Story Ideas - Erg

It's week 4, and I still can't choose which story to go with...

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arrrrrrrrrrgh. I like both main characters of both stories : / and I know that whichever one I choose to go with, I'll work on the other one in my free time, it just depends which one I wanna get marked on I guess?

I think i'm leaning towards the musical if anything...it'd add guys to my portfolio, and really help me with my anatomy and use of colour

but I have all these little ideas for both that I like, arrgh

The Ring - Experiment - Style - Ombre

Experimenting with portraying "ombre" hair colouring (half dyed)

I think I'd like the make the mc a counter point to Samara...like a

monochrome palette

long black straight hair, ombre into white tips

black plain shift dress

I'm not totally sure why yet I just think it'd be interesting

I also keep forgetting to sign my stuff :/

Story Idea - The Ring - Pondering

Jotting down before I go to bed so I don't forget this as a possibility...

- Thinking of combining the vintage design dealer with the ring idea

-main character vintage searching finds (?) videos
-knows vaguely of legend behind it but doesn't truly believe it, slightly believes it (?)
-finds other videos, and uploads them up to computer, ends up seeing "ring" video through that
-has a movie screening with (large number) of friends
-"ring" video accidently is played on projector
(meaning she's safe then cause she's technically passed the video on, should figure this out later?)

-people would be called...on phones?

-mc freaks out a little, friends promise to come back with mc in 7 days


- in 7 days, same spot, samara stuff starts to happen (water dripping, flashing on and off)
-mc and a couple of others (?) escapes with laptop (and wifi stick i guess??)
-figures out to pass along
-comes up with plan to overload samara with people
-uploads as torrent film under a popular film title

-starts being downloaded and watched

annnnnnd something something something, goes viral etc.

i'm not sure, to be continued possibly.



(what would be lovely is if the films had actual guidelines how this damn video works...)

Quick Sketch - Pondering

Not really liking this at the moment but I wanted to jot the idea down before I forgot

Namely: 

keyboard - bring in technology

hair - Samara, evil

letters - title of film

Links - Thrilller

Links that describe the THRILLER genre, which I'd need to pay attention to if I was to the "The Ring" idea, which is classified as a Thriller, as well as Mystery and Horror

LINKS

http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/thriller

http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html

http://hannahbuttersasmedia.blogspot.com.au/p/thriller-genre-conventions.html

http://www.slideshare.net/lewisharland/conventions-of-the-thriller-genre-11373344

Story Idea

I still havent thought of much for story ideas yet but I know I like the idea of playing around with an existing story. Whether it be putting a new spin on a old fairytale or making a sequel to an existing series and playing around with the rules of it's universe...

I was thinking I could possibly do this with "The Ring" series. I never really liked horror films but this one always felt more like a thriller to me and I thought the concept was really interesting. What I think I would do is to update aspects of it  the video tape, characters etc. and see how far this concept can be stretched

If someone was to upload the ring video and make it a file that could easily be passed around and torrented then it could reach millions of people very quickly.



Of course I'd need to research more of the backstory to see whether it would be possibly for that many people to be targeted by Samara (the ring girl) and I know she comes out of the tv, but if possible could she come out of any screen? computers, mobiles etc.?

I've had a bit of a look around, and there's rumours of a second sequel but there's little talk of the story (and none of it talks about torrents or anything similar to mine, which is good...) apart from wanting to aim at a younger audience/teenagers, which would work easily with the focus on new technology possibly?

Problems with this idea, possibly, that my art style doesnt really fit with horror? and that i don't really like horror films? hm...
Also from what I heard in class, some people are thinking of doing futuristic sci-fi settings, and while mine wouldnt be futuristic it would still be present-day modern with a focus on technology which may look too similar to theirs??

So in summary:

first idea, The Ring 3, updated for present day, torrented files, new characters would be made too