Brainstorming

So I feel like I've been in a bit of a rut with this whole blog thing. I've been having difficulties figuring out exactly what to write about and how to write it, but now that I have been looking into some of the really well done blogs such as Nick's and Lucie's, I have noticed what I am really missing. Myself. Yes my last posts were about research and that can be quite boring at times, I still feel like I need to spice things up a bit and make things more personal. I feel like I'm a fun person and this project is kinda making me seem wayyyyy too serious. Also, when I'm looking back at this blog as a 30 year-old I don't want to see a bunch of clips with meaningless research text underneath.

With all that said, I'm making this post for brainstorming purposes. Raul and I have been deeply thinking about what we want our story to be. This part of the process is not only the most annoying (because I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start) but it is also the most tedious. Us teens have a lot going on inside our heads so it is kinda hard to pull out a banger idea in the matter of days.

BUT, we do know something, and we DO have ideas. We know that our film opening is going to be relating to the teen drama genre. Raul and I have decided on this but we haven't really thought of specific story lines, at least not together... From my individual brainstorming I've come up with a couple broad ideas:

1. A misfit teenage boy is unhappy with his home life so he often sneaks out to places he is not supposed to be. 
Okay here me out, I was thinking maybe we shoot at Everglades Holiday Park for the opening shot consisting of the main character thinking by himself in the wild. Then it cuts to him at home where he is having dinner with his family. I would emphasize his unhappiness being at home, and then possibly have a sequence of him sneaking out after dinner.

2. A teenage boy sneaks out to hang out with friends.
For this idea, I would start with a dinner scene with family and then have the main character constantly looking out the window to see his friends urging him to sneak out. Then after I'll do a sequence of the kid sneaking out and enjoying life with his friends. I know you are probably wondering, "Pearse, what is your obsession with family dinners and sneaking out?!" Let me reassure you I'm just brainstorming silly!

3. Collage??
So the truth is, I don't really have a third idea... at least not yet, but I didn't wanna seem lazy and only have two, so by collage I mean doing a sequence of shots with music behind it as the opening. I see a lot of films being opened in this manner usually introducing setting or characters, so maybe I can do that of a school, or maybe different friends in a friend group. Yeah, I pretty much made up this idea a couple minutes ago and the more I write about it the more it interests me. Looks like this blog helps after all!