Inspiration Week

As part of inspiration week we had the chance to learn new ways of generating ideas for narratives and story lines. one of the sessions which helped me the most was a session when we were put into groups and visited a different table. each table had either a piece of art or poetry and from there we had to create a narrative. Our first table had a piece of A4 with pictures on it. The pictures which stuck out to me the most was the picture of a gold fish and an elderly person. the narrative we created from this which was a short called 'The Goldfish'. The narrative of the short film was that one day a granddad brought a gold fish for his beautiful grand daughter but whilst on his way to deliver the goldfish he gets a phone call saying that his grand daughter had been involved in an accident and has pasted away. Now a distort grand parent he goes home and does what ever possible to keep the goldfish alive as long as he does. A theme we thought would be good to carry out through this short was to make it a "silent film" with only a few diagetic sounds for example his phone ringing, and the cars passing him as he is on his way home from the disturbing phone call. we thought this would add a great sense of loss and loneliness and sorrow which the grandparent would be feeling. Places were we would film were places such as the granddads front room, the street where he receives the call a shop were he buys the gold fish and then back in his living room were it is just left with the gold fish.

The next table we visited had a picture of a table with empty chairs and a light bulb made by Patrick Calfield. From this we got the feel of a dis functional family that work together and get along by being deceitful towards each other. we felt that the light represented a change or something new entering the family which acts as a saviour. we thought that the light could represent new birth or life.

On our next table there were lyrics from an ABBA song. A story we created from these lyrics were a lady who was a performer and when shes on stage all her troubles blow away. Outside her life is horrid. The structure of this potential short was that it starts with her on her way to a rehearsal and as she is making her away bad things keep happening, for example bad news is reported, someone could be abusive towards her, and we follow her on this dreadful trip which is a representation of her life. As she finally arrives to her rehearsal and she begins we new person starts to come through and shine as her is in a happy element of escapism.

Our last idea came from a news article. There was an article of a car being in a persons living room with no structural damage to the home. "Its a car on the carpet, Pet". With queries how it got their josh and i developed a comical narrative for the scenario. The story we came up with is that one day a couple brought a home after their children descending into their own homes. when agreeing to buy the home there was nothing wrong with it but on the day of moving in they found a car in the middle of the living room with no idea how it may have got their. As years go on they adapt to living with a car in the middle of their living room. one day later on into their elderly life they decide for the first time ever to turn the car on. as later they fall asleep with the car on they both pass away together in the car. them turning on the car was symbolism for them ending one life and starting a new beginning.