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Inside Riley’s First Date? with Director Josh Cooley and Producer Mark Nielsen

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Rileys First Date Director Josh Cooley and Producer Mark Nielsen

Have you gotten your copy of Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out yet? If so, I hope you watched the brand new animated short film, “Riley’s First Date?” – I love it! Last month I had a chance to sit down with Riley's First Date? Director Josh Cooley and Producer Mark Nielsen to learn a little about what went into making this short film.

Riley's First Date

How did Riley's First Date? come about? Mark said that toward the end of production of Inside Out, Director Pete Docter and Producer Jonas Rivera started thinking about doing a short film for the DVD and they asked Josh to come up with some ideas. He ended up pitching several ideas and the story of Riley's First Date? is the one they liked best. It then took about 10 months from the time Josh first pitched that idea to the time they had their final sound mix up at Skywalker Ranch.

 

 

Riley's First Date? really emphasizes her dad's feelings about her growing up, so we asked if Mark and Josh have daughters – which they do. Many of the filmmakers on Inside Out have daughters and they all had words of advice, especially for Josh who's daughter was only 4 or 5 when he was working on Inside Out. He was talking at work about how she was acting crazy and one of the editors told him “Oh, you have nothing to worry about until she brings home the first boy.” Josh said, “I had never even thought of that ever being a possibility, although it was coming eventually. That's kind of where the seeds of this idea came from. It’s just my head going like, ‘Oh my God.'”

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I personally think its fun to have this laugh-out-loud short film to accompany Inside Out which made so many of us cry. Josh said that comedy is his strength and that when you have only 4 minutes to tell a short story he wants people to come out laughing. Plus, the quick timing lends itself well to comedy. The short also gave them a chance to go further with the sequence from Inside Out that portrayed the inside of Riley's parents' heads during dinner. Even during the very early phases of testing those scenes were playing well with audiences. I love that Riley's First Date? lets us go back in their heads again – and now also into the head of Jordan, the boy who comes to Riley's home in the film.

 

 

Fun Fact: Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers voices one of the emotions in Jordan's head!

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Chrysa is the founder and owner of ThriftyJinxy.com, a site dedicated to living a fabulous life on a frugal budget. Her approach is that by spending less on the boring everyday stuff, you can have more money to splurge on the things you REALLY want, whether it’s travel, fashion, electronics – you name it! Chrysa is married, has an 11-year-old nephew she dotes on, as well as three lovable cats and a big sweetie of a German Shepherd.

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  1. Ashley says

    November 5, 2015 at 11:05 am

    What a cute short! We just watched Inside Out for the first time this week and loved it.

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  2. Tori Gabriel says

    November 5, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    I love the shorts from Pixar almost as much as the actual films! I haven’t seen this one yet but it’s on my “to watch” list.

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  3. valmg @ Mom Knows It All says

    November 5, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    i didn’t realize that Flea did one of the emotion voices. I know a number of men with daughters that all agree that it’s all downhill once the time comes to date.

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  4. Crystal says

    November 6, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    We haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have heard good things. My oldest daughter is texting boys some now, but no official dates. Her daddy is ridiculous about it!

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