Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Craft Service Wars

Yes, we all know by now that the hot new trend in reality TV shows is to have stuff related to making movies and television shows! There's Face Off for makeup contests, Hot Set for set design contests, and  Monster Man for practical special effects. And we've already had Project Greenlight, covering writing, producing, and directing. Plus, there are tons of shows like America's Next Top Model, The Voice, etc., for talent shows, so what's left? Well, unless they're going to start casting shows with reality TV contest shows (which would make the casting union pretty mad), there's not much left to do, unless they're going to do America's next top lighting technician, First AD Combat, etc. But there's one way to combine the fascination of moviemaking with the excitement of cooking contest shows like Hell's Kitchen, and that's with Craft Service Wars!

Yes, it's Craft Service Wars! (For those who don't know, Craft Service provides food and drink for film crews.) So there could be two craft service groups battling it out on some movie set, competing to not get fired (!). So they could try to tamper with and contaminate each others' food, call the health department on each other, slap food out of actors' hands and replace it with their food, shake up each others' sodas so they'll explode when opened, etc. And they could get into physical altercations and shouting matches during shooting, so much so that the director has to find a way to incorporate it into the movie somehow so they can keep at least a little bit of the footage they shoot. And wouldn't it be exciting? And then, at the end, they could show the movie they were making, and nobody will want to see it, just like with Project Greenlight.

(And if this show does well, perhaps someone can make a show called Graphic Violence, about graphic designers battling it out on logos and signage for some fictitious movie.)