> # Re: How'd you get your start?

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> Posted by KDubs on October 26, 2013 at 01:28:43

> In Reply to: How'd you get your start? posted by Pete on October 08, 2013 at 03:24:59:

> Not my first time necessarily, but kind of a funny story, so I'll go with it: when I was in 7th grade we had to do a group project where we made a movie with scenes from the book Tom Sawyer. This was back in the day before youtube and before everyone had a camera on their smartphone, so it was actually kind of an involved project. The teacher I had was also kind of anal about assignments, and put out a real detailed checklist of things we had to have in the movie, and things that we could loose points for. Like we had to dress in "period" costumes as best we could, and talk using language from the time period.

> We had to work in groups of 4, I think, and of course we wanted to make the video corny and funny. The teacher knew this, of course, and said pretty clearly that we could work humor in, but we also had to be sure to accurately cover all the things on the checklist.

> So my group decided that I would be the comic relief for the group, a role I was happy to fill, mostly since I wasn't focused too heavily on academics at that phase of my life. So one part of the movie we had to do a "weather report" - and we decided to forecast rain. I would be the weather man, and everyone else would spray me with the hose and dump buckets of water on me during the weather report. I was wearing what we approximated to be "period costume" - a white tshirt, long sleeve flannel shirt, and blue jeans with the legs rolled up to my knees. All of us were going barefoot too, since we didn't have "period shoes" and the teacher WOULD take off points if we wore sneakers. My friends really didn't hold back from dousing me during this scene - one kid used the garden hose, and everyone else dumped water buckets on me from off-camera. So I got completely soaked, in what ended up being pretty fun clothing to get wet in. We also filmed the next scene with me still in my wet clothes.

> Another scene involved me getting a pie smashed into my face. (I don't remember that actually happening in the Tom Sawyer book, but we worked it into our movie anyway.) After I got pied, someone threw a bucket of water in my face to "help" me clean up.

> Another scene that we decided on at the last minute involved me getting thrown into a swimming pool fully clothed, this time in a different shirt and overalls though. Which was also a lot of fun, and one of my friends jumped in clothed too.

> I guess the moral of the story is its easier to get wet if you don't mind people thinking you look ridiculous.

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