Senior Thesis Film Auditions

The Bird Story/Telephone Game

This film is something of a dark/quirky comedy that explores
communication and how we tell stories as well as our perceptions of
stories told.

This will be shot on 16mm film. The shooting dates are April 9-12. I
am holding auditions Saturday, March 14th from 10am-4pm at Webster
University library conference room (there will be signs) and on
Thursday, March 19th from 5-9pm in the Webster University Library room
215.

There are a variety of characters to cast including:

Albert: Main character, early 20's, Male
Bray: Late 20's, Male
Susan: Late 20's, Female
George: 40's-50's Male
Albert#2: early 20's, Male
German guy: late 20's and up, German speaking
Young French Guy: 20's, Male, French speaking
Kid: age 7-10, Female or Male
Crazy Woman: 30's and up, Female

The idea for the film is based on two concepts: One is perception-
how our minds fill in a lot of details. For example, if I told three
people that I got into a car crash this morning at an intersection,
all three of them would almost certainly picture a different
intersection almost immediately as I said the word. The second is the
simple childhood game often played in grade school called the
telephone game where the teacher tells the first student some silly
sentence like "sally wears blue suede shoes at noon" and 20 kids later
it might be "we all live in a yellow submarine"...

So the film begins with an event, and then that person tells the
friend and we then see their perception of the event. We then watch
the story mutate visually as it travels through 3 different people and
finally the original person runs into the last person that heard the
now very different story and they don't even realize it is their story
that the last person tells them.

The story begins with Albert finding an injured bird on a sidewalk.
He is a sympathetic and eccentric fellow who deems himself the savior
of this bird and carries it back to his house. He really doesn't know
what to do with it though and calls a friend, and we see his friend's
visualization of the story as he retells it set at a different street
and occurring slightly differently. This friend then calls his
girlfriend and this process repeats 3 times and eventually the story
transforms into a guy rescuing a baby just left in a busy street.
Finally, the last person who has heard the story runs into Albert and
ends up telling the now very different story and Albert does not even
realize that it is his story.

For more information or a script, please contact Tim at:
rosebud890@hotmail.com
618-334-8738
www.comarosepictures.com