When some students think of boredom, they might think of being lazy and watching television.
For Misha Tot, senior, boredom does the complete opposite.
When Tot is bored, he uses his time to write scripts for movies and uploads them on YouTube.
Tot recently signed a contract for a partnership with YouTube after receiving 40,000 total views of all of his videos.
Tot’s newest video features broken-hearted college student, Nathan Shame, played by senior Zach Hilyard, in the appropriately-titled, “The Walk of Shame.” Pun intended.
After being dumped unexpectedly by his girlfriend of three years, Shame meets Tot’s character, Malus Bishop, outside BG Carryout.
Bishop tries to heal Shame’s broken heart by taking him out on the town for a night of fun and drinking.
“We didn’t actually drink alcohol when we went to the bars,” Tot said. “It was just flavored juice and water. Although, Zach really did puke.”
After a series of events the two friends take off, Bishop gets Shame in trouble after Bishop steals a car and Shame’s wallet is left at the scene of the crime.
A twist-ending leads a man dealing with heartbreak to fearing for his life.
“Malus actually means evil or wicked in Latin, which is why he is the asshole friend,” Tot said.
The movie is broken down into a series of three videos.
“The reason I wanted to make these videos was I wanted to do something completely different, like, something so over the top,” Tot said. “I want to try and show the movies at Cla-Zel’s and charge $5 to get in and I want most of the money to go to Red Cross.”
If this plan works out for Tot, he is also talking to the Gish Theater to set up something for his videos to be shown there.
Tot’s choice to donate the money to Red Cross stemmed from his friends coming back from Iraq.
“They were like, Red Cross saved my life, so I thought it would be great to try and give back to the community,” Tot said. “Making something so bad for a good cause.”
Each video will show the transition of the main character, Nathan Shame.
“It goes from him being a complete pushover into more of a badass,” Tot said.
Each character that Tot portrays in his video is represented from his past in some way. He chose out of his group of friends which people would play the roles the best.
“Every character is actually somebody who I know. Everybody is related to my past in some way,” Tot said. “Everyone in the show has a background as if I know them somehow and then I decided who should play who.”
Senior Antonio Hunter was chosen to be one of the bad guys in the first videos and enjoyed working with Tot.
“Me and Misha have been trying to work together for a long time, but I’ve been really busy and over the summer we were both here and Misha said ‘hey, lets work on some videos,’” Hunter said. “It turned out better than we thought, which is why we decided to continue to film more.”
Senior Dan Estrada, whose character is a homeless man featured in the second video, was also recruited by Tot and ended up enjoying his experience acting in the videos.
“I had a lot of fun doing it,” Estrada said. “Misha is always telling me he is making a video and usually I’m just like, ‘no,’ but I actually really liked where this video was going and agreed to do it.”
Estrada said he’s excited to see the turnout of all of the videos.
Tot said the first video is available on YouTube now and the second one should be posted by this Tuesday.
The third video is to be announced at a later date when it will be available.
The videos on YouTube can be found by searching The Walk of Shame Chapter 1: Flaccid, The Walk of Shame Chapter 2: Semi and The Walk of Shame Chapter 3: Rock Hard.