The First Idea

So I had this idea for a plot to present to my group of four. I guess I would let you know the four to five story in a later post.

Still this idea I thought was brilliant, I mean if we pulled it off, it would not only be unique, but I think we could have the Film Festival give us a toast for effort. Depending, I could not calculate the camera work and other factors for the day.

The Story:
Imagine a day that went wrong, from the moment you got up to the point where it got so crazy you wanted out. You find yourself in a world where walking backwards is normal, people peeing in the streets instead of in their homes and children are now the parent. Nothing is as it supposed to be. When after a period of trying to get out of this day, you somehow grow accustomed to the change and you decide to stay even when you see a way out.

Some of the things you see wrong in the day ironically represents a bit of what is presently seen in society, that inevitably becomes a part of life. The problem for me was getting the group to see the vision.

So I painted the idea of the plot beginning with a young boy of 12 with an afro, sitting on a pavement looking lost and dirty. He then picks up a five cent piece and as he stands he is now seen as a twenty year old fair skinned boy with the same afro, so we presume this is the same boy. While he notices the change it doesn't affect him until he walks and sees signs on walls that don't make sense; "walk through the wall", "trip on the pavement here", "Buy a dollar with five cents". When he reaches for the five cents it has changed into a dollar, soon turns into a black boy around the same age.
The aim was to gradually make small changes to give the illusion of chaos and add to the sense of humor to this weird world this person was facing. The idea was to end this chaos with the boy now an old man who finally sees the way out with a hundred dollar bill in his hands, but has grown so accustomed to this world that he chooses to buy a bicycle and revert back to his youthful days.

I thought this was cool, but it sounded complicated for a one day assignment and my group members watch me in a bit of bewilderment.

"The boy turns into and old man in a space of a day" I said to clarify, but it was up to the producer and if she couldn't see or understand it, she could not do a good job producing it.

So I still put the copyright sign © on this idea, because I believe I would make it into something greater in the future.

For now, I am happy I had a simpler back up idea in the cutlas man. I would elaborate more on the concept when I discuss the details of the production as an editor. Still my initial idea had the guy with the cutlas in the film cutting roses for his romantic interest. The producer suggested to have at the end *woow* I would give that up just yet.

Cavielle