Project 3

This blog is for my course module "project 3". It's for me to update my lecturers and friends on my journey and process in this 2 months. It's sort of like a production diary.

For the first day, we were put into random groups, although it is an individual project. Each group was given a random scenerio and a set of questions to answer and make a powerpoint to present to the class. I got put into a group with raj, wendy, honey and dion. Our group had a scenerio of a rabbit jumping on a gun and accidentally shooting a rabbit hunter. My group adapted the scenerio and turned it into a story where the protegonist (the rabbit) plots to take it's revenge on the hunter who killed all his friends and family in the forest.

We presented our powerpoint and got some critism. The general feedback was that we did not add in details and we were not really answering the questions as we only put some words to describe our idea. For example, we only describe the character as "pompous" but we did not elaborate how we were going to show that character trait. Some other groups got some feedback as well. I think it was quite a good session as we all got to learn from the different feedbacks.

For the second day, we had to prepare 3 weird stories we found from the internet. We had to share these stories with our groupmates and after that, we had to try and remember all their stories as we have to tell the whole class each other's stories. Some of the stories were really interesting and funny while some were a bit sad and morbid. It was rather entertaining while searching all these weird stories. It's amazing how people can do such weird things!

The three stories i got was one about people having a keyboard throwing competition: http://www.en.rian.ru/russia/20090415/121134594.html

Another was about a dude getting struck by lightning out of nowhere on a sunny day:
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/strangedeaths/960/bolt_from_the_blue.html

and the third was about some old man who grew horns on his head after thinking excessively of wanting one:
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/medicalbag/535/horny_old_man.html

I ended up picking the 2nd story, the one about the guy getting struck by lightning. I thought it was quite funny (yes i am pretty sadistic) so i chose it.

But however, the scenerio was quite short so i had to think up of a story to extend it. After thinking for a while, I came up with this rough story:

An unlucky guy gets stuck up lightning upteen times in his hometown, Tampa, Florida, which happens to be an area which has the most thunderstorms in a year. He tried all ways to avoid the lightnings and took necessary precautions but he still got struck by lightning anyway. Fed up, he hatched up a plan to get away from his hometown and escape to a sunny state.
Finally, after years of saving, he had enough money to move to Rhode islamd. He thought he was finally saved and was relieved. But his happiness was short lived...
The lightning, miles away followed him all the way to his new home and struck him. He could not escape the LIGHTNING! *dramatic music*

yeaaa...hmmm. That is roughly what i might be doing for P3. There's still quite alot to consider though. I'm not sure what style i should go for yet and if the style/story can be understood by children etc. so i guess i'll sleep on it. :]