This semester I want to challenge my story capabilities through character development. I also want the environment to react to the character while he is going through these changes. A television show I really enjoyed, Awake, pulled this off nicely, in the since that as the main character moved through dream and reality, the environment would drop clues in both worlds to help him solve a case and ultimately help him understand why he was living in two worlds.



Specifically for my project I will be dealing more with the ideal self and the actual self, and how our actual selves are constantly working to become our ideal self. From this idea, I started to explore how our expectations very seldom add up to our upcoming realities. This clip from 500 Days of Summer goes in the direction of what I am personally interested in, however, I will intercut between the two instead of splitting the screen.

The character I have come up with is a young guy named John, who through a series of events overcomes his social anxiety. He does not have the disorder to the extreme, but just enough to cause him to battle within himself before going into anything new or with a group of people. I am currently working on developing John a bit more because I want the things he interacts with to change as he morphs into his ideal man, a confident, social, ambitious version of himself. One thing that we see him battle with is his fidgety twitches. Whenever John becomes worked up about an idea or event, we see his hands constantly twitch, over the course of the piece, we watch him struggle to stop this fidgetyness and develop into his more confident self.