The Boring Part
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 10
by
copier
· original author:
smashedunder
At first Nicole was worried Patricia would protest, but she just smiled cooly and nodded her head. "Yeah, that sounds good to me."
"Yeah, same here! I'll be honest, that train... BRAAAAPPPP!! ... might've given me indigestion." Bianca put a hand on her mouth after the uncouth display.
"Okay then!" Nicole breathed a huge sigh of relief. Filming was over. Now they just needed to figure out a narrative to connect these similar but disparate clips.
The trio separated, and for days, Nicole stayed cooped up in her room in all her free time. One time, as she was working on the film, Steve poked his head in her room and asked, "Hey, Nicole, have you seen the shrink ray?"
The sound of her father's voice caused Nicole to jump in her seat. She closed out the window and blocked any view of her computer monitor screen, turning to face her father and answering with a tentative, "Ahhhh, uhm, no?"
Steve seemed to buy it. He went on with his day, quite frustrated. Nicole breathed a sigh of relief, thankful she hadn't been found out until she realized that the project hadn't autosaved and she lost over an hour of editing progress.
Another day passed, and Bianca called Nicole. "Hey, Nicole! How's it going on the editing? You are making sure to get my good side, right?"
Nicole grumbled a bit strangely. "Well, I've been trying to, like, avoid showing your face in there all that much. Ya know, so people don't recognize you."
"Whaaaat? You said you wanted this movie to get a million views, right?"
"Yeah...?" Nicole wasn't used to being the responsible one in this relationship.
"So what's the point of a video getting a million views if they can't even see my face? Nobody's gonna put two and two together anyway, it's all just pretend!"
Bianca raised a good point. This was sort of an all or nothing deal. "Okay... I think I can get a couple of shots of your pretty face in there. The big climactic scenes where you look at the vehicle right before it gets eaten."
"Thanks a whole lot, Nicole!"
Nicole nodded weakly, then remembered Bianca can't see nods through the phone. "Sure thing Bianca." Nicole hung up.
Thirty minutes of video editing later, and Patricia was ringing up Nicole herself. "Heya Nicole! I'm so excited to see what the movie's gonna look like. Did you get a whole bunch of those screaming losers in there? I want it to be super realistic so make sure they're loud!"
"Ah... well..." Nicole had actually been planning on lowering the volume during a lot of the screaming crowd segments. In their place she'd put a voice-over explaining the thoughts of the POV character filming all of this. It'd be hard to figure out the plot without that opportunity.
When Bianca explained all this to Patricia, Patricia scoffed. "Plot, schmlot. We've got a motherfucking shrink ray! This is a monster movie, who cares about plot? I want this to look as real and as brutal as possible. Think you can do that?"
Nicole remembered back to the scene of the conductor sinking in the acid bath. She'd put it in the recycle bin for the moment, thinking it was more important to get pictures of Bianca's stomach walls than anyone dissolving in them. But if Patricia wanted it brutal...
Nicole sighed. "Yeah, sounds cool."
"YAAAAAY!!" Patricia squealed. "Thanks, Nicole! Can't wait to see the movie!"
When Nicole finished the film, it came out to about 40 minutes worth of footage. Most of this footage was filmed by either Patricia or Nicole inside the plane or the train respectively, and featured the passengers screaming in fear as the giant monster continually played around with their lives before devouring them whole. There were also establishing shots of Bianca, looming high above everything. Nicole's video editing know-how had successfully made it so it seemed as though Nicole were a hundred-story monster looming above a random asset city, rather than a regular 12 year old girl looming over shrunken public transportation. Nicole had even applied a reverb effect to Bianca's taunting, not that the film really needed it, but it gave it a bit of an extra edge.
The meager plot of the film played out somewhat like "Cloverfield", featuring a young camera girl who gets caught in the middle of a giant monster attack. She tries to escape on a train but is caught by the monster who nearly kills her before she escapes at the last minute. Then she gets on a plane and tries to fly away, but just before it takes off, the monster finds her and then eats her. It ends with "The End... Question Mark?" And then Nicole played Bianca's giggle over the dark screen.
Nicole leaned back from her chair, proud of her handiwork. Over each shoulder, Patricia and Bianca watched transfixed. "Well, whadaya think? Time to post?"
"Yeah, same here! I'll be honest, that train... BRAAAAPPPP!! ... might've given me indigestion." Bianca put a hand on her mouth after the uncouth display.
"Okay then!" Nicole breathed a huge sigh of relief. Filming was over. Now they just needed to figure out a narrative to connect these similar but disparate clips.
The trio separated, and for days, Nicole stayed cooped up in her room in all her free time. One time, as she was working on the film, Steve poked his head in her room and asked, "Hey, Nicole, have you seen the shrink ray?"
The sound of her father's voice caused Nicole to jump in her seat. She closed out the window and blocked any view of her computer monitor screen, turning to face her father and answering with a tentative, "Ahhhh, uhm, no?"
Steve seemed to buy it. He went on with his day, quite frustrated. Nicole breathed a sigh of relief, thankful she hadn't been found out until she realized that the project hadn't autosaved and she lost over an hour of editing progress.
Another day passed, and Bianca called Nicole. "Hey, Nicole! How's it going on the editing? You are making sure to get my good side, right?"
Nicole grumbled a bit strangely. "Well, I've been trying to, like, avoid showing your face in there all that much. Ya know, so people don't recognize you."
"Whaaaat? You said you wanted this movie to get a million views, right?"
"Yeah...?" Nicole wasn't used to being the responsible one in this relationship.
"So what's the point of a video getting a million views if they can't even see my face? Nobody's gonna put two and two together anyway, it's all just pretend!"
Bianca raised a good point. This was sort of an all or nothing deal. "Okay... I think I can get a couple of shots of your pretty face in there. The big climactic scenes where you look at the vehicle right before it gets eaten."
"Thanks a whole lot, Nicole!"
Nicole nodded weakly, then remembered Bianca can't see nods through the phone. "Sure thing Bianca." Nicole hung up.
Thirty minutes of video editing later, and Patricia was ringing up Nicole herself. "Heya Nicole! I'm so excited to see what the movie's gonna look like. Did you get a whole bunch of those screaming losers in there? I want it to be super realistic so make sure they're loud!"
"Ah... well..." Nicole had actually been planning on lowering the volume during a lot of the screaming crowd segments. In their place she'd put a voice-over explaining the thoughts of the POV character filming all of this. It'd be hard to figure out the plot without that opportunity.
When Bianca explained all this to Patricia, Patricia scoffed. "Plot, schmlot. We've got a motherfucking shrink ray! This is a monster movie, who cares about plot? I want this to look as real and as brutal as possible. Think you can do that?"
Nicole remembered back to the scene of the conductor sinking in the acid bath. She'd put it in the recycle bin for the moment, thinking it was more important to get pictures of Bianca's stomach walls than anyone dissolving in them. But if Patricia wanted it brutal...
Nicole sighed. "Yeah, sounds cool."
"YAAAAAY!!" Patricia squealed. "Thanks, Nicole! Can't wait to see the movie!"
When Nicole finished the film, it came out to about 40 minutes worth of footage. Most of this footage was filmed by either Patricia or Nicole inside the plane or the train respectively, and featured the passengers screaming in fear as the giant monster continually played around with their lives before devouring them whole. There were also establishing shots of Bianca, looming high above everything. Nicole's video editing know-how had successfully made it so it seemed as though Nicole were a hundred-story monster looming above a random asset city, rather than a regular 12 year old girl looming over shrunken public transportation. Nicole had even applied a reverb effect to Bianca's taunting, not that the film really needed it, but it gave it a bit of an extra edge.
The meager plot of the film played out somewhat like "Cloverfield", featuring a young camera girl who gets caught in the middle of a giant monster attack. She tries to escape on a train but is caught by the monster who nearly kills her before she escapes at the last minute. Then she gets on a plane and tries to fly away, but just before it takes off, the monster finds her and then eats her. It ends with "The End... Question Mark?" And then Nicole played Bianca's giggle over the dark screen.
Nicole leaned back from her chair, proud of her handiwork. Over each shoulder, Patricia and Bianca watched transfixed. "Well, whadaya think? Time to post?"
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