Short film
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sigerson's comment (at the bottom), I now want to see a very short film that goes something like
The opening shot is of a fellow doing some paperwork in the conference room of an office. Colors are slightly washed-out. The phone rings, and he picks it up.
We hear coming from the phone, tinnily, a man's voice with a German accent reciting stock indices as calliope music plays in the background, punctuated by occasional thumping. For about ten seconds, we linger on the office worker's expression, which is halfway between confusion and boredom.
Jump cut to the room from which this phone call originates -- a small, dingy room lit by a single light bulb dangling from the ceiling. The sound from the phone call becomes our environment. The shot begins with a close up a middle-aged German man's face as he recites these indices and stares blankly into the middle distance. We slowly pull back to reveal that he is dressed in full Oktoberfest gear.
After a few seconds, the camera begins to pan slowly around the room, first panning past a terminally bored clown with a painted-on smile playing a hurdy-gurdy, as someone initially offscreen hits him with a pillow. The pillow-fighter is revealed to be a four-year-old in pajamas.
Jump cut back to the office building. Sound becomes tinny again. Office worker says to somebody offscreen, "It's him again." Quick pan to his officemate, who makes a check mark in some impossibly arcane chart.
FIN.
sigerson's comment (at the bottom), I now want to see a very short film that goes something like The opening shot is of a fellow doing some paperwork in the conference room of an office. Colors are slightly washed-out. The phone rings, and he picks it up.
We hear coming from the phone, tinnily, a man's voice with a German accent reciting stock indices as calliope music plays in the background, punctuated by occasional thumping. For about ten seconds, we linger on the office worker's expression, which is halfway between confusion and boredom.
Jump cut to the room from which this phone call originates -- a small, dingy room lit by a single light bulb dangling from the ceiling. The sound from the phone call becomes our environment. The shot begins with a close up a middle-aged German man's face as he recites these indices and stares blankly into the middle distance. We slowly pull back to reveal that he is dressed in full Oktoberfest gear.
After a few seconds, the camera begins to pan slowly around the room, first panning past a terminally bored clown with a painted-on smile playing a hurdy-gurdy, as someone initially offscreen hits him with a pillow. The pillow-fighter is revealed to be a four-year-old in pajamas.
Jump cut back to the office building. Sound becomes tinny again. Office worker says to somebody offscreen, "It's him again." Quick pan to his officemate, who makes a check mark in some impossibly arcane chart.
FIN.
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Date: 2006-02-09 04:03 pm (UTC)That is the best idea, like, EVER.
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:29 pm (UTC)Does Amazon still do those short film contest thingies?
There was just a contest sponsored at IC for short films shot on cell phones -- maybe they'll have it again next year?