48HFP practice session 4

This practice session was cut very short due to an interruption. I only got about five minutes into it (literally!) and didn't go back to finish it later. Here's what I got in five minutes.


Character:
Random word Gum becomes Barney Gumble (The Simpsons).
Random word Security becomes security guard

Prop:
vegetable

Line of dialogue:
Random word pigeon becomes, "Did you send the invitations by carrier pigeon?"

The genre was randomly determined to be Film de Femme.

I immediately went to a woman getting ready for a wedding. She is standing in the lobby of a building (presumably her apartment building) and there is a security guard there. The vegetables came in when someone carried them in a bag and [tripped | did something] spilled them across the floor. She saw the vegetables themselves and said, "Are you trying to kill the guests? You know that half the family is allergic to [some vegetable]."

She's on her cell phone, and the security guard is there trying to calm her, determine how he can help her. The line of dialogue would be said into the phone after she asks the security guard if he received a package of invitations, or a package from [x] printers.

How is this a film de femme? What would make this scenario interesting? (What if the vegetable guy really were trying to poison the family and she discovers the plot? She could eventually uncover it and discover that the groom was getting cold feet and was trying to sabotage everything.)

Lisa (our Femme) walks into the lobby and asks Barney the security guard about a package arriving for her.

Barney: No, ma'am. No package today.

At this point, right when I was about to start on the setup scene, I was interrupted. Fortunately, the script already seemed to have a direction. I probably would have followed up on the whole, "groom trying to sabotage everything" theme. There's no way this would have culminated in a wedding anyway since that would be too expensive to plan and shoot unless there happened to be a wedding that day and the bride and groom didn't mind us filming them. Fat chance.