster, why? 135 00:08:32,709 --> 00:08:33,709 'Cuz I could! 136 00:08:33,999 --> 00:08:37,125 RACHEL LOVINGER: We had a very permissive high school! 137 00:08:38,334 --> 00:08:41,999 So the first question we set out to tackle was how are we going 138 00:08:41,999 --> 00:08:44,999 to film this in this constrained period of time and 139 00:08:44,999 --> 00:08:48,083 of course we realized there is no way between the two 140 00:08:48,083 --> 00:08:52,083 of us we could film everything we need to bring on additional people 141 00:08:52,083 --> 00:08:55,709 to have multiple cameras in multiple places. 142 00:08:55,751 --> 00:08:58,209 So Jason mention he had this kick starter, he put 143 00:08:58,209 --> 00:09:01,751 out a call to his kick starter backers. 144 00:09:01,999 --> 00:09:05,083 JASON SCOTT: So here I'd made this thing called 145 00:09:05,083 --> 00:09:08,501 the "three pack" I'm going to make three documentaries, 146 00:09:08,501 --> 00:09:10,542 will you fund it? 147 00:09:10,542 --> 00:09:14,417 And kick starter gave me shit at the time, you're asking 148 00:09:14,417 --> 00:09:20,459 for a thousand dollars and you're not going to get that and you don't have 149 00:09:20,459 --> 00:09:23,459 any rewards under $100 and my counter 150 00:09:23,459 --> 00:09:29,876 is I'm changing nothing and we're going to put it up anyway and it got $40,000 151 00:09:29,876 --> 00:09:33,584 in 24 hours so I knew my audience. 152 00:09:33,626 --> 00:09:36,626 I have a strong connection to this audience. 153 00:09:36,626 --> 00:09:38,792 They know I work hard on these films, they know why I want to make them 154 00:09:38,792 --> 00:09:40,501 and what I'm about. 155 00:09:40,792 --> 00:09:44,999 And I felt bad that I might take on this other film so I turned it 156 00:09:44,999 --> 00:09:49,999 around and said instead, guess what, you get another film for the amount 157 00:09:49,999 --> 00:09:55,083 of money you put in and you're going to get advance notice of the pieces 158 00:09:55,083 --> 00:09:57,999 in it and everything else. 159 00:09:57,999 --> 00:09:59,083 So I had to turn it around into actually this 160 00:09:59,083 --> 00:10:02,999 is a good thing plus I get more practice and in some ways I get more equipment 161 00:10:02,999 --> 00:10:04,667 that will help. 162 00:10:04,667 --> 00:10:07,999 So that was how I mitigated it, people were excited. 163 00:10:08,459 --> 00:10:10,626 Is this where I mention the recruitment? 164 00:10:10,626 --> 00:10:11,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: Yeah. 165 00:10:11,999 --> 00:10:14,375 JASON SCOTT: So what I did was, I said, I need crew, 166 00:10:14,375 --> 00:10:18,209 if you were supporting the Jason Scott documentary, 167 00:10:18,209 --> 00:10:21,876 did you want to make one with him? 168 00:10:22,042 --> 00:10:24,584 And a bunch of people jumped forward 169 00:10:24,584 --> 00:10:28,542 and said "sure" with no information! 170 00:10:28,584 --> 00:10:33,042 RACHEL LOVINGER: I think you told them we will fly you out there 171 00:10:33,042 --> 00:10:36,125 and it's a sit ton of work! 172 00:10:36,125 --> 00:10:40,667 JASON SCOTT: I didn't even tell them that, I just told them it was 173 00:10:40,667 --> 00:10:44,999 a shit ton of work, I didn't make it clear we were going 174 00:10:44,999 --> 00:10:49,667 to pay for anything because I didn't want them treating it 175 00:10:49,667 --> 00:10:53,417 as a free trip to Vegas, and I said did you want 176 00:10:53,417 --> 00:10:57,999 in and we had eight people sign up and I chose what ended 177 00:10:57,999 --> 00:11:00,999 up being five, and I had one person bow 178 00:11:00,999 --> 00:11:04,999 out because of work commitments, no hard feelings 179 00:11:04,999 --> 00:11:10,501 with him and I had four people from my kick starter group who literally 180 00:11:10,501 --> 00:11:15,999 the way I met them in a few cases was when they flew here. 181 00:11:17,626 --> 00:11:20,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: Welcome back to them, too. 182 00:11:20,999 --> 00:11:24,375 So once we knew we would have multiple people filming, we tried 183 00:11:24,375 --> 00:11:27,999 to figure out what we wanted to cover. 184 00:11:27,999 --> 00:11:31,083 So we poured through the schedule. 185 00:11:31,876 --> 00:11:35,834 We knew we weren't going to focus so much on filming the talks, 186 00:11:35,834 --> 00:11:39,584 a lot of those are filmed anyway, it was more helpful looking 187 00:11:39,584 --> 00:11:43,709 into the forums where we got information about all of the parties 188 00:11:43,709 --> 00:11:47,250 and the contests and the events and the unofficial as well 189 00:11:47,250 --> 00:11:51,501 as the official events and where they were going to be and starting 190 00:11:51,501 --> 00:11:54,417 and that was incredibly useful. 191 00:11:54,417 --> 00:11:56,999 JASON SCOTT: Anybody who uses DEF CON or goes 192 00:11:56,999 --> 00:12:01,999 to DEF CON I'm sure you know there are places you go to and you walk 193 00:12:01,999 --> 00:12:06,375 by and you hear someone saying I'm doing an Easter egg contest 194 00:12:06,375 --> 00:12:11,459 and you're like, well, for you or you don't do it and you go "shit ya" 195 00:12:11,459 --> 00:12:14,125 and there are so many for whom DEF CON 196 00:12:14,125 --> 00:12:17,375 is a limited experience and we had to become 197 00:12:17,375 --> 00:12:20,584 the omniscient awareness pack of all aspects 198 00:12:20,584 --> 00:12:24,125 of DEF CON 20 everything from like how do they set 199 00:12:24,125 --> 00:12:27,334 up the rooms through to every event that was 200 00:12:27,334 --> 00:12:31,209 peripherally being planned in the forums, because some 201 00:12:31,209 --> 00:12:36,292 of them are liquid in the beginning like I'm thinking of doing a thing 202 00:12:36,292 --> 00:12:40,999 and I think I got someone to tell me it was okay, gotta get 'em 203 00:12:40,999 --> 00:12:44,250 on the list all right guy with thing you may be 204 00:12:44,250 --> 00:12:46,626 a movie star soon! 205 00:12:46,626 --> 00:12:47,542 So that was a very strange experience 206 00:12:47,542 --> 00:12:49,959 to pull that much together. 207 00:12:49,959 --> 00:12:52,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: So we pulled that all together into this, again, 208 00:12:52,999 --> 00:12:57,083 a spreadsheet and we captured, you know, what things were happening, 209 00:12:57,083 --> 00:13:00,501 when and where they were going to be and tried to sketch 210 00:13:00,501 --> 00:13:04,834 out the things that we think we wanted to film about this event to sort 211 00:13:04,834 --> 00:13:07,584 of in order to tell the story. 212 00:13:07,584 --> 00:13:09,709 Some of these are going to be things that are happening 213 00:13:09,709 --> 00:13:13,250 all week end so we know we want to be there when Jeff explains what 214 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,999 the tamper evident contest is. 215 00:13:15,999 --> 00:13:18,999 JASON SCOTT: This thing is a fantastic document. 216 00:13:18,999 --> 00:13:20,792 This is Rachel's work and part of her professional job 217 00:13:20,792 --> 00:13:23,083 is constructing data in the a way that makes sense 218 00:13:23,083 --> 00:13:25,584 and understanding the underlying pieces of it and 219 00:13:25,584 --> 00:13:27,709 she is very good at it. 220 00:13:28,459 --> 00:13:31,876 We had a real gift here because if you look at it, there 221 00:13:31,876 --> 00:13:35,626 is a color code to go indicate whether we get in trouble if this 222 00:13:35,626 --> 00:13:38,792 is not filmed down to if the camera swings across it, 223 00:13:38,792 --> 00:13:40,959 everything is good! 224 00:13:41,250 --> 00:13:44,292 Then followed by, what's the narrative? 225 00:13:44,999 --> 00:13:48,834 What's the narrative of the toxic BBQ, what is the story that needs 226 00:13:48,834 --> 00:13:51,292 to be told about a speaker? 227 00:13:51,375 --> 00:13:55,959 Followed by, who do we think are the players in the story? 228 00:13:55,959 --> 00:13:59,167 Do we know who the organizers are and the big people are and finally notes 229 00:13:59,167 --> 00:14:01,834 where I write "I don't understand anything!" 230 00:14:01,834 --> 00:14:04,584 And everything else on the side. 231 00:14:04,584 --> 00:14:06,292 This goes on we only have one slide 232 00:14:06,292 --> 00:14:10,999 but it goes on for, like, a dozen pages at least. 233 00:14:10,999 --> 00:14:13,999 It's a huge, massive document. 234 00:14:13,999 --> 00:14:16,542 RACHEL LOVINGER: And there is also it highlighted things we didn't 235 00:14:16,542 --> 00:14:19,876 know and then we would reach out to Pyro or Russ and ask people, 236 00:14:19,876 --> 00:14:22,083 what's going on with this? 237 00:14:22,083 --> 00:14:24,459 Is the beard contest happening this week and. 238 00:14:24,459 --> 00:14:27,417 JASON SCOTT: That's how we found out the Cannon Ball Run wasn't 239 00:14:27,417 --> 00:14:32,167 happening and we would get surprised there were other things happening 240 00:14:32,167 --> 00:14:35,292 and this was our secret weapon. 241 00:14:35,292 --> 00:14:39,083 One of the secret weapons is, why is the work? 242 00:14:39,083 --> 00:14:44,584 Here it is, screaming work, months of screaming work trying to track 243 00:14:44,584 --> 00:14:50,334 down who is this, so we had the "Bible" that DEF CON doesn't have 244 00:14:50,334 --> 00:14:53,292 as to what DEF CON is. 245 00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:54,709 As a reference document. 246 00:14:54,709 --> 00:14:56,334 The encyclopedia of DEF CON. 247 00:14:56,334 --> 00:15:01,375 RACHEL LOVINGER: That got us as prepared as we can about the event. 248 00:15:01,542 --> 00:15:05,083 The next question we tried to tackle is how are we going to film everyone, 249 00:15:05,083 --> 00:15:08,083 film an audience of people that doesn't necessarily want 250 00:15:08,083 --> 00:15:12,250 to be filmed or hasn't traditionally wanted to be filmed. 251 00:15:12,250 --> 00:15:13,999 We went through a number of ideas. 252 00:15:13,999 --> 00:15:17,667 We had an idea to give out paper masks JASON SCOTT: We 253 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:20,959 were going to give out we proposed things one 254 00:15:20,959 --> 00:15:24,999 of them was maybe a paper mask with at the point anonymous 255 00:15:24,999 --> 00:15:29,999 or another one that people could hold up when the cameras went by and 256 00:15:29,999 --> 00:15:33,334 the response was "no fucking way are you going 257 00:15:33,334 --> 00:15:35,459 to give 15,000 people masks!" 258 00:15:35,459 --> 00:15:40,709 RACHEL LOVINGER: So instead we decided to make ourselves identifiable 259 00:15:40,709 --> 00:15:44,667 and anyone would be able to see us coming and could get 260 00:15:44,667 --> 00:15:49,375 out of the way or indicate they were not interested. 261 00:15:49,375 --> 00:15:54,125 So our first idea was we would get orange jump suits and we realized that. 262 00:15:54,999 --> 00:15:58,125 JASON SCOTT: We would have only three crew members at the end 263 00:15:58,125 --> 00:16:00,250 in 104 degree weather. 264 00:16:01,918 --> 00:16:07,459 RACHEL LOVINGER: So we went instead with these mesh orange vests 265 00:16:07,459 --> 00:16:10,584 Jason will show off here! 266 00:16:10,999 --> 00:16:14,501 They have lots of nice pockets in them for carrying things 267 00:16:14,501 --> 00:16:18,417 and we spray painted the logo and the word "documentary" 268 00:16:18,417 --> 00:16:22,999 on them so there would be no question who we were. 269 00:16:23,375 --> 00:16:25,999 The side benefit of this was we were really easy 270 00:16:25,999 --> 00:16:29,751 to spot by each other so if we were, like, we're looking 271 00:16:29,751 --> 00:16:33,626 for a crew member we could always find them. 272 00:16:33,626 --> 00:16:35,999 You'll see them throughout the film, actually. 273 00:16:35,999 --> 00:16:38,626 JASON SCOTT: To this day I will see people 274 00:16:38,626 --> 00:16:42,292 in these and go "I wonder what they're filming?" 275 00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:47,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: Then we entered the preproduction stage. 276 00:16:47,999 --> 00:16:54,125 So I wanted to call out to Russ Rogers, he was our primary liaison, 277 00:16:54,125 --> 00:17:01,334 so Russ and Dartangen were executive producers but Russ was our day 278 00:17:01,334 --> 00:17:08,667 to day contact, if we had questions, beforehand, while we were here, 279 00:17:08,667 --> 00:17:11,209 he was our guy. 280 00:17:11,209 --> 00:17:13,999 JASON SCOTT: Russ and I talked when all was said 281 00:17:13,999 --> 00:17:17,292 and Don I think Russ and I talked for roughly 282 00:17:17,292 --> 00:17:23,083 between 100 and 200 hours over the past 18 months, just over time. 283 00:17:23,083 --> 00:17:23,626 He was "there!" 284 00:17:23,626 --> 00:17:28,584 Every time to give me heads up, tell me something is going o 285 00:17:28,584 --> 00:17:32,375 to get back to me on every aspect. 286 00:17:32,751 --> 00:17:35,999 You know, this isn't something where it says "executive producer" 287 00:17:35,999 --> 00:17:39,834 and that means they wrote the check, literally this guy was working 288 00:17:39,834 --> 00:17:43,375 on it equally as hard as me, especially some months, especially 289 00:17:43,375 --> 00:17:46,999 as we started to move toward where is this thing going to end 290 00:17:46,999 --> 00:17:51,125 up and how are we going to publish it, he was right there. 291 00:17:51,542 --> 00:17:55,334 He's not here right now, I don't think, but believe me, he was as critical 292 00:17:55,334 --> 00:17:58,250 as any other component, this guy. 293 00:17:58,375 --> 00:18:02,709 RACHEL LOVINGER: So then we had our crew. 294 00:18:02,709 --> 00:18:04,375 So we want to introduce you to them. 295 00:18:04,375 --> 00:18:06,250 These are the six guys and then Jason 296 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:07,999 and myself. 297 00:18:07,999 --> 00:18:11,083 These are the photos that we sent to the Goons, the security Goons, so 298 00:18:11,083 --> 00:18:14,167 in addition to having our vests they wanted to make sure 299 00:18:14,167 --> 00:18:19,083 they knew what our crew looked like so nobody could intern nature us. 300 00:18:19,083 --> 00:18:22,209 JASON SCOTT: So there wouldn't be a documentary crew within six house 301 00:18:22,209 --> 00:18:25,999 of a documentary crew running around roughshod. 302 00:18:25,999 --> 00:18:28,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: I don't think anybody impersonated us. 303 00:18:29,083 --> 00:18:31,542 JASON SCOTT: I don't think so. 304 00:18:36,334 --> 00:18:38,999 Somebody with an orange shirt was a dick 305 00:18:38,999 --> 00:18:41,667 and somebody was like, the documentary crew 306 00:18:41,667 --> 00:18:45,501 is harassing me and it was like, no, they don't have the time 307 00:18:45,501 --> 00:18:47,667 to harass anybody! 308 00:18:48,417 --> 00:18:51,999 And I mentioned this to one of the Goons and they said "welcome 309 00:18:51,999 --> 00:18:54,584 to our world and everyone who as a red shirt!" 310 00:18:54,584 --> 00:18:56,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: So I looked back on it, 311 00:18:56,999 --> 00:19:00,834 we gave them shockingly little preparation for what they were going 312 00:19:00,834 --> 00:19:03,834 to experience at DEF CON, especially considering most 313 00:19:03,834 --> 00:19:06,999 of them had never been to DEF CON and now we were asking 314 00:19:06,999 --> 00:19:09,918 them to cover everything about it. 315 00:19:09,999 --> 00:19:14,876 One thing we did ask them was to watch Morgan Sperlock's Comic Con 316 00:19:14,876 --> 00:19:17,999 documentary came out and we knew this was 317 00:19:17,999 --> 00:19:23,417 a good example of what it's like to try to capture on film an event 318 00:19:23,417 --> 00:19:27,959 with massive amounts of people and tons of things going 319 00:19:27,959 --> 00:19:32,584 on at once so we said "watch that and you will have a sense 320 00:19:32,584 --> 00:19:37,167 of what you're in for," and aside from that we wanted them 321 00:19:37,167 --> 00:19:40,375 to be comfortable and safe. 322 00:19:40,959 --> 00:19:42,459 JASON SCOTT: Yeah. 323 00:19:42,459 --> 00:19:44,542 And I do say, I admit Morgan I met Morgan 324 00:19:44,542 --> 00:19:48,667 at a conference and we recognized each other and he was 325 00:19:48,667 --> 00:19:51,626 at a presentation of Comic Con episode 4 326 00:19:51,626 --> 00:19:56,417 and we went there and watched it and said "somebody did something 327 00:19:56,417 --> 00:20:01,042 I want to do" and we watched it and I went and asked them a lot 328 00:20:01,042 --> 00:20:04,584 of way too technical questions personally when 329 00:20:04,584 --> 00:20:08,999 they were just chatting, not Q and A, and I have a question, 330 00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:13,959 it was "please teach me how to film" but I did get hints from him 331 00:20:13,959 --> 00:20:19,083 and what they were shooting for and they did open my mind. 332 00:20:19,083 --> 00:20:21,292 They came up with ideas that they never had work, and I wanted 333 00:20:21,292 --> 00:20:24,584 to mention one, because it's kind of brilliant. 334 00:20:24,584 --> 00:20:26,250 RACHEL LOVINGER: Oh, yeah. 335 00:20:26,250 --> 00:20:30,918 JASON SCOTT: They do a story arc, more than what I would do, 336 00:20:30,918 --> 00:20:35,709 "I'm going to be at Comic Con and here is my story" and 337 00:20:35,709 --> 00:20:41,000 they sent crews to those people, 8 or 9 of them and they ended 338 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,834 up with this story. 339 00:20:45,209 --> 00:20:49,918 What they wanted to do, Comic Con is a massive RACHEL LOVINGER: 340 00:20:49,918 --> 00:20:52,999 It's three football fields long. 341 00:20:53,542 --> 00:20:59,792 JASON SCOTT: He wanted a Super Bowl cam and you would follow 342 00:20:59,792 --> 00:21:04,918 someone's story and they would walk out on the floor 343 00:21:04,918 --> 00:21:10,834 and a camera would pile back and zoom down Comic Con's floor 344 00:21:10,834 --> 00:21:17,334 as a transition and when he got there they were like "no! 345 00:21:17,334 --> 00:21:21,125 There is no line of sight anywhere in the Comic Con floor that does that" . 346 00:21:21,125 --> 00:21:23,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: He could have done that with drones. 347 00:21:23,999 --> 00:21:26,501 JASON SCOTT: That's the next thing they want 348 00:21:26,501 --> 00:21:29,999 is helicopter drones, flying over people 349 00:21:29,999 --> 00:21:37,375 with massive banners so it looks like Star Wars, episode 4 trench scene. 350 00:21:37,375 --> 00:21:38,792 RACHEL LOVINGER: Nice. 351 00:21:38,918 --> 00:21:42,918 JASON SCOTT: But he was thinking out of the box, too, 352 00:21:42,918 --> 00:21:46,999 and it was inspiring so thanks, Morgan. 353 00:21:47,751 --> 00:21:52,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: We had one ringer, a person on our crew, 354 00:21:52,999 --> 00:21:58,375 Eddie Cudall, he is a professional as well and he has done a lot 355 00:21:58,375 --> 00:22:04,083 of work with Boing Boing TV and Maker Bot TV and he's filmed south 356 00:22:04,083 --> 00:22:09,125 by southwest and he's used to being dropped into situations 357 00:22:09,125 --> 00:22:12,667 and being able to handle it. 358 00:22:12,667 --> 00:22:16,584 JASON SCOTT: We wanted a clutch in case it got hot. 359 00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:19,626 Because there were unknowns, we want to send a guy 360 00:22:19,626 --> 00:22:23,417 in who has filmed these things and who is going to hold 361 00:22:23,417 --> 00:22:26,709 the camera steady so if we really need footage 362 00:22:26,709 --> 00:22:30,999 and we're scared and everyone is falling apart, we know Eddie 363 00:22:30,999 --> 00:22:33,250 will barrel through. 364 00:22:33,626 --> 00:22:36,751 So that was just us, taking a little precaution for the good 365 00:22:36,751 --> 00:22:40,083 and I insisted he be paid at close to his regular rate and treated 366 00:22:40,083 --> 00:22:43,834 like this was a professional not "hey, buddy, come in and do hard work 367 00:22:43,834 --> 00:22:45,292 for free" . 368 00:22:45,292 --> 00:22:48,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: I think we made him sleep on the floor, though. 369 00:22:48,999 --> 00:22:50,125 JASON SCOTT: We did. 370 00:22:51,792 --> 00:22:53,999 AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Away from mic.) JASON SCOTT: A 371 00:22:53,999 --> 00:22:55,542 little tired. 372 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:56,542 Eddie is here! 373 00:22:56,542 --> 00:22:59,959 RACHEL LOVINGER: Why don't you tell them about the equipment. 374 00:22:59,959 --> 00:23:01,792 JASON SCOTT: Where are you going to go when you're putting this 375 00:23:01,792 --> 00:23:03,334 thing together? 376 00:23:03,999 --> 00:23:06,999 A lot of people when they see a movie there is a certain range 377 00:23:06,999 --> 00:23:09,792 of people whose response is "tell me every last piece 378 00:23:09,792 --> 00:23:11,667 of equipment you use to make this film 379 00:23:11,667 --> 00:23:14,584 because that's what we all like to do. 380 00:23:14,999 --> 00:23:19,167 I know a number of film makers who also make geek 381 00:23:19,167 --> 00:23:23,999 documentaries and after I got my kick starter money I sat 382 00:23:23,999 --> 00:23:27,999 down with them, Paul Of Two player Productions, 383 00:23:27,999 --> 00:23:33,209 they have done Moshang, the story of MindCraft, they have done 384 00:23:33,209 --> 00:23:36,584 the 8 bit movie about chip tune artists 385 00:23:36,584 --> 00:23:42,292 and I have become good friends with James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot, 386 00:23:42,292 --> 00:23:47,999 the creators of" Indie Game: The Movie "and I did a call with them, 387 00:23:47,999 --> 00:23:51,334 your cam remarks what is it? 388 00:23:51,375 --> 00:23:55,999 Your sound, what was it how did you get this shot? 389 00:23:55,999 --> 00:23:57,918 What lens did you buy? 390 00:23:57,999 --> 00:24:00,542 And shopping list, shopping list, shopping list, shopping list 391 00:24:00,542 --> 00:24:03,083 and I bought everything they had. 392 00:24:03,209 --> 00:24:06,501 So I had good stuff like the cannons and good lenses 393 00:24:06,501 --> 00:24:08,834 and everything else. 394 00:24:08,834 --> 00:24:11,250 Just to explain what we're going about here. 395 00:24:11,584 --> 00:24:14,999 So the problem was that the best camera to shoot 396 00:24:14,999 --> 00:24:18,584 with is the Cannon 5D, Mark 2. 397 00:24:18,709 --> 00:24:20,999 I don't mean in life, I don't play that fuckin' game, 398 00:24:20,999 --> 00:24:22,999 but it's the camera I found would produce 399 00:24:22,999 --> 00:24:26,584 really good footage under certain circumstances. 400 00:24:26,792 --> 00:24:29,667 But the body is $4000 and the lenses are thousands, 401 00:24:29,667 --> 00:24:32,876 and I had one, because I got them for my movie, 402 00:24:32,876 --> 00:24:36,959 but I knew we were going to have three crews and I can't give 403 00:24:36,959 --> 00:24:40,709 away three Cannon 5Ds, and we settled on a Vixia, which I 404 00:24:40,709 --> 00:24:43,375 will show you in a moment. 405 00:24:45,834 --> 00:24:49,459 Rachel had a Cannon 5D, I had a Cannon 5D, 406 00:24:49,459 --> 00:24:54,209 and we had three Vixias, and then we also this was one 407 00:24:54,209 --> 00:24:58,375 of our ideas, was let's get little Play Sports, 408 00:24:58,375 --> 00:25:03,667 and what you see there in the center there is an orange one 409 00:25:03,667 --> 00:25:08,501 and two black ones, let's get Play Sports and give them 410 00:25:08,501 --> 00:25:11,751 to people at the Con and get footage 411 00:25:11,751 --> 00:25:16,918 and see what comes of that with the hope that we would get 412 00:25:16,918 --> 00:25:21,292 something utterly disgusting, something horrifying, 413 00:25:21,292 --> 00:25:25,709 where this would be a moment where you were like, 414 00:25:25,709 --> 00:25:32,083 is it more of a crime that it can be seen and not just vaguely remembered 415 00:25:32,083 --> 00:25:34,459 and drank away? 416 00:25:34,959 --> 00:25:37,334 (Laughter.) Is it terrible? 417 00:25:38,584 --> 00:25:41,417 And we figured they would come back and 418 00:25:41,417 --> 00:25:45,999 they would have been destroyed or someone would never come back 419 00:25:45,999 --> 00:25:50,417 with them or whatever but we got 11 of them just in case and 420 00:25:50,417 --> 00:25:54,999 they were cheap, we got them on special, they were under $100, 421 00:25:54,999 --> 00:25:59,999 water proof, shoot in high def, they can take shock and dust they're 422 00:25:59,999 --> 00:26:04,375 tough little bastards, so that was our secret sauce wild card 423 00:26:04,375 --> 00:26:08,542 as opposed to the documentary crew runs in. 424 00:26:08,542 --> 00:26:13,083 Obviously we would respect people and we wanted shots that were 425 00:26:13,083 --> 00:26:18,125 evocative, but we didn't want to loose crew if somebody went 426 00:26:18,125 --> 00:26:24,083 on a road trip RACHEL LOVINGER: And this let us be places we weren't 427 00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:29,167 going to be, we gave them to some Goons and some people that 428 00:26:29,167 --> 00:26:32,209 were competing in the scavenger hunt 429 00:26:32,209 --> 00:26:37,876 and other contests where we couldn't be with them all the time and 430 00:26:37,876 --> 00:26:40,375 to some old timers. 431 00:26:40,375 --> 00:26:44,125 JASON SCOTT: So we ended up with a bunch of these cameras 432 00:26:44,125 --> 00:26:49,292 and other pieces and all digital, no analog, no videotape in here 433 00:26:49,292 --> 00:26:53,626 and we have zoom H4N recorders, which are my favorite, 434 00:26:53,626 --> 00:26:58,999 they're little guys, tough as well and you can do recording with them 435 00:26:58,999 --> 00:27:03,709 in all circumstances and they go right to MP3. 436 00:27:05,167 --> 00:27:06,999 Let's look at the next one. 437 00:27:07,501 --> 00:27:10,999 Here is the set up that we ended up going for or a variation of it. 438 00:27:11,292 --> 00:27:15,959 What this is me at another convention, a comic book grouping 439 00:27:15,959 --> 00:27:19,083 in New York City to test this. 440 00:27:19,083 --> 00:27:21,999 I ran around with it filming and we have 441 00:27:21,999 --> 00:27:26,999 a mono pod that film high definition and here I have 442 00:27:26,999 --> 00:27:33,999 an extended microphone and I'm storing the item in my pocket. 443 00:27:33,999 --> 00:27:36,501 We ended up getting ready of and slimming down and getting rid 444 00:27:36,501 --> 00:27:39,626 of the external microphone and using the internal microphone 445 00:27:39,626 --> 00:27:42,834 and having our guys put the microphone right here and try not 446 00:27:42,834 --> 00:27:46,834 to get in the shot and that actually worked out very well. 447 00:27:46,834 --> 00:27:51,918 So what you see there is a set up that is infinitely portable, it is really fast, 448 00:27:51,918 --> 00:27:55,876 to set up, can get anywhere, takes really good shots, 449 00:27:55,876 --> 00:28:01,792 and can deal with the action in just a really, really intense way. 450 00:28:01,792 --> 00:28:04,584 So it turned out to be a nice combination. 451 00:28:04,584 --> 00:28:06,918 We had three of these going at any given time. 452 00:28:06,999 --> 00:28:08,999 Is there another one? 453 00:28:08,999 --> 00:28:10,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: No. 454 00:28:10,083 --> 00:28:11,125 JASON SCOTT: Okay. 455 00:28:11,334 --> 00:28:15,792 So with that we kind of said, okay, well or I should say Rachel said, 456 00:28:15,792 --> 00:28:19,959 we should have a presence online, let's get people excited, 457 00:28:19,959 --> 00:28:24,999 isn't that what you do with a campaign, let's say here is what's going on, 458 00:28:24,999 --> 00:28:29,918 Facebook group, a Twitter stream, let's let people know what's going 459 00:28:29,918 --> 00:28:33,417 on and build a presence for the DEF CON documentary 460 00:28:33,417 --> 00:28:36,959 in anticipation and there is an interesting thing 461 00:28:36,959 --> 00:28:39,959 about that which is that nobody gives a sit 462 00:28:39,959 --> 00:28:43,709 about DEF CON until like a month before. 463 00:28:44,250 --> 00:28:47,999 (Chuckles.) A few insiders do but on the general nobody 464 00:28:47,999 --> 00:28:51,918 is like" better check the Twitter stream "they don't start 465 00:28:51,918 --> 00:28:56,125 getting excited until right before and we had conflict internally 466 00:28:56,125 --> 00:29:00,999 about this because she was like, we should treat this well and I'm like" 467 00:29:00,999 --> 00:29:04,999 but nobody is giving a shit and we're not getting responses 468 00:29:04,999 --> 00:29:08,751 and I would rather focus on this "so we had conflict and 469 00:29:08,751 --> 00:29:12,584 for anybody who is doing anything like this again, DEF CON 470 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:17,542 is something that people put a lot of energy in but they put energy either 471 00:29:17,542 --> 00:29:20,999 on their projects or they put energy toward learning 472 00:29:20,999 --> 00:29:23,876 about it in anticipation, like a few weeks 473 00:29:23,876 --> 00:29:27,999 before to get more info so it's better to back load your stuff 474 00:29:27,999 --> 00:29:31,667 and have it ready to go and start dropping hints a week 475 00:29:31,667 --> 00:29:34,083 or two or three before. 476 00:29:34,667 --> 00:29:38,918 Work on it, do your projects but they don't really start paying 477 00:29:38,918 --> 00:29:43,292 attention to day by day, reloading until just before. 478 00:29:43,292 --> 00:29:44,709 That was a hard lesson. 479 00:29:44,709 --> 00:29:47,083 We wasted a little bit of energy on that. 480 00:29:47,584 --> 00:29:51,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: All right, then we get to production. 481 00:29:51,999 --> 00:29:54,375 JASON SCOTT: I think I do production, too. 482 00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:55,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: Hear you go. 483 00:29:55,999 --> 00:29:57,209 JASON SCOTT: How do you capture the spirit of DEF CON past and present, 484 00:29:57,209 --> 00:29:58,959 says the slide! 485 00:30:00,042 --> 00:30:03,209 (Chuckles.) My concern was that. 486 00:30:05,834 --> 00:30:08,792 Like I said, first of all, no G4 crap! 487 00:30:08,999 --> 00:30:12,999 Second of all I wasn't overly interested in doing what I was going 488 00:30:12,999 --> 00:30:16,876 to call" Sparky goes to DEF CON story "where I find a kid, 489 00:30:16,876 --> 00:30:19,626 he goes to DEF CON for the first time I go 490 00:30:19,626 --> 00:30:23,751 to his house I fine out his mom and dad are still married and 491 00:30:23,751 --> 00:30:26,999 he likes computers and he's going to DEF CON and 492 00:30:26,999 --> 00:30:30,542 he will be found dead with the bubbles floating on top 493 00:30:30,542 --> 00:30:32,375 the next day. 494 00:30:34,959 --> 00:30:39,334 (Chuckles.) I wasn't interested in that narrative, it's valid to do 495 00:30:39,334 --> 00:30:44,042 a story that way but I didn't think I wanted to do that. 496 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:45,834 I wasn't comfortable with that. 497 00:30:45,834 --> 00:30:47,999 What I wanted to do was have authoritative voices 498 00:30:47,999 --> 00:30:51,999 in a mosaic discussing what DEF CON means to them and 499 00:30:51,999 --> 00:30:56,667 the best we can illustrate that in the material over the course 500 00:30:56,667 --> 00:31:00,751 of the next over the course of the movie. 501 00:31:01,083 --> 00:31:05,999 There was another mystery factor and I know the joke which was" what 502 00:31:05,999 --> 00:31:07,999 if DEF CON gets cancelled? 503 00:31:07,999 --> 00:31:11,876 "And it could be there are ways to be cancelled 504 00:31:11,876 --> 00:31:15,209 without being cancelled, right? 505 00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:18,626 Hotel gets smoke bombed, there is a problem, 506 00:31:18,626 --> 00:31:22,334 because of something there is nobody able to attend the talked 507 00:31:22,334 --> 00:31:25,250 in the same way, they run into a security issue, 508 00:31:25,250 --> 00:31:29,083 anything there might not be a DEF CON to film! 509 00:31:30,459 --> 00:31:33,542 That would be an interesting story right? 510 00:31:33,792 --> 00:31:40,417 DEF CON cancelled and just credits, organ music, fades, 511 00:31:40,417 --> 00:31:46,250 it's 17 minute movie, da da da da da da! 512 00:31:46,250 --> 00:31:47,250 I was worried. 513 00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:49,751 So I front loaded with as many interviews 514 00:31:49,751 --> 00:31:54,751 as I could handle especially with staff that I thought would be balls 515 00:31:54,751 --> 00:31:57,834 to the wall so what you're seeing is a set 516 00:31:57,834 --> 00:32:01,999 up at Hope and hope really appreciated that I was filming 517 00:32:01,999 --> 00:32:04,999 a DEF CON documentary there. 518 00:32:08,918 --> 00:32:12,751 I was able to do one thing, we were able to fly 519 00:32:12,751 --> 00:32:18,083 in Dead Addict because he lives in Toronto but I didn't want to go 520 00:32:18,083 --> 00:32:24,459 to Toronto to film him so I brought him to New York so for of first time one 521 00:32:24,459 --> 00:32:29,083 of 4 people who has been to DEF CON every time got to be 522 00:32:29,083 --> 00:32:32,999 to Hope and we're filming in a hotel room I got 523 00:32:32,999 --> 00:32:38,834 for him so it was reuse and I filmed with Dual Core at hope and others 524 00:32:38,834 --> 00:32:41,626 and this is my set up. 525 00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:45,083 You can see my Cannon, I use a boom mic and halogen lights 526 00:32:45,083 --> 00:32:49,834 and flood the room with light and bounce it off. 527 00:32:49,834 --> 00:32:52,083 This is a shitty hotel room; let's be clear. 528 00:32:52,125 --> 00:32:55,250 The hotel in Pennsylvania is one of the worst pieces of property 529 00:32:55,250 --> 00:32:58,709 in an urban area outside much a fire bombing or World War II 530 00:32:58,709 --> 00:33:01,876 but I was able to get mileage out of moving it RACHEL 531 00:33:01,876 --> 00:33:06,083 LOVINGER: If you've sheen" The Shining "it feels like that. 532 00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:15,501 JASON SCOTT:" Shining plus ass rape! 533 00:33:15,501 --> 00:33:16,834 " 534 00:33:16,834 --> 00:33:19,999 So here is me filming Jeff, I'm aiming it at his desk, this 535 00:33:19,999 --> 00:33:22,999 is only one of two locations we could use, 536 00:33:22,999 --> 00:33:26,167 the other was truly unusable, this had an echo, 537 00:33:26,167 --> 00:33:29,083 but I filmed him randomly. 538 00:33:29,250 --> 00:33:35,083 I went to Seattle, I went to Los Angeles, I went to Colorado, Denver area, 539 00:33:35,083 --> 00:33:40,999 and I went to a couple of houses in California and a couple of houses 540 00:33:40,999 --> 00:33:45,292 on the east coast and Washington, D.C. 541 00:33:45,876 --> 00:33:48,751 basically did about 50 interviews with people that made it 542 00:33:48,751 --> 00:33:53,667 into the movie in some cases, some cases didn't get into the movie. 543 00:34:00,999 --> 00:34:05,626 Hacker spaces like Black Lodge in Seattle, they opened 544 00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:10,834 up their spaces to me and one by one I would interview them 545 00:34:10,834 --> 00:34:15,918 and try my best to make them all interesting locations and 546 00:34:15,918 --> 00:34:19,375 by the time I was done, before minute one 547 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:24,584 of DEF CON started I had roughly, I want to say, between 30 548 00:34:24,584 --> 00:34:28,667 and forty hours of DEF CON footage. 549 00:34:28,751 --> 00:34:32,083 About DEF CON and senior staff explaining why DEF CON meant things 550 00:34:32,083 --> 00:34:35,667 to them, what it was about and everything. 551 00:34:35,667 --> 00:34:38,209 So I knew I wouldn't have to track those people down. 552 00:34:38,667 --> 00:34:41,417 There were people who used to be part 553 00:34:41,417 --> 00:34:47,083 of DEF CON and are never going back again or will rarely go back 554 00:34:47,083 --> 00:34:52,751 like Deaf Vegetable and Swamp Rat, so it took me 60 days to fly 555 00:34:52,751 --> 00:34:58,459 around and do these interviews so I knew I was preloaded so if it 556 00:34:58,459 --> 00:35:03,751 all blue up I could then say" ironically it never happened! 557 00:35:03,751 --> 00:35:07,959 "But the thing is the first BBS documentary has 558 00:35:07,959 --> 00:35:11,999 a lot of talking heads and they're weaved well 559 00:35:11,999 --> 00:35:17,209 and I worked hard on it and the same thing with GIT Lamp and 560 00:35:17,209 --> 00:35:21,083 a lot of illustrations of games. 561 00:35:21,375 --> 00:35:26,999 I knew I wanted it to be kinetic, that there was motion, DEF CON 562 00:35:26,999 --> 00:35:31,334 is a thing of motion and activity and throngs 563 00:35:31,334 --> 00:35:34,834 and people moving around. 564 00:35:34,959 --> 00:35:39,584 So I resolved that even though I had 30 or forty hours of people sitting 565 00:35:39,584 --> 00:35:44,375 and telling you" DEF CON is awesome, I couldn't see by Saturday, it 566 00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:48,959 is fantastic "I wanted that you would see somebody blind drunk 567 00:35:48,959 --> 00:35:53,209 on Saturday or see that people were working hard or soldering 568 00:35:53,209 --> 00:35:58,999 and that was on my list to make sure it would have that feeling. 569 00:36:01,999 --> 00:36:02,999 Yep. 570 00:36:02,999 --> 00:36:06,751 RACHEL LOVINGER: That was all in the lead up time to DEF CON 571 00:36:06,751 --> 00:36:12,459 and finally last July we assembled our crew at DEF CON, there we are. 572 00:36:12,999 --> 00:36:15,918 JASON SCOTT: I love that shot. 573 00:36:15,918 --> 00:36:17,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: With fearless leader. 574 00:36:17,999 --> 00:36:24,751 JASON SCOTT: Yep and the Lost Boys and we are an Army. 575 00:36:25,083 --> 00:36:29,834 I love this shot so it's everywhere because it captures it. 576 00:36:29,999 --> 00:36:32,375 Oh yeah, what's up with the fuckin' segue, Jason! 577 00:36:33,459 --> 00:36:38,999 I've been known for having a segue in previous years because I like segues, 578 00:36:38,999 --> 00:36:42,209 and I discovered or realized that we were going 579 00:36:42,209 --> 00:36:45,626 to have situations where we would be over here 580 00:36:45,626 --> 00:36:50,999 in track 3 and something would happen in Penn and Teller and I would have 581 00:36:50,999 --> 00:36:54,417 to go there so I'm like, I'm going to get a Segue 582 00:36:54,417 --> 00:36:58,209 because we didn't know if we were going to get radios 583 00:36:58,209 --> 00:37:01,167 or communication so the Segue became the" 584 00:37:01,167 --> 00:37:03,626 catchall "solution! 585 00:37:03,918 --> 00:37:07,250 RACHEL LOVINGER: Okay. 586 00:37:07,542 --> 00:37:09,999 So we got here, we checked our equipment, 587 00:37:09,999 --> 00:37:13,918 had a couple of hotel rooms, one of them became our HQ, 588 00:37:13,918 --> 00:37:19,999 production HQ and we made sure everything was there, it was all working. 589 00:37:21,125 --> 00:37:25,083 Before the conference started we took our crew around, we did a walk 590 00:37:25,083 --> 00:37:28,167 through of the space to show them where everything was 591 00:37:28,167 --> 00:37:31,999 going to be and we had them take the equipment with them and kind 592 00:37:31,999 --> 00:37:34,999 of test it out and get comfortable with it and be able 593 00:37:34,999 --> 00:37:38,459 to ask some questions and stuff like that. 594 00:37:38,459 --> 00:37:42,751 So we did a walk through of this area, I think that was helpful. 595 00:37:42,751 --> 00:37:44,999 We did a boot camp, but mostly it was just, again, 596 00:37:44,999 --> 00:37:48,125 to make sure they were going to be safe and comfortable 597 00:37:48,125 --> 00:37:52,999 and bring the footage back to us each day and that sort of thing. 598 00:37:54,334 --> 00:37:58,999 The conference lent us a bunch of things, walkie talkies which ended 599 00:37:58,999 --> 00:38:01,501 up being you don't want to keep them 600 00:38:01,501 --> 00:38:05,167 on while you're filming because you don't want someone 601 00:38:05,167 --> 00:38:09,542 like JASON SCOTT: Do we know where room 4 is? 602 00:38:09,542 --> 00:38:12,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: That can screw up the footage, so these ended 603 00:38:12,083 --> 00:38:14,292 up being of limited use. 604 00:38:16,083 --> 00:38:18,709 JASON SCOTT: I seem to have a vague memory 605 00:38:18,709 --> 00:38:22,501 of us doing something enjoyable with those radios. 606 00:38:23,834 --> 00:38:27,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: We used them to" prank "each other. 607 00:38:27,999 --> 00:38:29,375 JASON SCOTT: And we would fuck with each other," does anyone need 608 00:38:29,375 --> 00:38:31,083 to know where Kyle is? 609 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:35,083 Kyle here, you don't need to find me ". 610 00:38:35,709 --> 00:38:40,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: And the hotel rooms. 611 00:38:40,083 --> 00:38:41,584 JASON SCOTT: The hotel rooms came from DEF CON themselves 612 00:38:41,584 --> 00:38:43,876 and that was not in the budget. 613 00:38:44,209 --> 00:38:52,417 We had a couple I think we had three to put our staff in and have this thing. 614 00:38:52,709 --> 00:38:55,584 RACHEL LOVINGER: So we bought supplies, got a lot 615 00:38:55,584 --> 00:38:59,292 of water and caffeine and food and Post it Notes and this 616 00:38:59,292 --> 00:39:02,999 is how I learned if you go to two different drug stories 617 00:39:02,999 --> 00:39:07,250 in Las Vegas and spend $100 in each one sometimes your bank turns 618 00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:10,626 off your credit card for no reason! 619 00:39:10,876 --> 00:39:12,751 (Laughter.) That was awkward! 620 00:39:13,083 --> 00:39:16,501 We had our production meeting in HQ every day, 621 00:39:16,501 --> 00:39:20,417 our room and we had our list of things that were going 622 00:39:20,417 --> 00:39:24,250 on and we had assembled our crew into two three pairs 623 00:39:24,250 --> 00:39:29,375 of two people so we would have one person and we actually figured this 624 00:39:29,375 --> 00:39:33,709 out during the boot camp, who liked doing using the camera, 625 00:39:33,709 --> 00:39:38,209 who liked doing audio, we figured out who was a morning person, 626 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:42,667 who was a night person and we paired them up, like we paired 627 00:39:42,667 --> 00:39:46,209 up morning people together and we had three groups 628 00:39:46,209 --> 00:39:49,125 of one camera man and one audio recorder 629 00:39:49,125 --> 00:39:52,334 and we JASON SCOTT: Colors! 630 00:39:52,334 --> 00:39:55,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: We Nick named them team red, green, blue, 631 00:39:55,083 --> 00:39:59,167 and when we knew what things needed to be filmed each day we would say" 632 00:39:59,167 --> 00:40:02,083 is this something you're going to be interested in? 633 00:40:02,083 --> 00:40:06,375 "So we would go through the things, here is what's happening tomorrow who 634 00:40:06,375 --> 00:40:08,417 want to film this? 635 00:40:08,417 --> 00:40:12,083 And we would makeup a shot list for each day, so they would know 636 00:40:12,083 --> 00:40:16,334 at 10:00 this is happening and what's happening and then we had 637 00:40:16,334 --> 00:40:19,792 a bunch of things that were like, at some point go 638 00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:24,542 by the hardware hacking village so there were things that were happening 639 00:40:24,542 --> 00:40:28,751 and things that were happening all day but they had their list 640 00:40:28,751 --> 00:40:32,999 and we had the master list on the wall which we had every event 641 00:40:32,999 --> 00:40:35,667 that was going on up there and by the end 642 00:40:35,667 --> 00:40:39,459 of the day we would check off the ones that we had gotten 643 00:40:39,459 --> 00:40:42,792 coverage of and if we had ones that hadn't gotten 644 00:40:42,792 --> 00:40:47,000 covered but they were continuing the next day we would move those 645 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,501 over to the next day. 646 00:40:49,501 --> 00:40:53,999 JASON SCOTT: We had team red, we renamed them" team breaking 647 00:40:53,999 --> 00:40:58,167 balds, "because it was two bald guys and we paired 648 00:40:58,167 --> 00:41:03,999 up our least experienced member with our most experienced member so 649 00:41:03,999 --> 00:41:08,876 it was Alex who had not been to Vegas or been to DEF CON 650 00:41:08,876 --> 00:41:13,167 or Donnie shooting up with Eddie who had all of that 651 00:41:13,167 --> 00:41:18,999 with the judged idea that it would be a reasonably talented person 652 00:41:18,999 --> 00:41:23,125 and (Chuckles.) Like everything else, Eddie worked 653 00:41:23,125 --> 00:41:28,959 with Alex and it went pretty well and the other teams worked well, 654 00:41:28,959 --> 00:41:32,999 team breaking bald turned out to be a real gift 655 00:41:32,999 --> 00:41:38,542 because these guys were getting up at 8 and they were going to bed 656 00:41:38,542 --> 00:41:42,584 at 2 or 3 over and over and Steve on that team, 657 00:41:42,584 --> 00:41:49,292 the camera guy would film endless establishing shots of everything. 658 00:41:49,292 --> 00:41:52,999 So if you picked up the groceries, he would film the bag, you grabbing 659 00:41:52,999 --> 00:41:56,334 the groceries, you holding the groceries, the groceries, 660 00:41:56,334 --> 00:42:01,083 the groceries in the fridge, the fridge, the house the fridge is in, the sun, 661 00:42:01,083 --> 00:42:04,918 and the town and the factory that the fridge was manufactured 662 00:42:04,918 --> 00:42:08,083 in (Chuckles.) And that was a gift to me down the line 663 00:42:08,083 --> 00:42:12,751 because I would have someone talk in the editing room and I would be like, 664 00:42:12,751 --> 00:42:15,751 do I have a shot of course I have a shot of that, 665 00:42:15,751 --> 00:42:19,125 because there were shots of rooms, people, each team took 666 00:42:19,125 --> 00:42:23,209 on a character of what they wanted to do and organically that part 667 00:42:23,209 --> 00:42:26,417 of organic but thanks to Rachel's planning there was 668 00:42:26,417 --> 00:42:29,083 a lot that was not organic. 669 00:42:29,334 --> 00:42:33,876 I'm a real improvisor, and I don't come in with a lot 670 00:42:33,876 --> 00:42:39,792 of questions as opposed to, it was like, what is everyone doing, it was 671 00:42:39,792 --> 00:42:44,999 like we knew, and you should go out and come back! 672 00:42:46,167 --> 00:42:50,999 So people see this movie I'm factorially pulling this 673 00:42:50,999 --> 00:42:56,999 out but when people see this stuff it's because she did this matrixes 674 00:42:56,999 --> 00:43:01,626 of all these items of stuff so we were always aware 675 00:43:01,626 --> 00:43:07,459 of what we needed, and that's the real secret hard work that's not 676 00:43:07,459 --> 00:43:10,375 obvious on the screen. 677 00:43:10,459 --> 00:43:12,999 It's not just, oh, they filmed until they made a movie, 678 00:43:12,999 --> 00:43:15,459 that's what was really there. 679 00:43:15,459 --> 00:43:19,417 So unfortunately there is no secret" get movie quick scheme! 680 00:43:19,417 --> 00:43:23,083 " RACHEL LOVINGER: So another part of our HQ, 681 00:43:23,083 --> 00:43:27,999 this was our information hub and every time the guys dropped 682 00:43:27,999 --> 00:43:32,999 off their memory cards we copied them on to multiple hard drives 683 00:43:32,999 --> 00:43:38,999 to make sure we had many copies of it and nothing would get lost. 684 00:43:38,999 --> 00:43:43,292 JASON SCOTT: We had three hard drives every piece of footage went 685 00:43:43,292 --> 00:43:47,999 on three hard drives and then when we got it home we put them 686 00:43:47,999 --> 00:43:51,999 in six hard drives in three locations. 687 00:43:51,999 --> 00:43:54,417 To verify that we would never lose the footage due 688 00:43:54,417 --> 00:43:57,083 to a hard drive going south. 689 00:43:57,626 --> 00:44:02,417 Just to understand how much space these things have, the cameras, 690 00:44:02,417 --> 00:44:06,083 the Vixia's had two, 32 gig cards in them and 691 00:44:06,083 --> 00:44:10,083 they could record 25 hours of high def video and 692 00:44:10,083 --> 00:44:15,167 the audio could do 36 hours of full audio before being swamped 693 00:44:15,167 --> 00:44:21,125 out so even though we did that every day we didn't have situations where 694 00:44:21,125 --> 00:44:25,375 people were like" I'm out of film "so that part was 695 00:44:25,375 --> 00:44:30,999 the overengineered but it turned out to be really good. 696 00:44:32,459 --> 00:44:35,792 RACHEL LOVINGER: Then we started filming. 697 00:44:35,999 --> 00:44:38,999 JASON SCOTT: You know, the gang was set 698 00:44:38,999 --> 00:44:43,501 out on this really strange journey, right? 699 00:44:43,501 --> 00:44:48,083 These guys were put into this thing, for them they had never been 700 00:44:48,083 --> 00:44:52,542 to Vegas before or to DEF CON before and it is strange 701 00:44:52,542 --> 00:44:57,876 to experience DEF CON in" God mode "where you have carte blanche 702 00:44:57,876 --> 00:45:00,626 to walk into anything. 703 00:45:03,751 --> 00:45:05,501 Especially for others. 704 00:45:07,999 --> 00:45:12,167 Imagine you're walking into a room and people are talking and well, 705 00:45:12,167 --> 00:45:14,999 I think I will go on stage and this needs me 706 00:45:14,999 --> 00:45:19,292 and I'm going to film the back of their head because I feel like it 707 00:45:19,292 --> 00:45:23,083 and that guy he's interesting, he's leaving I'll follow him 708 00:45:23,083 --> 00:45:27,542 like a until he goes into the hallway and this thing? 709 00:45:27,999 --> 00:45:33,167 The Goon security center let's talk to them, what the hell? 710 00:45:33,542 --> 00:45:35,375 So that was like a massive emotional thing 711 00:45:35,375 --> 00:45:39,999 for me but for the others it was like, okay, I guess I'm going to film this part! 712 00:45:41,292 --> 00:45:44,626 They were able to film inside and outside, here 713 00:45:44,626 --> 00:45:47,999 is an example of unused footage we filmed Scotland 714 00:45:47,999 --> 00:45:51,209 at the toxic BBQ but you could see how the set 715 00:45:51,209 --> 00:45:55,459 up might be, they're listen to go what's going on and talking 716 00:45:55,459 --> 00:45:59,167 to Scotland about the toxic BBQ and these set ups were 717 00:45:59,167 --> 00:46:01,375 where everywhere. 718 00:46:05,083 --> 00:46:07,876 I started filming from the Segue. 719 00:46:08,167 --> 00:46:11,876 What this does was afforded me" crane "shots to give me 720 00:46:11,876 --> 00:46:15,501 the kinetic energy that I wanted in the shot and the film 721 00:46:15,501 --> 00:46:17,918 is loaded with these. 722 00:46:17,918 --> 00:46:21,999 These are post process the stabilized crane shots, shot 723 00:46:21,999 --> 00:46:25,959 all over and I'm wearing a hat because I tried 724 00:46:25,959 --> 00:46:30,999 to make myself more obvious, like I see a weird orange vest 725 00:46:30,999 --> 00:46:36,459 and a cowboy hat, oh, it's the weird camera guy and looking back 726 00:46:36,459 --> 00:46:39,918 I should have had a steady camera thing 727 00:46:39,918 --> 00:46:42,667 but I didn't do that. 728 00:46:42,667 --> 00:46:45,626 I would be driving along and go like this, go around people 729 00:46:45,626 --> 00:46:50,292 and keep going and that Segue give me enormous ability. 730 00:46:50,292 --> 00:46:54,459 There is a scene where it goes around a speaker party on the roof 731 00:46:54,459 --> 00:46:58,999 in the movie and you see me zooming through people like I'm 732 00:46:58,999 --> 00:47:03,459 on weird rails like right by people's heads and I only ran 733 00:47:03,459 --> 00:47:06,834 over one person the whole Con! 734 00:47:06,834 --> 00:47:11,667 (Laughter.) Which was really amazing, I was surprised it was only once 735 00:47:11,667 --> 00:47:15,792 and it was his fault because he had I was sitting 736 00:47:15,792 --> 00:47:21,999 on the front row with his feet way, way, way out and it was dark and I flew 737 00:47:21,999 --> 00:47:27,999 over and he yelled and I gave him a red card and kept going! 738 00:47:33,999 --> 00:47:35,667 (Laughter.)" Don't touch my Segue! 739 00:47:35,667 --> 00:47:37,999 "Beside accident a transport mechanism it turned 740 00:47:37,999 --> 00:47:40,083 out to be a good flinching mechanism so it added 741 00:47:40,083 --> 00:47:41,751 to the film. 742 00:47:41,751 --> 00:47:45,667 I guess I will mention here I believe in tone poems where you look 743 00:47:45,667 --> 00:47:51,083 at pieces of work and say, why do I feel this when I look at it? 744 00:47:51,334 --> 00:47:53,083 How do I create this? 745 00:47:53,626 --> 00:47:55,792 How do I get that feel? 746 00:47:55,792 --> 00:48:01,083 And for me, believe it or not, a lot of the tone poem for the movie 747 00:48:01,083 --> 00:48:06,459 for me comes from action scenes in Sherlock Holmes 2," Game 748 00:48:06,459 --> 00:48:11,999 of Shadows "and if you watch the fight scene at the end, a lot 749 00:48:11,999 --> 00:48:18,125 of the kinetic sense of that movie I wanted this to have. 750 00:48:18,334 --> 00:48:21,584 So I use that had as a template, a" rough "feeling 751 00:48:21,584 --> 00:48:25,292 of what would it feel like to go through DEF CON so 752 00:48:25,292 --> 00:48:27,999 the Segue helped a lot. 753 00:48:29,209 --> 00:48:33,584 Anyway, so the crew went everywhere! 754 00:48:33,792 --> 00:48:36,999 They weren't afraid to go everywhere! 755 00:48:36,999 --> 00:48:40,501 In a lot of different shots you will see them, because one crew 756 00:48:40,501 --> 00:48:43,959 will catch another by mistake because they're moving 757 00:48:43,959 --> 00:48:48,709 around so much so you can see here all these different cases where they're 758 00:48:48,709 --> 00:48:52,083 filming and this is in many cases our these are screen 759 00:48:52,083 --> 00:48:54,667 shots from other team members catching 760 00:48:54,667 --> 00:48:57,626 other team members on the way. 761 00:48:57,999 --> 00:49:02,626 I watched great movement, and I make a joke about Kyle 762 00:49:02,626 --> 00:49:07,959 because in the beginning Kyle would say" would it be possible 763 00:49:07,959 --> 00:49:12,999 to film you and I would like to talk to you "and by Saturday 764 00:49:12,999 --> 00:49:14,959 he was like" Yo, sup? 765 00:49:14,959 --> 00:49:20,083 "And he's like, yeah, I'm working on this thing and they were 766 00:49:20,083 --> 00:49:24,834 an unstoppable force, like a news program on steroids, 767 00:49:24,834 --> 00:49:30,083 slamming through this place to get info and sometimes miracles 768 00:49:30,083 --> 00:49:35,918 of stepping in and getting a perfect shot of this event happening, 769 00:49:35,918 --> 00:49:39,167 perfectly framed, beautiful! 770 00:49:39,667 --> 00:49:43,834 RACHEL LOVINGER: And Jason mentioned we had some team that was 771 00:49:43,834 --> 00:49:46,250 the morning and some were in the evening 772 00:49:46,250 --> 00:49:50,292 but really everybody was shooting like we were working from 8:00 773 00:49:50,292 --> 00:49:54,667 in the morning until sometimes 2 in the morning and then we would go 774 00:49:54,667 --> 00:49:58,667 back to the room and have our, you know, debrief and production 775 00:49:58,667 --> 00:50:01,626 and planning for the next day so I think we got 776 00:50:01,626 --> 00:50:05,999 roughly, like, three or four hours of sleep a night. 777 00:50:05,999 --> 00:50:08,375 JASON SCOTT: Right and one of the things I mean, 778 00:50:08,375 --> 00:50:12,250 I was very strong about treating the crew with much respect 779 00:50:12,250 --> 00:50:15,292 as possible so, again, we paid for the flights 780 00:50:15,292 --> 00:50:19,501 in so nobody was putting any money in and I insisted that we go 781 00:50:19,501 --> 00:50:23,459 on a nice dinner the night before DEF CON started on we went 782 00:50:23,459 --> 00:50:27,667 to the Italian place to talk more but to let them have whatever 783 00:50:27,667 --> 00:50:31,125 they wanted on the menu because I knew they were going 784 00:50:31,125 --> 00:50:34,042 to get terrible he sleep and terrible teeth, 785 00:50:34,042 --> 00:50:39,999 and I wanted them to have a memory of oh yeah, Vegas was kinda fun once! 786 00:50:40,417 --> 00:50:42,501 While they're stuck on the ground trying 787 00:50:42,501 --> 00:50:45,626 to get this one shot of somebody talking. 788 00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:48,999 I was happy once, I will be happy again! 789 00:50:50,417 --> 00:50:54,417 (Laughter.) So, you know, because, again, this is the first time I have people 790 00:50:54,417 --> 00:50:58,000 working for me in this capacity and I can do whatever I want to myself, 791 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,999 you know, I used to do I had film things where I would go 792 00:51:00,999 --> 00:51:04,667 1,000 miles in four days and that's fine, it's one guy getting punched 793 00:51:04,667 --> 00:51:06,999 in the face from that but I am punching people 794 00:51:06,999 --> 00:51:10,417 in the face doing this and I wanted them to happen I respected them 795 00:51:10,417 --> 00:51:13,542 as people and they're not" for hire "machines that I can run 796 00:51:13,542 --> 00:51:17,667 into the ground and drop into the recycle bin when I'm done. 797 00:51:17,667 --> 00:51:20,209 RACHEL LOVINGER: They worked really hard. 798 00:51:20,209 --> 00:51:22,709 JASON SCOTT: Really hard. 799 00:51:23,292 --> 00:51:29,209 This is my lovely Alex falling asleep during an interview. 800 00:51:30,999 --> 00:51:33,709 It's adorable because if you listen to the footage they're like," do we 801 00:51:33,709 --> 00:51:34,999 wake him? 802 00:51:34,999 --> 00:51:36,417 No, just keep talkin'! 803 00:51:36,417 --> 00:51:42,999 "(Laughter.) This was Alex' first time in Las Vegas and Alex is 18 so 804 00:51:42,999 --> 00:51:49,999 he would finish a day at 2 in the morning and go back out again! 805 00:51:50,918 --> 00:51:54,918 So that's what you do when you're 18, 'cuz, why not? 806 00:51:54,918 --> 00:51:57,999 So it wreked him a few times but he got he definitely has work 807 00:51:57,999 --> 00:52:02,626 to show for it, beautiful work, it was rough on him, so this is one 808 00:52:02,626 --> 00:52:05,083 of my favorites of him. 809 00:52:05,792 --> 00:52:09,751 You just want to hug him! 810 00:52:09,751 --> 00:52:11,417 So we had a lot of really impressive response 811 00:52:11,417 --> 00:52:14,083 in places that we were going. 812 00:52:14,083 --> 00:52:18,918 It say from the DEF CON kids sequence and the crew would always make sure 813 00:52:18,918 --> 00:52:23,584 to get some really nicely framed interviews and do interviews 814 00:52:23,584 --> 00:52:26,709 like I had done to see them and fit them 815 00:52:26,709 --> 00:52:30,918 in and record them under circumstances) seamlessly fit 816 00:52:30,918 --> 00:52:35,083 them in and it wasn't just people talking here is a key 817 00:52:35,083 --> 00:52:39,626 to a door and sit them done and approach them straight up, 818 00:52:39,626 --> 00:52:41,999 why are you here? 819 00:52:44,083 --> 00:52:46,584 What does DEF CON mean to you? 820 00:52:46,626 --> 00:52:48,459 What's a funny story? 821 00:52:48,751 --> 00:52:51,167 Here these kids are explaining what work they're doing 822 00:52:51,167 --> 00:52:55,999 on the damage so there is a lot of stories that are not just mine. 823 00:52:55,999 --> 00:52:58,709 I would estimate 70 to 100 interviews that came back 824 00:52:58,709 --> 00:53:00,959 from the footage. 825 00:53:02,209 --> 00:53:05,999 Of course, we really liked shooting outside. 826 00:53:05,999 --> 00:53:09,999 I didn't think it needed to be and, you know, this was funny 827 00:53:09,999 --> 00:53:15,542 because this is one where Kyle got lost, I believe, right? 828 00:53:15,542 --> 00:53:16,792 RACHEL LOVINGER: No. 829 00:53:16,792 --> 00:53:18,959 It was JASON SCOTT: Was it the other one? 830 00:53:18,959 --> 00:53:19,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: He didn't get lost going there, 831 00:53:19,083 --> 00:53:22,792 they arrived back here and he was trying to find the parking lot 832 00:53:22,792 --> 00:53:25,999 and going around Vegas was the problem. 833 00:53:25,999 --> 00:53:28,334 JASON SCOTT: He took the wrong turn and showed 834 00:53:28,334 --> 00:53:31,250 up an hour and a half later. 835 00:53:31,999 --> 00:53:35,209 With the haunted face of a Vietnam Vet! 836 00:53:35,834 --> 00:53:40,250 And I was prepared to let him have the rest of the day off. 837 00:53:40,792 --> 00:53:43,501 I was like, if he comes back, let him rest and we'll work 838 00:53:43,501 --> 00:53:45,542 with what we have. 839 00:53:45,542 --> 00:53:47,959 RACHEL LOVINGER: Then he turned around and went with us 840 00:53:47,959 --> 00:53:51,626 to the toxic BBQ JASON SCOTT: Boom, grabbed it, went right out, 841 00:53:51,626 --> 00:53:55,375 after the initial haunting and pro, just took it! 842 00:53:55,459 --> 00:53:59,334 So we got wonderful shots Rachel and I wanted 843 00:53:59,334 --> 00:54:04,792 to capture these events that were on the peripheral of DEF CON 844 00:54:04,792 --> 00:54:09,999 and not just make it about, this beige room has these people 845 00:54:09,999 --> 00:54:15,334 and manufacture us never go to the BBQ or other events and this 846 00:54:15,334 --> 00:54:18,209 is what it looks like. 847 00:54:20,667 --> 00:54:22,999 This is why the movie starts with them 848 00:54:22,999 --> 00:54:27,999 because otherwise you would never know that this was happening. 849 00:54:30,083 --> 00:54:34,125 This is interesting because what you're seeing here 850 00:54:34,125 --> 00:54:38,209 is you're seeing General Alexander and Jeff walking 851 00:54:38,209 --> 00:54:41,083 but what you're seeing is Steve fish 852 00:54:41,083 --> 00:54:45,999 a new camera man learning how to do the" walk and talk "and 853 00:54:45,999 --> 00:54:51,626 the West Wing Adam Sorkin shot where he started walking backwards while 854 00:54:51,626 --> 00:54:55,834 these two guys talked about DEF CON and I had no use 855 00:54:55,834 --> 00:55:00,083 for this in the main movie but I made it the beginning 856 00:55:00,083 --> 00:55:04,417 of the preview because in it Jeff General says" what's 857 00:55:04,417 --> 00:55:05,876 up with the guys? 858 00:55:05,876 --> 00:55:10,959 "Do you have news crews and he says" no this is our people "and 859 00:55:10,959 --> 00:55:15,709 he begins to explain to the General, who would be number one 860 00:55:15,709 --> 00:55:19,751 of who would not give a shit about this the nature 861 00:55:19,751 --> 00:55:24,501 of the documentary and what the planning was and why they're 862 00:55:24,501 --> 00:55:26,375 doing that. 863 00:55:26,375 --> 00:55:30,626 So I made it the introduction of the preview so he was like" so, 864 00:55:30,626 --> 00:55:34,834 General Alexander, here is why we made the documentary 865 00:55:34,834 --> 00:55:38,959 and it's going to be an explanation "and it was crazy 866 00:55:38,959 --> 00:55:44,709 and the whole time Steve is walking backwards, filming people. 867 00:55:45,292 --> 00:55:51,999 It's a Stanley Kubrick one take master piece of not getting hit with anything! 868 00:55:52,083 --> 00:55:54,584 So it's crazy. 869 00:55:54,584 --> 00:55:58,250 RACHEL LOVINGER: I would say it helped that General Alexander's people 870 00:55:58,250 --> 00:56:00,292 were screaming" clear the hall! 871 00:56:00,292 --> 00:56:04,083 " JASON SCOTT: That was working out well. 872 00:56:04,083 --> 00:56:06,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: Which he weren't doing that for us. 873 00:56:06,999 --> 00:56:08,999 JASON SCOTT: They should have been! 874 00:56:11,083 --> 00:56:15,209 (Laughter.) When you see the interviews that are done 875 00:56:15,209 --> 00:56:19,999 with the DEF CON logo behind them, what would happen is this 876 00:56:19,999 --> 00:56:25,083 is our hotel headquarters again, I moved the couch, stole a banner, 877 00:56:25,083 --> 00:56:29,999 hung it up behind it with light gear and a microphone stand and 878 00:56:29,999 --> 00:56:33,999 a chair and then swung it behind them and these are 879 00:56:33,999 --> 00:56:38,209 the more" pro "here is a thing behind me and I'm talking 880 00:56:38,209 --> 00:56:41,999 about this so that's why it's here. 881 00:56:42,999 --> 00:56:46,375 I conducted most of these on the Monday afterwards. 882 00:56:46,375 --> 00:56:48,999 These were people like Win and Dan Comin sky, 883 00:56:48,999 --> 00:56:51,999 who had been there and I hadn't had a chance 884 00:56:51,999 --> 00:56:56,334 to be there and Dan moved a night to be able to be interview so 885 00:56:56,334 --> 00:57:00,459 in the movie you will see these with the DEF CON logo, this 886 00:57:00,459 --> 00:57:03,667 is the set up that I would use. 887 00:57:03,999 --> 00:57:07,999 I would be interviewing a person on their no notes, no anything 888 00:57:07,999 --> 00:57:11,250 and then interviewing the person through a whole bunch 889 00:57:11,250 --> 00:57:14,834 of questions so a bunch of people sat this way and this 890 00:57:14,834 --> 00:57:18,083 is how we were able to get a few more" pro "interviews 891 00:57:18,083 --> 00:57:20,792 without too much trouble. 892 00:57:20,792 --> 00:57:23,501 I filmed over in one of the rooms here and if you listen 893 00:57:23,501 --> 00:57:28,626 on the sound track you can hear DEF CON floating in the background. 894 00:57:28,959 --> 00:57:30,626 This is just the sound, thrushing sound 895 00:57:30,626 --> 00:57:33,626 of people and things and I had to do enormous amounts 896 00:57:33,626 --> 00:57:37,626 of sound editing, which I'll talk about afterwards but this is the set 897 00:57:37,626 --> 00:57:41,667 up on the side RACHEL LOVINGER: And Jason would say" where is Jason, 898 00:57:41,667 --> 00:57:44,999 I have Miss Kitty "she is ready to be interviewed right now 899 00:57:44,999 --> 00:57:47,792 and we would have to find you. 900 00:57:48,584 --> 00:57:55,167 JASON SCOTT: And I would walk up to people and say" hey, want 901 00:57:55,167 --> 00:57:57,083 to be interviewed? 902 00:57:57,083 --> 00:58:03,083 "And I would drag them off and it was random through that, 903 00:58:03,083 --> 00:58:07,918 that was how I was spending my day. 904 00:58:07,918 --> 00:58:11,999 Again, people were pulling out Play Sports that we had given them 905 00:58:11,999 --> 00:58:17,501 in all sorts of different locations so we were getting little tiny bonus 906 00:58:17,501 --> 00:58:22,792 with the exception of the scav hunt, produced about 20 hours of it, 907 00:58:22,792 --> 00:58:27,876 we had most people produce about 3 or 7 minutes, because they are 908 00:58:27,876 --> 00:58:32,999 in friggin 'DEF CON, they won't want to film it and they're fuckin' 909 00:58:32,999 --> 00:58:35,999 with things and then being done with it 910 00:58:35,999 --> 00:58:41,834 but there were people using these and they were very usable. 911 00:58:42,125 --> 00:58:44,834 So it turned out to be a good gage for what it was. 912 00:58:45,876 --> 00:58:50,834 There were a couple of times that we would film people 913 00:58:50,834 --> 00:58:56,542 and then they would sober up and find us and be like" you can't 914 00:58:56,542 --> 00:58:58,125 put that in there! 915 00:58:58,125 --> 00:59:03,626 "The most common thing was people would idolly say" and I'm 916 00:59:03,626 --> 00:59:09,125 in a documentary "and their boss's would say" and you're not! 917 00:59:09,125 --> 00:59:12,999 "Sometimes they were government employees, 918 00:59:12,999 --> 00:59:17,999 sometimes they got the fear of God in them and thought 919 00:59:17,999 --> 00:59:23,375 they said something intimidating and we would bodily delete 920 00:59:23,375 --> 00:59:29,999 the files because to be honest, like, 99.9% of the people had no problem 921 00:59:29,999 --> 00:59:33,083 with us filming, right? 922 00:59:33,083 --> 00:59:37,083 So you can't be like, well how dare you, we filmed it, it's ours now. 923 00:59:37,250 --> 00:59:39,959 I wanted to respect these people, I didn't want anyone 924 00:59:39,959 --> 00:59:42,999 to regret income our film offer at least minimize it and one way 925 00:59:42,999 --> 00:59:45,083 to do that was to respect people who were like, 926 00:59:45,083 --> 00:59:47,584 no I don't want to be in this or I'm not comfortable 927 00:59:47,584 --> 00:59:51,459 with it RACHEL LOVINGER: And it only happened a few times. 928 00:59:51,459 --> 00:59:52,999 JASON SCOTT: Just a few times. 929 00:59:52,999 --> 00:59:56,209 I had a custom people who sat down and were interviewed 930 00:59:56,209 --> 01:00:01,375 and said can you not puppet in any part where I discussed this 931 01:00:01,375 --> 01:00:04,959 subject and I said okay, fine. 932 01:00:06,999 --> 01:00:09,459 I don't like playing that game of you said this was okay 933 01:00:09,459 --> 01:00:12,918 and now we own the footage and we're going to use it. 934 01:00:12,918 --> 01:00:16,083 You're making the wrong movie, you are making movies wrong, as far 935 01:00:16,083 --> 01:00:19,999 as I'm concerned in general if you're doing that, if you have 936 01:00:19,999 --> 01:00:24,167 to be that, you know don't act like you're exposing some underground 937 01:00:24,167 --> 01:00:26,999 or orchid ring or that you're Morley Safer 938 01:00:26,999 --> 01:00:31,542 and you just caught people" out "that's not how I operate. 939 01:00:32,876 --> 01:00:34,999 Minimally happened. 940 01:00:41,167 --> 01:00:43,083 Don't do this. 941 01:00:43,834 --> 01:00:50,999 I thought I was interviewing drunk people and they're funny! 942 01:00:51,542 --> 01:00:54,167 And I said and they were going to give me the post more item 943 01:00:54,167 --> 01:00:56,999 of how they won or lost Hacker Jeopardy. 944 01:01:01,125 --> 01:01:04,083 They're super sized drunk, right? 945 01:01:04,167 --> 01:01:07,876 And so I said, it would be funnier to do it in the bathroom! 946 01:01:10,999 --> 01:01:12,626 It got weird. 947 01:01:12,626 --> 01:01:15,792 (Laughter.) So what happened here is that basically and there is footage 948 01:01:15,792 --> 01:01:18,375 of this right because it's on. 949 01:01:18,375 --> 01:01:24,292 And I go" all right let's go into the bathroom and let's do this "so 950 01:01:24,292 --> 01:01:29,999 we go in and there is the casino host who had been using 951 01:01:29,999 --> 01:01:33,999 the bathroom, who came out and said" No! 952 01:01:33,999 --> 01:01:34,999 " 953 01:01:34,999 --> 01:01:40,375 Um, this didn't make it into the movie, but I will always remember it's not 954 01:01:40,375 --> 01:01:44,999 the guy with the white pants but the one next to him, 955 01:01:44,999 --> 01:01:48,792 he's obscured here, the camera comes around, 956 01:01:48,792 --> 01:01:54,125 they're lined up to present and the guy looks over and goes" oh, 957 01:01:54,125 --> 01:01:55,375 what the fuck? 958 01:01:55,375 --> 01:02:00,083 "Like, just that exasperation, God damn, a camera crew, 959 01:02:00,083 --> 01:02:02,375 I am pistoling! 960 01:02:04,417 --> 01:02:05,667 Pissin'! 961 01:02:05,667 --> 01:02:07,501 Anyway, don't go into the bathroom. 962 01:02:13,999 --> 01:02:18,375 The only reason we weren't allowed to film we unwittingly wondered 963 01:02:18,375 --> 01:02:22,542 up one of the crews wondered up behind Goons who were talking, 964 01:02:22,542 --> 01:02:25,999 never approach a Goon from the back! 965 01:02:26,250 --> 01:02:27,999 (Laughter.) And the Goons turned 966 01:02:27,999 --> 01:02:32,125 around and said" whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't film us "" no, no, 967 01:02:32,125 --> 01:02:36,209 no "so we made sure not to film them from a distance and not 968 01:02:36,209 --> 01:02:39,667 to record them because if they're making decisions 969 01:02:39,667 --> 01:02:43,999 and discuss it go and even at the screening last night there was 970 01:02:43,999 --> 01:02:47,999 a Goon incident but you didn't hear it right? 971 01:02:48,375 --> 01:02:52,834 Somebody decided well he was drunk all right, fine, 972 01:02:52,834 --> 01:02:58,375 that's base level, but he decided he didn't need to go all the way 973 01:02:58,375 --> 01:03:03,667 to the bathroom (Chuckles.) So he just pissed himself, pissed 974 01:03:03,667 --> 01:03:07,999 the area and fell off his chair asleep. 975 01:03:10,876 --> 01:03:14,999 (Laughter.) Thanks for the free beer, Jeff, and a Goon had to get 976 01:03:14,999 --> 01:03:17,999 up during the movie while the Goons are talking 977 01:03:17,999 --> 01:03:21,751 about how hard their job is and roll this drunk and get him 978 01:03:21,751 --> 01:03:23,501 out of there. 979 01:03:23,999 --> 01:03:25,999 You don't hear about that. 980 01:03:29,792 --> 01:03:32,709 So the Goons are always working on this and they are working 981 01:03:32,709 --> 01:03:35,918 on stuff that you don't see and they asked that we not have their 982 01:03:35,918 --> 01:03:39,459 internal discussions, otherwise it was free and clear. 983 01:03:40,999 --> 01:03:43,167 Best quote of the whole thing was we had 984 01:03:43,167 --> 01:03:44,959 this happen! 985 01:03:45,999 --> 01:03:50,083 I'm not going to tell you how they were but, yeah, 986 01:03:50,083 --> 01:03:53,999 so we said okay we won't shoot this! 987 01:03:55,999 --> 01:04:02,999 The best moment for me will always be, where I was shooting here, 988 01:04:02,999 --> 01:04:09,999 shooting behind Render Man and Render Man uses this slide which 989 01:04:09,999 --> 01:04:16,876 is the Comin sky problem, and I never see his talks, he wants 990 01:04:16,876 --> 01:04:22,292 to see my talks, he doesn't get to see me and that 991 01:04:22,292 --> 01:04:29,250 is the time I realized he was on stage somewhere and I consider 992 01:04:29,250 --> 01:04:36,876 Render Man a good speaker and so is Dan Cominsky and I was not aware 993 01:04:36,876 --> 01:04:44,584 of where Cominsky's talk was being held and this is a" dream "sequence 994 01:04:44,584 --> 01:04:50,250 as I'm standing behind somebody at his presentation, 995 01:04:50,250 --> 01:04:57,209 he mentioned something I'm like" I must be there now "and I run 996 01:04:57,209 --> 01:05:03,083 off the stage on to my Segue, my winged beast and fly 997 01:05:03,083 --> 01:05:07,999 through DEF CON at 20 miles an hour as fast 998 01:05:07,999 --> 01:05:15,667 as it goes and I pass Eddie and I'm like, Eddie, go to Penn and Teller 999 01:05:15,667 --> 01:05:23,209 and film Comin sky, and I'm like" Drew, see if you can film Comin sky 1000 01:05:23,209 --> 01:05:30,999 in Penn and Teller and I zoom in, there are 100 people and 20 minutes 1001 01:05:30,999 --> 01:05:37,999 into his own talk waiting to maybe get into his speech. 1002 01:05:37,999 --> 01:05:42,999 That's how for some places their job requirement 1003 01:05:42,999 --> 01:05:49,501 is the you must see Cominsky's speech live I zoom past them 1004 01:05:49,501 --> 01:05:53,417 like it's nothing "see ya bitches!" 1005 01:05:53,417 --> 01:06:00,751 I zoom into the room, rundown the center aisle, and jump on stage 1006 01:06:00,751 --> 01:06:05,918 and get behind Comin sky and start filming him 1007 01:06:05,918 --> 01:06:08,999 and nobody shot me! 1008 01:06:09,083 --> 01:06:10,999 I could just do this! 1009 01:06:10,999 --> 01:06:14,834 Truly God mode I just wall hacked DEF CON! 1010 01:06:14,999 --> 01:06:17,542 (Laughter.) And I ended up behind him and there 1011 01:06:17,542 --> 01:06:20,250 is a funny tweet from somebody going "what 1012 01:06:20,250 --> 01:06:22,626 the fuck subpoena with the cowboy?" 1013 01:06:22,626 --> 01:06:26,667 Like somebody is watch this gone from their room and they saw 1014 01:06:26,667 --> 01:06:30,999 the shot and here like "What's up with the cowboy" and then later 1015 01:06:30,999 --> 01:06:35,209 "Jason Scott" otherwise this would never had happened and we ended 1016 01:06:35,209 --> 01:06:37,751 up putting them together in the movie 1017 01:06:37,751 --> 01:06:40,876 because we had that reactiveness and Eddie came 1018 01:06:40,876 --> 01:06:44,083 in and started filming and I zoomed back and forth 1019 01:06:44,083 --> 01:06:49,709 to get both and get the goodbyes and the footage and everything else. 1020 01:06:50,167 --> 01:06:54,709 It was purely, purely luck that he even mentioned Comin sky at all, 1021 01:06:54,709 --> 01:06:56,542 weird moment. 1022 01:06:56,542 --> 01:06:57,542 Welcome! 1023 01:06:57,792 --> 01:07:01,792 JASON SCOTT: Thank you so much. 1024 01:07:01,792 --> 01:07:04,709 RACHEL LOVINGER: So the crew after we finished, 1025 01:07:04,709 --> 01:07:08,959 we debriefed and found that they had all been asked a lot 1026 01:07:08,959 --> 01:07:12,626 of the same questions over and over and over again 1027 01:07:12,626 --> 01:07:15,334 as they were doing this. 1028 01:07:15,334 --> 01:07:16,417 So some of the those questions were 1029 01:07:16,417 --> 01:07:20,542 straightforward, a lot of these things up here we have either already 1030 01:07:20,542 --> 01:07:23,667 answered or will answer by the time we get to the end 1031 01:07:23,667 --> 01:07:28,209 of this presentation and there were some that were out there. 1032 01:07:30,959 --> 01:07:34,167 The first one, people wanted to know when we wanted to film them, 1033 01:07:34,167 --> 01:07:37,584 if I agree to be in this am I going to end up feeling embarrassed 1034 01:07:37,584 --> 01:07:39,918 for being in this movie. 1035 01:07:42,375 --> 01:07:44,626 JASON SCOTT: Get rid of it. 1036 01:07:44,626 --> 01:07:46,501 RACHEL LOVINGER: The answer there is we did not set 1037 01:07:46,501 --> 01:07:49,918 out to intentionally embarrass anyone this is not a movie of look 1038 01:07:49,918 --> 01:07:52,999 at the weird hackers or that kind of thing. 1039 01:07:52,999 --> 01:07:55,250 We know that there is a lot of crazy shit that goes 1040 01:07:55,250 --> 01:07:57,667 on at DEF CON and we wanted to capture that 1041 01:07:57,667 --> 01:08:01,083 but everybody who was doing stuff like what you saw in this slide 1042 01:08:01,083 --> 01:08:04,709 they knew what we were getting themselves into. 1043 01:08:04,999 --> 01:08:08,083 We made sure of that. 1044 01:08:08,459 --> 01:08:12,083 People who were here last year that had these badges, people wanted 1045 01:08:12,083 --> 01:08:15,209 to know what our badge was because one of the parts 1046 01:08:15,209 --> 01:08:18,334 of the aspect of the badge challenge was you could 1047 01:08:18,334 --> 01:08:21,918 take the human badge and hold it up to another badge and 1048 01:08:21,918 --> 01:08:24,999 they would communicate with each other and they had 1049 01:08:24,999 --> 01:08:27,459 a aspect of the challenge to communicate 1050 01:08:27,459 --> 01:08:30,667 with all of the different kinds of badges so we had 1051 01:08:30,667 --> 01:08:34,250 a press badge which was a little bit rare, I guess, to find 1052 01:08:34,250 --> 01:08:37,375 and so people wanted to scan them. 1053 01:08:37,834 --> 01:08:39,999 At first we found it was disruptive, we couldn't get 1054 01:08:39,999 --> 01:08:43,834 down the hall once people started doing it and then we realized we could 1055 01:08:43,834 --> 01:08:46,709 interview the people so when they would come up and ask 1056 01:08:46,709 --> 01:08:50,083 to scan the badge and we would say, okay, you can scan it but talk 1057 01:08:50,083 --> 01:08:53,167 to us what you're doing here at DEF CON. 1058 01:08:53,167 --> 01:08:54,999 That worked out nicely. 1059 01:08:56,626 --> 01:08:58,542 This one was a little weird. 1060 01:08:58,584 --> 01:09:01,375 People asked us for help. 1061 01:09:01,999 --> 01:09:05,459 My only they would ask directions, the schedule, somebody came 1062 01:09:05,459 --> 01:09:09,918 up to me during one of the talks and said "guy popped his knee and 1063 01:09:09,918 --> 01:09:14,876 he needs a wheelchair and I was like, I am in no I'm filming a documentary, 1064 01:09:14,876 --> 01:09:17,834 I'm in no position to do that. 1065 01:09:17,834 --> 01:09:19,417 So we would point them toward the Goons or 1066 01:09:19,417 --> 01:09:24,083 toward other people that we thought could actually help them. 1067 01:09:24,125 --> 01:09:27,834 It was a little weird and the only reason I could think 1068 01:09:27,834 --> 01:09:31,292 of is because we had these original vests and sometimes 1069 01:09:31,292 --> 01:09:35,417 the orange vests and sometimes the walkie talkies and we looked 1070 01:09:35,417 --> 01:09:38,250 like authority figures but it seemed strange 1071 01:09:38,250 --> 01:09:42,083 at DEF CON walkie talkie, this guy is wearing silk pajamas, 1072 01:09:42,083 --> 01:09:45,417 for God's saying, not someone you should be putting 1073 01:09:45,417 --> 01:09:47,626 all your faith in. 1074 01:09:52,417 --> 01:09:57,459 Speaking of orange vests, not too much wanted to Rufie us 1075 01:09:57,459 --> 01:10:02,876 but JASON SCOTT: Everybody wanted to Rufie us! 1076 01:10:02,876 --> 01:10:05,626 (Laughter.) RACHEL LOVINGER: And as I mentioned 1077 01:10:05,626 --> 01:10:08,999 at the beginning these were custom made for our crew 1078 01:10:08,999 --> 01:10:13,083 but of course you can order orange vests anywhere but this was 1079 01:10:13,083 --> 01:10:15,250 a one time thing. 1080 01:10:16,999 --> 01:10:20,584 A lot of friendly people at DEF CON offered our crew drinks 1081 01:10:20,584 --> 01:10:22,999 at all times of the day. 1082 01:10:23,501 --> 01:10:27,959 Most of the time we were like, oh, we're working, thanks, no thank you, 1083 01:10:27,959 --> 01:10:29,626 maybe later. 1084 01:10:29,626 --> 01:10:31,999 Sometimes toward the end of the night we were known 1085 01:10:31,999 --> 01:10:35,083 to accept a beer or cocktail or in this case a swig 1086 01:10:35,083 --> 01:10:37,375 of homemade Absynth. 1087 01:10:37,876 --> 01:10:41,292 JASON SCOTT: Two words that need to go together! 1088 01:10:43,751 --> 01:10:47,751 (Laughter.) RACHEL LOVINGER: So we were lucky that nobody Rufied us. 1089 01:10:49,999 --> 01:10:53,959 JASON SCOTT: There is footage of Eddie which is" Jason I have no 1090 01:10:53,959 --> 01:10:58,042 choice "hand come out, beer leaves and goes behind camera! 1091 01:10:59,459 --> 01:11:01,626 I'm sorry, Jason! 1092 01:11:01,626 --> 01:11:03,667 RACHEL LOVINGER: It all worked out. 1093 01:11:04,999 --> 01:11:09,667 A lot of people suggested we should make this every year! 1094 01:11:11,501 --> 01:11:13,167 No comment. 1095 01:11:13,167 --> 01:11:17,459 But in the end we didn't break anything, we didn't lose any of our equipment, 1096 01:11:17,459 --> 01:11:21,209 we didn't lose any of our footage, we didn't get in too much trouble, 1097 01:11:21,209 --> 01:11:23,667 I think it was a success. 1098 01:11:23,667 --> 01:11:27,999 After we were done we took our crew out to relax in Vegas 1099 01:11:27,999 --> 01:11:33,959 for a day JASON SCOTT: We basically said we have no requirement 1100 01:11:33,959 --> 01:11:36,999 four for Monday and they were booked 1101 01:11:36,999 --> 01:11:41,542 through Tuesday they could have a day of their own, 1102 01:11:41,542 --> 01:11:48,626 they went go carting and we went to Pepper Mill and got to see Vegas. 1103 01:11:49,083 --> 01:11:54,751 For a couple of them this was their first time in Vegas, so the Encore, 1104 01:11:54,751 --> 01:11:58,542 the Pepper Mill, and so they could get their head 1105 01:11:58,542 --> 01:12:03,167 out of DEF CON, there is actually a Vegas here. 1106 01:12:14,999 --> 01:12:19,834 We're going to show footage until the end and until they kick us 1107 01:12:19,834 --> 01:12:21,999 out of the room. 1108 01:12:21,999 --> 01:12:23,167 Editing and finalizing. 1109 01:12:25,959 --> 01:12:31,417 At one point Rachel said how are you make the plot of this and I said" here 1110 01:12:31,417 --> 01:12:36,334 is how you do it "and this is literally what I drew and this was my 1111 01:12:36,334 --> 01:12:41,459 plan and she was like, not happy with the way I approach these things 1112 01:12:41,459 --> 01:12:43,999 is straight forward. 1113 01:12:44,999 --> 01:12:51,292 I watch the footage, put clips out, like" Render Man: I don't get nervous 1114 01:12:51,292 --> 01:12:57,375 before I speak "and that's what it's describing and another one" shot 1115 01:12:57,375 --> 01:13:03,626 walking from here to here "or it will be like" guy starts to get angry 1116 01:13:03,626 --> 01:13:07,083 but then realizes who we are. 1117 01:13:07,167 --> 01:13:08,959 Things like that. 1118 01:13:08,959 --> 01:13:12,584 So shots of things and I start to put them in a classification 1119 01:13:12,584 --> 01:13:16,626 and I build up sequences, where I'm like, here is a bunch 1120 01:13:16,626 --> 01:13:21,125 of people talking about there is lots of dripping I go at DEF CON 1121 01:13:21,125 --> 01:13:25,709 or speeches are hard to put together or I'm here to meet people 1122 01:13:25,709 --> 01:13:29,751 or these people are my family and I start assembling them 1123 01:13:29,751 --> 01:13:34,792 in great amounts perform then I start to put together like minded shots 1124 01:13:34,792 --> 01:13:38,999 over these sequences to illustrate things until finally this 1125 01:13:38,999 --> 01:13:42,999 is actually what the final piece look like. 1126 01:13:43,334 --> 01:13:44,876 Before I printed it. 1127 01:13:44,999 --> 01:13:48,999 So as you can see, there is well over 2 or 3,000 cuts 1128 01:13:48,999 --> 01:13:53,083 in the movie 3,000 cuts in the movie. 1129 01:13:57,083 --> 01:13:59,999 It was 278 hours of footage, I went 1130 01:13:59,999 --> 01:14:03,999 through that and produced 6,000 clips. 1131 01:14:04,083 --> 01:14:10,209 The 6,000 clips then got I probably used 1500 of them and then those 1500 had 1132 01:14:10,209 --> 01:14:14,751 something like 3,000 edits done to them. 1133 01:14:14,999 --> 01:14:20,999 In many cases I fix what people are saying, I take away um's and AH's, 1134 01:14:20,999 --> 01:14:26,542 I remove weird sounds, we have had position softwarewise so 1135 01:14:26,542 --> 01:14:34,334 I can remove clangs or phone rings or unintended air conditioning sounds. 1136 01:14:34,334 --> 01:14:37,999 I would do this at the end to remove the air conditioning sound you couldn't 1137 01:14:37,999 --> 01:14:41,751 hear what the person was saying over it and steadying the shots 1138 01:14:41,751 --> 01:14:45,417 and removing line noise or video noise so that they looked better 1139 01:14:45,417 --> 01:14:49,542 and I was pleased I got one sequence done and we were like, okay, there 1140 01:14:49,542 --> 01:14:52,999 is going to be a movie here and that was the speaker sequence 1141 01:14:52,999 --> 01:14:55,626 with Render Man and Comin sky, they were shot 1142 01:14:55,626 --> 01:14:59,584 with different footage and there was no question we have a movie here 1143 01:14:59,584 --> 01:15:04,250 and I was happy so that was months and months and months of work! 1144 01:15:04,250 --> 01:15:09,751 I put the final touch on the final thing for this thing 1145 01:15:09,751 --> 01:15:12,999 on June no, July 3rd. 1146 01:15:13,125 --> 01:15:19,250 So I was editing I took a month off and I would come back to it. 1147 01:15:19,292 --> 01:15:22,999 I estimate I have probably seen the full movie about 170 times. 1148 01:15:23,999 --> 01:15:28,667 I can sit here I do this with a lot of my movies and I sit in the back 1149 01:15:28,667 --> 01:15:33,083 and "mouth" everything everyone is saying and anticipate it and there 1150 01:15:33,083 --> 01:15:36,876 is a syndrome which I call "overfamiliarity syndrome" I 1151 01:15:36,876 --> 01:15:40,417 will shoot somebody dancing and live with it for months 1152 01:15:40,417 --> 01:15:43,542 and when I see the guy I will be like, "buddy!" 1153 01:15:43,542 --> 01:15:46,167 And he's like "who the fuck is this guy?" 1154 01:15:46,167 --> 01:15:48,876 And why is he asking why ear lovers and 1155 01:15:48,876 --> 01:15:53,459 the answer is because I'm been look at your face for over three months, 1156 01:15:53,459 --> 01:15:56,459 like some sort of creepy fans! 1157 01:15:56,459 --> 01:15:59,125 How do you get it in for Christmas, you don't! 1158 01:16:01,375 --> 01:16:02,792 No way. 1159 01:16:03,083 --> 01:16:06,334 It was a big stress and he was like "I made 1160 01:16:06,334 --> 01:16:10,667 a promise" so we compromised and made a 20 minute version 1161 01:16:10,667 --> 01:16:14,999 and considering that the movie was more footage than I had 1162 01:16:14,999 --> 01:16:19,584 ever dealt with before and the previous once were over a year 1163 01:16:19,584 --> 01:16:24,959 of editing, the fact that I was able to edit it in nine months is crazy 1164 01:16:24,959 --> 01:16:29,417 and enormous amount of work, well over 1,000 hours of editing 1165 01:16:29,417 --> 01:16:35,083 and fixing and refining and finding things and dealing with it. 1166 01:16:35,209 --> 01:16:38,999 There was surprisingly little editorial control executed upon me 1167 01:16:38,999 --> 01:16:43,209 by Jeff who had written the check and for paying me. 1168 01:16:43,501 --> 01:16:48,999 Jeff's check paid I took a flat fee up front that paid all my credit cards 1169 01:16:48,999 --> 01:16:52,667 off and paid off my car so I was debt free which 1170 01:16:52,667 --> 01:16:56,125 is the biggest gift in this world! 1171 01:16:56,125 --> 01:16:59,167 So I was debt free and that made a huge difference in my life so 1172 01:16:59,167 --> 01:17:01,876 for me the amount of work done was irrelevant 1173 01:17:01,876 --> 01:17:04,876 because my life was so much better. 1174 01:17:04,999 --> 01:17:09,584 So he didn't there was one part that mentioned a specific number 1175 01:17:09,584 --> 01:17:12,876 of how much something costs. 1176 01:17:13,209 --> 01:17:18,167 That said there could be contract problems to be publicizing that. 1177 01:17:19,501 --> 01:17:22,999 There was one sequence he asked to be taken down from 2:30 1178 01:17:22,999 --> 01:17:25,542 and I returned with a sequence that was 2:30, 1179 01:17:25,542 --> 01:17:29,125 so that didn't work and there was a couple of other shots where 1180 01:17:29,125 --> 01:17:32,918 they were like, does it have to be this shot? 1181 01:17:33,542 --> 01:17:37,792 And it was like, fine, for the fact that he completely paid 1182 01:17:37,792 --> 01:17:40,999 for it pretty much none, zero. 1183 01:17:41,083 --> 01:17:42,999 So that went really well. 1184 01:17:43,375 --> 01:17:45,083 It ended up being available here. 1185 01:17:45,876 --> 01:17:48,167 I had nothing to do with how they put it together and I'm amazed 1186 01:17:48,167 --> 01:17:50,125 at what they came up with. 1187 01:17:50,375 --> 01:17:55,999 You can download the movie for free, the tore rent is either up now or 1188 01:17:55,999 --> 01:18:01,999 will be today, and they have I wanted it on a USB stick. 1189 01:18:01,999 --> 01:18:07,083 Debates of it up to being on Blue Ray and I'm like, that's not 1190 01:18:07,083 --> 01:18:12,083 the way things happen now, it's USB, make it downloadable and 1191 01:18:12,083 --> 01:18:16,999 they created this crazy, deluxe lunch box hard drive thing 1192 01:18:16,999 --> 01:18:20,999 without telling me and it's amazing! 1193 01:18:20,999 --> 01:18:24,209 They thought they were I'll say this, they thought they were going 1194 01:18:24,209 --> 01:18:28,250 to sell 50 and they sold 50 the first day on preorder. 1195 01:18:28,292 --> 01:18:31,083 It was like, yeah, people love this friggin' thing so 1196 01:18:31,083 --> 01:18:32,792 it's hard! 1197 01:18:39,999 --> 01:18:46,667 This is them recording me asleep, Segue turned out to be a great idea, 1198 01:18:46,667 --> 01:18:49,667 throw one in the mix. 1199 01:18:50,250 --> 01:18:52,751 Alex will always get a shot. 1200 01:18:52,751 --> 01:18:54,292 See in the corner there! 1201 01:18:54,292 --> 01:18:58,751 Alex will always get in the shot! 1202 01:18:59,083 --> 01:19:02,542 RACHEL LOVINGER: To be fair Al electric was so excited to be here. 1203 01:19:02,542 --> 01:19:04,667 JASON SCOTT: He was excited to be here. 1204 01:19:04,667 --> 01:19:06,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: And he got excited JASON SCOTT: So 1205 01:19:06,083 --> 01:19:08,501 something would be going on and he would get right 1206 01:19:08,501 --> 01:19:11,584 in it and he's adorable but he's everywhere! 1207 01:19:12,459 --> 01:19:18,417 And, you know, we didn't look at this thing as something we had 1208 01:19:18,417 --> 01:19:23,459 to "finish" like we're going to be done with a movie, 1209 01:19:23,459 --> 01:19:29,292 I wanted something that changed people's perception of DEF CON 1210 01:19:29,292 --> 01:19:35,834 or changed their love of DEF CON to something stronger or encouraged 1211 01:19:35,834 --> 01:19:42,999 people to understand how magical this thing is and how it happens. 1212 01:19:43,083 --> 01:19:44,918 I gave a year of my life to get that story 1213 01:19:44,918 --> 01:19:48,876 out and that's what we tried to do and this is our crew getting their bows 1214 01:19:48,876 --> 01:19:52,083 during the closing ceremonies and then running back into places 1215 01:19:52,083 --> 01:19:53,999 to keep filming. 1216 01:19:53,999 --> 01:19:55,918 RACHEL LOVINGER: I think some of them were filming while we were 1217 01:19:55,918 --> 01:19:57,125 on stage. 1218 01:19:57,125 --> 01:19:58,999 JASON SCOTT: Yes, they were. 1219 01:19:59,292 --> 01:20:01,999 That is the main part of our talk. 1220 01:20:03,709 --> 01:20:08,792 Let's swap so we're going to sneak this until they kick us out. 1221 01:20:14,999 --> 01:20:16,459 Oh, wow! 1222 01:20:16,626 --> 01:20:18,000 RACHEL LOVINGER: It's fun! 1223 01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:21,626 JASON SCOTT: So I won't be able to do that, meats amazing! 1224 01:20:21,999 --> 01:20:23,042 Do it. 1225 01:20:23,042 --> 01:20:27,334 RACHEL LOVINGER: They're all in nope, not that! 1226 01:20:27,334 --> 01:20:29,999 JASON SCOTT: All right! 1227 01:20:29,999 --> 01:20:31,167 RACHEL LOVINGER: Here! 1228 01:20:31,167 --> 01:20:33,417 JASON SCOTT: This is exciting! 1229 01:20:33,626 --> 01:20:34,999 Do this! 1230 01:20:34,999 --> 01:20:36,751 You drive, I'll point. 1231 01:20:36,751 --> 01:20:40,876 (Laughter.) RACHEL LOVINGER: Which one did you want me 1232 01:20:40,876 --> 01:20:42,999 to start with? 1233 01:20:42,999 --> 01:20:44,459 JASON SCOTT: Let's do this. 1234 01:20:44,459 --> 01:20:46,125 RACHEL LOVINGER: It's Karaoke. 1235 01:20:46,125 --> 01:20:48,709 JASON SCOTT: Click on extra bits! 1236 01:20:49,083 --> 01:20:52,959 So let me show you an example of something that's wonderful 1237 01:20:52,959 --> 01:20:55,999 and beautiful and I didn't use it. 1238 01:20:55,999 --> 01:20:58,626 It would be top left first one. 1239 01:21:00,999 --> 01:21:04,167 It's been awesome, I've met through my 1240 01:21:04,167 --> 01:21:09,626 the people who I have been going before me met a lot of interesting, 1241 01:21:09,626 --> 01:21:11,834 awesome people. 1242 01:21:14,083 --> 01:21:17,417 I would go to dinner with somebody and find 1243 01:21:17,417 --> 01:21:22,375 out later it was somebody extremely important that I had no idea, 1244 01:21:22,375 --> 01:21:26,542 they just forgot to mention or something. 1245 01:21:26,959 --> 01:21:32,209 But sorry. 1246 01:21:32,209 --> 01:21:34,334 I'm getting a little excited. 1247 01:21:34,334 --> 01:21:39,125 Um JASON SCOTT: Yeah so there is somebody what he's saying 1248 01:21:39,125 --> 01:21:44,417 is I found a place where I belong and people and respect 1249 01:21:44,417 --> 01:21:49,209 and trust me and it's a beautiful moment! 1250 01:21:49,209 --> 01:21:50,834 I didn't put it in the end because I had 1251 01:21:50,834 --> 01:21:54,083 all these other beautiful moments, which beautiful moment is going 1252 01:21:54,083 --> 01:21:57,959 to get screwed without turning this movie into longer. 1253 01:21:59,542 --> 01:22:02,167 Let's skip that one, go to the third one. 1254 01:22:02,375 --> 01:22:07,083 This is the great stuff Anyway, so what happened was Mother 1255 01:22:07,083 --> 01:22:12,459 fuckers, mother fuckers JASON SCOTT: You know we would get those 1256 01:22:12,459 --> 01:22:14,999 helpful responses! 1257 01:22:14,999 --> 01:22:16,209 (Wow, that was fun to write! 1258 01:22:16,209 --> 01:22:19,876 ) Bottom left, I would hear things like this? 1259 01:22:19,876 --> 01:22:21,751 (Away from mic.) Keeps on shooting. 1260 01:22:21,751 --> 01:22:23,999 So as soon as we're done with this interview, I need to go 1261 01:22:23,999 --> 01:22:29,292 to the restroom but I can wait until we're done. 1262 01:22:40,292 --> 01:22:42,876 I don't want to miss this. 1263 01:22:42,876 --> 01:22:54,999 Are you telling Jason Scott that you need to take a dump? 1264 01:22:54,999 --> 01:22:55,999 Pretty much. 1265 01:22:55,999 --> 01:22:56,999 Red dump! 1266 01:22:56,999 --> 01:22:56,999 (Chuckles.) JASON SCOTT: You have to listen 1267 01:22:56,999 --> 01:22:59,501 because you don't know what you're going to miss! 1268 01:22:59,501 --> 01:23:01,667 RACHEL LOVINGER: That was the red crew. 1269 01:23:01,667 --> 01:23:07,626 JASON SCOTT: Yeah so, um what's the oh, yeah, upper right. 1270 01:23:07,626 --> 01:23:08,584 Here is a case of me taking footage I didn't expect 1271 01:23:08,584 --> 01:23:10,834 and I decided to do something with it. 1272 01:23:10,834 --> 01:23:34,584 (Music Playing.) (Laughter.) A "special" moment. 1273 01:23:34,999 --> 01:23:36,999 Let's do the professional thing. 1274 01:23:36,999 --> 01:23:39,999 He says some of the most emotional things. 1275 01:23:44,209 --> 01:23:46,584 It's dead to me! 1276 01:23:46,584 --> 01:23:49,999 JASON SCOTT: He looked at his phone to see how 1277 01:23:49,999 --> 01:23:54,999 he was going to answer and we just destroy him! 1278 01:23:55,709 --> 01:23:57,834 We have the same phone! 1279 01:23:57,834 --> 01:24:02,999 Oh this part here I made the most friends when I was working 1280 01:24:02,999 --> 01:24:08,834 the scavenger hunt DEF CON is important to me Sorry, 1281 01:24:08,834 --> 01:24:10,999 I'm tweeting! 1282 01:24:11,999 --> 01:24:13,792 Sorry, I'm tweeting! 1283 01:24:13,792 --> 01:24:15,999 Are we tweeting that the DEF CON documentary crew 1284 01:24:15,999 --> 01:24:18,083 is making fun of you? 1285 01:24:19,999 --> 01:24:22,876 Come here for verbal abuse! 1286 01:24:22,876 --> 01:24:33,292 Scandinavian hunt charged my lig Penis. 1287 01:24:33,292 --> 01:24:36,584 Peanut I was going to tell you some things that you may 1288 01:24:36,584 --> 01:24:38,334 not realize. 1289 01:24:38,834 --> 01:24:40,459 Bring it out! 1290 01:24:40,459 --> 01:24:42,999 Great, are you ready? 1291 01:24:42,999 --> 01:24:44,459 Let's fuckin' do this! 1292 01:24:44,459 --> 01:24:48,209 I am so ready, I want you to think of this interview 1293 01:24:48,209 --> 01:24:55,375 as at scrotum that (Laughter.) I'm going to scratch it gently then. 1294 01:24:55,375 --> 01:24:56,375 All right. 1295 01:24:56,375 --> 01:25:04,125 Grab the left nut of this story and just tug gently, let's not get hurt! 1296 01:25:04,125 --> 01:25:05,125 Okay. 1297 01:25:06,375 --> 01:25:08,751 So, fuckin' balls! 1298 01:25:08,751 --> 01:25:09,751 Go ahead. 1299 01:25:09,751 --> 01:25:10,709 We're trying to be professionals here we're 1300 01:25:10,709 --> 01:25:12,459 fuckin' professionals! 1301 01:25:12,459 --> 01:25:13,459 Hi. 1302 01:25:13,459 --> 01:25:14,459 All right. 1303 01:25:14,459 --> 01:25:19,250 So JASON SCOTT: What's great about that is if you see 1304 01:25:19,250 --> 01:25:25,876 the movie that's what came just before it. 1305 01:25:25,876 --> 01:25:28,834 RACHEL LOVINGER: He came out with great stuff. 1306 01:25:28,834 --> 01:25:30,459 JASON SCOTT: Beautiful stuff. 1307 01:25:30,709 --> 01:25:34,792 There's a time lapse from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. 1308 01:25:34,876 --> 01:25:37,209 RACHEL LOVINGER: This is sunset. 1309 01:25:37,209 --> 01:25:38,292 JASON SCOTT: Do it. 1310 01:25:41,167 --> 01:25:47,999 Windows media player does not love you or care about you! 1311 01:25:47,999 --> 01:25:53,083 What happened here was that basically I ended up with this beautiful time lapse 1312 01:25:53,083 --> 01:25:57,584 and then I had this other one here where somebody sent me 1313 01:25:57,584 --> 01:26:02,626 a beautiful time lapse of the sundown at the Rio, it's flickering 1314 01:26:02,626 --> 01:26:07,626 because it made my shit flip out it was three gigs of jpeg's, and 1315 01:26:07,626 --> 01:26:12,209 after a while I was like, "this is going to be Friday night, 1316 01:26:12,209 --> 01:26:18,626 whatever" so it's absolutely beautiful footage that I never got to use, all right, 1317 01:26:18,626 --> 01:26:20,999 knock that one out. 1318 01:26:21,999 --> 01:26:24,167 This was the greatest thing that happened 1319 01:26:24,167 --> 01:26:27,834 in the entire world, third one up on the right. 1320 01:26:27,834 --> 01:26:29,334 Here is the deal not that one. 1321 01:26:30,584 --> 01:26:32,334 Pull this one up, boom! 1322 01:26:32,334 --> 01:26:37,459 (Music Playing.) Here is the deal, in the original footage they're shooting 1323 01:26:37,459 --> 01:26:41,918 and you can hear the team member go get this guy which 1324 01:26:41,918 --> 01:26:46,834 guy that guy and they turn and there is this guy! 1325 01:26:46,834 --> 01:26:49,999 I don't know this guy, I don't know him, we never knew who he was. 1326 01:26:49,999 --> 01:26:50,999 Bless this man! 1327 01:26:51,375 --> 01:26:55,834 So we're shooting party footage and this guy. 1328 01:26:55,834 --> 01:26:59,792 Now, I mean, this guy, he's a little bit 1, what's the word? 1329 01:27:00,125 --> 01:27:04,292 He's height, weight, nonratio bound. 1330 01:27:06,709 --> 01:27:11,709 He's dancing, and he's listening to this music. 1331 01:27:11,999 --> 01:27:15,334 And he is dancing and he doesn't stop. 1332 01:27:17,125 --> 01:27:25,542 And now most people who would be in this situation would go okay, 1333 01:27:25,542 --> 01:27:34,167 I got my shit done or calm down, leave, you can see the other people 1334 01:27:34,167 --> 01:27:40,501 in the back, the guy on the back left there, he's 1335 01:27:40,501 --> 01:27:48,999 like a wiry stick, and he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, right? 1336 01:27:48,999 --> 01:27:50,083 And then this happened! 1337 01:27:50,083 --> 01:27:51,083 And he is back! 1338 01:27:51,083 --> 01:27:51,209 And if you look down at the crawler, we're nowhere near done, 1339 01:27:51,209 --> 01:27:52,999 this guy keeps on going! 1340 01:27:52,999 --> 01:27:56,167 So whenever we would have lagging energy on any of the teams, 1341 01:27:56,167 --> 01:27:58,999 it would be like 2 in the morning we would be 1342 01:27:58,999 --> 01:28:02,876 like "put your fucking hands up" and run back into the crowd 1343 01:28:02,876 --> 01:28:06,083 and doing nor filming and for the rest of the weekend, 1344 01:28:06,083 --> 01:28:09,999 "put your fucking hands up" RACHEL LOVINGER: That was our 1345 01:28:09,999 --> 01:28:11,542 rally cry. 1346 01:28:11,542 --> 01:28:14,751 JASON SCOTT: So two or three minutes of him dancing. 1347 01:28:18,167 --> 01:28:23,918 I don't know who this guy is, he is incredible and I know he's 1348 01:28:23,918 --> 01:28:30,999 probably at his desk right now looking at this thing in December go "oh, fuck!" 1349 01:28:30,999 --> 01:28:31,792 "Oh, no!" 1350 01:28:31,792 --> 01:28:33,667 All right. 1351 01:28:36,999 --> 01:28:40,459 Let's do under water because it has a great line from Rachel. 1352 01:28:40,626 --> 01:28:43,375 RACHEL LOVINGER: We mentioned that these cameras, 1353 01:28:43,375 --> 01:28:46,334 the "Play Sports were supposedly able to go under water 1354 01:28:46,334 --> 01:28:48,751 but we weren't positive." 1355 01:28:48,751 --> 01:28:48,751 Hi, I didn't change the mood! 1356 01:28:48,751 --> 01:28:49,751 " Scrotum real! 1357 01:28:55,834 --> 01:29:09,083 " In case this didn't work we're not telling Jason that happened, oh, sit, 1358 01:29:09,083 --> 01:29:11,999 I recorded that? 1359 01:29:11,999 --> 01:29:20,999 "(Laughter.) He will only know if it works! 1360 01:29:20,999 --> 01:29:27,250 Did you think it up here It's recording right now. 1361 01:29:27,250 --> 01:29:29,999 Go for it. 1362 01:29:29,999 --> 01:29:31,501 (Gurgles) it didn't turn off! 1363 01:29:31,501 --> 01:29:35,375 JASON SCOTT: So guess what they were pretty awesome. 1364 01:29:35,375 --> 01:29:37,250 We were able to put a few in there. 1365 01:29:38,083 --> 01:29:40,876 Did we fix the crash footage? 1366 01:29:40,876 --> 01:29:42,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: Yeah. 1367 01:29:42,083 --> 01:29:44,083 JASON SCOTT: This is a footage crash! 1368 01:29:44,083 --> 01:30:00,626 (Away from mic.) Creating a new race! 1369 01:30:00,876 --> 01:30:11,876 JASON SCOTT: I indicate this was a mating dance. 1370 01:30:15,667 --> 01:30:21,042 A young man nostalgic for himself The PP 11 crash! 1371 01:30:21,042 --> 01:30:22,834 JASON SCOTT: Hardware crash! 1372 01:30:22,834 --> 01:30:25,000 You know, we definitely found time to pop out. 1373 01:30:25,125 --> 01:30:27,542 Let's go into the bonus things. 1374 01:30:30,542 --> 01:30:33,999 These are bonus features this is all on the USB sticks so 1375 01:30:33,999 --> 01:30:36,334 all these pieces here. 1376 01:30:36,334 --> 01:30:38,999 RACHEL LOVINGER: The ones you just saw were not. 1377 01:30:38,999 --> 01:30:41,834 JASON SCOTT: Those are once that are not in the thing. 1378 01:30:41,834 --> 01:30:43,709 Let me see if they capture a lot of these are meant 1379 01:30:43,709 --> 01:30:48,876 to be varying states of informative and I have very long things on CDC 1380 01:30:48,876 --> 01:30:54,125 and hacking for charity, things that were important stories. 1381 01:30:54,125 --> 01:30:55,876 And then there is AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Away 1382 01:30:55,876 --> 01:30:59,626 from mic.) JASON SCOTT: Let's make him the last thing! 1383 01:31:00,999 --> 01:31:02,584 Down one. 1384 01:31:02,584 --> 01:31:04,292 To the right, there you go. 1385 01:31:04,751 --> 01:31:05,834 There is this. 1386 01:31:05,999 --> 01:31:08,375 This story saved for all time. 1387 01:31:09,375 --> 01:31:13,417 So we had went to the New York New York 1388 01:31:13,417 --> 01:31:20,417 to that terrible Asian restaurant, Chinese joint and I had Mongolian Beef 1389 01:31:20,417 --> 01:31:25,959 and we went back and threw the party in the room so I got 1390 01:31:25,959 --> 01:31:30,417 a little bit too drunk, shall we say? 1391 01:31:30,751 --> 01:31:34,999 And at the end of the night as everybody was, you know, 1392 01:31:34,999 --> 01:31:40,501 as the party rolled down I ended up in my bathroom in my bedroom 1393 01:31:40,501 --> 01:31:43,792 and I just lost all of it! 1394 01:31:43,792 --> 01:31:45,999 Just like it looked like somebody grabbed 1395 01:31:45,999 --> 01:31:50,459 a big old plate of Mongolian Beef and threw it around the bathroom 1396 01:31:50,459 --> 01:31:54,334 and it was all of and while it looked like it was normal, 1397 01:31:54,334 --> 01:31:57,834 of course it didn't smell that way! 1398 01:31:57,999 --> 01:32:02,667 So, you know, we wake up the next morning and I'm intending 1399 01:32:02,667 --> 01:32:09,709 to clean it up, but everyone was like, oh, let's go get breakfast and we'll clean 1400 01:32:09,709 --> 01:32:15,999 it up after and we're rolling back to the hotel room and this poor made, 1401 01:32:15,999 --> 01:32:19,667 the look on her face was awful! 1402 01:32:19,667 --> 01:32:23,542 She walks out of the room and she looks at us and 1403 01:32:23,542 --> 01:32:29,876 she said" somebody in there go blat, it's so bad I go blat "we made 1404 01:32:29,876 --> 01:32:36,083 the maid at DEF CON volume mitt, ink we handed her $60 or something 1405 01:32:36,083 --> 01:32:42,751 as a tip and that's the Mongolian Beef story in a nut shell. 1406 01:32:42,751 --> 01:32:45,667 (Away from mic.) Oh, yes. 1407 01:32:45,667 --> 01:32:48,083 And he's sitting naked many his bathroom and I'm like, 1408 01:32:48,083 --> 01:32:50,542 did you want some water? 1409 01:32:50,542 --> 01:32:51,999 Fuck you. 1410 01:32:52,792 --> 01:32:58,999 And I'm like no did you want No, the AC had frozen and 1411 01:32:58,999 --> 01:33:06,292 the smell was awful and I was sweating bullets naked laying in a pile 1412 01:33:06,292 --> 01:33:09,999 of vomit on my own floor. 1413 01:33:09,999 --> 01:33:11,250 Whew, yeah, a high moment! 1414 01:33:11,250 --> 01:33:11,417 (Laughter.) You were going to let me walk 1415 01:33:11,417 --> 01:33:15,083 out of here (Laughter.) Without that golden footage! 1416 01:33:15,083 --> 01:33:18,292 You were going to be like, I had a good time, I threw some parties! 1417 01:33:18,292 --> 01:33:19,876 DEF CON was good! 1418 01:33:20,125 --> 01:33:22,501 For some reason I stopped going, goodbye! 1419 01:33:22,501 --> 01:33:36,999 (Laughter.) Congratulation on 20 years Jeff I support you! 1420 01:33:38,125 --> 01:33:39,959 Very good! 1421 01:33:39,959 --> 01:33:42,999 That's not the only thing that happened 1422 01:33:42,999 --> 01:33:44,999 at DEF CON! 1423 01:33:44,999 --> 01:33:46,999 JASON SCOTT: What I love about that is you can hear there are 1424 01:33:46,999 --> 01:33:49,250 like 12 other people in the room because I'm going 1425 01:33:49,250 --> 01:33:52,209 through this whole crowd and they're all trying to stay as quiet 1426 01:33:52,209 --> 01:33:54,709 as possible while he tells this disgusting story and 1427 01:33:54,709 --> 01:33:57,584 they loose it as soon as I start talking. 1428 01:33:57,876 --> 01:34:00,292 Let's do the upper right one, top quality production, 1429 01:34:00,292 --> 01:34:02,209 blood pressure reel. 1430 01:34:02,209 --> 01:34:13,584 One of the things that I don't know Quality production. 1431 01:34:13,876 --> 01:34:17,250 I look forward to seeing this in the film. 1432 01:34:17,250 --> 01:34:19,542 That exact thing in the film? 1433 01:34:19,584 --> 01:34:23,125 But are there principals and Jesus, balls. 1434 01:34:23,125 --> 01:34:24,459 It's the quiet one. 1435 01:34:24,459 --> 01:34:25,542 It's the quiet one? 1436 01:34:25,542 --> 01:34:26,542 What? 1437 01:34:26,542 --> 01:34:27,751 It's the Metro link. 1438 01:34:27,751 --> 01:34:31,209 It's the quiet ones that kill people though! 1439 01:34:34,959 --> 01:34:37,667 Oh that's the Chicago train! 1440 01:34:37,751 --> 01:34:41,250 Have fun in Chicago Wednesday! 1441 01:34:43,626 --> 01:35:00,834 Not that I know anything about the train going by here! 1442 01:35:00,834 --> 01:35:01,834 Busted! 1443 01:35:01,834 --> 01:35:02,834 Why? 1444 01:35:02,834 --> 01:35:05,292 We're contemplating the perfect fucking shot. 1445 01:35:05,292 --> 01:35:07,999 Whatever, get back to work or we'll throw you out! 1446 01:35:07,999 --> 01:35:10,999 (Sleeping noise) JASON SCOTT: Not creepy at all. 1447 01:35:13,334 --> 01:35:15,999 Good shot of the room and us putting things 1448 01:35:15,999 --> 01:35:20,083 together and doing stuff and you know what this needs? 1449 01:35:20,083 --> 01:35:21,083 A close up. 1450 01:35:27,999 --> 01:35:31,334 (Laughter.) (Snoring.) It feels like (Laughter.) Ah, shit! 1451 01:35:32,709 --> 01:35:40,167 Blew out the transformer? 1452 01:35:40,999 --> 01:35:45,125 Everything is on batteries so it's still recording. 1453 01:35:45,125 --> 01:35:46,999 I have fuckin' light. 1454 01:35:46,999 --> 01:35:52,542 JASON SCOTT: I'm a nice guy but sometimes I'm not a nice guy, 1455 01:35:52,542 --> 01:35:57,209 you hear Russ giggling in the darkness. 1456 01:35:57,209 --> 01:35:59,167 I didn't want you to break your cord. 1457 01:35:59,626 --> 01:36:00,626 . 1458 01:36:00,626 --> 01:36:01,709 That is awesome, I have that completely on camera, 1459 01:36:01,709 --> 01:36:02,999 holy balls! 1460 01:36:02,999 --> 01:36:04,792 JASON SCOTT: I use" balls "a lot. 1461 01:36:04,792 --> 01:36:05,792 Okay porn Santa. 1462 01:36:05,792 --> 01:36:06,792 Epic. 1463 01:36:06,792 --> 01:36:07,999 What do you got there? 1464 01:36:07,999 --> 01:36:08,999 Random porn. 1465 01:36:08,999 --> 01:36:09,999 Yeah, porno! 1466 01:36:09,999 --> 01:36:12,167 JASON SCOTT: Never found out story there! 1467 01:36:12,167 --> 01:36:14,667 Ho, ho, ho, have some DEF CON porn, would you? 1468 01:36:14,667 --> 01:36:15,667 (Chuckles). 1469 01:36:15,667 --> 01:36:17,999 JASON SCOTT: That was happening at DEF CON. 1470 01:36:17,999 --> 01:36:17,999 (Crowd noise) (Away from mic.) (Away 1471 01:36:17,999 --> 01:36:17,999 from mic.) JASON SCOTT: Come on, dude, be a buddy, come on guys, 1472 01:36:17,999 --> 01:36:21,667 come on, I love that, people are like, fuck no, and the guy is like come on! 1473 01:36:21,667 --> 01:36:22,667 Take the porn! 1474 01:36:22,667 --> 01:36:25,501 I love this, he's going around, people are making faces. 1475 01:36:25,501 --> 01:36:25,501 (Laughter.) Funny story about porn Santa, here is the deal, 1476 01:36:25,501 --> 01:36:25,501 he was going along and he found in a room a bag 1477 01:36:25,501 --> 01:36:25,999 of porn so his solution was to go out in the vendor area and handout 1478 01:36:25,999 --> 01:36:28,501 all the porn he found. 1479 01:37:18,292 --> 01:37:30,250 Here is the problem, the porn was actually 1480 01:37:30,250 --> 01:37:45,334 a trick being done by the Ninjatel guys and there was 1481 01:37:45,334 --> 01:37:56,125 a Ninja badge in there and unwittingly 1482 01:37:56,125 --> 01:38:08,417 he gave away a Ninja badge so there were no 1483 01:38:08,417 --> 01:38:13,375 hard feelings. 1484 01:38:13,375 --> 01:38:20,999 We have hours of epic events like this. 1485 01:38:20,999 --> 01:38:22,209 Places and people. 1486 01:38:22,209 --> 01:38:23,209 Yep! 1487 01:38:23,209 --> 01:38:24,209 That's us. 1488 01:38:24,209 --> 01:38:28,125 Lots and lots and lots, hey, American, good to see you guys, there is Sky Dog, 1489 01:38:28,125 --> 01:38:29,999 so it's neat. 1490 01:38:29,999 --> 01:38:43,876 Isn't it nice to have this piece of DEF CON history saved forever 1491 01:38:43,876 --> 01:38:54,334 on hundreds of USB sticks around the world. 1492 01:39:01,209 --> 01:39:22,083 DEF CON, definitely we're kid friendly, we have DEF CON kids here. 1493 01:39:22,083 --> 01:39:23,667 I love how many people fuck no! 1494 01:39:23,667 --> 01:39:24,667 I don't need this. 1495 01:39:24,667 --> 01:39:25,667 You know, no. 1496 01:39:25,667 --> 01:39:28,292 Apparently we have evidence of who doesn't need porn, yeah, look 1497 01:39:28,292 --> 01:39:30,834 at this they're negotiating. 1498 01:39:30,834 --> 01:39:31,918 I don't think really? 1499 01:39:31,918 --> 01:39:34,918 You guys, dude, free porn there is no way to take it you jerk! 1500 01:39:34,918 --> 01:39:35,999 Just fuckin' take it! 1501 01:39:35,999 --> 01:39:35,999 God damn it, Santa clause has so many people 1502 01:39:35,999 --> 01:39:37,083 to deliver to this year! 1503 01:39:37,083 --> 01:39:38,083 Yeah, sure! 1504 01:39:38,083 --> 01:39:40,834 I got to hit my contest, I hope that was good for ya. 1505 01:39:40,834 --> 01:39:43,083 JASON SCOTT: The epic journey of porn Santa. 1506 01:39:43,083 --> 01:39:44,167 People are coming in. 1507 01:39:44,167 --> 01:39:47,250 I think it's respectful to clear the room for the next crowd. 1508 01:39:47,250 --> 01:39:48,250 So thanks so much. 1509 01:39:48,250 --> 01:39:50,959 If anyone has a burning, burning, question I'll answer it right now, 1510 01:39:50,959 --> 01:39:52,792 if there is one. 1511 01:39:52,792 --> 01:39:54,334 Anyone have a burning question? 1512 01:39:54,334 --> 01:39:56,999 AUDIENCE MEMBER: When it the screening? 1513 01:39:56,999 --> 01:39:59,918 JASON SCOTT: Tonight at 8:00 in Track 3, I believe, it's 1514 01:39:59,918 --> 01:40:03,999 the track that" Hacker Jeopardy "is not happening in, but it's 1515 01:40:03,999 --> 01:40:06,626 at 8 o'clock tonight, and we will screen 1516 01:40:06,626 --> 01:40:11,042 the movie and answer questions and play a little other bonus footage 1517 01:40:11,042 --> 01:40:15,542 if people are still up for it and have a good time. 1518 01:40:15,542 --> 01:40:16,542 Was it worth it? 1519 01:40:16,542 --> 01:40:17,542 Of course it was. 1520 01:40:17,542 --> 01:40:18,792 It was a wonderful time. 1521 01:40:18,792 --> 01:40:21,501 Rachel and I had a lot of fights over many things and a lot 1522 01:40:21,501 --> 01:40:24,876 of screaming about get this and that done, but at the end 1523 01:40:24,876 --> 01:40:27,667 the product speaks for itself and I think we have 1524 01:40:27,667 --> 01:40:30,417 a special piece of work and without Kyle and Drew 1525 01:40:30,417 --> 01:40:34,999 and Alex RACHEL LOVINGER: Can we get them to come up here? 1526 01:40:36,209 --> 01:40:38,999 JASON SCOTT: Come up and wave, you can do it. 1527 01:40:38,999 --> 01:40:39,999 You're smart people. 1528 01:40:39,999 --> 01:40:42,792 Stage get on the stage or we won't be able 1529 01:40:42,792 --> 01:40:44,834 to see you. 1530 01:40:44,834 --> 01:40:47,584 Here is our gang, lovely Alex. 1531 01:40:50,375 --> 01:40:52,459 So, yeah, here is our gang who were here 1532 01:40:52,459 --> 01:40:55,292 and Drew was here yesterday for the premiere but he had 1533 01:40:55,292 --> 01:40:57,959 to go back to Hawaii where he lives now and Rick 1534 01:40:57,959 --> 01:40:59,918 is busy in Florida. 1535 01:41:00,834 --> 01:41:05,083 Without these people, without Alex and Rick and Drew and Kyle 1536 01:41:05,083 --> 01:41:09,999 and everyone else we wouldn't have this movie, no way. 1537 01:41:10,375 --> 01:41:11,999 Thank you so much. 1538 01:41:11,999 --> 01:41:13,999 Did you want to say anything, Rachel? 1539 01:41:13,999 --> 01:41:15,083 RACHEL LOVINGER: No. 1540 01:41:15,501 --> 01:41:18,459 JASON SCOTT: Thank you so much for sitting through.