Sunday, October 19, 2003

I'm going to try to explain this as concisely as possible.  For a long time now, I've wanted to do a video where a character does really dramatic slow motion things to the music from "The Natural" specifically the part where he hits the home run and the stadium lights explode.  Then, as the video progresses he does more and more mundane things until at the end he's doing something really stupid like dramatically eating cereal in slow motion.

I've never really had a good ending or any kind of real plot to it...until today.  He needs a partner, one who at first is completely obsessed with being as dramatic as he is, but whever he tries it, he fails miserably, falling on his face or running into something, or dropping/breaking something.

Then, as the dramatic character does more and more mundane things dramatically, the roommate (or however he's related) gets more and more annoyed that he's not as dramatic as his roommate.  Then, during the one-upsmanship, the lesser roomate dies somehow, like leaps to catch a falling knife and gets stabbed.  Then, the final scene is of the dramatic guy reading the newspaper in slow motion with some stupid headline like, "Non-dramatic man dies".

So, what I need are some things that would be really funny in dramatic slow-motion with "The Natural" music, and some things that could go wrong if the not-dramatic guy tried to do them.

posted on Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:34:25 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [4]
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Sunday, October 19, 2003 8:17:32 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
For the non-dramatic guy, does the music start to play as he does the thing, but then when he fails, does it stop, as if being played on a record player that just gets switched off?
Pete
Monday, October 20, 2003 5:37:37 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yeah, that's pretty much what I had in mind. Alternatively, I also thought about crossfading into some really tragic music, like music that would accompany a slow-motion mob hit (like that really funny Nissan Sentra commercial) if I went the route where something horrible happens when he tries to be dramatic. Then it would essentially become our Peter Perfect/Brandon Loser series with a soundtrack.
Friday, October 24, 2003 4:36:37 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
What about this:
The dramatic guy changes the cat's flea collar very dramatically. Or picks the cat up off the newspaper thats on the coffee table that he wants to read.
The non-dramatic guy then tries to dramatically pick the cat up and place it in front of the cat food dish. He holds the cat close to his chest, near his face. He starts sneezing a lot because he's allergic to cat dander and ends up having a full-on sneeze attack and ruins the whole scene.
It could star The Professor. Or have the dramatic guy throw his keys and the right key on the keyring goes into the lock and unlocks the door...I forgot what happens to the Loser.
Jeff
Saturday, March 06, 2004 12:19:16 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Hi, nice page you have here. Some of the ideas you have for your videos and projects are pretty cool. I need to do a funny video clip and I'm surfing the web for some ideas, and your site crossed my path. Do you have any ideas on how I can create a short (max 3 min) video clip that would catch someone's attention? I got picked to be a semi-finalist on a reality show and now I need to submit a video clip basically convincing them they should pick me. They will pick 12 out of 200 videos, so my chances are pretty decent, I just need something catchy and creative to get their attention. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!
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