As I thought more and more about what I want to do for my final assessment, I kept coming back to the idea of a very grounded and realistic world set in the future. I’ve thought about how I can do this whilst telling and interesting story, however it’s been difficult coming up with something to settle on. Something I’ve also seriously considered would place a protagonist from the future in the modern day. To me it’s an interesting concept but I feel as if I can’t create much of a world without at least a brief overview of what my narrative will be. So basically I know the kind of ideas I’m thinking of doing, but I’ve struggled to make up my mind completely. I think I’ll look at some scenes and even the scripts from some films I’ve enjoyed that are in a similar vein for some inspiration.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Edward Furlong (right) in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). Source: http://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/terminator-2-judgment-day-i103064/7e8a4f13

Terminator 2: Judgement Day is one of my favourite movies ever, so I might look at the script for that. A couple of characters from the future in a modern setting is shown here (although they are terminators so it’s a bit different). I love the grounded world in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013), which I’ll investigate as well. Hopefully I can take the influence these texts have had on me and create something unique of my own.