Change - Initial Ideas

For the next 3 weeks we have been given a project to make a short film around the concept of change. This is a week longer than any of our previous projects which positively gives me a little more time to plan the video.

This potentially means that I wont be so stretched for time in the production and editing time-scale. Split into groups, I am working with Ashleigh and Miranda (both sound designers) which meant I would have to worry about the sound for the video and then Ryan who would help on the visual side of the video. 

I first created a small mind map of all the words and topics I thought correlated with the term change, which I could then use to spawn ideas from. This was extremely useful as it let us produce a handful of ideas:

- The first and a favourite I came up with was a story about a Jewish family finally being allowed to walk free at the end of the war. The family would have previously been stuck in hiding underground a friends German family who were smuggling them away from the Nazi's but at the end of the war the Jewish family were now free to walk/do what they want. The whole narrative would be based on the change back to freedom from imprisonment for survival. However in such a short and low budget time-scale this would extremely hard to produce. 

- The other second good idea was the story of a boy waking up to an empty world, after being in a family fight and wishes there disappearance his wish comes true. At first he enjoys the world being empty, allowing him to have the freedom to whatever he want with absolutely no constraints but after the some time he comes to regret his wish and appreciate the people/relations he once hated.

- This also could be expanded into some other ideas, one was waking up and instead of the people disappearing they were intact all dead. All the rebellious kid could see the effect his wish had had on his family. Another more artistic one was for the kid to wake up blind, and his wish had turned him that way so that he did not have to deal with seeing his family. However not what he intended by the wish it drives him mad and the emotional roller coaster he goes through. 

- My final idea was based on breaking bad, and would be the diagnosis of someone with cancer. The dramatic change that person has now in their life knowing there time to live is a lot more limited, and a significant amount of that would go on trying to get rid of the cancer if that was possible. 

The main thing amongst all these stories that I am trying to portray is to externalise what the character would be internalising. As a amateur cinematographer, I wanted to use the visuals to create the emotion the character would be feeling if this was in fact a real life situation. Which should be completely achievable as some of the stories are 100% believable/realistic.