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You decide to make your own movie, so you do whatever you can to get a video camera, convince some of your friends to be the actors, and buy props to make the movie more believable. However, your movie project hits a few snags in the filming process, so HilarityEnsues; 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 SpecialEffectsFailure, though the final product often ends up SoBadItsGood. Closely associated with an AmateurFilmMakingPlot.

Compare: TroubledProduction, a real-life version of this. Contrast: SchoolPlay.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The first (airing order) episode of ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' shows the results of this, while an arc in season two shows the process, as does the second LightNovel. Haruhi and co. are making a movie for the school festival, but the lack of a script, Haruhi's bossy demands, Haruhi using her RealityWarper powers to make Mikuru gain a laser eye, and [[spoiler:even drugging Mikuru]], makes the whole thing a hilariously awful mess.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' 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]].
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* This is the basic plot of "Wild Movie" from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' - Calvin attempts to make a Stupendous Man movie.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* More or less the plot of ''Film/BeKindRewind'', as the main duo must hastily put together the films that has been ruined in the videostore.
* ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}'' and his "big movie [[NoBudget on a shoestring budget]]" project.
* Based on the book of the same name, ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'' is about the making of the infamous Main/SoBadItsGood film ''Film/TheRoom2003''. Creator/JamesFranco received a handful of accolades for playing Creator/TommyWiseau.
* ''Film/DolemiteIsMyName'' derives most of its humor from the wonky real-life production of ''Film/{{Dolemite}}''--aside from almost everyone involved having minimal-to-no filmmaking experience, the budget is incredibly shy, the filmstock runs out partly through production (necessitating a shady business loan), the director loses faith in the project very quickly, and it's evident at a glance that [[FightSceneFailure the lead action star cannot fight]]. That said, the final product ends up being a surprise hit.
* Polish movie ''Nic Śmiesznego'' is based on incidents that happened during the production of actual Polish movies. Including blowing up a bridge accidentally when the cameras weren't rolling and behind-the-scenes pranks by pyrotechnicians.
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk: The Adaptation'' was one of these. A bunch of teenagers took about a decade of summers to hack together a nearly shot-by-shot remake of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. They had to make five or six giant boulders and nearly burned down the house where they filmed.
* ''Film/SonOfRambow'': A couple of kids remake ''Film/FirstBlood''.
* In ''Film/Super8'', the characters try to make a movie near a train station. Which then explodes.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDoubleDown'', Greg tries to make a horror movie titled ''Night of the Night Crawlers''. He has to shoehorn jokes into the script because the only actor, Rowley, is easily frightened and doesn't even ''want'' to make a horror movie. Rowley keeps forgetting his lines and refuses to wear a dress when he [[CrosscastRole plays an unnamed woman]]. The [[SpecialEffectsFailure terrible special effects]][[invoked]] include throwing gummy worms at Rowley's face in an attempt to make a scene where worms come out of the shower. After Rowley runs out of the house with barely any clothes on and climbs a tree to escape the geese that ate the gummy worms on the ground, Greg's dad gets home and the attempt to make a movie comes to an end.
* The starting premise of ''They Melted His Brain'' is that the main characters are an enthusiastic but unskilled school-age movie maker and his stars; nobody likes the results, they get savaged by the people he sends them to, and even the blurb makes it clear that "his genius receives little appreciation, because his movies are rubbish". Then, purely by accident, they discover that the local TV station is experimenting with MindControl as a more effective form of advertising and decide to investigate. HilarityEnsues.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The entire plot of ''Series/{{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.
* The second half of the ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' episode "It Pays to Advertise" is taken up with the Grace Bros. staff's disastrous attempt to film a cinema/TV advert for the store, with Mr Humphries directing. Mrs Slocombe's eyes keep getting stuck closed by her false eyelashes, Mr Grainger's jacket is too big and his trousers too small, the radio mike Mr Harman (acting as sound man) instructs Mr Lucas (acting as boom mike operator) to put on Mrs Slocombe ends up falling down the front of her dress and picking up the noise of her digestive system, the accordion Mr. Rumbold has been given to play as a gypsy musician makes sounds of flatulence instead of music... all converging in a perfect comedy of errors when they try to do a take. The hat check ticket Miss Brahms gives Captain Peacock is covered in her saliva after she holds it in her mouth, Mr Grainger accidentally squirts Captain Peacock with a soda siphon, Mrs Slocombe's bar stool gets stuck to her backside, and when Young Mr Grace goes in front of the camera to pour himself a glass of champagne, he misses the glass by over a foot.
* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': Greg's history project of making a movie about the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, thanks to casting drama (Marcia refusing to be in the movie if she couldn't be Priscilla), special effects goof-ups (Peter messing around with the fake snow) and Mike's well-meaning meddling. Greg ''definitely'' earned his A that time!
* ''Series/{{Community}}'':
** One episode has a variant in which the characters attempt to film a commercial, with several characters treating it as an actual [[SeriousBusiness film shooting]] and things go horribly wrong.
** 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.
** This trope gets is most prominent depiction in the last season, complete with extensive LampshadeHanging, in an episode where the college attempts to assemble a BMovie around scraps of footage they have of a suddenly famous faculty member.
* The main plot of the season 5 episode of ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', "Adam Spielberg". Inspired by the aforementioned fan-made recreation of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' that he watched, Adam sets out to make his own ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' fan film, called "Indiana Jones and the Thunder Glove of the Prime Mutant", with help from his mother, Beverly, Erica, Jackie, his friends, the JTP, Johnny Atkins, and Carla. The film's troubled production caused Adam to suffer a mental breakdown, and he eventually abandoned the project. Adam decides to stick with writing screenplays, which is his strongest point.
* An episode of ''Series/GreenAcres'' 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.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' - After Dee tells the characters that she scored a part in a Creator/MNightShyamalan movie, Mac and Charlie attempt to write a script. The script turns out horrible and Creator/MNightShyamalan doesn't show up anyways.
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': 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.
* The ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' episode ''Slap Fight'' involved the main characters having to make a short film for a school project. They get sidetracked when they [[CompressedVice suddenly become obsessed with their social media followings]]. In the end, they are forced to rush in order to finish the project. The final product gets some embarrassed looks from their teacher.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* In ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', Jason's attempt to make a stop motion version of ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' called ''Mesozoic Park'' (which he claimed was a more accurate title as the Mesozoic Era included all of the dinosaurs featured in the film) was a disaster and left him with about thirty seconds of film. His later attempt to film his own version of ''Film/KingKong'' met with similar failure.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Strong Bad's "Dangeresque" movies, introduced in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "stunt double", are a series of [[StylisticSuck hilariously flawed]] home-made action movies. Slip-ups include wooden acting, clumsy editing, terrible special effects, and [[ButtMonkey Strong Sad]] as an ObviousStuntDouble.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'''s Rider (often known as Rabbit Ears) tends to involve the cast in these. Rider is actually [[Creator/GeorgesMelies a very competent director]], but between low resources and the dysfunctional nature of everyone involved, the results rarely end well, to the point that one of their few successful efforts was a low-budget porno. At least one of them seemingly served only as a way to justify shooting [[SitcomArchNemesis Thomas Edison]] in the face [[Film/ATripToTheMoon with a rocket]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': A big-time director is coming to Retroville and holds a contest to find a script to make a movie out of. Jimmy scientifically constructs a script by analyzing and replicating from all of the greatest films in history. His script is chosen and he and his friends are put into the movie. Unfortunately it was a trap designed by one of Jimmy's enemies trying to kill him.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball and Darwin try to re-film a rented DVD that they broke ("Alligators on a Train") and do an awful job at it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', "Dag for Night": Dagget and Norbert find an old trunk full of movie-making equipment and some footage from an unfinished Oxnard Montalvo BMovie, ''The Not-Too-Friendly Creature from the Off-White Puddle Who Will Eat You''. They decide to finish it themselves, and HilarityEnsues.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "[[Recap/ArthurS2E4ArthurMakesAMovieGoToYourRoomDW Arthur Makes a Movie]]" involved Arthur and friends trying to make their own Film/{{James|Bond}} [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Hound]] movie, but everything kept going wrong, due to the incompetence of Muffy using her new video camera.
* Happens a few times in ''WesternAnimation/BeingIan'', given the protagonist is a teenage wannabe filmmaker. In "Cyrano de Mille", he attempts to make a horror movie that get hijacked into being a romance.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy Turner once tried to make a movie to win a film festival to impress his crush, but using nothing but his close friends and a handheld camera, the results were pitiful. So he ended up using his fairies' magic to film at exotic locations with professional actors with real special effects.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Peter deciding to make his own "chick flick", ''Steel Vaginas''; naturally, the plot makes no sense, bad effects abound and everyone hates it.
* It's somewhat the OnceAnEpisode premise of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies''. Which is not to say that every home movie made by the characters is [[SoBadItsGood comically incompetent]]; some are, but others are as good as you'd expect from an artistic work made by fourth-graders.
* One episode of ''Westernanimation/PepperAnn'' had the title character challenged by a director whose movie she criticized in the school paper [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter to do a better job]]. Her script is well-liked, but production suffers so much, particularly ExecutiveMeddling by financier Trinket, that PA gets disillusioned and writes an article stating she wouldn't have been a CausticCritic had she known how hard it is to make a movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' has an episode called "Stimpy's Cartoon Show", where Stimpy attempts to make an animated short film that'll impress his mentor. Ren is hired as the producer, and turns out to be an extreme PrimaDonnaDirector, tearing up storyboards and producing the short on so small of a budget that Stimpy eventually resorts to using ultra-thin slices of wood in place of acetate sheets. Unlike most examples of this trope, Stimpy's mentor absolutely loves the film, though this is predictable given his [[CloudCuckooLander personality]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Ralph Bighead, creator of ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Fatheads]]'', lets Rocko and friends do their own cartoon show for him, hoping that the results are so awful that Ralph will be let out of his contract. The result, "Wacky Deli", is as bad as Ralph hoped, [[SpringtimeForHitler but ends up being a runaway hit anyway]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Springfield decides to have a film festival in order to boost tourism, and several townsfolk make movies themselves. In particular, Mr. Burns has "the Mexican non-union equivalent" of Creator/StevenSpielberg make a movie [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie based on his life]]; at one point after he helps some villagers and tries to go RidingIntoTheSunset his foot gets caught in the stirrup of his horse and he's dragged away.
-->"We did twenty takes, and ''that'' was the best one."
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' had [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick make their own ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy'' movie, in protest of a new one being made with actors replacing the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in the title roles. Unsurprisingly, production is a complete mess, moreso when it is revealed that Patrick left the lens cap on the camera for the duration of filming, leading to [=SpongeBob=] having a full-on meltdown. Production is restarted with Mermaid Man's encouragement and the film does get made, but it's full of editing slip-ups, [[SeriesContinuityError Continuity Errors]], and SpecialEffectsFailure, like when an outdoor shot of a building is clearly a cardboard box, [[BeamMeUpScotty the villain's catchphrase is wrong]], [[ObviousStuntDouble and Sandy is jarringly edited into the film as Mermaid Man's stunt double]], all on top of the entire film clocking in at ''only a minute.''
* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', the writers quit and Buster, Babs and the others end up having to do the show themselves.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Grizzly's "Crowbar Jones" movies are incredibly corny action movies where Grizz plays everyone from the title character to his clumsy and incompetent ComicRelief sidekick "Pando" to the villains to various extras, who are often inanimate objects manipulated like crude puppets by Grizz.
* A movie studio is filming a TV series at WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle's hotel in "Messed Up Movie Makers," but they're causing damage to the property in doing so. The magpies stealthily sabotage the production in a bid to get rid of them.

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