Being Human: Idea Development

As I am need to go from four to three characters to follow the freud Trio. I had already decided that Simon was going to be the character I dropped but Simon's arm concept is fear. One of my favourite concepts, but looking at the other emotions fear is odd one out. As ID and the Super Ego are opposites of each other. This is why I decided that Kevin(Joy) should be the ID and Steven(Sadness) should be the Super Ego. This is because of Joy being the opposite of sadness. When it came to deciding whom was going to be the Ego, my chooses were Fear and Anger. Opposites of each other, but as the Ego is meant to resolve the conflicts between two the ID and Super Ego. I have chosen Rob (Anger), as when your angry you can still function and if you think of fear, someone that is scared/ fearful it can make you unable to function. Fight or flight, Anger would fight and Fear would run away. As The Ego is the leader I needed to choose a emotion that could take on this role.

But the Fear's arm concept might still be used, for example a Tv report showing the first case of people having mutations. The person being chased down and loads of cameras on the person. This experience would make anyone scared, so for that person to have the Fear arm could work.

I am thinking to have the story not just told straight to the audience but for the audience to make out/ interpret the story for them selfs. I am wanting the characters having the mutations to be a secret to the audience at first with the maybe the Tv report being the first case the audience sees.

The mutation only effect those with a domermit Emotion. The reason for the mutations is due to a nuclear power plant having a meltdown and leaking into the water source. The way I'm going to tell the audience about how the mutation is spread is by having a Tv report saying " Scientists are still recommending the pubic to drink bottle water and to refrain from consuming water from the taps". The reason i want the report to include still is so that you can tell its been awhile.

I am thinking the film should be around 5 mins and be open ended. So that the film is like a Tv pilot, enough story to get you hocked but not too much so that it leaves you wanting more.

The film will be set in one room and will end when they decide to leave. But each character will have a different look due to the surrounding, lighting, effects and placement.  For example Kevin (joy) being sat by the window keeping the scene bright like his personality and having Steven being on the other side of the room were its darker. With the placement like this, I would think having Rob in the middle between them would be best. Preventing conflicts between Steven and Kevin, also to keep this Trio shown in a visual way.