wanted to throw in another possible idea or two.
one: two people in a car, one very excited and one very sullen. sullen person is driving, excited person can barely sit still. it is revealed that they are on a roadtrip to a location very far from they're home. this is told by cars license plates(ie. maine) and the location they are driving through, i was thinking a desert. it could be fun to explore scenarios between the two characters. gives possibilities for slapstick. also could be funny if driver is inadvertently "knocked out" and hyper passenger has to steer over from his seat. the story would end with roadtrippers arriving to location in a climatic manner. i was thinking location could be shown through an anti-climatic reveal, and then its shown to be like a BBQ joint or a comic shop.
two: an artist/photographer who is "wrestling" with a still life/object while trying to draw/photograph it. like it could keep falling, or changing. maybe if there is an animal in it, who gives him a hard time. environment could be simple studio kind of like the ones in the VAB.
Thank you brad for the tips, hope these ideas dont contradict everything you just shared.
also, should we be thinking dramatic and not just comedic?
stu
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I like these ideas...they definitely have much potential. In fleshing them out, try to work in those 7 points/7 sentences I laid out earlier. If you address them all, your story should be pretty rock solid. If you leave any to chance or decide to "let them evolve organically" (HA!), you will end up with holes in your story that will at best just give you hard times in production or at worst leave your audience saying "Huh?".
ReplyDeleteRemember these important things before you even lay down your seven sentences:
1)WHO is your character. Not just a name and face, but a personality and a certain unique disposition.
2)WHAT must he/she/it overcome and WHY must it be overcome.
3)HOW does your character ultimately find it within himself to succeed (or fail) and WHERE does this leave him at the end of the story (as in how has he changed from when we met him).
If you can answer all those questions, you have a story, if not....god help you =)
Keep it up!