Bothersome Brainstorming

     It's the time of the year I have been dreading for months: the start of the biggest project of the year.  Don't get me wrong, I am very excited to have the opportunity to create a film opening with total creative control, but I have never been good at the brainstorming process.  When projects have very little direction for me to go in, I sometimes struggle to come up with a solid idea.  It's almost like in my head there is a million and a half ideas and I cannot concentrate enough on a single one to develop it.

  

     Despite my issues it was time to think of a plot idea.  My partner, Vicente and I agreed that it would be best to split up to create two separate ideas for a film, so I was on my own.  I went through many half baked ideas in my head trying to think of one that would stick.  With the help of a few friends who let me bounce ideas off of them, I decided on a paranormal murder mystery.  In it, a man would wake up in limbo after his death, and in order to proceed to heaven or hell, he must solve his murder.  It would also be called Limbo since the character is between Heaven and Hell.  Content with the idea, I decided to share it with Vicente and he loved it. He also had an idea, in which a star athlete would get hurt and he would have to make a recovery.  We both agreed his idea felt too cliche and overdone, so we decided to go forward with mine.

     Although there is still plenty of planning left to go, I am happy that I at least have a solid idea to work around for the rest of the project.  Although we may later decide to change our idea as we move forward in the creative process, we now have a basis that we can keep as a constant. I will keep you all updated as this project continues to develop.