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Major concept

Although I should really be concentrating on my essay right now, I've come up with what I think to be a completely brilliant idea for my major project next year (BAIMP3 08-9).

Although I have no intention of baring all yet, I will say that it is a feature-length documentary with the working title Interactive Parallel-Narrative Documentary About The Making Of Itself. I hope that is enough to pique your interest.

If it is to be feature-length, then I will need to script, film and edit - at a guess - about ten hours of documentary. That's a low estimate, by the way.

Ambitious? Oh, certainly. I spoke to Mik earlier today (one of my tutors for those not in the know) about the idea, and he seemed quite opposed to it on the grounds of the extraordinary amount of work. I see where he is coming from. I do, however, really want to create an exhibitive piece for my major, and I think I've nailed the concept I want to work on. I just need to flesh it out.

Obviously, there being this much to do, I expect that this project will eat up the next year or so of my life completely. I will have to drop all my other personal projects, even Blinding Flesh. But, frankly, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to spending the entire summer scripting it. I'm daydreaming about the possible narrative arcs I could use (hence having still not done my essay). I have to think about this, though. No point creating a feature-length film if the most fundamental part of it sucks. Apparently the BATV students only have to create twenty-minute shorts, but I'm confident that I can make a 60 to 90 minute film work, and work well at that.

I'll be using this notepad (blog for the unpretentious of you that call it what it is) to record my progress on the project, though I will not actually be elaborating at all further on the concept. I want to keep it as secret as possible until I release the film; partly to keep it fresh, and partly because I have no doubt someone will attempt to rip off the idea before I've even finished.

I won't be starting proper until the end of term, but while it's on my mind I felt this was worth posting along with the item on SVG. Now to the front room with my headache and a notepad to try to get on with this essay.