Here are some creative side hustles. Both of these shorts were made with zero budgets, borrowing many favors from editors, sound engineers, DPs and underemployed actor friends.
YAYO
I wrote and directed this web series pilot about the dating woes of a lowly drug delivery boy in New York City.
Would you date your drug dealer? Yayo follows Angel, a cocaine delivery boy in New York City, on a night of deliveries to an assorted cast of drug-addled city dwellers. In the pilot episode, Angel struggles to maintain any sort of functional dating life given his chosen profession.
Yayo! is NSFW. You've been warned.
Yayo! was created by Chris Bradford and Aaron Katter.
Executive produced by Aaron Katter and Justin Drobinski.
BED THE SERIES
A look at the dating lives of naval-gazing twenty-somethings in New York City told from the perspective of their bedrooms.
Imagine seeing a life solely from the perspective of the most intimate of arenas – your bed. The place you are most exposed. Where you connect, seduce, fantasize. Where secrets are revealed and inhibitions released.
Bed The Series takes a candid look at the intersecting lives of 9 diverse New Yorkers as they navigate a hazardous and complex mating terrain – all from the vantage point of their beds. A meditation on modern relationships and sex through a series of raw character studies from the first generation to grow up with their sexuality digitally enhanced, Bed the Series pulls back the covers on life’s most intimate moments in all their euphoric, crude, sensual and naked glory.
In the pilot episode "Backburners," Seth is convinced he is the backburner of 2-month girlfriend Katrina to a Brit named Chase who Katrina has candidly admitted to dating and liking just as much. Lily finds herself enamored more with her weed delivery guy than her workaholic live-in boyfriend Daryl.
Bed the Series is an independently produced project created by writer/director Chris Bradford, produced by producer/actor Ben Steele, and Executive Producer Tom Mooney.