A new hope

We might have come up with something leaps and bounds better. Well not us a lot but Rhea and our friend Eugenia helped us out and came up with a new idea.

The idea is that a girl has a door in her house and she doesn’t know what’s behind it and she keeps hearing something that’s making noise and clanging in there. And when she eventually goes to check it she find that it was just a toy or something simple. I worked down the idea to now what it would be is that the toy is an old game boy or something similar. And electronic specific. And at the beginning the characters mom would mention how the power company says they are doing new EMP tests, so the power may fluctuate sometimes in people’s homes. That’s what would trigger the device to turn on and off. I’m currently trying to think of how to structure an arc for the character. How does the character grow from this? What do they learn? How does the character change from the beginning to know. I really want to include an element like this. Now as I’m typing this I’m considering maybe having them become more detail oriented. Have them start off with not paying attention to little things and maybe have random miscellaneous items scattered in their room and when it ends you see the character be meticulous with everything in their life. Have the mom at the start mention how disorganized she is to emphasize this concept. We made MAJOR progress today and I’m a lot happier than I was before. Have a great day and I’ll keep you updated.

I gave in

At this point we needed something. Anything. So I gave in to Rhea’s idea. She had spoken to our friend Cali and she said we should stick with the more simple idea of the break up one so I just accepted it. There was no other ideas I had that I could give. I had given every idea to Rhea and gave her the opportunity to take it and maybe change it but she didn’t like them. So I just said let’s go with this one. We need something so we are going to work out the story and I’ll keep you updated. Till next time.

now I’m sad :(

What I had hopped for was an elaborate story. I wanted depth. I wanted something to challenge the viewer. I wanted the viewer to think that just when they had the plot under wraps and they knew what was happening, we threw them for a loop and shocked them with the, “Ah Ha,” moment. But that’s all gone. That idea that I could create something like that. This god forsaken BeerVirus has taken that away from me. So now we are back to square one. Thinking of an idea. Rhea and I FaceTimed for over and hour and a half today and we came up with nothing. Well actually we came up with two ideas.

I had gone back to my note of story ideas and found one using the butterfly effect but Rhea thought it was still too complex of a story. She had come up with a more simple idea of a girl who goes through a breakup and uses nature as her get away and she kind of, “becomes one with nature.” I kind of hated it. But I had to go to work so we said we would resume the call tomorrow. I’ll keep you all updated.

W R I T E R S B L O C K

I CANNOT MOTIVATE MYSELF. I am struggling a lot here. I am having hard writer's block and I just can't even motivate myself to sit at my computer. The other night I was up till 5am and I'm so bored yet I struggle to complete the most simple task of writing my script. Maybe my issue is a good thing though.

Rhea and I have been discussing the idea that we might have to change our story in its entirety. Ok not entirely but adjust MAJOR aspects of it. Ugh this is so painful. We finally got a decent idea and it was sabotaged. Ok but as for the major ideas Rhea was thinking... She was discussing going back to the ignorance is bliss concept. And another idea was life stuck in quarantine, or a long journey interrupted  by disaster. Now there were just notes she jotted down. I will put my own post modern spin on them and get back to you all later on what I've come up with. For now have a great day.

AHHHHH TINAAAAA

We talked to Tina today and it was very very refreshing. Rhea and I haven't heard her voice in weeks. It was really wholesome too, like hearing Stoklosa laugh just made my day. So this kind of helped me get a better idea for how we are going to have to sort things out and the fact that we might just have to change the idea. I'm struggling here to figure this all out but I will keep you all updated.