This article was an awesome article. It was helpful in so many ways that it is going to be difficult to just critique three of them; however I will only do three because I prefer not to do four for this blog post.
3. Fantasize -
To fantasize is one of the best things to do in life - to create your own perspectives and ideas, invent your own objects, make people do what you want in your mind. Fantasizing, as I agree with Ditkoff, is definitely one of the musts to get a breakthrough idea. One of my guilty pleasures is to fantasize zombie attacks, such as Day of the Dead, and what I would do if one were to happen right now. Well, right now I am sitting at my desk, so if one were to occur I would run to a car, hijack it, and get to Wal-mart so that I can have shelter and everything else that exists because if it exists, then Wal-mart has it. See, I was off on one of my fantasies again - they are so easy to get into. But my guilty pleasure of fantasizing that lead me to have an awesome idea for a movie that I acted on and created with one of my best friends a few summers ago. That is why I agree on this one.
2. Listen to your subconscious -
Have you ever had a dream that you thought would make an awesome movie? I do all the time - so much that I keep logs and then create stories out of them. The subconscious is so amazing in that way - things seem so realistic when your asleep, yet what occurs is so radical that the concepts are sometimes amazing. I once had this dream that an American extremist group evolved to create a mass terrorism attack on America - yet it was set about 50 in the future. The landscaping and building were awesome, and so were the cars and roads. But what stuck out the most to me was this highway exit/entrance thing that looked like a giant beehive of weaving roads right outside this future city. I found it to be so amazing that I have kept the image in my head and hope to one day write the dream story into a movie and use that image. Dreams are amazing to help create ideas.
1. Suspend logic -
What would have Inception been like if not for the verisimilitude it presented in helping us believe that going into dreams was possible. If we watched the movie and thought literally throughout, the movie would have been terrible. We enjoy that movie because we suspend our thoughts on whats real and not real. Yes, dream invasion is not possible, but how much fun is it to believe that it is for 2 hours? We need to let go of gravity when brainstorming for ideas that could be breakthrough..let our inner-child free and imagine whatever we want. Media is the one place where humans can fly, and aliens do exist. That is why I found suspending logic to be the #1 way.
Prompting Action:
As I mentioned before, I have a guilty pleasure of fantasizing about zombie attacks. And as I also mentioned, I took action to this fantasy in creating a short movie. But my fantasies are not just limited to zombie attacks. I fantasize in books - in what the authors's write, I imagine the actions and events my own way, I create faces for the characters. In this form of fantasizing, I could turn the books into screenplays, and those screenplays into movies. And that is how fantasizing prompts action from me - so that I will one day turn an epic story into an epic movie.
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