Well, i was trying to reply to Mark30's post, but between the time i started typing and hitting the post button, it disappeared! His idea was based on the kids game of writing a story one sentence at a time, passing the paper from person to person and each person only gets to see the last sentence written. Here's my response anyway.
Mark, rather intriguing idea!
I did something sort of like this with our church's youth group. We had four skits in four scenes, each scene potentially about 30 to 60 seconds long. We split the group into four teams and sent each team to a room with the script for the first act of a skit and a camcorder. They had to act out and tape the scene in 10 minutes. Then the groups rotated to the next room and got the next scene for the next skit without seeing how the previous group had done the previous scene. When they were done taping and having refreshments i spliced the scenes together and we showed the four finished skits at the end of the evening. As you can imagine, the incredible non-sequitors and continuity errors were the major part of the fun!
More on track with your idea, i could see hosting something like this at vegasusers.com. We'd have to get a groups of people to commit to doing scenes, perhaps one group scheduled per day. The first group would have 24 hours to tape and upload a scene. The next group would have the next 24 hours to watch the previous group's scene and add their own next scene. Each group would only be able to see the immediately previous scene and not the whole story up to that point. I suppose if any group missed their deadline then the next group would just pick up and carry on. Perhaps we could get 14 groups to cover a two week period. At the end i could edit the whole together and make it available for viewing to everyone.
Sound doable?
Mark, rather intriguing idea!
I did something sort of like this with our church's youth group. We had four skits in four scenes, each scene potentially about 30 to 60 seconds long. We split the group into four teams and sent each team to a room with the script for the first act of a skit and a camcorder. They had to act out and tape the scene in 10 minutes. Then the groups rotated to the next room and got the next scene for the next skit without seeing how the previous group had done the previous scene. When they were done taping and having refreshments i spliced the scenes together and we showed the four finished skits at the end of the evening. As you can imagine, the incredible non-sequitors and continuity errors were the major part of the fun!
More on track with your idea, i could see hosting something like this at vegasusers.com. We'd have to get a groups of people to commit to doing scenes, perhaps one group scheduled per day. The first group would have 24 hours to tape and upload a scene. The next group would have the next 24 hours to watch the previous group's scene and add their own next scene. Each group would only be able to see the immediately previous scene and not the whole story up to that point. I suppose if any group missed their deadline then the next group would just pick up and carry on. Perhaps we could get 14 groups to cover a two week period. At the end i could edit the whole together and make it available for viewing to everyone.
Sound doable?