“I don’t know exactly what the shooting ratio is I’d say it’s probably not quite ten to one. Part of the down-and-dirty nature of the series’ production involves a lot of ad-libbing, allowing Raja and Raven to express themselves as freely as possible. Nothing can distract from the brilliant talent that the camera is pointing at.” “It really is a simple format-it’s a countdown show, it’s green screen.
For us, it was always like, what’s the simplest way to produce this?” he shares. “One thing that hasn’t changed from the beginning to now is that it’s down and dirty.
#Green screen snake coiled series#
The series stemmed, of course, from Barbato and Bailey’s love of Drag Race and the people involved, and the desire to seek out other platforms for some “incredibly talented people.” While Raja and Raven have playfully reinvented their looks over the course of the short-form series’ run-with over 160 segments produced to date-to Barbato, the essence of Fashion Photo RuView remains the same. It’s artistry, and more people should get to see that.Įnter Fashion Photo RuView, a weekly YouTube series which emerged from RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2014, one of a number of digital series WOW has produced, celebrating individuals who “live their lives out loud.” Presenting a hilarious breakdown of the best and worst of contemporary fashion, where Drag Race alums Raja and Raven “toot” or “boot” fashion choices on display, RuView has amassed 40 million views to date on WOWPresents, World of Wonder’s YouTube channel, which boasts upwards of 733 thousand subscribers. “Randy and I, when we were watching drag shows at the Pyramid Club in the East Village when we were film students, we were always like, Oh my god. We don’t really believe there is any such thing as normal, and we believe that the world is filled with extraordinary and fascinating people and things,” Bailey adds. “I suppose the name of the company does really give you an idea of what we think, and where we’re coming from. “We produce content-scripted, non-scripted, reality shows, feature documentaries-and we do it all stooped in that.” That’s the core philosophy,” Barbato says.
“We have always been inspired by this notion that today’s marginal is tomorrow’s mainstream. Adapting with great flexibility to changing patterns of media consumption, the creative partners have always considered themselves “screen agnostic,” with the goal of bringing marginalized figures and viewpoints to a mass audience. Founding production company World of Wonder in 1991, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey have produced such reality series as RuPaul’s Drag Race and Million Dollar Listing, along with documentaries, including 2016’s Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.
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