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Monday, January 5, 2009

I Am a Brilliant Movie Director

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM

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Thanks to the web-based application Text-to-Movie, available on the Xtranormal website, I am now an excellent director of animated features. How did I do it? Well, first you need to write a script.

Here is the marvelous and compelling script I wrote, based on a real conversation that happened today at the Mercury office.

SCENE 1 EXT DAY
X: I want soup for lunch.
Y: I prefer chowder.
X: No! Soup is better, dummy.
Y: In fact, you could even call me a "chowder head." Ha ha ha!
X: Shut up, chowder dick.

Then all you do is enter your script into the little boxes, choose the actors, select some camera angles, and add a pre-selected soundtrack (I choose "Funky guitar high hat.") And voila! After a few minutes of such clicking, here is my masterpiece:


It's that easy! Move over, Pixar. Click here to make your own! (In order to "publish" your movie and have others see it, you will need to register w/your email address.)

(Link via Metafilter.)

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Since you turned my "art" into commerce with your animated movie, I will now be suing you for improper (and unauthorized) use of my "chowder dick" comment.

Posted by ezra on January 5, 2009 at 5:03 PM | Report this comment

I hope you took your two fifteen minute Union mandated breaks during the film making process or there will be hell to pay come Oscar time.

Posted by kiala on January 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM | Report this comment

If I hadn't personally boycotted use of an isolate ellipsis, I would totally put one here.

Posted by Will Radik on January 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM | Report this comment

I made a movie too! It's on faceofthecookie.

That's where I put it. My movie is about Gossip Girl.

I did not steal it from Ezra.

Posted by kiala on January 6, 2009 at 3:05 PM | Report this comment

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