Summer Project Diary - Week Two

The problem I had been having was thinking of solid script ideas that wouldn't satisfy a solid website. I had one idea that was loosely based on fact, about a kid losing his empire in the shape of his grandfather. Every other weekend before each visit, the child writes stories to narrate to his pa and looks forward to playing football with him in the park. However on the next visit to his hero's home, the grandfather is dying and can no longer do the things he used to be able to do with his sole grandchild. For example, he has no energy to kick around a ball in the field and he falls alseep when the kid tries to read him one of his stories on the sofa. The kid doesn't understand what is going on and is naturally upset by his grandfather's inability to go through the usual fun activities. I thought this was a nice idea as it showed the empire as being something simple yet enormously important to a young boy's eyes. However I couldn't think of many ways in which it could relate to a website. I thought of a forum option where users could post their own favorite memories and things to do with their grandfather when they were young but that's about as far as I think it could go in terms of interactive media.

Then in the next meeting my fellow scriptwriter came up with an idea about what people would do with their last minute on earth which fitted in well with the website idea. People could say what they would do with their last minute on earth and we could post theories on why the world was ending, video diaries, interviews etc. It was an idea that definitely suited the big project idea that we need to make the summer project a success. In the next meeting we decided that we wanted to show six different perspectives, or six seperate films that might link together to show different emotions of how people feel about the world's end. I will write three as will my fellow scripwriter. Writing is in progress. Watch this space.