After some more group brainstorming and discussion, our ideas for assignment 3 are starting to solidify. We tried to look at boredom and the psychological state of being bored, however it is incredibly difficult to define as a whole. So, from our own experiences, we instead tried to list several types of boredom as an approach to our concept. From the different scenarios we could come up with/recall, a few of the main types of boredom were routine, waiting and lack of stimulation.

We then proceeded to try and come up with ideas for different fragments within these types. We split the ideas into fiction and nonfiction categories. For lack of stimulation (non-fiction) we thought filming dry or bland environments with very little going on could convey this kind of boredom. Obviously we want to avoid boring our audience, however this felt like an appropriate idea. For fiction, we came up with a basic idea of a little sketch that portrays a young person daydreaming in a dull environment. We could then zoom in and get a look inside their head. A pre-existing scene we referenced was a short bit from The Simpsons Movie (2007) where Homer drifts off as Marge is talking to him.

On Monday I couldn’t make it to class, however Gigi and Liam kindly did a short pitch to our class without me, and brought some feedback with them. What I was told was that people liked the theme of boredom and our fragment ideas, however it wasn’t clear how the project would be interactive. This wasn’t something we had put much thought into, so this should be our next step before we start filming our fragments. If we have an idea of how we will put them together, then we can film around that idea. I assume we will be using Korsakow for the project, but we haven’t discussed exactly how we’ll mesh the different pieces together – I’m sure it will be first on the agenda next time we meet as a group.