Now that I’ve got a genre, I’ve been trying my best to rack the deepest parts of my brain for some good story ideas. After watching more openings, and thinking about a few different ideas and I think I’ve finally been able to get them together into one solid framework for my opening.
When I can’t immediately think of a solid idea for a story, and the ideas are not idea-ing, I turn to a tride and true method for creating stories I learned from famous Fantasy writer Brandon sanderson. It involves having Plot Ideas, Setting Ideas, and Character Ideas. It is much easier to come up with these apart from each other, and then mix them into one idea together than it is to start with a whole complete idea out of nowhere.
To map out my ideas I started with a blank sheet of paper and a mind map, allowing my mind to wander and seeing if it took me anywhere interesting with the story.
As seen on there I started out a few different branches, and then worked from there to create different ideas. At the top I started with some, Tone Ideas, which branched off into using color, and potentially using black and white to portay a dark tone. After more consideration I’ve decided against this as it could be a look that is too stylized which could perhaps not fit the style I’m going for. Though in my piece I still want to use color to be able to symbolize certain components, just not the completely black and white look I’d originally envisioned.
Going down the idea sheet, I started seeing if I had any ideas for a Background style film opening, one of the styles I previously explored in another blog. From there I started breaking off into some genres and film types where I’ve seen this type explored. As I wrote horror, I thought about films like Get Out and Zombie moves like Train to Busan, where I thought about one possible idea I’d learned from a piece explored in a previous blog where the Zombies are sympathized with. In my piece, I could use a similar idea to have a villain that one sympathizes with (though I dont know if I’ll try to introduce this type of villain in my opening).
From the Horror/thriller dystopia branch, Ideas started flowing and I got an idea for a dystopian style movie, somewhat inspired from immigrant experiences, where a child from an under-developed country is transferred from a poor area, taken from their family, and transferred to a school in a developed country, where they soon realize they are essentially trapped. My teacher very much advised us not to do a kidnapping story and while it sounds like it I swear its not lol. Its more trying to comment on how immigrant kids are taken from their native countries to fuel the economies and development of “developed countries” under the guise of providing opportunities to the kids.
After getting that idea it all started to come quickly and I made a rough storyboard for what I immediately envisioned. This blog is getting kind of long, and the storyboard, was done quickly, so I’ll cover it more fully in a less rough version of the storyboard in a future blog. But, overall, I finally know what I’m doing sort of??!! And its very exciting cause I was scared I wasn’t gonna get any idea i liked and was just gonna have to settle for something random lol.
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