Our Idea
Our current idea is an adaptation of our previous One Way Trip to Mars idea.
A man is sitting in his room, setting up a camera on a tripod facing himself. He sits down as the camera starts recording and speaks into it explaining why he wants to go to Mars - he is recording a big-brother style audition tape for a television show set on the red planet. We cut from him filming himself to the actual recorded footage. We then show several different shots of other possible contestants, satirizing actual big brother personalities. After cutting back and forth between different shots of about four different characters, we go back to the original man. We cut to a board meeting where several men in suits are gathered round a monitor, showing his tape. They look at each other and nod before cutting to the title: 'One way trip to Mars'
Below are a few actual Big-Brother audition tapes which we took inspiration from.
Also, below is a thriller done by a group a few years ago. I liked they way in which they only had a few characters but cut back and forth between them. I'd like to inject a similar dark humour into our piece.
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