Movie

This is a really fun one that I have done. Make your own movie. Feature length. The crappier and more wacky the script the better. Add elements that make NO sense but would be fun. In high school, my friends and I made a movie called "Game Day" about an ultimate frisbee team that comes together to win the championship. We had some great frisbee action shots and for the "evil" team we were playing we stuck stockings over our heads and ran around shirtless. Meanwhile, there were many totally unrelated scenese throughout the movie involving supersoakers, 2 year old kids giving us condescending looks, etc. I am sure we could come up with even more crazy/fun stuff nowadays, but still, it is a GREAT thing to be able to watch now and look back fondly upon.

Things you will need:


Camcorder (Or a digital camera that takes short video clips)

Way to edit the movie -- In high school, my friend edited using two VCRs and recording back and forth, but I think a computer would be better nowadays -- iMovie is REALLY easy -- after you are done transfering the movie to the computer, edit it, transfer it back to the camera, hook the camera up to the TV and record VHS copies to give to all of your friends that were in it!

As many random props as you can come up with -- you can literally use your surroundings to dictate the direction the script takes. If you see something that would be funny to use, write in an extra scene.


As a final note, you can obviously spend as much time writing as you want, but I would suggest pumping something out really quickly (working from NOTHING is possible, but it is good to have some direction), and then spending most of the time filming it, because that is the fun part. Be sure to write scenes that will be FUN to shoot.