November 01, 2005

Mime Film

Our assignment (to be done over the next two weeks) is to shoot a 2-minute piece of video. Our group agonized over a lot of different options and we finally settled on a parody/mockumentary about a person doomed to live like looking (but not acting) like a mime. He's a normal person with a normal job and so on, he just happens to look like a mime. Our piece will document the misadventures of someone who looks like a mime but does normal thing (like talk to people, get coffee at Starbucks, go shopping, play basketball).

The assignment for this week was to storyboard our piece. Rather than actually drawing anything, we just took a bunch of digital pictures of me (yes, I will be the mime--it's my screen debut) acting out parts of each scene. We're going to start shooting this Thursday or Wednesday. I'm going to have to go buy my mime gear tomorrow.

I also wrote up a parody of a Levitra-type impotence ad, but we decided it was too difficult to put together in just two weeks. I'm going to post a link to the rough script here just in case anyone comes across this and wants to do it. I still think it would make a great featurette if anyone were to make it. The script for the Levitra ad.

Posted November 1, 2005 12:41 AM. Categories: Assignments , Week 8 | Permalink