I could really use your help.

So I got a camera from my grandma and I have a project comming up in video tech.I'm sure everyone in my class will be filming soccer games, football games, stupid ass made up commercials of the same things people did last year.But I wanted to shoot a 2-4 minute film over me walking through my high school in the morning before classes while reciting a witty,satiristic rant about high school.Anything good you think you can come up with please post it.Even if its one sentence.I want this to show my peers at my high school there lives really arn't that hard, and everyone has there own problems and deals with them there own way.People CAN be different and shit talking isn't necessary.

I won't necessarily post your name in the credits but I will make it clear I had help from many friends on the rant and did not come up with it all.Basically, I'm just gabba be the editor and narrator.

Any help would be wonderful.And if oyu have some great ideas message me on aim: Diet Aaron.

And I guess I'm not getting any.

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Originally Posted by VoidLivesOn

And I guess I'm not getting any.

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Just comment on the state of your school, point out mates, people you don't like. Peoples mannerisms, fashion sence etc.

yeah just be really sarcastic about everything, and keep the same sort of tone throughout. I wrote a paper like that once in high school and it turned out really well. too bad I don't have it, but it was called something like "A typical day."

Well heres what I have so far.

High School.....A place where a variety of teenagers can get togeather and learn in harmony regardless of there race, gender, or dress preference.Heh, beleive this and get ready to be eaten alive.What is a place like thats filled with young adults who hang off every word you tell them and believe 9 out of every 10 confrontations they encounter in a day there still always right.....

Thats it right now.Now if you think that sucks be brutaly honest.I'm ready to make this interesting for everyone, not to just tell myself its good over and over and have people thinking it sucks behind my back.

It's decent so far actually, it's sounds a little preachy if I think I understand what you're going for. Maybe freshen the language up a bit and use interesting and attention-grabbing phrases. Nice start though.

Alright from the point I'm at now I'll try and throw in some examples of what you just suggested.

Thanks.

whenever i want to make a movie...i tape random things in succession, get really stoned, and make an interpretation of these random things...then i say thats what the movie is about, and im finished

here's also something to think about though a bit away from your idea:

In that paper I wrote, I compared high school with prison, and it worked great. That's where I used a sarcastic tone and sort of played off the whole idea.

Just a thought.

give us more information, is it supposed to be on a certain topic etc...if not I suggest doing something easier. Go talk to homeless people and try and get informaton about why they "failed" and everything, and then compare their lives when they were young to your and your friends lives and whatnot.If you make it a sensitive topic you will probably get a better mark.You can just buy a burger or something and I'm sure they'd be willing to help.

I always wondered who else fantasized about their teachers.

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Eh, oh. Well, uh.. Actually I don't know. Being super-sarcastic is always good, though. Good luck!

you should intersperse some footage of cheerleaders gossiping, jocks jostling people, nerds flinching, and teachers smoking with roughnecks in jail, homeless dudes, pervs, prostitutes to emphasize the vast unimportance of the learning institution and bullshit politics that go on in it.
That could be the future, of anyone on that tape. There but for the grace of god go I. I thought high school was so huge..but really it's just an excersize in humility and your peers will treat you crueller there than anywhere else. (unless you go to prison)

If you really want to capture a snapshot of your highschool you wont be able to do it in one take. You will need to film random bits throughout the schhol, day, week etc to really capture what you need to refect you point.
Observing the world through a lens gives you a totally different perspective, a vantage point
I would suggest you film as much as you can...watch it all, then incorporate what you wish to convey into these images with your editing. Your walkthrough dialogue will be much more poiniant (sp?) if the images compliment the words.

have fun void. Sounds like you have a great idea and it would be interesting to see the finished product.



btw, I like scarletts angle as well. It kinda forces the viewer to reflect and think, to challenge themselves.
peace.

Poignant.

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Poignant.

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Thanks lateralus. I had a mental flash a tad to late to edit it.
( Im actually bothered when I spell something wrong or make a typo but didnt want to make a post to correct myself...glad you did :) )
cheers.

do a movie about masturbation, charles manson, and benito mussolini!!!

High School.....A place where a variety of teenagers can get together and learn in harmony regardless of there race, gender, or dress preference. Heh, you'd have to be a moron to believe this. A place where fashion rules and you're only cool if you have a cellphone with an mtv ringtone. A place where you have all the different groups who stick with only that group, very much like prison. A place where you can get in trouble for being smarter than the teacher. School prepares us for the outside world? Oh so that's where we learn to be fake from. Half the things taught at school aren't even used when you graduate. We are being taught a buncha second hand, even third and fourth hand, information and we are supposed to eat it up with a silver spoon. Bollocks to that.

a rant ^^^^^^^^^

Most likely, if you try to seem satiristic or somethin', it'll just turn out like a stupid truth commercial. I'm guessing this is really open-ended. If you want to really "oush the envelope" and don't mind getting in some deep shit, film an artistic pornography.

I wrote a short story that exaggerated middle school into a medieval style prison. And drew a picture to go along with it, it was actually quite good, I wish I had it still. I think for ISS (in school suspension), I had students being dipped in vats of boiling oil. And the principal had an executioner's mask and a guilotine behind him, etc.

you could always analyse the social groups and the people in them.. like what they do in the movie "the breakfeast club"

THanks guys, your posts really helped out.


King kong bong, your rant was really good, but I'm trying to take this at aprofessional approach.I don't want them to feeled threatened by watching this I just want them to know what I think in a thoughtful way, if that makes anysense.

Special thanks scarlett,and funky

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THanks guys, your posts really helped out.


King kong bong, your rant was really good, but I'm trying to take this at aprofessional approach.I don't want them to feeled threatened by watching this I just want them to know what I think in a thoughtful way, if that makes anysense.

Special thanks scarlett,and funky

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thats the point, you have to make them feel uncomfortable. never everrrrrrrrrrrr surgarcoat shit.

I figured I could bump this for any more creative ideas.