Make the best silent film

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• Ida’s film starts with a title card reading “A little late for work…”, and then a clip of her walking down the grass hill to the pool, wearing a suit and top hat, while holding a small briefcase. Another title card reads “Now I have to be careful, so I don’t get into an accident on the way”. She then looks at her watch, and distractedly walks into a plant pot next to the pool, causing her to trip and drop her briefcase. She then trips over the briefcase, and falls into the pool, after which another title card appears, reading “Oooops!”. A clips is then shown of her standing in the pool, giggling. She earns third place.
• Solveig decides to act out the story of The Little Match Girl. Her title cards are written in Danish, for historical accuracy (until 1907, the written language in Norway was more or less completely Danish, since they had previously been part of the same kingdom). The initial title card reads “Copenhagen, New Years Eve 1893”, and is followed by a clip of Solveig, dressed as a poor girl wearing a hood, and holding a box of matches, outside of a house. She walks up a tiny slope and falls down, then sits and lights a match to try to warm herself. She then looks at the house, as another title card appears, reading “Ah, look how nice it is in there, and how cold it is out here”. She is then shown peeking through the window, with her nose pressed against the glass, and her breath condensing on it. She is then seen slumping back down the wall, and emptying her matchbox, followed by another title card which reads “Only one matchstick left”. She then starts shivering and freezing, before ultimately dying, in an overly dramatic way. She earns joint fourth place.
• Einar’s film starts with a clip of him walking along a bush and grabbing some leaves, which he drops towards the camera. He then sits on a bench next to an easel, which he uses for a sort of slideshow presentation. The first slide reads “Tuja”, and is decorated with some leaves. The next slide features a bulleted list of facts about Tuja which he points at in turn: “popular garden plant”, “fast growing”, “evergreen”. He then points at another bullet point, “suitable for baking”, and pulls a cheeky face, before pointing at the final bullet, “Hehe… no”. The next slide is titled “3 fun facts!!”, which are revealed as: “Outer wood is almost white, heartwood is root brown”, “Wood density of 0.39g/cm3 at 15% humidity”, and “Atle has Tuja’s at home”. The next slide lists five types of Tujas, with descriptions: “Thuja Koraeinsis”, “Thuja Occidentalis”, “Thuja Plicata”, “Thuja Standishii”, and “Thuja Sutchuenensis”. The slide also lists “Thuja Cockshitus”, but then reads “No, just kidding”, which is written using a Tuja-based pun. The last slide reads “Tuja be continued” (thus coining the episode title). He earns second place.
• Steinar holds his first title card while standing in the living room. It reads “Welcome to my silent film where I play with silent film tropes. The film is called: House-noise 2.” His next title card reads “Ka-bom!”, and he is then seen throwing a large feather at the wall. The next title card reads “Ding Dong!”, and he is then seen throwing a ball at the wall several times. The final title card has much smaller writing which reads “Plopp”, and he is then seen what appears to be a normal vase at the wall, but which bounces off the wall as if made from rubber. He manages to catch the vase, on the rebound, with a look of genuine surprise on his face. He earns joint fourth place.
• Amir’s title cards are written in cursive, and the first reads “There once was the richest shipping magnate in the whole world!” He is then seen walking, holding a briefcase with a dollar sign on it in one hand, a ship’s wheel in the other, and with a comically over-sized cigar in his mouth. The next title card reads “But he was sooooo unhappy!!” (where the dots of the exclamation marks are the eyes of a sad face). Another title card then reads “Even flowers became sad when they saw him…” (with a drawing of a wilting flower on it), followed by a clip of flowers drooping. The next card reads “Until one day he saw a sign!” (surrounded by a heart, a star, and a flower, all shining and with happy faces), and is followed by a clip of Amir’s cigar falling out of his mouth, and his hat floating above his head, in a comically surprised manner. A sign is then shown, which reads “Eternal happiness to the one who can pull out the staff”. A clip is shown of a queue of several people standing in line, waiting to pull the staff out of a stone, before the next title card appears, reading “No-one in the world managed to pull out the staff!!!!!!!!”. Amir is then shown, easily removing the staff, before a title card appears, reading “Hurray, he did it! He became a beggar and lived happily ever after.” The next clips show a very happy Amir using the staff as a walking stick, holding his hat out to beg for money, and then jumping in the air and clicking his feet together. The film ends with a title card reading “The Beggar’s Staff: a film by Amir.” He earns first place.