24 Hour Film
Released: 12th December 2014
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Part 1
Nyako: This is gonna be the best movie team-up since ‘The Avengers’!
The next day, you meet up with Nyako before class...
Nyako: Oh, man! Me and Danny directing together? We’re gonna be so good, it shouldn’t even be legal! In case you’re not familiar with my work, my biggest influences are Michael Bay, John Woo, and myself. Now let’s see what project the professor wants us to totally crush!
Rewards
You and Nyako take your seats as Professor Hunt paces on stage...
Thomas Hunt: Between the deadlines, the budgets, and the moronic money-grubbing producers, Hollywood is just one big pressure cooker of a town. But when things start falling apart... which they will, because you will screw up... that’s when you show whether you’re a name or a nobody. Time for you eager beavers to taste that pressure. Each team will make a short film from scratch... in twenty-four hours.
A murmur of excitement and apprehension ripples through the class.
Nyako: That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Fast and loose! That’s true cinema.
Danny: Just twenty-four hours, though? That sounds pretty tough.
Nyako: Not tougher than us, Danny. Trust me, we’re gonna crush this assignment, no sweat.
Part 2
Thomas Hunt: Let’s see how you fare with an ACTUAL challenge...
Professor Hunt passes out sealed envelopes to ever team in the classroom.
Thomas Hunt: Okay, hatchlings, you’re each being assigned a genre and a prop that must feature in your movie. You all know what ‘must’ mean, right? Good, that’s a start.
Nyako: What do you think we got, Danny? Better not be something lame. I cannot deal with lame.
Thomas Hunt: Your finished films will be exhibit at the Batista Theater tomorrow night, and the least terrible one will be named the winner. Try not to embarrass the university, or more importantly, me.
Hunt checks his watch...
Thomas Hunt: Your twenty-four hours begin in three... two... one...
Time - 5 minutes
Thomas Hunt: You may begin.
The teams tear open their envelopes! You pull a folded page from yours and read...
Danny: Says here that the genre for our movie is ‘high fantasy’, and we have to feature a ‘dragon egg’ prop.
Nyako: Jackpot, baby! Dragon means fire! Fire means explosions! Told you this would be a piece of cake.
Danny: I’m pretty excited too, Nyako... but it’s still gonna be tough to pull this off in a single day.
Nyako: Nothing we can’t handle. In fact, I live for the challenge! It’s like Professor Chiseled- Jaw said... The biggest stars in Hollywood got there ‘cause they thrived under pressure. Time to show Hunt that we do too!
Rewards
You grab your notebook...
Danny: Let’s get started. First, we’ll need a story outline--
Nyako: Story?! Forget the story! We’re flying by the seat of our pants here! We’ll figure it out as we shoot. That’s how Star Wars was made, you know.
Danny: I’m not sure that’s accurate.
Nyako: Trust me. So long as something awesome happens every 30 seconds, no one cares! There’s only two things we need right now. An epic place to shoot and two stars who can deliver. Let’s scout a location and lock down some talent!
Part 3
Nyako: We need space to shoot, and it’s gotta be HUGE! Nyako’s Rule #526: Go big or go home.
Nyako: Awesome find, Danny! We’re working fast and furious, just the way I like it! Boom, boom, boom! This will be plenty of room to let Sprinkles do her thing.
Danny: ...Sprinkles?
Just then, a trailer backs up onto the lot and drops its rear gate. A powerful black horse trots out, led by a trainer!
Nyako: That’s Sprinkles. I’m thinking we open with a cloaked warrior racing across the plain atop a majestic steed! You know, something to grab the audience’s attention! There’s only one question. How do we shoot it to achieve maximum spectacularness?
Danny: Why not use quick, rapid-fire shots! They’re fast and fun!
Nyako: Obviously! The only way to fit in more awesomeness is to just have more awesome shots! The audience won’t even be able to keep up!
Soon, after you and Nyako have set up the camera rig...
Nyako: This is gonna look straight boss, Danny! Now put in that cloak and climb up on Sprinkles!
Danny: Me? You want me to ride the horse?
Nyako: It’s either me or you, and my face is made for the camera’s butt. Now let’s go! Tick, tock, tick, tock!
Rewards
Nyako: And action!
You hang on tight as Sprinkles the stallion blitzes across the open field, hooves thundering!
Danny: Whoaaaa!
Nyako: Cut, print, and fistbump! Those quick cuts totally captured the horse’s crazy speed! But a face-melting start like that isn’t enough to make a great film. If a movie doesn’t have a make-out scene, it’s like, why are you wasting my time? Do you know any hotties who are down to star in it?
Danny: I might have some hotties in mind...
Nyako: Seriously, though. Make sure they’re hot. Nobody pays to watch non-hot people make out. Actually, my uncle Jerry does, but well... that’s a long story.
Part 4
Nyako: We need two hotties to make out so we can stick a camera in their faces.
Kanoro: Make-out scenes are my speciality. I’ve been getting a lot of practice lately.
Tegwen: Okay, I can do this... it’s just being vulnerable and intimate for all to see. No sweat... Wait, wait! Is my hair okay? Do I grab some butt? A little or a lot?
Nyako: Lame! One of our stars is having a meltdown! See, this is why I prefer to work with CGI robots...
Danny: Don’t worry. I’ll get Tegwen focused.
Time - 15 minutes
Tegwen fidgets nervously on set before the make-out scene!
Tegwen: Okay, I’m just gonna go 15-percent tongue. No, 10-percent. Oh no, my mouth’s gone dry!
Danny: Tegwen, I need you to be passionate! Forget about yourself. Forget the camera is even there! It’s just you and Kanoro, alone in the world. Show me the fire!
Tegwen: Okay... whew... I think I’ve got this. Thanks, Danny.
Nyako: Action!
As the camera rolls, Tegwen kisses Kanoro with passionate intensity!
Nyako: Now that’s what I call acting!
Rewards
Nyako: Action, check. Romance, double check. At this rate, we might even get to sleep tonight!
Danny: That would be nice.
Nyako: All we need now is the big finale, and that’s where we’ll showcase our required prop... the dragon egg!
Part 5
Nyako: Just one more scene, and we’re wrapped!
A van pulls up on set. The driver hands Nyako a cardboard box.
Nyako: Here it is, the last piece of the puzzle!
Nyako rips open the box and pulls out... a large speckled ostrich egg!
Danny: Hey! That totally looks like it could be a dragon egg!
Nyako: Pretty sweet, huh? Scored the last one, just before the store closed for the night--
Just then, the egg slips from Nyako’s grip! It shatters into a puddle of goop!
Danny: ...oh, crap.
Time - 30 minutes
Nyako stares in horror at the gooey remains of your dragon egg prop!
Nyako: No... no, no, no...
Danny: It’s okay, Nyako--
Nyako: How is it okay?! We’re disqualified if we don’t get that egg in the movie, and it’s too late to buy another! We’re completely and utterly screwed! Oh my god... Hunt was right... I don’t have what it takes. I’m a nobody!
Danny: Only if you let yourself be one! When the going gets tough, real filmmakers find a way, remember?
Nyako: But there’s nothing we can do!
Danny: Sure there is! I say we replace it with a fake egg!
After wrapping a basketball in paper mache, you and Nyako shoot the scene with the fake egg hidden in the shadows!
Nyako: Whoa! So mysterious... and mystery is provocative!
After filming the last shot...
Nyako: Um... so I, uh... I might’ve freaked out a little back there. That’s my bad.
Danny: I’ve got your back. That’s why we’re a team.
Nyako: Thanks, Danny. Well, that’s a wrap. Time to put my Final Cut skills to the test and edit this thing ASAP!
A few hours later...
Nyako: This. Is. Awesome. Now we just have to turn it in to Hunt before... Oh, man! We gotta go, now! We’re almost out of time!
Rewards
As the sun rises over L.A., you and Nyako race back to campus!
Danny: Professor! Here’s our film, all finished!
Hunt looks up from his desk, studying you. He checks his watch.
Thomas Hunt: You’re late.
Nyako: By, like, fifteen seconds! That’s nothing!
Thomas Hunt: Late is late, Nyako.
Hunt takes your flash drive.
Thomas Hunt: You both look like crap. Go clean yourselves up. Tonight is a film screening, not a slumber party.
Part 6
Nyako: Looks are everything in this town, on screen and off. We’d better look snazzy for tonight.
That night, you and Nyako enter the Batista Theater, where all your classmates are socializing, near-delirious from exhaustion. The lights go down, and the short films start to play! Soon, your opening credits appear on the big screen!
Nyako: Nothing like seeing your name in giant letters!
Danny: Here we go!
As the movie starts, rapid-fire cuts of you on the black horse puts the whole audience on the edge of their seats! They ooh and aah when the fake dragon egg appears shadowy and ominous... And they cheer at the passionate kiss between your two leads!
Nyako: They’re feeling it, Danny! We’ve got ‘em eating out of the palms of our hands!
The movie ends with a big explosion filling the whole screen!
Danny: Whoa!
Nyako: Come on, Danny. You know I had to get an explosion in there somewhere!
The whole class stands up and applauds the loudest they have all night!
Rewards
The lights come up, and Professor Hunt walks to the front of the theater, holding his scorecard.
Nyako: The real drama’s just getting started, Danny. It’s awards time! And I think I know who our toughest competition is...
Part 7
Nyako: Time for the big finale... the part where we demolish our competition!
As Professor Hunt begins talking, Kendra and Alexandra come up to congratulate you.
Kendra: I thought our movie was good, but you guys killed it.
Alexandra: You and Nyako are totally gonna win.
Danny: Well... You’re right, we were the best!
Kendra: Uh... that’s one way to take a compliment, I guess.
Thomas Hunt: Tonight’s films each stood out in their own way... some for better reasons than others... But none of you completely humiliated yourselves. And so, you survive my course for another day. But let’s not drag this out, okay? Awards shows are the scourge of Hollywood.
Nyako: Here we go! Get your acceptance speech ready, Danny!
Thomas Hunt: The winner is...
Time - 2 hours
Thomas Hunt: The winner is... Kendra and Alexandra.
Nyako: Are you kidding me?!
Danny: Oh...
Kendra: Wait... we won?! We freakin’ won?!
Alexandra: Woohoo! Afterparty at my place!
Disappointed, you start to head for the exit, but Nyako corners Hunt!
Nyako: Professor! Can you at least tell us what we did wrong? Was it the egg thing? Because I’m the one who broke it. You shouldn’t be punishing Danny for my screw-up!
Thomas Hunt: If you want to be noble, you’re in the wrong town. You sink and swim together. And to be frank, I was actually very impressed by the creative way you handled the prop. But the fact remains, you were late. And if you think I’m the type to give special treatment, you are sorely mistaken.
Rewards
As the afterparty at Alexandra’s dorm continues into the night, Nyako sidles up to you.
Nyako: Hey... Danny... that’s bull that we lost. You were awesome. If I hadn’t broken the egg, we would’ve been done on time.
Danny: Honestly, Nyako... It doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about it. Who cares if we won some stupid award from a jerk professor? That’s not why we’re here. We’ve been making our own way all this time, and that’s not about to change.
Nyako: Hey, you know what? Yeah! Hunt would’t know an awesome flick if it... if it flicked him in the face! But really, Danny... I might be an egomaniacal narcissist, but I know when I owe somebody. We wouldn’t have finished the movie at all if you hadn’t kept a clear head.
Danny: We’re a team, Nyako. Today taught us both a lot.
Nyako: I mean it. You stayed cool under pressure. If we were The Avengers, you’d be Iron Man, and I’d be some hysterical civilian who schwarmas all over themselves. Next time, I just hope I can be more like you.
Nyako: This is gonna be the best movie team-up since ‘The Avengers’!
- Have Nyako
The next day, you meet up with Nyako before class...
Nyako: Oh, man! Me and Danny directing together? We’re gonna be so good, it shouldn’t even be legal! In case you’re not familiar with my work, my biggest influences are Michael Bay, John Woo, and myself. Now let’s see what project the professor wants us to totally crush!
Rewards
- 10 Cash
You and Nyako take your seats as Professor Hunt paces on stage...
Thomas Hunt: Between the deadlines, the budgets, and the moronic money-grubbing producers, Hollywood is just one big pressure cooker of a town. But when things start falling apart... which they will, because you will screw up... that’s when you show whether you’re a name or a nobody. Time for you eager beavers to taste that pressure. Each team will make a short film from scratch... in twenty-four hours.
A murmur of excitement and apprehension ripples through the class.
Nyako: That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Fast and loose! That’s true cinema.
Danny: Just twenty-four hours, though? That sounds pretty tough.
Nyako: Not tougher than us, Danny. Trust me, we’re gonna crush this assignment, no sweat.
Part 2
Thomas Hunt: Let’s see how you fare with an ACTUAL challenge...
- Danny
- Nyako
Professor Hunt passes out sealed envelopes to ever team in the classroom.
Thomas Hunt: Okay, hatchlings, you’re each being assigned a genre and a prop that must feature in your movie. You all know what ‘must’ mean, right? Good, that’s a start.
Nyako: What do you think we got, Danny? Better not be something lame. I cannot deal with lame.
Thomas Hunt: Your finished films will be exhibit at the Batista Theater tomorrow night, and the least terrible one will be named the winner. Try not to embarrass the university, or more importantly, me.
Hunt checks his watch...
Thomas Hunt: Your twenty-four hours begin in three... two... one...
Time - 5 minutes
Thomas Hunt: You may begin.
The teams tear open their envelopes! You pull a folded page from yours and read...
Danny: Says here that the genre for our movie is ‘high fantasy’, and we have to feature a ‘dragon egg’ prop.
Nyako: Jackpot, baby! Dragon means fire! Fire means explosions! Told you this would be a piece of cake.
Danny: I’m pretty excited too, Nyako... but it’s still gonna be tough to pull this off in a single day.
Nyako: Nothing we can’t handle. In fact, I live for the challenge! It’s like Professor Chiseled- Jaw said... The biggest stars in Hollywood got there ‘cause they thrived under pressure. Time to show Hunt that we do too!
Rewards
- 500 Cash
You grab your notebook...
Danny: Let’s get started. First, we’ll need a story outline--
Nyako: Story?! Forget the story! We’re flying by the seat of our pants here! We’ll figure it out as we shoot. That’s how Star Wars was made, you know.
Danny: I’m not sure that’s accurate.
Nyako: Trust me. So long as something awesome happens every 30 seconds, no one cares! There’s only two things we need right now. An epic place to shoot and two stars who can deliver. Let’s scout a location and lock down some talent!
Part 3
Nyako: We need space to shoot, and it’s gotta be HUGE! Nyako’s Rule #526: Go big or go home.
- Add a plot of land
- Have 2 Movie Stars
Nyako: Awesome find, Danny! We’re working fast and furious, just the way I like it! Boom, boom, boom! This will be plenty of room to let Sprinkles do her thing.
Danny: ...Sprinkles?
Just then, a trailer backs up onto the lot and drops its rear gate. A powerful black horse trots out, led by a trainer!
Nyako: That’s Sprinkles. I’m thinking we open with a cloaked warrior racing across the plain atop a majestic steed! You know, something to grab the audience’s attention! There’s only one question. How do we shoot it to achieve maximum spectacularness?
Danny: Why not use quick, rapid-fire shots! They’re fast and fun!
Nyako: Obviously! The only way to fit in more awesomeness is to just have more awesome shots! The audience won’t even be able to keep up!
Soon, after you and Nyako have set up the camera rig...
Nyako: This is gonna look straight boss, Danny! Now put in that cloak and climb up on Sprinkles!
Danny: Me? You want me to ride the horse?
Nyako: It’s either me or you, and my face is made for the camera’s butt. Now let’s go! Tick, tock, tick, tock!
Rewards
- 10 Cash
Nyako: And action!
You hang on tight as Sprinkles the stallion blitzes across the open field, hooves thundering!
Danny: Whoaaaa!
Nyako: Cut, print, and fistbump! Those quick cuts totally captured the horse’s crazy speed! But a face-melting start like that isn’t enough to make a great film. If a movie doesn’t have a make-out scene, it’s like, why are you wasting my time? Do you know any hotties who are down to star in it?
Danny: I might have some hotties in mind...
Nyako: Seriously, though. Make sure they’re hot. Nobody pays to watch non-hot people make out. Actually, my uncle Jerry does, but well... that’s a long story.
Part 4
Nyako: We need two hotties to make out so we can stick a camera in their faces.
- A Movie Star (Kanoro)
- A Movie Star Besides Danny (Tegwen)
Kanoro: Make-out scenes are my speciality. I’ve been getting a lot of practice lately.
Tegwen: Okay, I can do this... it’s just being vulnerable and intimate for all to see. No sweat... Wait, wait! Is my hair okay? Do I grab some butt? A little or a lot?
Nyako: Lame! One of our stars is having a meltdown! See, this is why I prefer to work with CGI robots...
Danny: Don’t worry. I’ll get Tegwen focused.
Time - 15 minutes
Tegwen fidgets nervously on set before the make-out scene!
Tegwen: Okay, I’m just gonna go 15-percent tongue. No, 10-percent. Oh no, my mouth’s gone dry!
Danny: Tegwen, I need you to be passionate! Forget about yourself. Forget the camera is even there! It’s just you and Kanoro, alone in the world. Show me the fire!
Tegwen: Okay... whew... I think I’ve got this. Thanks, Danny.
Nyako: Action!
As the camera rolls, Tegwen kisses Kanoro with passionate intensity!
Nyako: Now that’s what I call acting!
Rewards
- 10 Cash
Nyako: Action, check. Romance, double check. At this rate, we might even get to sleep tonight!
Danny: That would be nice.
Nyako: All we need now is the big finale, and that’s where we’ll showcase our required prop... the dragon egg!
Part 5
Nyako: Just one more scene, and we’re wrapped!
- Nyako
A van pulls up on set. The driver hands Nyako a cardboard box.
Nyako: Here it is, the last piece of the puzzle!
Nyako rips open the box and pulls out... a large speckled ostrich egg!
Danny: Hey! That totally looks like it could be a dragon egg!
Nyako: Pretty sweet, huh? Scored the last one, just before the store closed for the night--
Just then, the egg slips from Nyako’s grip! It shatters into a puddle of goop!
Danny: ...oh, crap.
Time - 30 minutes
Nyako stares in horror at the gooey remains of your dragon egg prop!
Nyako: No... no, no, no...
Danny: It’s okay, Nyako--
Nyako: How is it okay?! We’re disqualified if we don’t get that egg in the movie, and it’s too late to buy another! We’re completely and utterly screwed! Oh my god... Hunt was right... I don’t have what it takes. I’m a nobody!
Danny: Only if you let yourself be one! When the going gets tough, real filmmakers find a way, remember?
Nyako: But there’s nothing we can do!
Danny: Sure there is! I say we replace it with a fake egg!
After wrapping a basketball in paper mache, you and Nyako shoot the scene with the fake egg hidden in the shadows!
Nyako: Whoa! So mysterious... and mystery is provocative!
After filming the last shot...
Nyako: Um... so I, uh... I might’ve freaked out a little back there. That’s my bad.
Danny: I’ve got your back. That’s why we’re a team.
Nyako: Thanks, Danny. Well, that’s a wrap. Time to put my Final Cut skills to the test and edit this thing ASAP!
A few hours later...
Nyako: This. Is. Awesome. Now we just have to turn it in to Hunt before... Oh, man! We gotta go, now! We’re almost out of time!
Rewards
- 10 Cash
As the sun rises over L.A., you and Nyako race back to campus!
Danny: Professor! Here’s our film, all finished!
Hunt looks up from his desk, studying you. He checks his watch.
Thomas Hunt: You’re late.
Nyako: By, like, fifteen seconds! That’s nothing!
Thomas Hunt: Late is late, Nyako.
Hunt takes your flash drive.
Thomas Hunt: You both look like crap. Go clean yourselves up. Tonight is a film screening, not a slumber party.
Part 6
Nyako: Looks are everything in this town, on screen and off. We’d better look snazzy for tonight.
- Change Danny’s outfit
- Change Nyako’s outfit
- Spend 20 Cash
That night, you and Nyako enter the Batista Theater, where all your classmates are socializing, near-delirious from exhaustion. The lights go down, and the short films start to play! Soon, your opening credits appear on the big screen!
Nyako: Nothing like seeing your name in giant letters!
Danny: Here we go!
As the movie starts, rapid-fire cuts of you on the black horse puts the whole audience on the edge of their seats! They ooh and aah when the fake dragon egg appears shadowy and ominous... And they cheer at the passionate kiss between your two leads!
Nyako: They’re feeling it, Danny! We’ve got ‘em eating out of the palms of our hands!
The movie ends with a big explosion filling the whole screen!
Danny: Whoa!
Nyako: Come on, Danny. You know I had to get an explosion in there somewhere!
The whole class stands up and applauds the loudest they have all night!
Rewards
- 250 Cash
The lights come up, and Professor Hunt walks to the front of the theater, holding his scorecard.
Nyako: The real drama’s just getting started, Danny. It’s awards time! And I think I know who our toughest competition is...
Part 7
Nyako: Time for the big finale... the part where we demolish our competition!
- Nyako
- A Director Besides Danny (Kendra)
- A Fashionista Besides Danny (Alexandra)
As Professor Hunt begins talking, Kendra and Alexandra come up to congratulate you.
Kendra: I thought our movie was good, but you guys killed it.
Alexandra: You and Nyako are totally gonna win.
Danny: Well... You’re right, we were the best!
Kendra: Uh... that’s one way to take a compliment, I guess.
Thomas Hunt: Tonight’s films each stood out in their own way... some for better reasons than others... But none of you completely humiliated yourselves. And so, you survive my course for another day. But let’s not drag this out, okay? Awards shows are the scourge of Hollywood.
Nyako: Here we go! Get your acceptance speech ready, Danny!
Thomas Hunt: The winner is...
Time - 2 hours
Thomas Hunt: The winner is... Kendra and Alexandra.
Nyako: Are you kidding me?!
Danny: Oh...
Kendra: Wait... we won?! We freakin’ won?!
Alexandra: Woohoo! Afterparty at my place!
Disappointed, you start to head for the exit, but Nyako corners Hunt!
Nyako: Professor! Can you at least tell us what we did wrong? Was it the egg thing? Because I’m the one who broke it. You shouldn’t be punishing Danny for my screw-up!
Thomas Hunt: If you want to be noble, you’re in the wrong town. You sink and swim together. And to be frank, I was actually very impressed by the creative way you handled the prop. But the fact remains, you were late. And if you think I’m the type to give special treatment, you are sorely mistaken.
Rewards
- 5 Diamonds
As the afterparty at Alexandra’s dorm continues into the night, Nyako sidles up to you.
Nyako: Hey... Danny... that’s bull that we lost. You were awesome. If I hadn’t broken the egg, we would’ve been done on time.
Danny: Honestly, Nyako... It doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about it. Who cares if we won some stupid award from a jerk professor? That’s not why we’re here. We’ve been making our own way all this time, and that’s not about to change.
Nyako: Hey, you know what? Yeah! Hunt would’t know an awesome flick if it... if it flicked him in the face! But really, Danny... I might be an egomaniacal narcissist, but I know when I owe somebody. We wouldn’t have finished the movie at all if you hadn’t kept a clear head.
Danny: We’re a team, Nyako. Today taught us both a lot.
Nyako: I mean it. You stayed cool under pressure. If we were The Avengers, you’d be Iron Man, and I’d be some hysterical civilian who schwarmas all over themselves. Next time, I just hope I can be more like you.