I have found a group in Richmond that does filmmaking prompts -- the 30fps equivalent to "Write a story about your first childhood memory." Well. I will not tell you the prompt I am working from -- it is more secretive this way -- but I will tell you that I need to come up with a way to turn a 4th grade mathematics book (teacher's edition) into a film no longer than five minutes. I have one week minus 90 minutes to complete this film.
Basic ideas that one can work from in giving me ideas how to do this:
a) Word problems.
b) Multiplication tables.
c) Rounding.
d) Long division.
e) Decimals.
f) Fractions.
g) Adding/subtracting time.
The fourth-grade part is negotiable if you have some perfect idea. All people who give me an idea that makes it into the film get at least an associate producer credit.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
