Group Meeting First Ideas

Today was the first time that we met up as a group, this semester I will be working with, Adam Young, Elliot Carroll-Dunn and Paul Brannan. I knew the group pretty well but was the first time that I had worked with Elliot and Paul. Prior to the meeting we had set up a Facebok group to help use organise meeting but also to generate ideas.  Before coming to the meeting I had been working on an idea and was keen to discuss this with the group.

My idea evolves around the idea of good cop bad cop, where we see one character play two versions of himself. I wanted the film to be a dark comedy where we see this character constantly blaming his bad life choices on the other character who we find out at the end of the film his actually him. The character is loosely based on Rudy from The Misfit series. I understand the idea is very under developed and needs a lot of work but I really like the install concept, I was keen to hear what the rest of the group thought of the idea but also to see what they had thought off too.

I found it quite hard to explain my idea to the rest of the group, I think they liked the idea but after discussing it as a group we felt that we couldn’t really make it work with the parameters of the brief.

The brief lends it self to a stalker type film where we have one character stalking the other for one reason or another. As a group we really wanted to stay away from this idea as we felt a lot of the other groups would be creating that type of film. Adam then pitched an idea about a man who falls in love with a tree at first I was a little concerned and wasn’t full behind the idea but after he explained it I quite liked it. We have a married couple that have an argument because one of them thinks the other is having an affair but in matter of fact one of the characters is in love with a tree.

We decided that we could meet up in a couple of weeks to discuss this idea further but also gives time to think of any more ideas.