Ideation Crit

Ideation Visuals

So the first week we were given the title of our assignment, we jumped on it real quickly and immediately came up with a story..

Our original idea:

 But then we changed it a little by adding more depth to the chief and rookie, also adding in a 'reporter'.

In the end, our finalised plot were none of these as they're too complicated to be filmed in just a short amount of time.

Contextual Definitions

In order to figure what exactly we want our cult to be about, we had a discussion..

Lisa first came up with the idea of a group of code breakers. Just obsessed with the act of cracking the unknown.

But that wasn't enough.

In our next discussion we sourced out interesting mysteries that were never solved & made that the "Why?" in this cult's love of code breaking.

We finally came up with a solid manifesto:

Codes, signs, pictography have been around for hundreds of years, which also started evolution of language.

Civilization comes along and emerging geniuses throughout time (such as Da Vinci), those who understood codes, and created some themselves - how his works always have a meaning behind them in the form of a puzzle or a code - and how he was always more intellectual than everyone else.

Because of this, they gain more and more followers as these commoners believe that these geniuses have access to other more divine knowledge out there.

Possibilities of extra-terrestrial life, immortality, time travel, everything that was ever questionable.

Throughout time, leaders of this cult change which also change the mood of the cult but they never change they're ultimate goal.

To seek.

They live among us. They govern pop culture.

Design References

The illuminati

Reading on other cults have helped us get an idea of how we want to individualize our own.

http://list25.com/25-greatest-unsolved-mysteries-ever/

In order to have a little realism in our cult's manifesto we did a little research about true unsolved mysteries of our time.

Surprisingly, MANY of them were artifacts that consisted of a bunch of codes and unknown language that can't seem to be deciphered.

Just outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, you will behold a statue that has coded encryptions on its surface. This very captivating sculpture was created by Jim Sanborn to show that everything can be resolved and decoded with the use of patterns and clues. Of the four inscription sections that were included, only the first three have been cracked. But the fourth? Not even the brilliant minds in the CIA were able to get to the bottom of it.

In Staffordshire, England, there is a sculpture that has invited the wits and intellect of many intellectuals in an attempt to decode an inscription reading DOUOSVAVVM. Although the Shepherd’s Monument was constructed back in the 18th century, the letters found therein were never solved, even 250 years after it was completed.

The next reference we did was on blade runner in order to get an idea of how we want to film our story.

What I noticed in this film was how the lighting was used in order to create shadows and give it it's film noir feel even though it was in colour.

Other than that, the use of subliminal messaging is very clever.

Jamie showed us a video on the basics of film noir lighting that I'm sure will be used during production.

Dialogue/Narrative

At last!! Our finalized plot!

The cult steals a code,

the reporter finds out.

*during investigation, she comes across a very insightful blog written by an anonymous blogger. She goes to find blogger.

Her research continues.

Cult notices reporter's intelligence useful for their code-breaking, requests reporter to join them.

She does, thinking she may be a spy inside this society.

(The blogger, who is a great fan of the cult,

is a psycho. - The blogger is obsessed with wanting to join the cult,

but the cult has always rejected her.)

Reporter knows nothing about this and *continues making visits to blogger to extract more background about cult as so far, cult has only given her orders to carry out their work - to solve the stolen code.

With intensified feelings of jealousy and wanting to help the cult achieve their goal, blogger pushes reporter deeper into the cult whereby she gets used.

Then, when there was no use for the reporter to be in the cult anymore *as the code from stolen item has been solved & new information has been acquired,

the reporter realises what is going on, and tries to leave.

Cult could not risk anyone smart telling the world what they were doing,

so they killed the reporter.

*New information is immediately tested on breaking the ultimate code and is successful, cult carries on with learning the new knowledge to be presented to their leader.

They mapped out everything and meet at a secret location.

*On the eve of transferring what has been discovered, blogger appears.

either we hear a trigger pulled, or a dialogue

Scene ends, narrator speaks.

"We are all unconscious

and being manipulated by cults around us

its just an example just to bring a kind of depth

and implement it to our reality"

This ^ needs a lil' tweaking, sentence phrasing-wise but yes main ideea of thesis is there..

who kills who? is the cult too sick of the blogger and she end up witht he same fate as reporter? or was the blogger out to get the cult all along?


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