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You decide to make your own movie, so you do whatever you can to get a video camera, some of your friends to be the actors, and props to make the movie more believable. However, your movie project hits a few snags in the filming process, so [[Hilarity Ensues]]; the actors forget their lines or screw up their parts, props are always falling over at inopportune times, the equipment is clearly visible while filming, etc. It turns out that making a movie isn't as easy as it looks at all.
Expect to see loads and loads of [[Special Effects Failure]], though the final product often ends up [[So Bad
Compare: [[Troubled Production]], the larger-scale professional version of this. Contrast: [[School Play]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The first (airing order) episode of ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' shows the results of this, while an arc in season two shows the process, as does the second [[Light Novel]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]] once tried to make his own western, with Freckles and Peewee as actors. The reviewers hailed it as a great comedy film, but {{spoiler|Richie wanted a drama}}.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Son of Rambow]]:'' A couple of kids remake ''[[
* In ''[[Super 8]]'', the characters try to make a movie near a train station. Which then explodes.
* More or less the plot of ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]''
* ''[[
* [[Bowfinger]] and his "big movie on a shoestring budget" project.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Live
* An episode of ''[[Green Acres]]'' had the entire city of Hooterville believing that a famous movie director was coming to their town, so they made their own movie to show to him. However, the movie that they made was so bad that the director was forced to burn up the film, under the orders of his boss.
* ''[[
** In another episode, Abed's movie about Jesus, which is actually a movie about himself making a movie about himself making a movie about Jesus... ends not well.
* ''[[
* The entire plot of ''[[Action]]'' is Peter Dragon's attempt to make the film "Beverly Hills Gun Club". Said film is plagued by such problems as a drug-addicted star who demands a bigger codpiece, a director who drowns, a lead actress who suddenly puts on weight just before shooting (leading to an emergency liposuction), and so on.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': One of the people on Earl's list is a young man who is dying and wants to make a movie wherein he's the star. Earl becomes the producer.
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
* From ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Arthur (
* An episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron:
* ''[[The Fairly
* There was an episode ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' where Stimpy was making a cartoon.
* On one episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
* On ''[[The Simpsons (
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* On ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* ''[[Manos:
* Anyone who's ever had to make a group film for a school project has probably run into this trope. Members who forget to practise, [[Bad Bad Acting]] while looking in an awkward direction reading a (perhaps not so) hidden script, wind whistling in the microphone, crappy costumes and props because you have next to no budget and of course the rushed editing that is inevitable because it's always due way too soon.
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