Week 1 Ideas Generation

In our first lesson of Developing ideas and Experimentation for screen, we looked at generating ideas and where they came from and how we could help ourselves to generate ideas.

IDEAS ARE CENTRAL:

• ·         The ideas you create depend on the kind of person you are and your story.
• ·         Everyone approaches film making differently and has their own signature look, design, sound,  and feel to their work
• ·         When film makers create something uniquely special that couldn’t be made by anyone else they have created a unique film making ‘voice’

We can't create an idea by:

• Staring at a blank piece of paper
• going on google 
• or going on facebook 

 

How do you get an idea?

It helps if we create a brief for ourselves to work to. Like an object as a theme. This is called Create boundaries.

–      Give yourself a theme / a brief.  This could be a character, object, emotion

–      Go for a walk, watch people, find an inspiring song, use a memory, a poem

–      Keep a sketch book and write down your thoughts and ideas

–      Work in teams and bounce ideas off each other.

 Task

Our task for the lesson was to get into a group and come up with a film idea(60-90secs) long about a cup of tea.

My group came up with an idea about a science teacher and about him making the perfect cup of tea. He does this by using his science equipment: bunsen burner to boil the water, weights to measure out the tea, measuring cylinder for the milk. In the end he has made the perfect cup of tea and he is cleaning up before he drinks it and another teacher walks in, takes the tea and leaves with it and that is how it ends.