As Messy Nation TV has taken off, new presenters are needed
On today's fly on the wall documentary we follow Anna, a hopeful candidate through the interview process.
Good Luck Anna!
Note - Although I love the speech bubble story aspect, I know some of you don't, so I'm trying to limit it this time & hope the story/jokes come across by themselves
On her way out, Anna passed by the other hopeful candidates....... I don't think they knew quite what Messy Nation TV is all about judging from their expressions.
Oh... and yes, there were a lot of candidates (and also, I just liked this so I did a few extra images )
A few days later & Anna is back.. But this time the emphasis is on describing how she might interact with guests or the audience, so no chance of anybody getting messy here thank goodness.
Looking forward to seeing Anna and Sploshy working together, I can just imagine Anna's joy to realise she's going to be having her outfits well "attended to" while she's presenting, and for that matter Sploshy's joy to discover that Anna is more than happy to top up the fillings inside her own catsuit as she's working too.
The rest of those interviewees definitely need to be encouraged to embrace the joy of sploshing though, while I imagine most of them stomped off in a huff initially, I wonder if any of them later on found themselves wondering whether perhaps, they should reconsider? The two nearest the camera in the third pic, one in black trousers and one in a black skirt. I wonder if they're mates? Did they head off, initially disgusted, but then later, still in their smart outfits, just happen by a splosher's bar[1], look at each other, and the lass in the trousers says "you know, seeing her like that coming out, I mean yes I was horrified, but, " giggles, "ever since I've actually been wondering what your skirt would look like covered in custard, and do you think she's any of that down inside her jeans?" - at which point they both go in and volunteer as tribute in exchange for free drinks and a hot hosedown afterwards, with nice boilersuits and wellies provided to go home in?
[1] Splosher's Bar - where random folk (usually of course very smartly dressed) volunteer as tribute to be mounted on an angled board where the patrons can pour pints of various messes all over them (three quid a pint at the bar, a quid per pint to charity), each tribute spending an hour on the board, then getting a hosedown, hot bath and clean dry overalls and boots to go home in.
Personally I love the bubble captions, those are what pulled me back into being interested in AI WAM, as the storytelling element really sets things apart from just walls of very similar images. At first I was both fascinated from a tech POV and also like most producers concerned AI might replace real WAM. Soon realised that's not going to happen despite the fears of some, but at the same time kind of lost interest because of the "incompleteness" of AI scenes compared to real ones. But your posts with bubble captions made me realise that in fact, what AI WAM is closest to is actually WAM story-writing, not photo or video production. Which is why for the Garden Party I've done fewer images but with full story details for them, or at least groups of them, and generally only one image per specific part of the story. Illustrated story writing, effectively.
I have asked MM if the caption size in galleries, currently a brutally short 50 char limit, could be expanded to allow proper storytelling.
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