The Idea?

DDP Productions has been formed and consists of myself, Phil, and Dave. We had our first meeting as a group earlier this week and came up with a pretty solid idea for where we want to take this project. We all agreed a comedy was in order, and we loved the idea of an environment which interacts with a character, rather than the other way round. This idea then escalated into a house which moved, transformed, and even shape shifted to guide a blind character through it.
We had loads of inspirations and sources of reference for an idea like this, such as Monster House, Mr Magoo, Car Adverts, Foster Adverts, Elephants Dream, etc etc. All of which encorporated an environment which affected the character in it.

However - after a weekends thought and hundreds of possible ways for a house to move spinning in my head! We met up again and agreed the idea was too complex, and was slowly turning into a feature animated film!

We went back to the drawing board and reviewed our original brainstorms. I pitched an idea to the guys which I thought of a while back, which was to create an MTV Cribs style episode. However to maintain our comedy aspect by making it a wacky spoof. This idea then spiraled into being a mansion set in the town of Jollygood rather than Hollywood, with a funny rich character showing off his wealth in a rather embarassing way! This Cribs style camera work gives us the oppurtunity to show off our environment but with a narrative twist rather than just the bog standard fly through. A common occurance is the desire for our environment to be fictional/ colourful/wacky/stylized and simplistic rather than a realistic detailed recreation of a location. Designs from Viva Pinata, De Blob, and AKA Studio's are exactly the look we want to encorporate into our mansion and character. Bring on the research.....