Third Year Ideas - The Results

Monday has come and gone, and this is what happened:

Idea no. 1 - "Redamancy"

I was with Sue Loughlin, and she, as a classmate put it, has a very "producer head on her shoulders and a sell it to me attitude." I liked her for her business sense, though I feel our personal sense of aesthetics don't quite match up. I did my best to tell her about the film, but I didn't really feel like divulging the whole story (It was a group tutorial, didn't want to take up much time). She said the idea had "some strength" and that the style I wanted to go with (cel-shaded character with water color backgrounds) is a "tried and tested method."

The advice wasn't exactly uplifting, but it was good nonetheless. Maybe next time I'll bother to tell her the whole story. Her misunderstanding of the initial idea did clue me into that I need to rework my tagline. I originally opened with, "It's about a man who is waiting for his wife to die, and there's nothing he can do about it but sit and wait. ...the theme is accepting death." I had to also kind of awkwardly slip in that he was ghost, too. She had this constant sort of "Oh dear" look on her face so I was a bit scared. Didn't even bother to mention the hospice nurse is supposed to be a reaper.

She did make one suggestion that I'm considering: The man is alive and when they walk out in the end, it shows the man "moving on" to a new life as his wife ascends. Though, that poses a problem. The reason the hospice nurse can see the ghost is because she's supposed to be a reaper, but if the husband is alive, what reason does he have for seeing her? Ah well. Even if it doesn't make sense, it's still poetic. I'll try to talk to Andy or Stuart about it.

Idea no. 2 - "The Little Gentleman"

This was a film I had done in Foundation and really like the look of, so I wanted to redo it as a third year. I've really held on to the character and have grown quite fond of him. The gag was simple: The hero goes to his basement to "fix" (read swift kick) his boiler, and when he goes back down to fix it again, it explodes.

Needless to say, Sue wasn't too fond of it. It looks like the tutors are looking for films with "deep meaning" this year. While the film's a good memory, the narrative isn't exactly going to make Socrates wet himself.

Idea no. 3 - "The Apartment of the Dead"

Again another film I just liked the look of. "Apartment of the Dead" was going to be about the landlord and its tenants (specifically the zombie pictured above) dealing with each other. Hadn't really thought about the narrative other than the scene pictured above where the landlord is berating the zombie about past due rent while completely ignoring the fact that IT'S A ZOMBIE.

I was going to try and combine artistic nuances from old favorites like Jhonen Vasquez and Gabriel Roman as well as George Romero, but again, this idea was shot down. Ah well. I'll probably just work on this at some later time. (Maybe as a comic strip.)

Updates coming soon.