The Community Brainstorming Thread

Murdock said:
When was the last time you read/saw/heard about a mafia chase/meeting?? No my friend, when it is done in the proper manner, you never hear of it. Only the results are seen, and they are accepted as normal....point being: The vulneralbility and the extraordinary events that cause people to reevaluate their lives might not be the warm and cuddly that you might have had in mind. Just might be, that the baddies win in the end.
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I am all for the baddies winning. I'd be perfectly willing to have every character in every thread receive their letter and find out that they haven't been chosen. It's more the 'mafia' business that I don't like so much...

...but wheat is right, it's too early to start poo pooing ideas and I apologise for that. What I would suggest as a compromise is maybe thinking around the idea of petty criminals, rather than mafia. I just think there are conotations to that word/group that might imbalance the picture.

Murdock said:
I was being serious but certainly didn't want to come off as confrantational. Sorry if I did.
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Just remember the smiley next time, ok?

:D

I'd, ideally, like to get a broader cross section of people weighing in on this. Obviously we can see who the core support are and I think we've come up with some really good ideas but we're in danger of isolating ourselves with one train of thought. So I would implore anyone who's reading this (whether or not they can be bothered to read any of the previous posts (skip to page one to read the basic idea)) to tell us whether we're all talking shit or whether there are any other ideas we should be considering? :secret:
 
My technical capabilities now include a Flip HD. :D Too bad it's only 720p, though.

Knightly, you already have your assignment. It involves a shower scene if I remember correctly.

My actor resources are very limited. I will need to abuse friends and family to get people in front of the camera.

Let's see, these are movies that I can recall off the top of my head that had several mini stories all linked with a common theme or element.

Twilight Zone: The Movie
Tales from the Crypt
Stephen King's Cat's Eye
New York Stories
Four Rooms (already mentioned)

What else?

There are two ways to approach this. Several small stories stitched into a whole, of one story pieced together from multiple units and locales.

Side note, I just saw Restrepo on National Geographic channel recently. They used several types of camera footage. Granted, it was a documentary, but it really wasn't that distracting when the formats were mixed because it still effectively conveyed the story. So perhaps we don't need to be too anal on the technical requirements because with the right editor and sound design, anything is possible.
 
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The Restrepo point is a fair one, but it's a very different type of film to the one we'd be producing. I think it's important that we don't leave ourselves to much to do overall in post, because it's going to be very difficult finding someone to sit down and edit it into a single film, especially if there are big issues at need to be sorted out...

All those movies are good calls/guidelines. I'm curious about the part where you say there are two ways of doing this- what's the difference? I read the first one and thought 'that's how we should do it!' and then I read the second one and thought 'wait, that's also how we should do it!' :D

@knightly: what sort of assignment do you want, other than showering?

Current Ideas

Zombie apocalypse
Vegan zombie apocalypse
Organ donor lottery
Vaccine lottery

Any more that I've forgotten?
 
I'll just stick my nose in again here...

I think that the ideas are getting way too specific. Not everyone wants to make a zombie, or an organ or vaccine lottery movie. IMHO all that is needed is the knowledge that almost every one is/has died. The reason is unknown. The efforts to find out why or to prevent this mysterious near mass extinction of humanity has resulted in the stories about to be told - that's the tie in; the stories are all looking back to when it happened. We find out that different individuals, organizations, countries, etc. come up with botched (or not) solutions that have localized effects, so some areas end up with zombies, one country has a vaccine lottery, but there can also be during and post apocalypse survivor stories in dozens of different flavors. This way you are not locking anyone into a specific genre or style.
 
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I'll just stick my nose in again here...

I think that the ideas are getting way too specific. Not everyone wants to make a zombie, or an organ or vaccine lottery movie. IMHO all that is needed is the knowledge that almost every one is/has died. The reason is unknown. The efforts to find out why or to prevent this mysterious near mass extinction of humanity has resulted in the stories about to be told - that's the tie in; the stories are all looking back to when it happened. We find out that different individuals, organizations, countries, etc. come up with botched (or not) solutions that have localized effects, so some areas end up with zombies, one country has a vaccine lottery, but there can also be during and post apocalypse survivor stories in dozens of different flavors. This way you are not locking anyone into a specific genre or style.
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I think that you make a very fair point and it certainly could be done that way.

The difficulty with that being that, by the end, we could well just have a collection of 'end of the world' shorts. The task for a project like this could be 'go away and make a short film about an apocalypse' and then they could all be compiled in an apocalypse anthology, but I think the USP for this project is that we would all produce different threads pulling in the same direction. You're right, and we agreed on this earlier, that we would simply say where the story starts and where it ends and let each remote unit fill in the middle.

So there's definitely scope to incorporate very varied ideas (and hopefully not lock anyone into anything too specific) but I think it's also important, to the final product, that we are all responding to roughly the same stimulus and that there are recurring themes in each of the films.

These are just my thoughts.
 
We must remember this is merely the first of what i hope will be many community projects. I think few may be deterred by the ever-growing thread, even though it is healthy and very relevant, for those who've missed, i would imagine, will not sit through and read page upon page to gather the gist.

So, what i propose, is that we create a new thread, with the few themes, so those who have not been involved in this discussion, but would like to take part, may choose from what we've set, and perhaps voice their opinions if none of the above are of their liking.

What do you think?
 
That sounds very sensible. I guess it's daunting to sift through 6 pages just to find out what we're talking about...

I would be happy to make that thread but I'm going out in a few minutes to watch some football (Crawley Town vs Derby, whoop!) and I'm not sure when I'll be back online in the next couple of days. Hopefully tonight, but if anyone else wants to make that thread then please go ahead :)
 
Crawley vs Derby, surely that's the FA cup, and not a league fixture?

I think Wheat has a great formula on the other thread for what is proposed. So if you'd like to, Wheat. I think it would be better for you to do so, i'm not sure of all the the goings on. :)
 
Papertwinproductions said:
Crawley vs Derby, surely that's the FA cup, and not a league fixture?
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It sure as heck is. My hometown team into the 3rd round and playing a Championship team... that's the beauty of the FA Cup :) And tomorrow night I'm off to West Ham (the single most important thing in my life) vs Birmingham for the Carling Cup semi final... Ah football, you sweet temptress... :blush:

But yep I vote for Wheat :yes:
 
NickClapper said:
It sure as heck is. My hometown team into the 3rd round and playing a Championship team... that's the beauty of the FA Cup :) And tomorrow night I'm off to West Ham (the single most important thing in my life) vs Birmingham for the Carling Cup semi final... Ah football, you sweet temptress... :blush:

But yep I vote for Wheat :yes:
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You're a Hammer, eh. I sincerely hope you stay-up, Scott Parker is one of the single-most passionate players I've ever seen. I feel your pain, I'm a Liverpool fan...these past two years have been a dagger in my heart.

What do you think of King Kenny's return? (We should probably Skype this, football talk is a given thread killer)
 
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You're a Hammer, eh. I sincerely hope you stay-up, Scott Parker is one of the single-most passionate players I've ever seen. I feel your pain, I'm a Liverpool fan...these past two years have been a dagger in my heart.

What do you think of King Kenny's return? (We should probably Skype this, football talk is a given thread killer)
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I have to say that I don't think Liverpool fans can ever feel our pain because instead of not getting to play Champions League we're going to be facing trips to play Doncaster next season... But Crawley won! Amazing match... Nice to see my team win :) But yes, with all these Americans about football is pretty much thread anthrax :P

Oh and wheat, you didn't do anything, but you've been officially charged with the creation of a new thread (see previous page for further details).
 
Ok, is someone going to make this new thread?

I change my vote to PTP, 'twas your idea and you probably best understand what you want from the new threads opening post...
 
NickClapper said:
Ok, is someone going to make this new thread?

I change my vote to PTP, 'twas your idea and you probably best understand what you want from the new threads opening post...
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It's basically a brief of the ideas, but there was a list in the other thread regarding the participation...

What are our choices, so that i can make the thread?
 
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