We’re making a movie.
It started pretty innocently, but like everything in our house, it went out of control pretty quick.
Just after supper the girls said that they wanted to make a play, and mom and I would be the audience. Then they said “let’s film it.” I told that if you film a play, it’s a movie. Well, that set it off the rails. They lost their minds. “A movie! Yaa!! Let’s make a movie!!”
For the rest of the night, they jumped and ran and acted and screamed and argued around the living room while I wrote it all down. It’s all their ideas, 100%. I just asked stuff like; “What kind of story? (Pirate/Princess/super-hero/scary/sports?) Who is in it? Why are they good/bad? Do they have any special skills or powers? Where did they get their super-power? Why do they do that? Who will play them?” They just kept going on and on. I can’t wait to start. We’ve got it all mapped out, we just need to do the dialogue and make the costumes and set. Even if it take forever, I think the process will be the fun part. They get to paint the background and sets, make the costumes etc. They’re excited about that.
Here’s the story so far:
A good wizard is dying, and he knows that an evil mad scientist is going to try something. In his dying moments, the good wizard transfers all his powers to a group of kids who are having a dance party. They don’t realize it so they discover their new powers by accident, and each only gets one or two of the powers, each something different, stuff like; the power to turn invisible, turn into various animals, become Bruce Lee (seriously – my daughter loves his movies), shoot lasers, etc. When the evil scientist poisons all the food in the world, the kids decide they are going to find a way to save everyone. They go on a quest to find the evil scientist and along the way they have all kinds of adventures and meet; a dragon, a robot, two aliens, a pirate, a witch, and a few others…I couldn’t write fast enough, they had so many ideas.
This is gonna be the funnest project ever…woohooo!!!
