Coming Up With Ideas

 For this project, there was three different themes we could choose from:

• Covid-19
• Killer Teddy
• Space (any interpretation of the word allowed)

And for each theme, there was a documentary or drama brief. 

I choose to go with the space drama brief as I felt it had the most leeway for creativity. 

Next it was time to brainstorm ideas, here's some random things I thought of:

• spaced out
• needing space
• large amounts of space
• someone obsessed with space- wants to be friends with the stars
• hear an asteroid is coming to ruin the world, five minutes to live, follows 4 people and how they spend their last minute 
• someone scared of space
• telescope across the street

How to spend your last minute on earth:

• astronomer- too infatuated with the asteroid to notice his pets desperate to say goodbye (obsession)
• writer- finally finishing the last sentence of their life-long novel (completion)
• mother- plating up her children’s final meal (their favourite food) for the last time (denial)
• robber- trying to grab their stuff to go rob (greed)

Telescope:

• boy clearly obsessed with space, has no friends
• looks at the stars every night
• notices a telescope in the window of the house opposite (inciting incident)
• writes a letter, want to watch the stars together? and puts it through the letterbox, no reply
• sits and waits, no reply 
• writes another letter

‘you want SPACE?’

• a fight between a couple over the phone
• Mollie and Sam are long distance and haven’t seen each other for months, he now calls saying he wants some ‘space’

In the end I went with the 'How to spend your last minute on earth' idea as it was the clearest in my mind and we would be able to film it under the current circumstances of being apart as a group whilst keeping continuity.