Birthday AMA

[Jiggly_333]

What's the concept for the short film?

This idea comes from how over the past year or so, my morning commute left me at a bus stop for 50 minutes after getting off my train to wait for a bus to take me to class. And I thought about what would be an interesting scene to have at a bus stop. I've always liked rainy days, so it's set on one.

The idea is that this high school senior girl misses her bus and takes shelter at the bus stop from the rain. Moments later some disheveled office worker also makes it to the stop (visually, think Jim Halpert). They start to talk about how shit their lives are and then turn on eachother by trying to convince the other person that they have more potential.

It's not so much a plot as much as it's just a conversation. I want to capture a moment in time. These two people will never meet again in their lives and that's what makes this moment so freeing for each of them to talk about their problems. The girl is struggling with keeping up with relationships and has started to question why she even rebels against her parents. The guy is struggling with the existential reality that he's now a marketer for an insurance company, not whatever the hell he wanted to be. But each of them wants to help the other because it's in human nature to help others when you feel helpless.

There's some specific beats I know that I want to hit and while irl it took 50 minutes, I think it needs to be cut down a lot when I actually put this idea on paper.

What is your planned first legal drink when bars open up again?

Jeppson's Malort. My parents made a special run. There's also a local brewery that I was actually planning on trying to get an internship with this summer and my dad got a growler from them (although I don't know if they're gonna let me have any). He realized afterwards that he should've gotten me Old Style instead, but we're just going with what we got.

Happy birthday! I know it's tough to celebrate during quarantine (my brother turned 22 yesterday and he's stuck in a studio apartment on his own, it's rough), but things will be all that much sweeter when everything is back to normal.

Quarantine hasn't really changed anything for me. Which is probably really depressing. Only thing that's different is the lack of sports. Everything else is normal. I don't normally go out unless it's for school or soccer and now I have neither. ¯\_(?)_/¯