Déjà Absurd!

These two shorts were made for Casting Director Molly Knight's Weekly Challenge that took place in June 2020. Each week, she put out a theme and actors were challenged to make a "self-tape" video based on that theme. I was inspired to participate after having completed What Should I Do and I gave her theme "Deja Vu" a try. I wanted to do something out of the ordinary and my first thought was to use the term in French. My next thought was to make it about movie viewing and I made sure to check if there was already a movie called Deja Vu. And indeed there is! So my idea was finalized and I used the same "cloning" technique that I used in What Should I Do? The video was fun to make but a bit tricky to time. I made a solid effort though and sent it off to Molly Knight. I didn't end up winning but she sent me a personal message telling me that she had enjoyed my video – now, that made me super happy.

The following week, the theme was Absurdism and it had to be done in commercial form. So once again, I thought of something totally out of the ordinary that would require the cloning technique again and then made my Absurd Commercial about "The Super Spectacular Forever BFF". This was also the perfect opportunity for me to wear my ridiculous poofy pink tulle skirt. I had a lot of fun dressing up for this video and the end product turned out better than I expected since it won Runner-Up for that week's theme. I was happy that my silly little video was liked enough to win that spot. These videos were definitely fun to make and made my quarantine time in Toronto very memorable. Shout out to my cousin and her family for letting me use their house (and various household items) for my videos!