Getting a camera crew for my show has been tougher than usual. It was tough to begin with, to be honest, but eventually I managed to find a likeminded group who truly shared my vision. Sam Slashes Selfies took off on channel 63, and it consisted of a hidden camera show in which I exclusively went around famous places, ruining people’s selfies and shaming them for doing such a thing. Creatively. That is, I did it creatively.
Things really branched out from there, and the title was taken to mean all millennial activities. I’d knock smartphone-obsessed people’s phones into the river, drop water balloons on people’s tablet computers and get millennial phone numbers just so we can watch them panic when they receive a call instead of a text. But my camera crew left, went off to their own things. I had to look around Melbourne for video production people, but a lot of them worked with me once and never wanted to do so again. Isn’t that weird? I know my content is bold, but a videographer has to film whatever I’m doing, because they’re getting paid. Seriously, dudes. Stick to your guns. Cameras.
It got to the point where I filmed an amazing stunt sidling up to people wearing skinny jeans and cutting them open with scissors, and the video production people I had on the job quit right there and then, calling me a ‘psychopath’. Wow, talk about hitting a nerve. Sure, I didn’t tell them what I’d be doing, but my brief was ‘point and film’. Pretty simple, folks! Anyway, it’s left me a bit short on people to film. If things get any worse, I’ll have to use the selfie camera on my phone to film my pranks, and that feels weird, what with the title and everything. I’ll just have to work my way through Melbourne videographers until I have none left. And then…eh, a rethinking of the premise?
-Sam