As promised, here are the scripts for what was to be my CCR projects:
CCR 1: Parody of YouTuber Q&A Specials
“Hello, my darlings! Welcome back to channel, or if you’re new here, my name is BloodForThought! As promised, since we just reached one billion subscribers, I am finally making my Q&A video! Thank you so much everyone for submitting your questions, I sadly won’t be able to get through every single one as there is a billion of you, but I will do my best! Now, just sit back and relax my billion subscriber special Q&A!”
She leans in close to the camera. “Oh, and don’t question why I’m under my brother’s desk. My room is an absolute mess right now, and I’m sure y’all wouldn’t want to see that.”
The camera cuts. She seems to be reading from her phone. “Hey, Gail! I really enjoy your channel, and had some questions about your most recent video! I was curious as to how it used or challenged conventions, and how it represents social groups or issues. Thank you so much for the question, ILovePedroPascal28!
“This question is about my move recent video project, a film called ‘Two Years After’! It’s one of my best yet, and if you haven’t checked it out, I definitely implore you to do so. My goal with the film was to represent modern teenage issues in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. In my personal experience, going strictly online due to the virus completely destroyed my study habits. Academic integrity was hard to achieve, and when I tell you I was used to turning in things late…
“I’m not the only one who suffered from these issues. More kids failed classes in the 2021-2022 school year compared to ever before, and that’s because several students around the world found it difficult to adjust back to a regular in-person class after a year and a half of strictly online learning. My goal with this film was to highlight these issues found in modern teenagers, and rather than seemingly bash them for struggling to assimilate with school, as other film properties aim to do with their portrayal of teens, I wanted to empathise with them. Showed them that it’s okay to fail, and to use it as a learning experience.”
The camera cuts to a new shot. She reads from her phone again. “What’s popping, Gail. I was a pretty casual viewer of yours before the release of your latest video, and now I’m a super fan. I wanted to know: how does your film engage with audiences, and how else did you distribute it? Glad you’ve decided to jump into my rabbit hole, xXHarbringer_Of_DoomXx. Thanks for your question!
“This question is also about my most recent video! My main audience for this film was also the group I was aiming to accurately portray; teenagers! It’s been common knowledge for quite a while that the old white Hollywood producers simply do not know how to write teens, and often massively drop the ball when trying to do so. Teens across multiple generations have been aggravated by this, and so my goal with engaging with an audience that has been disappointed time and time again is to ensure them that this is the representation their looking for, and comes from actual experiences rather than generalised stereotypes.
“My main way to distribute it was, of course, here on YouTube! Nearly every teen in the world uses YouTube on a regular basis, so it’d obviously be the most optimal way to distribute my film. Something more local, however, is that I submitted ‘Two Years After’ to a local art cinema that I just adore. They were having independent film showings, so I submitted by film and they agreed to show it! It’s the Coral Gable Arts Cinema, go check it out if you can!
“I also submitted my film to some film festivals! The most notable of which is IndieFest, a film festival award competition that aims to promote filmmakers worldwide. Submissions for it hasn’t closed yet, so I can’t tell you if I’ve won anything or not, but lets hope I do!”
CCR 2: Parody of Popular SCP YouTuber "TheVolgun" (and SCP as a whole)
Item #: SCP-250705
Level 1: Unrestricted
Containment Class: Safe
Disruption Class: Vlam
Risk Class: Warning
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-250705 is kept in an air-tight glass box attached to a steel pillar within a concrete containment cell that is 3.6m x 4.2m x 2.4m in proportions. The glass box locked with a welded padlock, and the key has been melted down and thoroughly destroyed.
The creator of SCP-250705, Abigail Shankles, has been recovered and classified as SCP-250705-1. She is kept in a comfortable holding free to the subject’s desired customisation, and schedules for weekly physicals to document possible growth of infection via contact with SCP-250705.
Description: SCP-250705 is an Apple MacBook Air bought in June of 2020. Stickers pertaining to popular properties and content creators (i.e. Demon Slayer, Resident Evil, GoodTimesWithScar, etc.) are decorated on the back of the laptop. The laptop was in consistent use for three years up until the first recorded incident of its anomalous activity. Whether the laptop harboured anomalous propertied beforehand is unknown.
The first cited incident occurred on April 1, 2023, in which SCP-250705-1 was using SCP-250705 for the production of a student project. SCP-250705-1 claims to retain little to no memory of the incident beyond the “blazing heat of it all”. SCP-250705-1 promptly disappeared before being recovered by MTF Epsilon-6 a week after her disappearance.
SCP-250705 was promptly contained, as was SCP-250705-1. Efforts are being made to understand what happened to cause SCP-250705’s initial anomalous outburst. See Addendum 1 for more information.
Addendum 1
The following interview was conducted three days after the containment of SCP-250705 and SCP-250705-1, aiming to learn more about SCP-250705’s first recorded burst in anomalous activity. Note that SCP-250705-1’s government name will be used to ensure the comfort of the subject.
Interviewer: Dr. Elaine Roberts
Interviewee: SCP-250705-1
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[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Roberts: Good afternoon, Abigail. My name is Dr. Roberts, I’ll be the one taking care of you for the duration of your stay with us. Is there anything I can get you? Some water maybe?
SCP-250705-1: No thanks, I’m good.
Dr. Roberts: Alright, let’s get started then. What was this project of yours for and about?
SCP-250705-1: It was a project for my AICE Media Studies class—AICE basically being another version of AP classes. It was about a girl named Joan struggling with her procrastination habits.
Dr. Roberts: Interesting…so this was purely for school?
SCP-250705-1: Yes, it was. I promise I didn’t mean to do anything worng—
Dr. Roberts: It’s alright, Abigail. You didn’t know what you were doing. Now, what technologies did you use? Software, hardware, online, the such.
SCP-250705-1: Well…for hardware I bought a tripod. There’s also a lamp in my room designed like an old studio light used in movies. I used that to light most of my scenes. For software, I used Adobe Premiere to edit everything, and Google Docs to plan out everything. Uhm…oh! I used a service called WriterDuet to write my film’s script. For online services, I had to upkeep an online blog using Google’s Blogger. It could be frustrating at times, but honestly I enjoyed using it.
Dr. Roberts: (writing everything down) How would you scale your skills with these services? Did you grow any, or did you get worse?
SCP-250705-1: (taken aback) That’s…an interesting question. Well, I’d say I definitely grew over the course of the project. I got a lot better at navigating and properly using Adobe, and I got more practise with writing scripts. By the time production for my project wrapped up, I felt much more equipped to handle projects in the same vein afterwards.
[DATA EXPUNGED. POSSIBLE COGNITOHAZARD]
[END LOG]
Note by attending researcher, Dr. Roberts: It appears her memory has thoroughly been wiped due to the cognitohazard variable. Efforts to recover any memories will be conducted.
Bonus of CCR 2! Here is a photo I took of a makeshift desk set-up. Varying pictures from my completed film opening would have appeared on the green screen, and a slow text crawl would've appeared on the right side of the screen.
Again, I cannot apologise enough for what happened to my CCRs. I will take from this experience and learn in hopes of never repeating such a fatal mistake again.
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