Pre-Production: Ideas Research

After not hearing back from Dynamo or his agent I decided to try and come up with a backup plan. For this project to be a success, I don't need any celebrity, it was just an idea that really captivated my interest and one I could relate to. The more I am in love with the project the more I will want to apply myself, because it becomes a hobby just as much as work when making it. If I was to choose something I won't enjoy it would be as good at the end. I believe that the end result of a project is reflective of the enjoyment and work that has gone into it.

After doing a lot of research into ideas from various news articles, stories and television shows I have scanned through a lot of ideas and none of them i have loved until now. I did intend on a documentary on 'Earth Angles'. 'Earth Angels' come from other dimensions and can also be mermaids, fairies or aliens from another planet.' These are real people and they aren't taken seriously (for obvious reasons).



It was after coming up with this idea and watching an episode of Roald Dahl's 'Tales of the unexpected' that I came up with this idea of making a documentary on something that isn't real and make it feel as though it is real. So, I would use an urban myth or a fake news story and create a documentary on that subject that makes it sound serious and to trick the audience into believing it. In a way this is a mocumentary, without mocking. Something else that really inspired this idea was when Orson Welles read 'War of the Worlds' on the radio in America in 1958 as news bulletins. Tales of the unexpected seems to work so incredibly well because you are lead through this story all the way along and are given certain parts of information the make the story straight forward to follow with a few hidden trails along the way. Then at the end there is this huge twist which completely changes direction and how comfortable the audience is. Everything they've been told so far is in many ways a lie.






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