Black Bean Soup Vs. Smoothie

So, for the last two weeks we partook in listening to oral stories told in 3 minutes or less.  There were a lot of good ones as well as a few that could use some improvement.  We listened to adventurous tales, good times, and upsetting moments.  Some of the stories were straight up reminiscent memories, a few were more elaborated and applied more story effort rather than just a memory.  There were so many stories that I personally enjoyed listening to.  When the class was told our blog post was going to be based on one of the stories, the first one that came to mind for me was Logan Ryan's story about his adventure in trying black bean soup for the first time at Panera Bread.

Honestly, at first I couldn't think of why this story stood out to me.  After thinking about it for a little bit I realized that there is connection with the audience or relate-ability.  First off, almost everyone has had Panera at one time or another.  Secondly, we have all wanted something we consider to be our "regular" and then change our mind, and immediately regret it.  Next, I realized what made me remember Logan's story so well was because of it's humor and how it made everyone laugh, yet it was such a simple story.

I really can see this being a short film, so short in fact that I think it can be successfully laid out in about a minute, almost commercial-like.  One thing Logan might need to find a way of developing for the screen is how his character loves smoothies so much.  I suppose this could be simply done as a "thoughtful" voiceover.  Another aspect that needs to be fleshed out better is that his character and his friend regularly go out for lunch and that this is just another day getting lunch and that his smoothie is his regular order.  If we try to apply the hero's journey, I wasn't clear about who the villain was... was it himself, the employee who suggested the black bean soup, or the soup itself.  Personally I think it was his own character for deciding to ask the employee what they think he may want to try.

As I stated before I think this story would make a great commercial kind of short.  It is short, funny, and memorable.  P.s. I love the black bean soup unlike Logan. As a side note, he mentioned how little his baguette was and how it was done in basically two bites, I just wanted to say you can ask them for more bread.  ;-)