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We had our second meeting of the Movie Makers last night, and it went really well! Merritt proposed an idea for our project that everyone agreed was really awesome. You all remember my blog post about Scott Pilgrim: the movie and the comic , right? Of course you do! Anywho, Merritt thought it would be cool to do our own version of Scott Pilgrim where, to win the affections of Ramona Flowers, Scott must battle her 7 evil exes. Only, instead of the evil exes from the books we've chosen book/movie/tv characters for our Scott Pilgrim to battle! Here they are: Howl Jenkins (Howl's Moving Castle) Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) Peeta Malark (Hunger Games trilogy) the creepy twins from The Shining Captain Jack Sparrow Voldemort (well, you know) We're thinking that Edward Cullen will also make a quick cameo as well as other favorite characters like Katara, Kingdom Hearts characters, and Frank J. Brown. So the homework for next meeting is to watch/read/research Scott Pilgrim so you know wha...

Okay, you've debated Team Jacob vs. Team Edward and Team Peeta vs. Team Gale. Blah blah blah love triangles blah blah blah The real question I want to know the answer to is: Are you Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? Zombies vs Unicorns Anthology Book Trailer from cosproductions on Vimeo . And if you have to ask what team I'm on, you must not know me very well.

Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting of Movie Makers yesterday. Everyone had a lot of great ideas and I hope we can get to them all. The idea that we decided on for our first foray into film making is to make a short (3 minute) video where our favorite fictional character (from books, movies, tv) meet. What would they talk about? Would they get along? Would it be funny? So your assignment for the next meeting (September 21, 5:30-6:30) is to research a favorite character that you want to be. We'll need to know what that character would wear, as well as other things about their personality and life. Come prepared and bring a friend, we'll be brainstorming script ideas! DFTBA, Sti

This is Sadie, I like what she has to say:

So today is my day off because I work on Saturday (*hint hint* Come visit me!), so I am blogging to you from the comfort of my home while Rumples McTavish sleeps (shhhhh, she got out last night and it freaked her out a bit so let's let her get some rest).* Anyway, I'm writing to you from my zebra striped couch to tell you that the vlogbrothers have made a few new fantastic videos. Not that all of their other videos aren't fantastic, I just thought you would all appreciate these. First John Green ( nerdfighter , and author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaksa, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and An Abundance of Katherines) helps us work out. The Nerd Way. And guys, I'm not ashamed to admit that I participated along with this video (though I'm really bad at sit ups), so you should too! And, to fulfill a bet, and to celebrate the release of Mockingjay, Hank Green (@ecogeek, nerdfighter , and brother to John Green) shows us how to apply make up for "District 12 look....