The birth of a story

So here are some of the stories that Mariana and I came up with that I can visualize v nicely!

Idea 1:

• Imaginary friend/alter ego
• twist at the end
• you wouldn't know it was a product of the subject's imagination until the end
• the complexity of human nature
• ^bad vs good
• angel vs devil
• yin yang
• voice over: two people talking to show train of thought

*So when we though of this I instantly thought about Fight Club, where that great twist in the end reveals that Tyler was imaginary all along. I really like this idea.

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Idea 2:

Someone goes to sleep and wakes up in a strange place, almost like a dream

Or the story be about someone’s dream, that way it can be abstract and not make sense,

Then when the person wakes up, something about the dream gives them a message about their real life.

*So Mariana wrote this one. Dreamz r cool! Inception! I feel like this would be a great theme for a short film. And we could play with alternate storylines.

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Idea 3: Call it fate call it karma

• We don't understand anything
• commentary/critique on religion
• searching, longing, hoping?
• we welcome you!
• according to religion it's as easy as that^
• god is the answer

*This was inspired by a song by the Strokes!! I used this song as the background music from my brand identity project. I have never heard anything like it and I love it. The message is also extremely deep although it doesn't sound like it. I connected it to the sign outside the church in Chicago I saw (as I mentioned in the blog post before) and thought we could cope up with something related to religion and how humanity relies on it so much.

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Idea 4: LOSS

• Dry humor take on dealing with loss
• tied with religion
• commentary on how children perceive death, what is taught to them
• flashback scenes with monologue:
• checking if fish is dead
• checking if sister is dead
• animal on tamagotchi died
• tap sink 30 times or your mom will die (voice in head)
• mother saying "it went to heaven"
Scene idea:
VO: "I'd check how my mom' heart was doing, but my method often went wrong"
Scene: checks if mom is alive by placing ear on her heart while she is asleep, but she wakes up and snaps.
VO: "so I switched things up a little for a boost of discreteness"
scene: goes to sister and places finger below nostrils, shows a face of relief

*This is probably one of my favorites. This idea sparked from that scene I had in my head, of someone walking past a fishbowl and then walking back to check if the goldfish was dead (as I mentioned in the previous blog post). This is the idea I have visualized the best. Maybe these bullet points don't really make sense but this is simply what sparked from my brain at the moment.

Our goal is to definitely have thing set in stone by the end of this week. We should already know what it is that we're doing so we can start writing scripts and creating storyboards and shot-lists!!!

Here's a video that will serve as a guide for me.

Also this is a Tamagotchi. These were the definition of my childhood. I though of these as one of the very first ways a child would perceive death, whenever the animal, you know, would "go to heaven".