First Stages: Mind-Mapping Ideas.

FIRST STAGES: MIND MAPPING IDEAS

The first stages of starting the final major project, consisted of creating mind maps and research of potential ideas to use. 


I researched animation at the very beginning, because I figured that animation is one of the mediums that I have rarely used. I researched Muto Wall Animations, this artists work is unreal, it's very creative and it's inventive as well. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4 - a link to one of Muto's Wall Animations.


After exploring animation, I wanted to expand my concepts and research, which I began looking at documentaries. 


I thought about relating it to people near my age (16-24) I wanted to think about something that would interest them, or would have some kind of relevance to them. This is when I thought about drinking and nights out. As soon as a teenager hits 18, there weekends consist of pubs, clubs and booze and there summers consist of that one mental summer holiday to one of the party islands. 


So, I researched television programmes like Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents, which gave us a documentary insight to the lives of teenagers with there parents reactions. I thought about other channels that have covered documentaries, which is when I thought of Channel 4, when they had there documentary, "The Family". This programme consisted of cameras put up around a families home where we saw what an average family got up to day in and day out. 


Programmes like this interest me, knowing what other people do of there normal day, intrigues me. 


My idea was to do a documentary based local version of these two programmes mixed. I thought about aiming to go out on a thursday, friday and saturday night over the course of about 2 weeks, and film teenagers, on a night out, having interviews, filming there good to bad state of the generation itself, and potential fights breaking out and people passing out. 


I wanted to make it unique, this is when I thought about adding the animation twist. As an example, I used the programme "teen mom", the style of this programme is laid out how I intended my documentary to be laid out. The beginning bit is hand drawn animation, and in some scenes they used hand drawn animated characters, it makes the programme more related to teenagers and gives it a personal touch. This could make the skill level higher for my FMP. 


Creating the pitch board with all these ideas, was the next stage...