RE: 🐱👤 Khmer-Fu 🥋 Fake Martial Arts ⚔️ High-Kicking "Code Purple" Lockdown Into Submission 🦠
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You guys are awesome! Your Khmer Fu is hilarious! The slow motion makes it all ever so spectacular, and the music / sound effects in the background raise it all to a whole new level.
At this point the next step would be a full-length shortie. I guess it could be your typical martial arts story, featuring an underdog hero achieving her dreams, and a diligent long-time student who doesn't empathize with the new prodigy at first, but in the second half they become good friends and close allies. Also a wise sage, with lots of colorful metaphors and unorthodox training techniques. And finally a villain, who may suffer a bit of delusions of grandeur, but otherwise is just a good old chum. Each of you could play several characters, dressed up in funny costumes...
Oh, now look at me, getting so enthusiastic just from seeing you guys fu-ing around. But hey, in the next two weeks of purple I'm sure you could come up with a funny story and film the entire 25 minutes of it. And then you can hit the international film festivals... or not, and just simply get some good laughs out of it.
Hmmmm....you've set the creative wheels in motion. I had a similar thought after watching the video, realizing how close we came to making an actual short. It would definitely take way more than a day to edit properly, so perhaps a 25-minute could be broken up into 5x 5-minute shorts to maximize those payouts for the effort spent.
I like your general storyline, I'll be sure to use that for inspiration. I'd like to have us all lip sync, then we'll record the voices later, and it would give it that dubbed effect that so many old-school movies had.!ENGAGE 100
For sure, that slightly inaccurate lip-sync is a huge must for a martial arts classic!
As for the story line, I don't believe I came up with anything new, just picking the most common themes from anything from Bruce Lee to Kung Fu Panda.
Totally agree, the 5x5 min. segments are perfect for Hive payouts. In fact, I would even spike it up a bit more: Limit the "grand release" of those 5 minute clips to once a week. In between include a bunch of teasers, behind the scenes posts, funny takeouts, and interviews with the actors. Publish the plot separately, so fans could familiarize themselves with the story before seeing the scenes. You could even dedicate a separate post for each character, providing waaaaay more info on each one than what you'd get from the actual film. Oh, and I haven't even started on the interactive possibilities with the fans. But all this comes just from the top of my head.
I have a feeling you're in the process of tapping into a mine of ... gold? - hopefully! But even if not, a mine of fun should be still worth the effort.
Oh man that is icing on the cake, I think I gotta get things started ASAP!! Totally unrelated, but since you're in Mexico you'll like this. We were learning Spanish in Ecuador from an old public television telenovela, and it was absolutely hilarious even though it wasn't supposed to be.
I've always wanted to make a Khmer version of it where we play all the characters.
ENGAGEtokens.