We began our brainstorm by throwing ideas around. We didn’t restrict or tie down our ideas to any logic. But that is how it should be to encourage creativity.   

We mentioned ideas such as language, light and dark contrast, darkness, horror, beatbox, story, and dancing by yourself. Of course, we probably won’t use all of these ideas, but we considered each one individually. We figured since we are a diverse group, we would be able to incorporate various languages in our video and provide subtitles to those who don’t understand. The idea of multiple languages came from the various shows we have been too. For each show we attended, the performers spoke a different language. 

We included ideas of light and dark contrast, darkness, and horror as a reference to Nosferatu. These elements are taken into account in the form of lighting and setting. The lighting in our video may seem lighter or darker at certain points to put emphasis on situations or things. The idea of horror can be used to reflect the setting and the environment we might film in.

Some ideas may seem random such as beatboxing, but we included that because we had to create our own music. Beatboxing seemed like a reasonable sound activity. I don’t believe anyone in our group can beatbox, but we have garageband. Our other options for music were instruments. There are a few people in our group that are capable of creating music.

Of course, this was just our thought process. It isn’t set in stone and we may or may not create a video based on these ideas.

By Alan Chen, Kevin Cheng, Cheng Dong, Karen Choi, Nicholas Arniotes, Christine Yan, Hanna Yoo 

Citations:

Malan, Ruth. “A Big Idea.” Trace in the Sand. 17 Nov. 2009. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. JPEG.

Emran. “Welcome in multiple languages composed in the shape of a speech bubble.” ShutterShock. n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.

Zenger, Felix. “Beatbox- Felix Zenger.”Youtube, Youtube. Online Video Clip. 13 Jun. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.