Action!: Shooting the Amazing Race Application Video

Tomorrow a friend of mine (Renee) and I are headed to Lauren's house (20-30 minutes away) to film our application video. Now about seven years ago Renee and I were going to go to open calls in Holyoke, MA. When we sat down to do the application, she realized she was disqualified because her brother worked for Disney. Renee, however, is a great sport and today is going to help us with an application video.


Claire & Brooke video. Not appliation video picture.

Watch Brook and Claire video here.
I am nervous. I have a notebook full of ideas but I am not sure what will be a good video. It is hard to stand-out among 20,000 people. When I was in high school I tried out for something called and AAU basketball team. I had to drive an hour south to some college. I showed up and there were literally 200 girls trying out for 10 spots. Somehow, I made the team. I was good, but not so slam-dunkin good that I stood out. I think just the right coach saw me do just the right thing or they knew my high school coach.

Lauren set-up a suggestion box for our staff to give us ideas, and there was not one in the box. My 11 year old Emily has tons of run-on sentence, energy-filled hard to follow ideas. One that sticks out of my mind is this (you have to read this quickly without taking a breath), "I saw this video in class or on YouTube or something there were these cats jumping out of an airplane they were parachuting and you guys can put your and Lauren's heads on them not a picture but video heads and talk about why you should be on the Amazing Race and pretend that you are not even falling. OR. . . you can sit in those chairs pilots have when they eject with a parachute and talk." At least she gives ideas.

Lauren's husband Jeff had a good idea to use a map showing a plane going from Seattle to Massachusetts and me going from NJ to Mass or NJ to Florida to NC to MASS. Talking about how we could not find anyone to go on TAR with but now we found each other. That seems like the  most viable option at this point.

I think I am relying on my and Lauren's relationship shining through and my hilariousness shining through, it his hard though because I cannot just TURN-ON the funny. Lauren and Renee will probably draw it out of me. More on this later . . .