Drama Project - further concepts

Having spoken to Sarah and Oliver, who have also been thinking about our new drama project brief,  we began to share some initial ideas and discuss the possibilities for approaching the brief. The brief is quite broad, with just being given the word 'journey', this leaves a lot of room for creativity and can be interpreted in a number of ways.

We initially began discussing the project and agreed that although we weren't entirely fixed on a clear concept yet, we did know that we did not want to make this a literal journey for the audience to view, and instead we wanted not to give much away and make the audience look at the film themselves and interpret it in a number of ways. 
I mentioned an idea that I had been thinking of within the past week and wanted some feedback on, which was the possibility of having a journey play out as backwards, or not in direct chronological order. Within this idea, the end of the film would link back to the start in a subtle way, via a simple image or element to the films mise- en- scene being shown in both places, with the narrative taking place in between. The feedback that I received was that the idea could work well, however it would need to be more structured and developed nearer to the planning stages, which was something we could do within the next few week's worth of seminars.

Another idea that Oliver came up with and Sarah and I began thinking about was the journey from an animal's perspective, for example a dog going on a walk and witnessing an event. We all agreed that this was an interesting concept to explore as the story itself could be kept simple, however through showing it through a dogs perspective the visuals could be interesting. Also, by not literally showing the animal at all but rather the way it views the world, the audience would have to work out themselves that it is not filmed from a human's perspective, which is quite an interesting concept to explore and think about developing.With this idea, we agreed that there would be quite a few limitations/things to think about, however as an early concept we all liked how different it was and the creativity that it left us with.

We agreed that these were both early ideas that we should keep hold of and think about further before being introduced fully to the project in the next few weeks, however we knew that we needed to keep in mind restrictions that the brief may have, such as not being able to work with a member of a team that you have previously worked with.