Your assignment, should you choose to accept it is as follows.

PART I: One hour time limit
- have a notebook and pen with you (fedora and trench coat optional)
- find a place you think might possibly explode at any minute
- note all suspicious noises in your notebook
- look around and spot all the potential terrorists
- take notes on their tactics
- confront one of them and note their response (evasive maneuvers)
- find the best place to take cover
- take it

PART II: half hour time limit
Answer the following questions to create your character:
1) Which limb could you live without?
2) What has been your most impressive response to broken glass?
3) What are your five best one-liners?
4) What do you grab onto when falling from high places in order not to
die? 5) List all kitchen items you are able to use as weapons at a
moment's notice.
6) What kind of vehicle(s) do you drive, and what kind of loud noises do
they make? What do you do when they break down?
7)You are trapped in an elevator. On top of the elevator is a Norwegian
bully with a chainsaw. Outside the elevator is a group of 50 ninja
warriors practicing their art. In the elevator with you are three pairs of
shoes, some cigarettes, and a boom box. What do you do?

PART III: Three hour time limit
- write/record a short love poem to your character from an anonymous source
- write/record a short explosion (with your character in it)
- write/record a short fairy-tale
- write/record a short car chase
- write/record a short police officer dialogue in a coffee shop
- write/record three more short bits in different styles
- include all your observations and notes from parts I and II in your shorts

PART IV: Tie it all together. You have one hour to edit before you die.

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