The Community Brainstorming Thread

This is all rather interesting to watch come together. You guys are really going to do this, aren't you? Has it been agreed upon how long of a piece it is to be?
 
Alright. Now it has to be about zombies because I couldn't sleep last night and brainstormed my segment. I need to research the guidelines on working with kids because it involves my 5 (almost 6) year old and 14 year old nephews.

Are there any "family" clauses in there? :)
 
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Cracker Funk said:
This is all rather interesting to watch come together. You guys are really going to do this, aren't you? Has it been agreed upon how long of a piece it is to be?
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Not as of yet, no. We're just about to start a new thread with the three choices of theme. Once the participants have chosen, it's go time.

P.S I have a 50$ American Express gift card, and i can't use it at all over here. What a crummy prize.
 
NickClapper said:
I think anything we're going to do is going to fall roughly in the drama category, simply because I don't thi k comedy will work for this. Whether we go for a supernatural element is another question. The two recurring ideas that we have so far are zombies and uterine plague.

I have another idea, just throwing something out that roughly works with wheats simplicity doctrine, but it's kind of dystopian so might have an element of sic-fi.

In an alternate future organ donations are chosen by a global lottery, so the film would follow different groups of people waiting (successfully and unsuccessfully) to find out whether they've been selected as one of the lucky winners. I don't know if anyone's read a book by Kazuo Ishiguro called Never Let Me Go but the idea could work like at: a ingle dramatic premise (nothing to outlandish or horrible) but bound together by some form of recognizably similar world. I think it's going to be important to chose one overriding world theme, and this might be quite difficult with just straight drama.

What can link different groups of people around the world?
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I already have a great senario for this!:D
 
Papertwinproductions said:
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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You could start a blog, so the thread wouldn't get as much traffic. Those that are interested can go there. You could have one entry for the ideas for the movie. Two could be an entry for participation, where interested parties could leave their names in the comment section. A third entry could be for technical criteria. What format we plan to record in etc..............Then in the forums we could leave one thread explaining what it is and where to find the Blog.

Just a thought??
 
Murdock said:
You could start a blog, so the thread wouldn't get as much traffic. Those that are interested can go there. You could have one entry for the ideas for the movie. Two could be an entry for participation, where interested parties could leave their names in the comment section. A third entry could be for technical criteria. What format we plan to record in etc..............Then in the forums we could leave one thread explaining what it is and where to find the Blog.

Just a thought??
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Hmmm, I'd have no idea how to do that. BUT, if the rest of the folks are up for it, then it sounds wise. Although, we'd have to keep the thread active, for the sake of those who want to participate, but aren't aware.
 
Papertwinproductions said:
Hmmm, I'd have no idea how to do that. BUT, if the rest of the folks are up for it, then it sounds wise. Although, we'd have to keep the thread active, for the sake of those who want to participate, but aren't aware.
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Go to: User CP-->Look to the bottm left hand corner--> There's a button the say BLOG-->Push that button and then you will see an option Start Blog, or something to that effect--> Start the blog-->again on the left hand side, look for an otion that says Post to Your Blog.
 
Production Blogs really aren't that complicated. I have one:

http://www.indietalk.com/blog.php?u=6530

And I can even start a new section in my blog for my segment (should I have a decent idea once everything is locked down). At the very least, if I don't have time to produce the thing myself, I'd be willing to write a segment for someone else to produce.
 
Is this the same as the personal blog? I'm not sure what the point is, unless it's just to collate all the information that we've gathered so far. Are we going to make a blog post/short treatment for each of the ideas and then encourage people to critique it in the comments section? That sounds workable.

Looks like we've given up on the second thread :D If we get a blog up and running then we can create a new thread pointing people in that general direction.

One concern is that if people are making blog posts about their ideas then it's only Premiere members who can express themselves. Unless we had one person's blog dedicated to various ideas...
 
This seems to have lost a bit of momentum seeing as how we never did what we meant to do. So I'll propose a choice for people to vote on:

1.) New thread for discussion/voting on the overall story of the piece.

2.) Murdock's blog idea (I am happy to use my blog or someone else's blog for this task).

Let me know which you think is easier. At the moment I'm erring on the side of a new thread because if we could condense the ideas from this thread into five or so choices then we could set up a pretty neat poll.

Perhaps we should try and draft a logline for each of the ideas that's been proposed so far?
 
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