When I go into college tomorrow, I’ll have eighteen days to ensure that my video entry into the Virgin Media Shorts 2009 competition is completed and uploaded. We would normally have six weeks to produce a piece of work, but as we have run over on other assignments over the last few months, we’re left with a short amount of time for our final project.

In our favour is the fact that those of us submitting videos to the contest are limited, by the competition rules, to two minutes and twenty seconds. Therefore, my only limit is the complexity of my idea. I want to produce something that is at least remotely funny, and an old idea of mine that I almost produced earlier in the year seems like an appropriate one to use.

I am a huge fan of the public service announcement films that were broadcast in and around the 1940s-50s, featuring very prim and proper presenters educating the public about the key issues of the time. I am also a huge fan of the sketches featuring Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson, from the ‘Harry Enfield & Chums’ series, which were brilliantly done and were superb parodies. Here is an example:

I intend to do something similar to the Harry Enfield style, and will set the sketch in wartime Britain, but will be choosing a contemporary topic;. In this case Zombies, and how the general public should handle them. I need to come up with a name for the sketch tomorrow, but it’s likely to be something along the lines of ‘A Citizens Guide to the Undead’.

Will be a very interesting couple of weeks indeed. Frankly I’m not bothered about the big prize, I’m not even sure the majority of the submissions comply with the technical guidelines, but I do want to try and generate as many unique views as possible!

Good night, and good luck.

Related Sites:

• Virgin Media Shorts 2009