Start with an aerial shot from way out, a long arc that misses the scene completely. Pan around the stacked flight cases and frame the sound guy smoking a cigarette whist he scratches his name into a polystyrene Bounce Board. Forget to press record and use camera to smash the scenery to bits, make the whole world come crashing down in the most beautifullest accident in theatre. Confuse the truths and the lies and let the plot exist beyond the boundaries of the set. Forget to suspend your disbelief and go all in, believe totally in the fictions that you create. Invent a stage prop for a disaster, replace the script with a copy of the Watchtower, mistake your identity for a character in the storyline and encourage the audience to act along with you.
Try and make a film that neither finishes nor starts. Con the actors into believing that they are the audience and wait for the action to commence. Design the choreography so clean that it gets mistaken for the real deal, a screenplay that is indistinguishable from actual life. Act from the wings, off stage and out of shot, invent the kind of character that slides in unnoticed from the periphery, who is always and never on point, on time and on brand, the kind of character that fluffs their lines and trips over their own shoes in an ultimate display of perfect theatre. Too natural for their own good.
Chroma key Green Screen this character into worlds both real and false, Invent the story, the script, the style and tone, keep it fluid and for gods sake try and act normal. No one likes a method actor. Too comfortable with their own character, they already fit their costume too well, a role to perfectly accurate to be performed.
Take a step back, away from the action and fractalise outwards into a million Russian dolls, allow the script to write itself. Fictions in front of fictions, endless mirrors layered in front of each other so all aspects of craft, skill and talent dissolve. Un-reality TV kept simple like the feeling you get from staring into the mirror too long.
