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Righteous Insanity Films 2012

Righteous Insanity Films for 2012 are already in production! Here's a quick look at what we're working on for the first half of 2012.

Fluffy 1947 - The prequel to the Fluffy trilogy will be the last - honest, I don't have any more after this. This is the third story that came out of the time when I also wrote Fluffy 2 and 3, so you can bank on this being the last. It's also looking like the funniest of the lot from what director Jonathan Jones is telling me!

Zombies R Forever - This one's wrapped, cut, and ready to roll - soon as we get it into a film festival. The epic sequel to last year's Zombies R Friends reunites the voice talents of Sonny Burnette, Caroline O'Neil, and Return of the Swamp Thing star Daniel Emery Taylor and introduces actor/musician Jon Driver, who composed and performed the anthem "I'm a Zombie" for the film.

The Scotty Love Show - This will look familiar to the three of you who watched the puppet series, "The Sensitive Christian Man." Nine episodes of the revised series are now in production with all live actors including Dija Henry, Ollie Balley, Austin Nichols, Wayne Brown, and Josh Reed. Look for it on Youtube and on Sermon Spice in the coming months.

And looking a little further ahead...

Evil Puppets From Outer Space! - Fans of Zombies R Friends may remember Sheriff Bowden mentioning an alien invasion he once faced in that film. That untold story will be told in this prequel to the Clive the Zombie series. It promises to be one of the most bizarre and funny alien films you'll ever see.

There will be more before the year is out, but as you can see, there's a lot to look forward to in the coming year.

Acting Out Your Faith - New resource for drama teams!

For several years, I had the privilege of traveling the country not only performing but teaching drama to others who were using it in ministry. During that time, I write and refined an acting workshop called Acting Out Your Faith, a step by step training course that gave actors the tools to build up their acting skills through improvisation. It's been more than six years since I last went out and taught the class (though I used elements of it in my recent position at Christian Academy of Indiana). Now anyone can bring this acting workshop to their troupe with the new ebook, Acting Out Your Faith.

The ebook contains the entire workshop, a program that begins with playing simple group games and progresses through beginner and intermediate improv games. As the games grow more complex, actors are introduced to more challenging concepts that will help them become more than just people reciting lines on stage. Latter exercises focus on understanding and learning to re-create emotions and natural reactions on stage in order to reproduce those things in scripted dramas.

Acting Out Your Faith can be taught as a full day of teaching, broken into several one hour sessions, or condensed into a shorter program. It includes acting games that can be brought back and used again and again as your drama team grows and develops as well as games that can be used in performance improv.

Oh by the way, it's also a lot of fun. The emphasis is on de-mystifying the craft of acting and helping new and inexperienced actors gain confidence that yes they CAN do this. There are also several spiritual applications you can stop and share along the way.

Acting Out Your Faith is a solid training regimen for any age acting group. I've had students as young as five and as old as, "I won't tell you my age, but let's just say I remember when Elvis was young," and everyone's taken away something new that helped them grow as an actor.

I almost forgot the best part - it's free.

Download Acting Out Your Faith free on Righteous Insanity's Free Resource page. While you're there, check out the other great freebies, including script books and the classic resource book Drama Ministry for the Dramatically Challenged.

 

Pre-Teen Resources at Only144.com

Had to share this because (a) it's a really great deal, and (b) we contributed several resources in this package. Not only do you get 25 skits from our catalog, I also wrote some of the skits included in the Go Fish VBS. The games packet is pretty sweet too; you HAVE to try the Zombie game at camp this summer. 

Seriously, you don't want to miss this if you're doing pre-teen ministry on a tight budget. 

Free Skit Day: Hollow Man

Easter will be here before you know it. Here's a simple skit you can use this season, if you like it.

Hollow Man

By John Cosper

www.righteousinsanity.com

 

 

CHARACTERS
Seth- A broken-hearted single guy

Bunny- A chocolate bunny (voiced from off stage)

 

The setting is a guy's apartment. There's a table and a few chairs set up on stage. Seth walks on with a shopping bag. He pulls a boxed, chocolate bunny out of the bag. He sets the bunny on the table, looks at it, as he fumbles in his pocket for his cell phone. He hits speed dial and puts the phone to his ear... and waits.

 

SETH: Him, Heather, it's Seth. I, uh... well, Happy Easter, first of all. I hope you're having a good one. I miss you. I... If you were going to be home, I was gonna drop by just for a minute and...

 

He picks up the bunny.

 

SETH: Well, if you feel like a visit, give me a call. (pause) Bye.

 

He clicks off the phone and sits down, defeated.

 

SETH: I shouldn't have called her. Shouldn't have called, shouldn't have left a message.

 

He looks at the bunny, talks to it.

 

SETH: Shouldn't have bothered with you in the first place.

 

He starts to open the box with the bunny.

 

SETH: Maybe the guys are right. She's not coming back. I should just accept it and move on, right? But I can't move on. How do you move on from someone you saw every day for two years? 

 

He pulls the bunny out, speaks directly to it.

 

SETH: Two years, Mr. Bunny. Or whatever you name is. (He picks up the box.) Wiggles. (shakes his head) She would have liked you, you know. Few things in this world she loved more than a hollow chocolate bunny. Maybe if she knew how hollow I felt right now, she'd take me back. (thinks) Why didn't I tell her that? (looks at the bunny) Because that's the dumbest thing any guy has ever said ever. Well, her loss, I guess. Can't let a bunny go to waste.

 

He starts to take a bite. The bunny - voiced by an actor off stage on a mic in an East coast accent, speaks up.

 

BUNNY: STOP!!!

 

Seth jumps slightly. He looks around.

 

SETH: Phil? That you?

 

Seth waits for an answer. There is none. He moves to take a bite.

 

BUNNY: I said STOP!!!

 

Seth looks around again.

 

SETH: Phil, what's going on?

BUNNY: Phil's not here, pal. Just you and me.

SETH: Me who?

BUNNY: The guy who's had to listen to you gripe ever since you pulled me off the shelf at Walgreens.

 

Seth looks at the bunny.

 

BUNNY: That's right, now he gets it.

SETH: I'm hallucinating. I'm hearing voices. And I haven't even been drinking.

BUNNY: You're not hallucinating. But you do got problems.

SETH: I'll say.

BUNNY: You got a hole inside you, you said. You feel as empty as a chocolate bunny. But if you think eating me is gonna solve things, you're looking in the wrong place.

SETH: What do you know?

BUNNY: I'm an Easter bunny. The whole reason for my existence is a day in which millions of people have found something to fill the hole inside them.

SETH: It is?

BUNNY: Well, not directly. The people at the chocolate factory were planning to make a profit off my demise. But Easter is Easter, and the resurrection is still the one and only answer for empty folks such as yourself.

SETH: Wow, this is just great. A chocolate bunny is preaching to me.

BUNNY: Don't think of it as preaching. Just some friendly advice. You eat me, you're gonna be hungry again soon. You'll still be as hollow as me, and you'll still have that hole in your heart that you tried to fill with that girl.

SETH: She did fill it.

BUNNY: Honestly? Did she really fill you up? Come on, Seth, it's me.

SETH: (pause) No.

BUNNY: No. I tell you, even if she wanted to get back together, you'd still have a hole. There's only one cure for what ails you, pal, and it's the man that left a hollow grave behind and rose again. You get ahold of that guy, you got something that will fill the deepest part of you.

SETH: I haven't thought about him in years.

BUNNY: He hasn't gone a day without thinking of you.

SETH: Yeah?

BUNNY: For crying out loud, Seth, you think a chocolate bunny would be speaking to you if there wasn't some cosmic being beyond what you can see crying out for you to embrace him?

SETH: If I had anything stronger than coffee in me, I'd say yes. But since I don't...

BUNNY: Look, I can't tell you what to do. But if I was you, I'd put me down, get in that car, and get down to a church. Give it a shot, right? It is Easter.

SETH: I know.

BUNNY: Who's it gonna hurt?

SETH: I don't have anything nice to wear.

BUNNY: Just go, Seth. Jesus doesn't care how you look. He just wants you to go.

SETH: Okay, okay, I'll go.

 

Seth stands up, fishing in his pocked for his keys.

 

BUNNY: That's my boy.

SETH: I'm still gonna eat you, you know.

BUNNY: Really, Seth, you would do that to me?

SETH: Sorry, Wiggles, but I haven't had breakfast.

 

Seth takes a bite as the Bunny yelps.

 

BUNNY: Hey, those were my ears!

 

Seth exits with the bunny in hand.

 

SETH: Sorry, pal.

BUNNY: What did you say?