Investigation Post 2/27

Work Log

Monday:  N/A

Tuesday: Idea 1 Writing

Wednesday: Idea 1 Writing

Thursday: Idea 2 Writing

Friday: Idea 2 Writing

Brainstorming

This week, I spent some time brainstorming ideas for future films and stories that I think would be cool to make. I put some time and thought into the basic ideas, characters, and plot developments that could take over the course of them.

Themes: 

Idea 1: World where people's worth is determined by their "Value," a number that is publicly displayed on their chests (where their hearts are). Governmental taxes/money, social class, eligibility for public special positions, societal restrictions; everything is decided by someone's Value. How does the Value system work? It's simply the percentage of people that like you, including yourself.

A Plot is of a character who starts at the bottom, called a "Nothing," as he has a Value of 0 (meaning he does not like himself either). He is discriminated and hated on, as people assume that anyone below 60 Value is a bad person and deserves it.

- The Nothing meets someone by chance of luck. First episode ends with main character going from 0 to 0.001; 1/1000.

- By second or third episode the main character comes to value themself, raising their number slightly higher.

- Main character has a trait of desiring acceptance even if he doesn't think he deserves it.

B Plot of someone at the top: a celebrity with 96 Value. He starts as everyone else that high does: simply wanting a higher Value to be at the peak of human acceptance.

Police officer character who maybe experiences both worlds and their ugliness?

Ending with somehow the main character(s) breaking the system by no longer caring how others view them and only on how they values themselves. 

Major theme is that the worth (or value) of something can be measured two ways for someone, how others view it or how the person views it themself. Sometimes it's worthwhile to value something based on how others do, but it isn't always a good idea to do that.

Biggest issue is the actual plot of the show. Is it a political drama? A violent rebellion? Mystery of how the world/government got this way? Idk.

Idea 2: A man and a young girl (somewhere around 10) wander a post-apocalyptic world. The man says he wants to find his family, the girl wants to be safe.

Man wants nothing to do with the girl, but she needs someone to protect and is persistent with having the man keep her safe.

They develop a father/daughter bond.

Themes of family (not blood related). Both characters have backstories that relate to how they lost their families. The story ends with them finding new family.

The man deep down knows that he has lost his family (early on it's about accepting the fact), so his actual goal in "finding his family" is to bury them to bring closure.

The destruction of the world was within their lifetimes. When the world was reaching its destruction point, the man was unable to stop the calamity from taking his family. After accepting his own death, he saw the young girl and decided to protect her with what he thought were his dying breaths so that at least someone would be able to "carry on." However, obviously the two did not perish. There was essentially a time skip between when they were about to die and when they wake up.

Mystery of how the world came to be.

Slight talk about how society reacted to the politics of the impending calamity (similar to COVID polarization), really focusing on the unhelpful arguments that people go through when they hate on each other and associate political beliefs with quality of person. A person's value is greater than a group of their beliefs.

Man was from one side of the spectrum, the girl was from the other. This creates some of the tension.