Where did you get that from?

In the Week 1 reading, he says,

“The content of the story told on film will be shaped by the medium itself.”

I get my ideas from all sorts of “unimaginable” areas. Some are bizarre, some are ‘normal’, but when put on specific mediums, they are sometimes perceived as a radically different idea and piece from what was originally proposed.

She also mentions that ideas for a film could be anything, and ultimately a plot or structure has to be constituted for that idea, but they do not necessarily have to be starting points. I find myself subjugated to a ‘system’ whereby I brainstorm, and I write the script or screenplay. Plunkett’s fine examples show exactly how do you actually ‘get’ an idea.