Hittin' Up the Focus Group

[rinue]

Okay; pretend you don't know anything about the film I'm making or the fact that I'm making it. Which short are you more interested in seeing:

1. "The Sleeping People"
2. "Sleepy People"

and what do these titles make you expect?

Comments

[hipgunslinger.livejournal.com]

Honestly?
My first impulse was The Sleepy People, but only because I at once got an image of an absurd door-slammer farce about a group of friends engaged in a sleep deprivation study.
Though, I rather doubt that's what your film is about.
...
sorry. Been watching a lot of farce lately.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

That sounds really fun, though. I'd watch that. I did make a sleep deprivation study film, but it was more along the lines of a Twilight Zone episode - black and white, no budget, people in jumpsuits, some talk about a mysterious weapon. We did it for Halloween a few years ago. It's pretty silly and great. I played the military commander. Ciro was instrumental in telling us how to realistically play exhausted, since he has stayed up the longest consecutively of any member of the friend group. Can't remember how long, but definitely past the hallucination point.

[hipgunslinger.livejournal.com]

Well it rather instantly presented as a comic situation to me. You could have two rivals competing for the affections of one of the other subjects, an intruder pursuing one of the rivals unsolicited, one attempting to barter their way out of the program, an embarassing disaster befalls the research team, one member who is WAY too interested in the study... you'd get plenty of frantic moments, disproportionate emotions, character quirks and a particularly amusing finish to the film of the morning after everybody finally got some sleep and came to grips with how ridiculously they behaved.
Blimey... I could be onto something here.

Good times.

[bluezybunny.livejournal.com]

Good times...

-Quip