Collaboration opportunity – Victor Hampson
Actors needed for satirical mockumentary about cancel culture and censorship!
About the creator
Victor Hampson is a Comedy Crowd Chorts finalist, and in 2019 was selected by former BBC and Sky Comedy Commissioner, and Yellow Door Productions founder, Lucy Lumsden as best webseries on Comedy Crowd TV with “an exciting new comedy voice “. His content is brilliantly original, slightly strange and very funny.
Below is a summary of what he is looking for:
About the show
After a YouTube video in which he claimed that Bluetooth attracts bees was blocked for misinformation, Thomas Wrinklesmooth started his investigation into the silencing of non-conformist opinion. This is a matter of free speech and he will not be silenced!
This video example is just a brief intro to the concept and a compilation of some of the clips we’ve filmed so far to try to give an idea of what the project will be like:
The finished film will be about half an hour, and the plan is to submit it to film festivals etc. It will also be released as webisodes of around 5-10 minutes on YouTube.
Roles required
Actors are needed for various roles, from small vox-pops to larger interview scenes. It’ll only be one day of filming, even for the bigger roles. We can cover travel expenses and food etc. Will be filming in May – June 2022
These are the characters available:
Rachel/Richard (Interview scene)
Someone who lost their job because of a seemingly homophobic tweet. They use the interview to try to make a point about how social media posts get taken out of context and how ‘cancellation’ could happen to anyone. Thomas disagrees, which leads to Rachel/Richard digging up some offensive videos from his past that would get him cancelled.
Psychologist (Interview scene)
A psychologist interviewed about the mindset of people who participate in cancel culture and those who are prone to believing conspiracy theories.
Statue Designer (Piece to camera)
A designer who proposes a compromise to settle the statue debate – putting up statues of famous figures depicted before they committed their crimes: Colston before he bought his first slave; a prepubescent Hitler; Justin Bieber as a foetus. Meet in the middle, everyone’s happy.
Glinnelwald (Piece to camera)
A writer of fantasy novels who has been cancelled for various reasons, but tries to defend themselves by saying that they included characters from that minority group in their books. Unfortunately, the characters in question are clearly based on harmful stereotypes.
Gemima/Jenson (Piece to camera)
A canceller. Very smug. “Just be better, guys. If someone says something that suggests a lack of understanding about a minority group, the best way to educate them is with very aggressive threats of violence and/or death. But a painful death.”
Public Opinion Pieces
There are also nameless members of the public who say a sentence or two as vox pops – these could even be filmed remotely if you have the right set up so could work even if you’re not based near London/Reading.
How to register interest
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