So I wrote a short monologue for one of the characters to say into the camera whilst being watched by the viewer.
*While looking at the audience...
What? What are you looking at? What? Why are you watching me? Are you stalking me? That's sick! What are you doing? What are you waiting for? I'm not going to do anything... I'm just sitting here... watching you, watching me, watching you watching me watching you watching me... watching YOU!
Yeah, that's right, I know all about you, your friends, yopur family, your favourite books, hobbies, and i follow your ups and downs... I know how you feel on a daily basis. You tell me this quite happily, you want me to know your intimate thoughts, like, you're so important... nice holiday pics by the way... and hows your Starbucks? Yeah I know where you are, who you're with, what you're doing... and yet here you are, broadcasting your bleak life that you so proudly present to the world like it matters... like you matter... here you are, watching me, watching you, peeking into my life like some voyeuristic pervert, not satisfied with your own meagre existance. What are you doing? Comparing yourself to me? Feeling connected to me? Do you honestly feel like you know me?
You don't even talk to me, you just... watch... what are you waiting for me to do exactly? Do you even know...? Why are you watching me? Why? JUST FUCK OFF YEAH... Fuck off...and go and live your life, a life, any life! So I can sit here and watch you, still watching me, watching you...
- Ben Wingrove & Jamie Laughlin 2012
*While looking at the audience...
What? What are you looking at? What? Why are you watching me? Are you stalking me? That's sick! What are you doing? What are you waiting for? I'm not going to do anything... I'm just sitting here... watching you, watching me, watching you watching me watching you watching me... watching YOU!
Yeah, that's right, I know all about you, your friends, yopur family, your favourite books, hobbies, and i follow your ups and downs... I know how you feel on a daily basis. You tell me this quite happily, you want me to know your intimate thoughts, like, you're so important... nice holiday pics by the way... and hows your Starbucks? Yeah I know where you are, who you're with, what you're doing... and yet here you are, broadcasting your bleak life that you so proudly present to the world like it matters... like you matter... here you are, watching me, watching you, peeking into my life like some voyeuristic pervert, not satisfied with your own meagre existance. What are you doing? Comparing yourself to me? Feeling connected to me? Do you honestly feel like you know me?
You don't even talk to me, you just... watch... what are you waiting for me to do exactly? Do you even know...? Why are you watching me? Why? JUST FUCK OFF YEAH... Fuck off...and go and live your life, a life, any life! So I can sit here and watch you, still watching me, watching you...
- Ben Wingrove & Jamie Laughlin 2012
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