This week was the beginning of fleshing out an idea. I had been batting around ideas since last break, and I thought I'd want to do a action/hero's journey type of film, but I also liked the quietness of films we saw this year such as Gods and Monsters and The Lives of Others. Last month, while in NYC, I also had taken a few videos of walking in the city, which I thought I could use to contrast with the suburbs. At some point (probably because we were reading through the The Art Life), I also thought about a TED talk where the concept of Genius as being creatures was discussed, and I liked that idea, too.
Since we had to base our films off The Illusionist, the concept of an action-based film didn't seem compatible to the quiet nature of that film, so I opted for the other idea about the Genius creatures. The film group agreed that we'd try to keep our films brightly colorful and mostly silent in order to keep to the style of The Illusionist and this fit well with my idea I had, so I played around with the concept of a mostly silent film about the creative process, using Genius creatures. At the end of the week I have a few designs for the Genius, the main character, and a basic storyline. Next week I'll have to fill in the details, my goal being to have a finished script+ storyboard.
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