The big test

I have an idea and I want you all to help.

Since work seems determined to crush my soul and drink the tears of helplessness that I cry every day, I have decided to stay as creative as possible. *no, Nick, not that kind of creative. That was mostly a college thing.

Let’s put some scripts together for 5-second films. They don’t really have to be five seconds long, but they should be short. And awesome. Short and awesome.

We can film them without taking any time, and if we only do one a week, we still can amass a decent body of work in a short period of time. Here’s an example in case all of these fancy words have you confused:

Scene: Burrito Gallery at lunch. Group of people sitting around a table, everyone is talking, comfortable, happy to be there. Camera is at the table, watching the waitress (Actor 2) walk up, carrying a bottle of something. She sets bottle down in front of Actor 1.

Actor 1: Man, I fucking love this stuff

Actor 2: Then why don’t you marry it?

Actor 1, laughing: Maybe I will

Actor 3: That’s what happens when you let the gay’s marry.

See? I “adapted” this from a conversation we had at the lovely Burrito Gallery the other day. Yes, I outright stole it. But it’s funny, and we could re-shoot it at BG next time we are there, and our spirits would rejoice in the greatness that is doing things for ourselves.

So I’m asking you to send me your ideas/scripts. Leave them as comments, e-mail them to me, whatever. But let’s do this. I don’t have you be involved, you can do it yourself. Maybe once we do several we can put them up on the internets and just watch the fame and fortunes roll in. Maybe they will even go viral!

/not funny