The Best April Fools Day Ever!
I think I mentioned last time that I was planning a great April fools joke. I set it up yesterday and executed today. It was awesome!
In order for you to understand the joke I first need to explain a couple of things about my job. Lately I've been wearing my "script coordinator" hat for at least a couple days each week because we get so many revisions from our writers. Whenever a new script comes in I print it out and distribute it to the producer, director, and production manager. I also usually flag the changed pages because there might only be three changes in a 90-page script.
So for this April Fools day I decided to commission myself as a writer. I went back to the most recently revised sections and did a little revising of my own. Basically, I changed a few lines here and there to the point where they were borderline ridiculous. Actually, I started on page one with some changes that were almost believable, and by the time I got to page 82 (skipping many pages in the middle) I was just writing anything crazy that came to mind. On the last page, one of the characters asks, "Do you even know what day it is?" The other replies, "Oh yea, it's April first. Ha-ha." Then I copied, flagged, and distributed it like I would any other revised script.
A little while after planting the fake scripts I heard bursts of laughter coming from the conference room. Then my producer poked her head into my cube saying, "This is the best April Fools joke ever!" She had been laughing so hard that she was crying! Now that's when you know you have a good joke!
The best part of the story is that I few minutes later the director called me into the conference room saying, "You just got yourself a new job. Help us brainstorm more ideas for this scene. It should be kind of like what you wrote only more over-the-top."
In the joke script I had written something crazy where our hero hits some other characters over the head with a stick when they get in her way. At the moment I couldn't think of anything more absurd, but eventually I did. I'm not sure if it'll actually make it into the movie, but it'll be cool if it does!
-chc
In order for you to understand the joke I first need to explain a couple of things about my job. Lately I've been wearing my "script coordinator" hat for at least a couple days each week because we get so many revisions from our writers. Whenever a new script comes in I print it out and distribute it to the producer, director, and production manager. I also usually flag the changed pages because there might only be three changes in a 90-page script.
So for this April Fools day I decided to commission myself as a writer. I went back to the most recently revised sections and did a little revising of my own. Basically, I changed a few lines here and there to the point where they were borderline ridiculous. Actually, I started on page one with some changes that were almost believable, and by the time I got to page 82 (skipping many pages in the middle) I was just writing anything crazy that came to mind. On the last page, one of the characters asks, "Do you even know what day it is?" The other replies, "Oh yea, it's April first. Ha-ha." Then I copied, flagged, and distributed it like I would any other revised script.
A little while after planting the fake scripts I heard bursts of laughter coming from the conference room. Then my producer poked her head into my cube saying, "This is the best April Fools joke ever!" She had been laughing so hard that she was crying! Now that's when you know you have a good joke!
The best part of the story is that I few minutes later the director called me into the conference room saying, "You just got yourself a new job. Help us brainstorm more ideas for this scene. It should be kind of like what you wrote only more over-the-top."
In the joke script I had written something crazy where our hero hits some other characters over the head with a stick when they get in her way. At the moment I couldn't think of anything more absurd, but eventually I did. I'm not sure if it'll actually make it into the movie, but it'll be cool if it does!
-chc
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