We played around with remixing stories this week – different from the usual remixing music and sometimes videos that I’m used to. (a great mix of both – CLICK HERE)

In our peer groups we created a simple story (ours was guy and girl on a trip, pick up a hitch hiker who ends up killing them) and we have to completely turn it on it’s head (guy and girl meet a hostel owner, who takes them to a cult night in the woods and they get killed).

This was a really fun technique on how to jazz up a plain story. Wanting to be a scriptwriter in my future, I come up with a lot of stories, and I find a lot have been done before or are just too boring and unoriginal. Using this technique made it quite easy to get the creative juices flowing and spark ideas.

This week made me think differently about story writing. I always tried to be original, and when I found something too similar to my idea I would feel like I had failed and had to continue to make it even more unoriginal. But the video we watched in class made me realise that nowadays nothing is original. Humanity has been around for long enough that everything has been thought of. Especially with over 100 years of cinema, a lot has been filmed. The video by Kirby Ferguson stated that “Creation requires influence”. He pointed out that even Star Wars was influenced by plenty of films that came before it. Especially the opening credits I always thought was original but actually came from the film Flash Gordon.

Back to this week’s project, each peer in the group had to take a part of Transmedia-ing our idea up. I wrote the script, and my partners wrote a short story and a marketing campaign. (See Below).

It was also quite interesting to see how different people interpreted the idea we came up with together.