In this week of Story Lab we did an activity called “Story Smash” in which we had to take our own ideas for a story and somehow combine them into a single universe.

The idea’s that had to be combined were

• A  film student director making a film about an amateur director making a film about a indie film director making a film about a big name Hollywood director making a film. With the original director and thier associates playing the starring roles in each film where they assume vastly different relationships and personalities. Eventually driven to insanity by being unable to tell which “layer” they are on at any one point.
• Someone with access to another person”s (who died) computer and all the persona files/photgrpahghs etc.. and peicing together what type of person they would have been and how it differed from they’re actual life.

Combining these wasn’t too difficult and the easiest and most obvious way was to make the person being profiled by their computer files be the director. The person piecing the different files, images and video’s together would also have to deal with the complexity of the 4 layers of films the director was making, possibly even having to finish the film if all the parts were never edited together and the director died before finishing it.

This idea will most likely not be used for the major Project Brief this semester, but it was intersting and fun to think up all the different scenario’s and how the two stories could be combined as well as applying transmedia applications.