Starting Over (again)

Well the idea did not stick. Faye expressed her creative block in terms of adapting the story from stage to screen, it wasn't clicking and she was hoping to create a film opening that was more artistic and abstract, like we had discussed early on. I wanted to respect her vision and agreed with her in many aspects, so we started over. After all, the best advice for anyone who is starting out writing is "write what you know" and personally, I don't know anything about lawyers or death for that matter. So "write what you know" we did:

Our new idea would follow a young artist facing artist's block. It's a simple idea to begin with, but one that both of us relate to; Faye and I are both writers who have faced plenty writer's block in the past, and anyone who suffers from being artistically expressive will undoubtedly connect with the story. Our main character feels a cathartic freedom when painting, so when she hits block, anxiety takes over, and it's revealed that she suffers from hallucination as a part of the opening. The hypothetical film would follow her journey as young teenager struggling with her art and her mental health, as well as her social and familial ties (writing what we know!). 

The main aspect that drove this idea was a visual choice. To represent her artist's block, Faye explained a phenomena inspired from the show Love, Death, and Robots, Episode Zima Blue where a blue square obstructs the middle of each piece of art created, gradually inducing an ethereal and abstract sense of self art.

For our main character, this is what she hallucinates, her own art with a piece missing from it, leaving the piece incomplete. It represents her artist's block, but can be interpreted in a larger sense that something is missing from her life or in her identity (which would be explored throughout the film).

That's the basics of the idea, and we're working on expanding it and creating a storyboard for it. I'm really excited for this one, its visually engaging and both Faye and I are content with it. More to come soon.