MinnMax Interview - Area 5 On The 1UP Show, Crunch, And The Last Of Us Part 2 Documentary

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews the video production company Area 5 consisting of Ryan O’Donnell, Matt Chandronait, Jason Bertrand, and Cesar Quintero. They talk about the team's origins at the video game site 1UP creating The 1UP Show (2005-2008) and why they have all fond memories of staying up all night in the office to stay on top of the show's weekly schedule, their transition to Co-Op, and then entering the world of freelance video work in the game industry. Area 5 has produced documentaries for Blizzard, Capcom, and Naughty Dog - most recently with the full documentary on The Making Of The Last Of Us Part 2 called Grounded 2.

You can watch and share the video version of this interview here - https://youtu.be/9KS0vXOXGCQ

To learn more about the status of Area 5's Outerlands documentary series, check out this bonus interview excerpt - https://youtu.be/5x5bSb7YdEE

You can watch every episode of The 1UP Show on YouTube here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFOx812yLY&list=PLv7my1uLrkeyVniRElsEdclHPvNQ9mbYl

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...   

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:51 - Reflecting back on 1UP and The 1UP Show 

00:14:37 - The challenges of producing The 1UP Show every week 

00:28:08 - RSVP and presenting game developers as normal people 

00:30:10 - The origins of The 1UP Show 

00:41:23 - Producing Co-Op with Revision 3 

00:53:08 - Outerlands and Area 5's transition to contract work 

00:59:44 - Making Grounded 2: The Making Of The Last Of Us Part 2 with Naughty Dog

01:24:48 - Similarities between Naughty Dog's work ethic and Area 5's 

01:26:25 - How/Why Neil Druckmann confirmed The Last Of Us Part 3

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