"I'm on it."
So this weekend we hung out with zePals and started production on "Squirrels on a Sled". What we shot will probably end up as about four seconds of the finished product, but really all I had in mind was getting together, figuring out what we wanted to do and goofing off, more than actually accomplishing anything.
Almost every silly video I've ever been a part of has had more to do with goofing off than anything else. Sure, there's always a contest or class assignment that gets things going, but for the most part I'm just in it to have fun. I remember when I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine and I were interviewed for the
The Batt, and while he talked a lot about wanting to be the next Tarantino (which, truthfully, a lot of us did), my quotes were all about how I just wanted to have something fun to do. It was really lame that later in the semester, when our film club was deciding on what kind of project to put together, the group overruled my friend's idea for mine, but I think it was simply because mine sounded more fun. We ended up spending a weekend in Fredericksburg shooting it, and it was a blast, though I'm pretty sure I never even saw the finished film.
But sure, fun is fun, but cash is nice, too. On that front, it turns out that second and third prizes are cash rewards, while the
Blanks on a Blank grand prize is two tickets to the
Snakes on a Plane premiere in Hollywood, California, which is a little bit more difficult to split eight ways. Yeah.
So here's to trying not quite your best.
