Friday and Four College Kids

The husband and I make an excellent team. We always have, we know what needs to be done and we get it done. This is an excellent example of what lead to spending a Friday afternoon with 4 college kids.

For those of you who don't know my husband's second job is writing movie scripts. It is truly a second job, not a hobby. He spends as much time working at home on this as he does at his full time other job. If you are interested you can follow his progress here.

When I taught high school I met a lot of great kiddos and as they have graduated and moved on to college I have kept up with some of them. Knowing that we really needed to have our scripts read out loud I contacted one of my ex-students asking him to see if he could gather a few friends and come over to help us.

Whoa..that sounds kinda cool or interesting. Actually it was both. They were the target audience for this script. They knew movies, they even brought over a short film that a couple of them had filmed this summer. They were polite, respectful, had great ideas and were not afraid to share them.

Once they arrived Mark had everything set up for them. The scripts were printed, parts were highlighted. He gave some background information and away we went. It was interesting to hear the words come to life. We enjoyed watching them laugh during the funny scenes and cringe at the horror scenes. Mark got valuable feedback on the flow of the script, where things bogged down and where things worked. The kiddos had so much fun they asked if they could come back next week and even wanted to bring a few more friends.

In addition I learned the homemade cookies are like gold to college kids. They were amazed by them and happily took us up on the offer to take them all home. Next Friday I will plan to bake tons more to pay our new "reading crew".