Well, I've started this section of the module with a different method. I began by thinking about what type of person would make up the majority of my audience. I myself used to regularly browse a website called newsgrounds, on which I would watch various short, sometimes interactive, flash films. They were quite basic, as they were created simply by the users, the most popular then being featured on the front page (as I remember it) So, from my experience of this and other websites, I concluded my audience would generally be bored internet users/students aged between 16 and 25, typically male.
So I began thinking about what subjects I could cover. On my mind map I have the following:
- Love interest with girl in class/job
- Waiting to escape boring job/class
- Attempting to manage a wild and crazy house party
- Making ends meet at the shops
- Something very exciting happening during homework/coursework
- Pest endangering your tenancy at your flat
After reading through these ideas, I began to feel like all of these were a bad idea. I thought them to all be extremely dull and over-done; unoriginal. Sure, my audience could relate to these ideas, but they aren't innovative in themselves. After all, I really want this to be an interesting narrative, where I demonstrate everything I have learnt about structure and characters.
So I began simply trying to play with these ideas, to make them a bit crazy and innovative, and the ones I liked the most was 'something exciting happening during homework/coursework' and 'pest endangering your tenancy at your flat'.
My Ideas
Jerry and Tom
This is simply a working title that very much sums up my idea. I have taken the structure of Tom and Jerry (a very simple Protagonist/Antagonist setup) and reversed the roles, making the cat the prot. and the antag. Tom and Jerry was an extremely successful cartoon despite how simple the structure was. The creators of the show were able to make interesting and funny story lines and very interesting characters, and I would try to emulate that and perhaps contrast the times in which the two stories would be set to achieve humor.
It's an interesting concept I feel, although not brilliantly innovative. Also, getting hold of both a mouse and a cat and not allowingthe mouse either creature to die would be a burden. I would like to be a little bit more adventurous with structure so as to include all different types of characters.
Graphic storyline
This is another working title and quite a bad pun upon 'graphic design'. In this I imagine a graphic design student sitting down with a blank pad attempting to come up with ideas, and he perhaps spills some sort of supernatural ink, or a strange potion, and the characters on the page begin to come to life. This is one I am extremely interested in, as I already feel the idea falling into place with all the ideas I've learnt about story and narrative (the exposition obviously being showing he is a graphic design student working on ideas, the inciting incident being the magic ink etc..) I also feel I could create quite interesting characters and story with it, perhaps using red ink for the antagonist and blue for the protagonist, and other simple things like this.
I think I will go with the graphic storyline, to be honest. But I'll try a few sketches and things and see how I feel about it. I am not a massively brilliant drawer, but I can do my best.
So I began thinking about what subjects I could cover. On my mind map I have the following:
- Love interest with girl in class/job
- Waiting to escape boring job/class
- Attempting to manage a wild and crazy house party
- Making ends meet at the shops
- Something very exciting happening during homework/coursework
- Pest endangering your tenancy at your flat
After reading through these ideas, I began to feel like all of these were a bad idea. I thought them to all be extremely dull and over-done; unoriginal. Sure, my audience could relate to these ideas, but they aren't innovative in themselves. After all, I really want this to be an interesting narrative, where I demonstrate everything I have learnt about structure and characters.
So I began simply trying to play with these ideas, to make them a bit crazy and innovative, and the ones I liked the most was 'something exciting happening during homework/coursework' and 'pest endangering your tenancy at your flat'.
My Ideas
Jerry and Tom
This is simply a working title that very much sums up my idea. I have taken the structure of Tom and Jerry (a very simple Protagonist/Antagonist setup) and reversed the roles, making the cat the prot. and the antag. Tom and Jerry was an extremely successful cartoon despite how simple the structure was. The creators of the show were able to make interesting and funny story lines and very interesting characters, and I would try to emulate that and perhaps contrast the times in which the two stories would be set to achieve humor.
It's an interesting concept I feel, although not brilliantly innovative. Also, getting hold of both a mouse and a cat and not allowing
Graphic storyline
This is another working title and quite a bad pun upon 'graphic design'. In this I imagine a graphic design student sitting down with a blank pad attempting to come up with ideas, and he perhaps spills some sort of supernatural ink, or a strange potion, and the characters on the page begin to come to life. This is one I am extremely interested in, as I already feel the idea falling into place with all the ideas I've learnt about story and narrative (the exposition obviously being showing he is a graphic design student working on ideas, the inciting incident being the magic ink etc..) I also feel I could create quite interesting characters and story with it, perhaps using red ink for the antagonist and blue for the protagonist, and other simple things like this.
I think I will go with the graphic storyline, to be honest. But I'll try a few sketches and things and see how I feel about it. I am not a massively brilliant drawer, but I can do my best.
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