After watching sufficient episodes of community i plan on making a mystery anonymous puzzle-box poller for literary research (true enough) to be left early in the morning in the 6th form in my aunt's workshop and stayed up yesterday thinking about what i would do on each day of the week. If i do not get one major assignment finished today i could be dropped from a subject if i haven't already and others could follow but I'm doing this anyway because nobody ever does this shit. So far i have thoughts of a collection of "power fantasy" for the first day, "method acting" in order to incite and illuminate both arguments and perhaps build some actual comfortableness and trust, an elaborate conspiracy theory hunt in the school and it's village and something for the final day which will have a sign saying "your idea" pointing to the office of the teacher I'll be trying to sell this too tomorrow in order to encourage a zerg rush for the rest of the year. I need to acquire a well-placed laptop, find out how to make the puzzlebox, come up with a sales pitch and meticulously plan the details whilst finishing the essay which i should have done 3 drafts for in one. I forgot to mention arranging a way to elaborately collect the results whilst encouraging them to see who did it.
I thought of all this after thinking about doing something with the superpowers, cthulu punching ability and manifold threats of DC and Marvel but done genuinely realistically. Strict organisation, properly done secrecy, aliens who are not something brushed aside every week and view us as you might expect people to look at a potentially threatening species like ours (with other worlds like ours), an precisely fermi paradox scale galactic question as to how it even works, no more ridiculous leotards of power, and the kind of paranoia and security you get from MAD-level threats on every conceivable level with the awareness that it only takes one sufficiently powerful unchecked human for humanity to end for someone do it for us. Then i thought i wanted to do this fusion of the avengers and the dark knight and blade runner in space with a central group that was partly struggling, partly unavoidably moving towards the kind of group dynamic and sheer happy feeling of a show like Community and now i think wonder how it's even possible in a world like theirs to answer like it's even possible in a world like ours.
Then i realized that what i actually wanted was to get inside the mind of one of the people who are still... jocks and cheerleaders in a world where the accompaniment of nerds is only growing and the question increasingly rises of where's the distinction or rather why bother. No, that's not it. I wanted to understand how different my worldview is from someone who L'Oreal and soccer ad's are targeted at and who looks into the distance on the bus for slightly too long. I wanted to write something that thinks how they think but is full of slightly(?) uncomfortable edges. I wanted to write a power fantasy that made you understand why you were having it. I wanted to write a show that made as many people as possible look uncomfortably at their friends as they saw something they wanted to watch but didn't want to confess too, and make them think about it.
In summary, I intend to collect source material for both of the above whilst still having the goal of getting something interesting to happen for once and make me and perhaps others stop feeling like we're surrounded by the irritating kids who didn't come into the 6th form and are about to start haranguing them every time they walk into a crowded room.
So, tips?
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Topic: Creating a puzzlebox, a mystery and a change of approach (Read 537 times)