IDEA #1 – PUPPETS!!!!
My most prominent skills in IMM are in video production, design, and fabrication. While brainstorming over the summer about what could combine my love for comedy, writing, children’s TV, set design, and prop design, I came to PUPPETS! I thought about how I loved The Muppets, Sesame Street, and a very weird show on Nickelodeon in 2005 called Mr. Meaty, and suddenly making a pilot for a show starring puppets made a lot of sense. I’m pretty deep into pre-production right now and feeling really excited about it. (Short synopsis: Two best friends take on seventh grade in “FREAK AND THE BEAST.”) I’ve already built a prototype puppet and finalized designs for the sets. I hope to have 5 characters (including an Anything Muppet) and 4 sets to create an 11 minute pilot.
IDEA #2 – MINIATURE TECH DOLLHOUSE
Since Freak and the Beast already combines so many of my interests, it was hard to think of an idea with all the previous things I mention taken off the table, but I guess one of my passions I haven’t explored in IMM is miniatures. I think it’d be fun to create a modern dollhouse with an accurate portrayal of how many screens are in a typical household. You can buy LED screens pretty small, so it’d be cool to have functioning screens in the dollhouse, all playing era-accurate media like YouTube and Netflix. I like the idea of the juxtaposition between dollhouses (which you might picture as pretty vintage) and an accurate portrayal of technology in the household.
IDEA #3 – DIGITAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Honestly, even if it wasn’t related to my career, I’d probably continue with puppets because I love them so much, and even more since I’ve started research. If I couldn’t do puppets, I’d probably write and illustrate a digital graphic novel, because I love those, but I knew I wanted to so something way more involved and layered for my thesis.
