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Investigation 10/12

 Idea Journal

Over the summer I started righting ideas down in this notebook so I wouldn't lose any. It's slowly been growing more and more. A few of the ideas I plan to include in the short film I'm currently righting for class. These are ideas I get simply from the moment and I write them down, good or bad. The goal is to capture enough snippets of stuff until I've gathered a bunch that sort of match up. Than I can turn the ideas into scenes, and the scenes into a film. Previously I'd really struggled with writer's block and I've found that this really helps. The easiest way to deal with writer's block I've found is to ask a question you don't know the answer to. This is especially hard in todays society when we have the answers to all our questions at the click of a button. What I've been learning to do is when I get that curiosity question: What was the name of that song? I than search for the answer internally instead of externally. I come up with a name for it on my own and this gets the creative juices flowing: What genre is the song? What name works best? The point isn't to be right, the point is to be engaged in the creative process of coming up with an inventive answer. Sometimes one thing leads to the next and I've got a scene, other times not, either way it's good to exercise those creative muscles. Here are a few pages of my ideas:

Top: Idea for sci-fi feature film. Middle to Bottom: Idea for a fight scene


Continuation of previous scene

This is a close up of a reaper from my sci-fi feature length script.

Earlier concept art of reapers.

Top: Idea for a short film. Middle: Cinematography idea for sci-fi film. Bottom: Idea for a voice over

Mon - Edited

Tues - Edited

Wed - Edited

Thurs - nothing

Fri - nothing

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