Commentaries/Volume 1 Directors Commentary

NOTES:
 * Curly brackets {} are for things they said, while someone else was talking (If I could hear it clear enough)
 * Horizontal lines are markers that mark 1 minute intervals, since the beginning of that episode.
 * The commentary is continuous, and is meant to be heard in the movie mode on the DVD.
 * Tildés ~ mark specific parts of the episode, for example the intro narration or the onscreen appearance of Ruby using this episode for said examples.

Ruby Rose
Transcript:

~Intro Narration Begins~

1.Monty:Alright,

2.Miles: Oh... My... Goodness, you guys!

3.Kerry: I gotta get my chair.

4.Miles: It's the RWBY DVD Director's Commentary with Miles Luna!

5.Monty: And me, oh I'm Monty.

6.Kerry: I'm Kerry.

7.Miles: And we're the writers, creators, those dudes that made this ridiculous show with our brain juice!

8.Monty: You remember a year ago? I was like 'we should make an anime'.

9.Miles: And here we are.

10.Monty: That's pretty great.

11.Miles: Making something that resembles an anime.

12.Kerry: It's anime-like.

13.Monty: Anime-esque, resembles an anime. We have a jar of jelly beans by the way.

14.Miles: Oh yes, through out this commentary we'll be eating different jelly beans, not knowing the flavours {Kerry- Shout out to jellybeans} because we live life on the edge!

15.Kerry: I actually can't do this, because I have a phobia of jellybeans.

16.Miles: That's more of a reason for you - I'm going in right now hold on, I got,  ladies and gentlemen at home it's pink with yellow splotches and,

17.Monty: Are you serious Kerry?

18.Kerry: I don't know man, it's just I'm worried that, (Miles- Grossed out aww) it's going to be poo poo everytime.

19.Miles: (Grossed out still) Aww it's bubblegum.

20.Kerry: See!?

22.Miles: This sucks!

23.Monty: No the worst one is,

24.Miles: Bubblegum flavour sucks!

25.Monty: We should probably talk about the fucking movie.

26.Kerry: Nah.

27.Miles: How about language?

28.Monty: Oh, so Jen Taylor intro.

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29.Kerry: Yeah.

30.Miles: Oh my god, Kerry should we talk about when we recorded Jen Taylor?

31.Kerry: Yes we absolutely should. So we talked about this at the RTX panel I think?

32.Monty: I had a doctor's appointment.

33.Miles and Kerry: Oh that's what that was? (Talking over each other but basically the same point, Miles said 'was that' instead of 'that's from what I could differentiate)

34.Kerry: So yeah, we didn't find that out until it was already time to make the call.

35.Miles: Yeah, you should of told us that you were going to the doctor instead of telling us 'Hey, guys, tomorrow we're recording Jen Taylor. Don't worry I'll be there, you guys can be there too'. {Kerry - Emphasis on 'don't worry'} And then you didn't show.

36.Monty: Twice.

~Intro Narration transitions to Roman Torchwick~

37.Kerry: Yeah twice. Um, so yeah we get into the, you know, we're calling in from here and she's in LA. And we call in and it's like ' Oh hey, hey, so yeah we're gonna do this. Um, yes if you could just run through it, how you think you would do it,' and she did it. And... it was perfect.

38.Miles: On the first take she nailed the intro.

39.Kerry- Yeah, 100 percent.

40.Miles: And Kerry and I, she's on like her last line. And Kerry and I look at eachother and we're like 'Dude, we have her for an hour and she got it in the first two minutes, what do we do?' So we just looked at eachother and we're like 'That was great Jen, grea, uh do it... slower.'

41.Kerry: 'Uh, do it... faster.'

42.Monty: Hey look.

43.Miles: Scarier...

44.Monty: Look, look, look, it's Ruby.

~Ruby Rose first appears on screen~

45.Miles: Hey!

46.Kerry: Heard you on the first look.

47.Miles: Dude that soul is so simple.

48.(Next like sec was too quiet too understand for me but there was a bit of chuckling)

49.Monty: Smaller, honest soul.

50.Miles: Honest soul.

51.Kerry: Oh, shoutout to Junior's Henchmen, from the Yang trailer. {Miles- Yeah}. Oh and shoutout to Old man, in the facial hair, Patrick, voicing the Old man.Patrick our concept artist.

52.Monty: What about Torchwick?

53.Miles: Gray Haddock, uhh, awesome voice actor of Roman Torchwick as well as one of our editors and compositors, very talented man.

54.Monty: Gray has been in anime, since I was fifteen years old.

55.Kerry: What flavour did you get right now?

56.Monty: Oh, man why'd you have to ask? That one's gross.

~Henchmen start filling dust canisters~

57.Miles: What jellybean flavour was that? Oh, funny story. So these uh, dust canisters, totally based off a wine opener  that's in my kitchen. Kerry and I were writing and I was trying to describe what, like how people would carry around dust in containers and I was like 'I mean it kinda looks like, y'know imagine this wine opener and um... actually no it's pretty much just this wine opener'.

58.Kerry: 'Yeah just imagine this wine opener.' Just, let's just model this wine opener.' I think you actually gave, you brought it in {Miles- (laughing) I did) for the modeler who did it.

59.Monty: It was like, Dick Peppermint flavour I just had.

60.Miles: Oh my god!

61.Kerry: Dick Peppermint? (Chuckles)

62.Miles: I have, I have a solid, bright-orange bean and a kind of see-through orange bean...

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63.Miles: ... (Eats jellybean) See-through orange is, watermelon, what!?

64.Monty: So this one is Simmons-coloured.

~Ruby kicks one of the henchmen across the room~

65.Kerry: I wonder if it's dutch irish? (Reference to ethnicity of Simmons from RvB)

66.Miles: Orange is orange. (~Roman gestures to another henchmen to deal with it~) Oh hey so Ruby's fighting!

67.Kerry: Yeah so people payed money for this.

~Laughing, followed by Ruby kicking a henchman out the window~

68.Kerry: Damn, jellybean discussion.

69.Monty: Oh here we go.

70.Miles: We had, we had a fun time with uh, with Torchwick. He started off, when we first wrote the um, the first five chapters. He was a much, played a much, much much smaller role. But um, god man we liked him so much. (Laughs)

71.Kerry: Yeah. Especially once we got Gray in the booth for him it's like 'Yeah we wanna use him.'

72.Miles: More...

73.Kerry: He's really cool.

74.Monty: Yeah. Not to mention his design ended up being really cool too.

~Ruby vs Henchmen Fight Begins~

75.Kerry: Yeah.

76.Miles: In this, in this first fight he really is,

77.Monty: Shout out to A Clockwork Orange.

78.Miles: Roman's pretty laid back in this first fight he's kinda gentlemanly but later on when we get to see him, we, we see how he is kind of a scumbag. Kinda full of himself, kinda a dick.

79.Monty: I actually wish we had more Roman in this show.

80.Miles: I already broke my no swearing rule.

81.Kerry: Darn it, gosh darn it. Diddily do da.

~Henchmen defeated and Roman says his farewell to Ruby~

82.Monty: Yeah but this is some gold by Gray right here.

83.Miles: Who was it, ok, so who was it that put up, uhh... was it our storyboard art, was it Mike who gave him the uh, {Kerry - Fump}  the uh the aimer or no, who's idea was that?

84.(Inaudible mumbling for a sec, to me at least)

85.Miles: Or was that like, my idea?

86.Monty: No it was the editors doing sound.

87.Kerry: It was either- well no the fump was him, I don't remember who actually decided {Miles- No. it wasn't} the target on it.

88.Miles: I think it was me.

89.Monty: You said aimer again, it's called a sight!

90.Miles: Did I say aimer again? I always call it an aimer because I'm an idiot!

91.Kerry: But then yeah that was you.

92.Miles: Ok, shoutout to my own idea and for recognising,

93.Kerry: Listen (what an?) asshole, Jesus Christ.

~A Bullhead rises up next to the roof Roman and Ruby are currently standing on~

94.Monty: Oh and airships, look at that!

95.Kerry: Are you just gonna point out everything that we did?

96.Miles: Oh oh oh oh oh, for the RWBY Wiki out there let's name everything, ok: So there's Roman Torchwick getting in a Bullhead, is the classification of airship? {Kerry and Monty- Yes} And throwing some 'burn dust crystals' at uh. at Ruby. And he's all like pew pew (fake explosion noise from Miles followed by ~Glynda Goodwitch appearing to protect Ruby from the explosion caused by Roman~). Glynda Goodwitch shoutout! I love, can I talk about how much I love the Moon in this scene?

97.Monty: Oh yeah.

98.Miles: Oh my god.

99.Kerry: It's so good.

100.Miles: It's freakin awesome.

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101.Kerry: Yeah one day, one day {Monty- Shoutout} Monty just kinda came up and was like 'What if the moon is broken?' And I was like 'Ok'.

102.Miles: When it's, yeah, when it's a crescent moon it's not the dark side of the moon it's just that the moon is kinda broken that way and were like 'yeah that sounds great'.

~Roman and Cinder vs Glynda and Ruby Fight Begins as Roman stumbles into the Bullhead cockpit to getCinder Fall's assistance~

103:Monty: Shoutout to me. (group chuckling) And uh, special character here which we'll talk about later I'm sure (Cinder).

104.Miles: Yeah {Monty said something like 'and Glynda' but it wasn't clear} And just for the record, if you guys are watching the commentary first. Before your watching the dvd, this is a bad idea, stop, go watch the movie and then come back.

105.Kerry: Yeah, what are you doing?

106:Monty: Oh not to mention, just a general shoutout overall to, Eileen or Einlee. Who designed the majority of these characters including, uh, Glynda... and well I did Ru, well I did the first four girls but she really fleshed out the rest of the cast which was great cause,

107.Miles: (Gags) Uh, black liquorice. I'm taking this out of my mouth and putting on the desk.

108.Kerry: Why is this on the table? Ughh there's not a napkin or {Miles- I hate black liquorice!} anything..

~Roman tilts Bullhead to deflect Glynda's attack~

109.Monty: So this fight kinda came outta nowhere too, uh, just I kinda had one of those days where 'I'm gonna do something with snake-rocks'. Or I don't know what these are honestly.

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110.Kerry: I just, I remember, I remember it was like we got through the rest of it. The, the first part before this and your like 'I don't know. I think it needs more...' And were like 'Oh, ok we got like another thirty seconds we can add... Like, we got some time.'

111.Monty: And we like making this for RTX {Kerry- Yeah} I was pretty much working on the Yang trailer at the same time as this episode.

112.Miles and Kerry: Yeah you were.

113.Kerry: So there was like, we came in the next day and Monty had all this we were like 'Ya, this is great, more'.

114.Miles: This is our dumb joke.

~Fight Ends and the Ruby asking for an autograph scene about to happen~

115.Kerry: Haha, 'Can I have your autograph?' (Ruby impression in sync with Ruby)

~Scene Change~

116.Monty: Shoutout to Austin for this entire sequence.

117:Miles: Oh yeah, Austin Hardwicke.

118.Monty: It kinda reminds me of, like, Shane came on at the... (messed up a little bit, couple of uh's and the's) RvB Season 10 and he had the first scene. And you just, you throw people right into the fire with this.

119.Miles:Yeah that's okay why not? Yeah.

120.Monty: You, we just take an animator on and say 'Here! Here's one of the longest, most important scenes for a character'.

121.Miles: Yeah Austin, who worked on season 10, he worked on season 10 in more of a technical role. {Monty- Yep} So that when we brought him in for RWBY we brought him in as an actual animator. And then yeah the first thing we give him is 'Hey! Here's the first episode, go'.

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~Ozpin arrives to question Ruby~

122.Monty: Some of you would know him as 'Pink Haired Animator Guy'.

123:Miles: Yes... There's a tumblr for him.

124.Monty; Yep.

125.Kerry: (Laughs) But you know, whatever, he likes to wear hats!

126.Monty:And no shoes.

127.Kerry: Shoutout to Oz and Glynda.

128.Monty: Oh that's right.

129.Kerry: It was fun, it was fun to come up with these two and their dynamic.

130.Monty:Yeah... Yeah I mean, goddammit Shannon your so good!

131.Kerry: Shannon McCormick's the man, also known as Agent Washington, AKA The Great Face, AKA uh The Riddler from DC Universe Online, AKA that one dude from Breaking Bad... that had fake hair.

~Ruby eating cookies~

132.Monty: Yep, yep, so much {Miles and Kerry laugh} so much better Ozpin than I could have ever played dear god. I can't believe we even considered me playing Ozpin.

133.Kerry: Also shoutout to the 'That's my uncle' joke!

134.(Laughing).

135.Kerry: You should, you should probably tell this part of the story Monty!

136.Monty: Alright, I was like you know, there was a read and I was like, and I was looking back at the, you know, the reviews and was like 'Now, can we get  this line a little more racist please?'

137.Miles: Now again, to explain that joke, just go watch the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventure...

138.Kerry: Something about Burnie watching anime...

139.Miles: No no, it was 'Left 4 Trek ' right?

140. (Talking all over eachother: something like Miles saying 'yeah cause otherwise' and Kerry saying 'Yeah I forgot)

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141.Monty: God it's like a reference within a reference cause it's of, it's of, it's a RTAA Animated Adventure that references our po- story that's in one of our podcasts.

142.Kerry: Which is Burnie basically summarising all of anime.

143.Miles: This was...

144.Monty: This is so full circle!

145.Miles: Yeah.

~Ruby explaining why she wants to be a huntress~

146.Miles: I think this was the moment when we realised Lindsay Tuggey  is Ruby Rose. {Kerry- Yes} Lindsay Tuggey is one of the most dedicated voice actresses that we've had the pleasure of working with and she also just freaking awesome. {Kerry- Shoutout!} She uh, she came in for her audition with her own script printed out, her lines highlighted, memorised, listening to like high-pitch K-pop dance music {Monty- She would, she would have} she would bring an energy drink and she was like 'I'm ready to do this!'

147.Monty: She would have Michael read with her.

148.Miles and Kerry: Yeah, yeah.

149.Kerry: They would just like practice at their apartment at home, just like going back and forth and Michael would do all the other lines.

150.Miles: I would imagine Michael would be like, 'Oh Lindsay your lines are great, I mean the script is terrible but you did great.'

~Yang hugs Ruby~

151.(Laughter).

152.Monty: Oh, and here we have Yang.

153.Miles: Aw, Yes!

154.Monty: A lot of people like Yang.

155.Kerry: I think, um...

156.Monty: Dustin did a good job with that very girly bounce right there.

157.Miles: I loved it!

158.Kerry: Dustin, also a fantastic animator on the show.

159.Miles: Hmm, Dustin's so good. So good. {Kerry- Umm} Dustin I want your beard.

160.Kerry: I gotta say, I think the thing that I'm most proud of...

161.Monty: I love this airship too.

162.Miles: Yeah the airship turned out great too.

163.Kerry: Who uh, who put together the airship?

164.Miles: Well I mean a lot of people put together the airship but...

165.Monty: Uh, Kristina, one of our concept artists and a good friend of mine designed a lot of our backgrounds and, and such. She did the airship interior here. And then... I think Corey built it, I think.

166.Kerry: We, we have a ton of people who worked on this project. Uh, at different stages. OH, so we should probably add uh, so the dvd, our dvd ships tomorrow. Uh, and it is 3:52 in the morning right now, so we're... wait I forgot to mention that part because it was so irrelevant to me at this point.

167.Miles: I was going to start off the thing with 'What time is it guys?' And I was hoping one of you would say 'Three' and I was going to go 'Nah, it's RWBY Time! Shut up.'

~Hologram Glynda Speech~

168.Miles: Real quick, uh so that male, that male news reporter...

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169.Miles: So obviously in RWBY we always try to have a colour related name, {Kerry- Oh yeah} for certain characters. We never say but that, that news caster's name is Cyril. His last name is, uh, Ian. His full name is Cyril Ian (Cerulean). (Laughs)

170.Monty: Oh Jesus, I forgot about that.

171.Kerry: In all seriousness that only showed up in the script. {Miles- Yeah} It only ever showed up in the script, that probably took Miles and I about ten minutes. That was ten minutes of us going 'What's his name gonna be? I mean, what if he comes back?'

172.Miles: Oh dude, yellow is totally pineapple flavoured jellybean and it's the best.

173.Monty: No, its the worst... ~Camera zooms out from airship window to show Vale~ Great score. Music, man, Jeff Williams...

174.Miles: Jeff Williams is pretty awesome. He's good at music and stuff.

175.Monty: Dude, currently, the, one of the songs that just came out is like top ten on four different countries on ITunes.

176.Kerry: (High-pitched voice) Whaaat!?

177.Miles: That was pretty wild.

178.Kerry: That's fucking nuts man...

179.Monty: Ah, swearing.

~View change to focus on Beacon Academy~

180.Miles: Oh, shoutout to vomit boy, that guy sucks.

181.Monty: Aw man, remember when I thought of, thought of this character for you?

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182.Miles: What!? No! That was, oh my god don't get me started, don't even get me started!

183.Monty: So long ago!

~Episode End~