The Little Things that Matter:
Video Project
"You have to keep the camera straight, Kevin!" Gwen ordered.
"I am, just getting the view from different angles." Kevin retorted.
Gwen had asked Kevin to play cameraman for her while she worked on a video project for school. Her classmates and her had to make a blogging video of musings that most people encounter with. Gwen decided to do one about people exaggerating their illnesses in front of their peers/relatives.
Kevin pointed the camera at Gwen's stern face, smiling at her expression as he looked through the camera. "Alright, go on…do your vlogging thing." He told her, and put all perverse emphasis on 'vlogging' to make it sound as dirty as possible.
"Are you going to take this seriously?" She asked him, as if a Mother disciplining a child.
"All seriousness." He replied.
"No laughing?"
"Not a peep, I'm purely videotaping."
Gwen looked at him, then back in the camera. They preceded with the script, with Gwen acting like she was insanely sick, and also playing the part of the concerned parent and friend. Kevin filmed with much amusement at her acting out three roles for one video. She knew enough about video editing to cut and paste to make it seem like she was three different people interacting with each other. She even had B-rolls of Kevin and her arguing and laughing during the filming, which she decided would be great to put on after the film. It took them a week to film a small five minute video, and after the loose ends were tied- they gathered everyone to see the result.
"I'm not going to watch and see something that's going to potentially scar me, am I?" Ben asked as he sat down on the couch with Kevin, Gwen, and Grandpa Max.
"Would we be letting you watch it if it were?" Kevin said with smirk, earning him an elbow in the ribcage from Gwen.
"Alright you two, let's start the video." Grandpa Max insisted as he pressed 'Play' on the remote.
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Cut to a profile of Gwen- a video that was obviously filmed by webcam.
"Hi!, Now whenever you are feeling ill, do you ever feel the need to prove to people that you are in fact sick?"
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Cut to Gwen laying on her couch with Pjs on and a blanket- watching TV, looking perfectly fine.- filming done by Kevin
---*TV* 'Oh Sandra, I love you but I'm not in love with you….' "No, Dax, Please don't say anymore…!"
Gwen Stuffs her face with popcorn and says with a full mouth . "She doesn't deserve that!"
Off screen a door can be heard opening.
Gwen quickly hides the popcorn and pretends to be ill, coughing and squinting her eyes in fatigue.
Cut to Gwen coming in through the door, dressed in a casual business clothes and her hair pinned up.
"Hey Sweetie, how you feeling?" The dressed up Gwen asks, playing the mother.
Cut to Sick Gwen
Cough. Cough. "I'm managing, the nausea went away." Gwen puts her hand over her forehead. "I'm still feeling feverish.
Cut to Mother Gwen
She reaches to the camera as if to check 'Sick Gwen's' Temperature.
"Hmm.. You don't feel so warm to me."
Cut to Sick Gwen
"Yes, I do." Cough cough. 'You just came from outside, it's colder outside- your hands are cold."
Cut back to Webcam filming.
"And it doesn't stop at just relatives, no we have to continue on with this quest to prove to the world that we are genuinely sick, even if all we have is a headache.
Back to Sick Gwen on the Couch watching Tv. Kevin filming.
*Tv* ' But Carmen, you can't love a monster." "You are not a monster no matter what you look like, I love you anyway.."
Sick Gwen fakes tears for comical effect. Off screen the door opens again and Sick Gwen immediately clutches her sides as if in pain.
Cut to another version of Gwen who just walked in, this time in a school uniform.
Friend Gwen: "Are you alright, you weren't at school today so I came to give you your homework."
Sick Gwen: still in tears from the Soap Opera show "No, the doctor says it has to do with my appendix. it hurts so bad!" she sneaks an eye open to see if they are buying it.
Friend Gwen concerned: "Oh my gosh, where does it hurt!? Should I go get you some water?"
Sick Gwen: "It hurts right here…" sick Gwen Points to her side.
Pause, Cut back and forth to view individual face shots Friend and Sick Gwen.
Friend Gwen: "Your appendix is on your other side….."
Cut back to Webcam
Gwen: "Well you can't fool everyone, but we try anyway."
Video Ends- B-roll plays during credits.
Kevin, Gwen, Ben, and Max watch the B-roll in high amusement. It showed Gwen messing up on her lines and laughing, Kevin chuckling in the middle of a shot. It had both of them arguing about where to point the camera, Gwen posing in her 'Mother Gwen' outfit. Such silly things that made the video worth making.
"Well, I have to say Kevin, if crime never works out for you- you have a career in being a cameraman." Ben said.
"I asked several people I knew if they had any advice on using a camera, the only thing they told me was 'Inside stuffed animals and bookcases where great places.'….whatever that means." Kevin said.