Idea development

A member of our group (Ashley) put forward an idea for the plot. The main premises of the idea is to display a mid-life crisis in the form of a raindrop, though that may be putting it simply. The plot is about what little effect a raindrop (metaphor for us humans of this earth) we have in our short time on this planet and the original idea showed a rain drop falling into a puddle to cause nothing but a pathetic little ripple but have it contribute to the billions of ripples caused by the metaphor of billions of people to eventually end up as a giant tide.

As this idea developed it became more focused around the drop itself and its changes during its life and from this we moved on to changing the main centre of the attention to the drop itself. What was just a "transition" (as Ashley called it) became the main opportunity to portray our story and we see the drop lose its limbs and eyes. With the drop having more of the spotlight it simplified the rest of the story by default and the plan to show a tide was changed to a gradual zoom out to show the size of the puddle in contrast to the overpowering size of the earth. Storyboards were exchanged and the idea was nearly ready to be executed