Since it is apparently video week. I have another very interesting video.
The following is the winner of a contest run by the popular movie director Ridley Scott and Phillips (as a sort of promotion for their television I assume). The challenge was to create a three-minute short using only 6 lines of dialogue. The six lines had to be used in the exact same order and could not be altered in any way (Except language, but had to be subtitled in that case). The phrases were: “What is that?,” “It’s a unicorn,” “Never seen one up close before,” “Beautiful,” “Get Away, Get away,” and “I’m sorry.”
It seems very limiting at first. Three minutes, 6 phrases. But it is often when confronted with limitation that the surprising human race comes up with the most original ideas and inventions. I discussed a similar concept earlier this year when talking about igloos and how hundreds of years ago humans stranded in the cold, with very limited resources found not just a way to build houses out of snow, but the BEST way know to man to build them which even today with all the engineers and computers have not found a better way.
Take a minute or two to think of a story using the above phrases.
And now look at what the winner, director Keegan Wilcox, has constructed with so little.
Visit the contest page for more surprising videos.
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