Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Show as trailer. Trailer as show.
I have an idea of a film trailer for a theatre production.
Trailers for theatre shows are stupid anyway because no one really watches them and they never give a good indication for the show anyway.
But what if there was a trailer that was actually the show?
As in, its an hour long, intercut with 'starring by' and 'directed by' frames, but over the course of an hour.
And the show is cut apart like a trailer anyway. It doesn't offer much narrative exporation, and concentrates on the exciting bits, or the funny bits. The best jokes are always in the trailer anyway.
And this theatre show has to actually have never been able to happen anyway. In one 'scene' we cut to two characters watching the audience and gasping and laughing at all the best bits like a fail compilation. One asks for some popcorn to enjoy it more and a huge bucket of popcorn falls from the ceiling and the the character catches it. Popcorn falls everywhere thought and makes a huge mess.
Cut to 'starring BLAH BLAH BLAH'
Cut back to the stage and all the popcorn is gone but instead the stage now has a huge castle built out of cardboard in the back and the two characters are fighting like macbeth and macduff.
And so on.
The stage is consistent. The same.
Everything else changes from cut to cut.
It's an hour long, advertising a show that if it were to be live would take days, if not weeks to really construct.
The show never exists, of course. It doesn't need to.
Trailers for theatre shows are stupid anyway because no one really watches them and they never give a good indication for the show anyway.
But what if there was a trailer that was actually the show?
As in, its an hour long, intercut with 'starring by' and 'directed by' frames, but over the course of an hour.
And the show is cut apart like a trailer anyway. It doesn't offer much narrative exporation, and concentrates on the exciting bits, or the funny bits. The best jokes are always in the trailer anyway.
And this theatre show has to actually have never been able to happen anyway. In one 'scene' we cut to two characters watching the audience and gasping and laughing at all the best bits like a fail compilation. One asks for some popcorn to enjoy it more and a huge bucket of popcorn falls from the ceiling and the the character catches it. Popcorn falls everywhere thought and makes a huge mess.
Cut to 'starring BLAH BLAH BLAH'
Cut back to the stage and all the popcorn is gone but instead the stage now has a huge castle built out of cardboard in the back and the two characters are fighting like macbeth and macduff.
And so on.
The stage is consistent. The same.
Everything else changes from cut to cut.
It's an hour long, advertising a show that if it were to be live would take days, if not weeks to really construct.
The show never exists, of course. It doesn't need to.
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