Day 09 Tuesday 050509

Today my group mates and I gathered together to brainstorm on ideas for assignment 2. Last week, we thought of two ideas and we discussed on the ideas again. If we worked on the first idea, we will need to find different culture costumes and do make up of different races face. We don't have the budget to rent those costumes or get a professional make up artist to help us do the make up, so we gave up on this idea.

The second idea was the HDB flat idea. I myself think that if we shoot the multi camera scene of the residents come out of their house and running down the stairs will be very nice. Some of the shots, we can even do in slow motion. But after discussion, we thought that the residents might not willing to help us act out. If we don't have residents to help us act, this whole idea will fail. We were also afraid that we can't finish the work in time if we worked on this idea. We can't think of better way to improve the idea, so we decide to think of a new idea.

Our final idea was about a boy dressed as a pirate and ride his scooter to go around to search for treasures. He met a nurse girl sitting on the bench doing check up on a injured teddy bear. The girl then looked at her watch and quickly stand up blow the whistle. Everyone all stopped moving and looked at her. She then starts to recite the pledge. Blowing the whistle is like a signal to all the children in the world that the time has come to recite the pledge. Children at different places will stop doing their stuffs and starts to recite the pledge too.

These children each of them have their own occupation like some are florist, rich madam and others. In the end of the video, we will get a girl holding a red and white balloon to recite the pledge and let the balloons float up to the sky. All of us think that this idea was the best and we all want to work on this idea. After that, we went to consult Bertrand on our idea and he said it can be execute but we need to find quite a few children to help us act. Casting is our main problem we need to face, but we told him that we already had a few children in mind and we can also find random children to help us act too.

We further develop on the idea and decide the roles for this assignment. I am the producer, Kirin is the cameraman, Sholleh is the editor and Andrea is the director.