Project #4 metatext

So I changed what I was going to do a little. Instead of having everyone write just a sentence using each word I really wanted it to morph into a narrative. So I set up the scene for everyone(five friends) and issued everyone a character. They had to write me their alibi. With each character I had 4-5 items from my list that I wrote for response #6 and they had to incorporate each into the story. I didn't let any one see each others alibi as I wanted it to be a surprise who actually did it. I really pushed for them to write whatever came to their head and I just kinda hoped that it all worked out in the end.

All of the characters turned out to be very crooked except sticky. With the friend I had playing his character I figured he wouldn't be very scandalous and I think it adds to the overall balance of the story. I'm happy with what everyone gave me and I did only minor editing as they all understood what was going on pretty well which is what I had hoped for. Noone minded helping me with this and they all though it was actually fun, I guess because they were open to basically write whatever they wanted and they were all anonymous except to me. Everyone played and added to the scandals really well which made it more interesting and worked well with the end result I wanted.

In the end I didn't reveal who actually did it as I would like the reader to guess themselves. My guess would be that it was Karen who actually thought Boris was Karl as she caught Mimi making out with him after work. Mimi was having an affair with Boris as he was hoping to marry her to become a citizen. This works as Mimi and Karl's alibis don't completely match up at the end and Karen was at the bar until closing as well. Jerry is just a generally shady guy and Karl and Sticky have solid alibis. I'd like to see what other people would conclude. I think this could make a pretty humorous movie that could be based around everyone's alibis, I feel like I've watched one like this already but I can't think of what it is. Overall this was a fun project and I'm happy with the results.