Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull was a Souix Indian that wanted to be peaceful, but was grown up during the manifest destiny. General Custer led an army to drive and kill the Indians until they were gone from their native land.
This was my group project for humanities. My group, consisting of two guys and another girl, had to make a 5 minute long mini-film about Sitting Bull's life. Now, I don't think you know me, but I can't just stay inside the box. I have to go ALL out when I have the chance to something mind-blowingly awesome. Guy#1 had his own video camera, and could edit movies on his computer, so we chose him as the director. this was going to be saaweeet! So, we met after school and headed to the drama department to get our costumes. They were already picked out from days before. The first scenes we shot, were the factual talk show scenes where we interview "today" Sitting Bull. As opposed to "flashback" Sitting Bull, who I'll mention later.
So, after we shot our first scenes about where he grew up and what he did after the government found gold in the southern dakota territory, we shot the outside scenes. AKA, the fun scenes. AKA the war scenes. So, my first scene is me....in a brown , stuffed, onesie, pretending to be a buffalo that Sitting Bull slaughtered when he was 14. My next scene, I'm a random Indian, that happens to be standing next to gold, which apparently indians didn't care that much about. And so, Guy#2 sees it and wants it because he's a military man and wants the value, So he shoves me out of the way and holds up the gold for the camera to see. ( What you don't know is that it's a fake stunt arm, and that he has a red-dye balloon in there) So, I take revenge after hwe shovesme, by jumping up witha plastic machete and slice the fake arm off, white guy#2 stabs the ballon witha tack, and it explodes. We have the camera zoom up on his "missing" arm which is now leaking red fluid. It was awesome on my part and guy#2's part.
My last scene, we reenact the battle with General Custer, and the Sioux indians. Custer sends his men down to battle, eventhough he knows that indians are ready to defeat them, and girl#1 screams in [pain off screen, showing that she's been killed by the indians. I run up and stap guy#2 witha fake knife in the juggular and another red ballon pops, and gets in my face and in my bangs.


It was awesome...