Kate's Thought's:

Feedback on Ideas:

(1) You’ve got quite a number of genres/ elements suggested here. Thriller and western? Cowboys AND FBI Agents? That lends it a surreal aspect. You’d need to have definite intention in using all these elements. The twist is a common one, meaning you’d have to have the rest of the details developed well so that the film has other points of interest. I’m not as interested in this as in your other ideas – although combining genres if really pushed could be interesting.  

(2) It’s ok to start with a technique you are interested in but you do need to anchor it to a strong concept and make it your own. Following one object after another could be an interesting form for a story – how could you build a common theme around each moment that we see?  

(3) Things falling from the sky and smashing is a nice image. Is this a video piece? Obvious challenges if so would be filming locations/materials and being able to obtain the camera angles you wanted. If you want this to be an ad it will have to be limited to a standard ad length and will have to be very polished. You’ll also need to develop it so that the pay-off is appropriate to the themes/ imagery in the setup, whether it’s an ad or a short film. I’d explore both options if you develop this further. 

(4) What’s interesting here is your use of those really basic building blocks of 3D – why have you chosen these? Do they have distinct personalities as well as abilities? Figuring out the detail of the ‘puzzles’ they need to solve and why it takes the three of them seems a next step.