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 Schnabel’s ‘Snapping Show’ Captures Real Teen Wolf Stories

The best behind the scenes show about Teen Wolf isn’t MTV’s After After Show. It’s a little show on Snapchat hosted by Teen Wolf stand in/actor Tyler Schnabel. While the network effort is all about setting up ridiculous situations and elaborate jokes, Schnabel’s Snapping Show takes viewers into the actual production and introduces them to the real people who spend their lives making Teen Wolf.

Who is Tyler Schnabel?
A native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Schnabel pretty much always knew he was going to Hollywood. “I knew at the age of five that I wanted to be an actor,” he says. “I drove across the country after I graduated from college with one of my close friends.” He documented most of that trip to Los Angeles on YouTube. He landed at Teen Wolf in Season 3 thanks to his connection to one of the show’s assistant directors. “It’s who you know,” he laughs.

LINK: Schnabel heads to LA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv722A3Wx6Y

After more than three years working behind the scenes, he’s a daily fixture on set and location. He stands in for actors in most scenes to allow the crew to set up lighting and camera angles. Schnabel’s is a unique perspective on the process, and something he decided he should share. “Lots of hard work goes unrecognized, and I want to pop that bubble. There's more to film and television than the actors on screen. It's a complex machine, and everyone is equally important.”

Why Snapchat?
Snapchat isn’t just about sending pictures of your junk anymore. The platform surpassed 150 million daily users this past summer and engagement rates are off the chart with between 8 and 10 billion video views each day. It’s no wonder that brands like MTV are pushing more and more content toward advertising on Snapchat. It’s also not surprising that creative minds like Tyler Schnabel migrated away from other video sharing sites and toward snapping. “As a creator, I’m always looking for new ways to create video content,” he explains. “At the time I fell into Snapchat, YouTube felt a little stale to me, and Vine was on the decline.” His first effort on the platform, #SNAPSTORYTIMES, got a boost from his close friendship with Teen Wolf Star Tyler Posey. “I wanted to start a project that I could easily produce on my own, with little help. Snapchat had the perfect combination of video editing tools, and social engagement that made the platform an all-in-one video production suite. I could shoot, edit, and share my stories instantly, and immediately engage with my audience after. It was seamless, and really worked well for what I wanted to do.”

However, even with celebrity guests, the nature of Snapchat makes it difficult to find an audience. There’s no user suggestion page, no content-discovery portal outside of the Discover Hub for big publishers, and no easy way to share Snaps. The only way to find cool stuff like Snapping Show is through outside means or help from a big brand. In Schnabel’s case, MTV had him take over their Snap channel for his first episode. “I pitched my idea to social at MTV,” he recalls. “I can snap anything I want, as long as don’t share any spoilers, which I’ve come to learn is pretty difficult!” After that first episode, which also featured Posey, he’s interviewed an array of “below the line” workers like On-Set Dresser Floyd Conder and Makeup Department Head Carleigh Herbert. “I knew finding my interviewees would be a cinch,” he says. “I typically will ask a week in advance and give them an idea of what we will be doing, and then just wing it on the day.” In addition to interviews, viewers get to go deep behind the scenes, inside the prop trucks, and into some of the individual makeup bags set aside for each actor’s specific needs.

Beyond ‘Snapping Show’
While Snapping Show serves as a creative outlet for Schnabel right now, he’s also an actor, writer, director, and podcaster. You’ve already seen him on Teen Wolf a couple of times (he was the sick werewolf at the beginning of Season 4 episode Weaponized). He also just produced his first feature film earlier this year. It’s called Frazier Park Recut and features a cameo from Teen Wolf’s JR Bourne. Currently, he and filmmaking partner Sam Hanover are trying to find a venue to debut the work. “We have submitted to a handful of festivals, and are currently waiting on pins and needles!” He requests that everyone reading this send “good vibes” for the Frazier Park project and tweet using the hashtag #FrazierParkFilm to help boost the film’s social profile.

LINK: http://www.frazierparkfilm.com/

Schnabel is also ready to launch the second season of the Doin’ It Raw podcast. “We hope to have our first episode out near the beginning of the new year,” he says. Podcasting is another effort that came about due to his close association with Tyler Posey. “We had no idea what we were doing, but that is sort of what makes our podcast so special. It’s as unscripted and raw as they come, hence, Doin’ It Raw!”

LINK: Doin It Raw Podcast Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/doinitraw

You can also find almost the entire Schnabel oeuvre, dating back five years, on his YouTube channel.

LINK: Tyler Schnabel YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/SchnabelTube/videos

 Italian Fans Aggressive with Dylan O’Brien

<p class="MsoNormal">As Teen Wolf News reported first last week, Dylan O’Brien is in Rome filming American Assassin. Word of his stay in the Eternal City apparently spread quickly among European fans and resulted in a mob scene outside his hotel. <p class="MsoNormal">This week those fans became more aggressive. We have reports of them outside the hotel at night shouting for Dylan. This outpouring of Italian obsession for the Teen Wolf and Maze Runner star didn’t sit well with other fans.


 * @cityofthefeels - I am so disgusted by the videos of fans swarming Dylan. RESPECT HIM HES A PERSON AND DOESNT LIKE WHEN FANS DO THAT #RespectDylan


 * @ICONlCSTYDIA - Y'all got 10 seconds to step the fuck back before I hop on a plane and beat all your asses for mobbing my baby #RespectDylan


 * @stydiascofields - #RespectDylan  Y’all are freaking animals. That poor boy has been through so much; please respect him. It's not hard.


 * @mukexaesthetic - People need to respect Dylan and his privacy. #RespectDylan

<p class="MsoNormal">The #respectdylan tag trended briefly on Twitter after the images and videos began to surface. Some of these “respect” fans tell Teen Wolf News they felt moved to at least attempt to dictate the behavior of their counterparts in Rome out of their love for the actor and their unwavering belief they know best how fans should act around O’Brien.


 * @velociraptom - @TeenWolfWikia stalking his hotel and screaming at him aren’t okay. To say nothing only validates that behavior.


 * @ALPHASOBRIEN- So you're tellin’ me that these fans can harass him on a daily and we have to just sit there because we're just fans? Bye Felicia.


 * @dylsdobrev - This is the stupidity we're dealing with. THEY ARE AT HIS HOTEL yelling his name; they pushed/shoved him & his dad and they continue to do so. Saying that this isn't a bad thing just encourages those children to continue their behavior. it's not okay.


 * @AGingerRachel - @TeenWolfWikia That's not dictating behavior, that's a call to respect him as a human. If someone did that at your house, you'd call the police.

<p class="MsoNormal">It’s unclear how long O’Brien will remain in Rome. Filming on American Assassin is expected to continue for the next several weeks. He is, currently, scheduled to return to Los Angeles to film Teen Wolf Episode 610 before heading to South Africa in early 2017 to resuming filming on Maze Runner: The Death Cure.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Filming on Season 6 Halted

<p class="MsoNormal">Production on the MTV show Teen Wolf is dark and quiet as cast and crew take a week off. This is the first of a couple of mini-breaks planned in the next couple of months as the US celebrates Thanksgiving, Christmas and other seasonal holidays.

<p class="MsoNormal">The production is filming scenes out of order but work with blocks of episodes at a time which suggests they are not yet halfway through. They will also need to film all of episode 610 once Dylan O’Brien is available again. He’s currently filming American Assassin in Europe and is expected to move on to South Africa for Maze Runner: The Death Cure in early 2017.

<p class="MsoNormal">We expect Teen Wolf production to resume next week.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Next on Teen Wolf

<p class="MsoNormal">The Teen Wolf trauma continues next Tuesday with Sundowning. According to the official network synopsis –

<p class="MsoNormal">While Scott, Lydia, and Malia] search for Stiles, Liam and the others throw a party to keep a friend safe from the Ghost Riders.

<p class="MsoNormal">In reality, sundowning is a common term for a period of confusion, restlessness, and agitation among those suffering dementia, delirium or other issues related to memory loss. It usually develops around sundown. This may play into the return of Claudia Stilinski. Before the Ghost Riders took Stiles, Claudia died of a form of dementia. She appears to be back now but we don’t know how.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Price Peterson’s Photo Recap of Superposition

<p class="MsoNormal">My favorite paid-to-be-a-superfan Price Peterson captured Superposition with his usual mix of humor and love.
 * “Superposition” was easily as strange and ambitious as Teen Wolf gets (maybe even stranger?) but the reason it worked (and boy did it work) was because it showed just how much Stiles means to these characters. In his absence, we learned that he wasn’t just the resident human, he was keeping everyone else human as well. Yeah, this episode was scary, complicated, and downright heart-wrenching.

<p class="MsoNormal">Check out Peterson’s latest masterpiece over at Yahoo. LINK: https://www.yahoo.com/tv/teen-wolf-recap-gone-boy-173222558.html