Beach Chair

A new film idea came to me a few weeks ago and it was unusual in the sense that when it came to me, I got emotional about it myself. The idea involves reminiscing over the good times of your youth and looking over things with regret. This is something that I no I will probably not be able to avoid in my own life, but if I go for the world and come back with dirt I know I will have at least tried.

The film starts off with an elderly man, who is dressed in a bathing suit, arriving on the beach and setting up his favourite beach chair. A young boy comes over to the man and sits right next to him. He asks the man what he is looking at and the man tells him he is looking at what could have been...cue the entire film in flashback involving the man in his childhood, at school with the girl of his dreams and we follow him throughout his life as he deals with all that life throws at him, including missed opportunities but also the successes of his life. The film will end with the old man achieving his dream of sitting on a beach chair while crying as the young boy fades away.

This idea is possibly one of the more artistic ideas I have had. A few kinks need to be worked out but all in all it is shaping up nicely. I want to focus on the way the elderly look back on their past and create an effective film out of it. Up was a film that did this well but did not go deep enough into key stages of the protagonist's life, probably because it was a kids film. You may be thinking why a Beach Chair but I heard the reference in the Jay-Z song of the same name and it sort of stuck with me. I like the idealism of a beach chair, in that you can relax in front of the ocean and underneath the sun with the world at it's most peaceful.

Otis is finished in the planning stages, I have reworked the step outline and now I feel like I am ready to write it, I just need to be signed off by my tutor and away I will go.

One last thing to mention is that I was considered for a TV programme development internship at NBC/Universal. I didn't even apply for that job but apparently they thought that my CV looked good enough to be considered and that I made it to the last 5. Pretty chuffed that they thought I might even be close to be good enough for that position. Hopefully I will get a similar position one day.