Robert McKee, in his famous screenwriting Bible, “Story” suggests that every story must have a controlling idea and that audiences will become disoriented with a lack of discernible focus in a script. As I referred to in my earlier blog post on Story I absolutely love McKee’s book and read the entire book for the sake of my own research in year 11 of high school, prior to writing both of my last two short films.

When approaching my Project Brief Three I have decided that the controlling idea should be Asher’s (my subject’s) effect on the students who go on his trips and participate in his shows. As a former student of his, I can say, I have been profoundly affected by his generosity, professionalism and teaching over the course of many years in high school. Once I established this focus, I set about designing questions that engage with his love of art and theatre as well as the people he has directly impacted. I plan to use found footage of the previous trips created by students and teachers who were on the trips as B-roll with the main interview.

At the moment my ideas for questions are as follows:

“When did you decide to take a theatrical trip overseas?”

“Why do you think the trips have been so successful?”

“What are your plans for the trips in future?”

At the moment these are very basic questions and I definitely need to expand them before recording my interview!!