Ideas + Future

My brain is scattered and fragmented but  is also mixed with good intention.

I have all these ideas that I want to do yet no clear way on how to conduct them with conviction.

Idea one: This idea was created in my English Language class. We have to do coursework that is inspired by a 'style model'. A style model is essentially a piece of literature/text (e.g magazine, short story, monologue etc). The whole idea of our coursework is that we imitate a style model, by creating our own text and using all the conventions of the style model we have chosen. My teacher, who's head is so-in-the-sky-she-can-see-a-nebula, (she's crazy) happen to use my sister's work as the SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE SHOULD DO. It's understandable, because my sister's work was really good. But also semi soul destroying for me, because now (being the child I am) I just want to match it and come up with a really cool idea.

Miss mentioned 'travel writing' as a style model, and I though ooh interesting - way to cure my wanderlust & channel my inner Bill Bryson. I don't want to talk about hotels and where you can take your kids, however. I want to talk about the people in the places. How the life in the city moves, thinks, and feels. Inspired by the heavily popular blog humansofnewyork, a project done by a photographer where he takes a photo of a passerby in the city of New York and has a small conversation with them. I also am heavily inspired by John and Hank Green's youtube series called ''Thoughts From Places'' which, as you guessed, is John and Hank narrating their thoughts from places in video form. I plan to talk about my own quirky tales and also speak to inhabitants of Leeds to find their own personal stories.


Idea two: Again another project tied in with school, or at least I think, the details are slightly scarce at the moment. It's play writing and if judges(?) like my play it could get preformed in the national theatre (which is totally awesome, visited it this summer) but I don't know  even if our school is going ahead with it. Either way, here is my idea. I want to play on the idea of home, and what it means - but do it in abstract silly way for children. I like the idea of playing with senses and using a lot of Boal's techniques. So far I have a main protagonist,  a girl, who is lost and is awoken and doesn't understand who or where she is. Her only quest is to get home. But what is home anyway? She doesn't recall. All she knows is she has to find it. In this world, people don't understand innate human life. They know what things are, they just don't know what to do with them. She meets Tarquin, a clumsy keeper of all things emotional, that spilled all his sadness among the town of Aromaton. Tarquin's job is to travel around each city and hand out the correct qaunities of each emotion that he keeps in jars - Tarquin is heavy footed and ended up dropping his sadness jar, spilling it everywhere, leaving the entire town in melancholia. The girl informs Tarquin that she can't help him because she needs to find home and Tarquin promises her he will take her home if she helps him. They travel there,and the girl informs the town that they don't need jars to feel things, it's natural, and the whole-sadness-jar-spilling is purely placebo. The town are in disbelief until one man starts uncontrollably laughing without the requirement of jars. They meet characters, mimble, nimble, thumble and gumble, quadruplets that cause a copious amount of trouble and they show tarquin and the girl a daisy that has been chained. The Daisy has been chained for being too sunny  in a world of sadness.


Idea Three: Short film. I just need to start making films! I can't take such an active interest in it and have nothing to show as my own. I had an idea about a escapist mime who falls in love with a man.

I'll keep you posted on how they progress.