Although this does make me hungry for The Land of Milk and Cookies...
But, two weeks ago my partner Rhea and I, began to brainstorm ideas for our short film. The adventure began at Chipotle as we left 4th hour to delve into what concepts we could conceive there. As I munched on my burrito I opened up the note in my phone with all my miscellaneous ideas for stories that come to mind. Some of the idea that came up were synesthesia, which is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia puts objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor.
Another idea we were thinking of is this concept I had for a film playing with the theme, “ignorance is bliss.” In that film you would see a character who’s really smart slowly lose his intelligence and become happier with his life and start to enjoy the little things even more.
Today we ventured out and went to get some sandwiches š„Ŗ from the one and only Jersey Mike’s Subs (also my place of work). We discussed more ideas that I had considered and come up with recently. In all honesty I don’t know how these ideas just pop into my head it just happens. But let me show you what we did.
I swear I’m not crazy. I don’t need to go to an asylum. These are actually sketches of timelines. Yeah I know you're lookin at them now and wondering what the hell I think of but the main concept we were trying to stick to to portray in our short film is the alternative narrative. I have always loved that idea (like I talked about in my last blog post) and I wanted to pursue it for the film. So the first timeline is the most simple and it’s the one I used to explain the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I told her how the film is structured (and sadly spoiled it but she was ok with that) and how genius I thought Kaufman was. So each number on the timeline represents the order of events and how the movie presents it.
The next timeline is how we were thinking of structuring a film that loops.
So the loop would be presented as a plot loop. The concept (in short) was a guy sees someone sneaking into his house. He kills that guy and then goes on with his day and then when he comes home at night he forgets his keys and sneaks in and then he gets killed by his younger self. Something along those lines. That is the simple version of the story and I have a much much more complex version that I’ll discuss in another post.
As for the timeline above, that basic story is one of someone who is also stuck in a loop. It’s a similar story of a guy kills someone at the start but the idea is that the guy actually liked the feeling. As he slowly drifts into insanity (that’s why the colors coordinate) he contemplates whether to kill again. The red is his lowest point when he goes to kill someone again but when he tries he gets killed. By a younger version of himself. So he’s constantly in a loop.
We also started to think that most stories presented in the form of a loop are always negative so what would be a positive version we could explore. We couldn’t think of many ideas for that one though but it’s part of our list of options.
For the final idea, the timeline for ignorance is bliss.
So for this one the way it’s staggered like that is cause it is a mix of his previous events in his life coming into his current events. It’s weird and would be easier if I explain it in person, which I might do in a vlog style video.
But yeah those are the concepts we are thinking of. I’ll talk more when we get more into deciding which one.
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