COMMISSIONS UNIT: Ideas Lab

We had an ideas lab with Zoe to help us in our search for ideas. She gave us ideas for where to look for our ideas and where to take them once we had found them.

- Follow up on things that interest you - have curiosity
- Keep all contacts in a book to have a collection of sources
- Look where mainstream media doesn't focus

Zoe showed us a documentary she was involved with:

The School That Turned Chinese

She explained how things change from the pitch to the actual production. Casting changes and also the premise of the show may change slightly - depending how it is received.


- Brainstorm ideas with energetic people
- Investigate your ideas
- Look for authentic information
- Look for archive footage
- What is in your story? What will they want to find out?
- Need to make audience want to commit their time to it
- Strong characters
- Relatable themes - mind, heart or wallet
- Strong narrative and structure
- Great characters, human emotion and beautiful pictures.

I didn't have an idea to tell Zoe so I will brainstorm some ideas in order to have something to work with for our ideas support session.