BRIEF 2: Metaphorical Journey. 

POSSIBLE IDEAS:

Journey of growth and recovery (Positive) :

• Personal growth in terms of bettering yourself from ; toxic traits, toxic people, addiction.
  Starting with the negative. Removing yourself. Feeling better. Growing. Change in colour palette.
• Overcoming health issues, physical and mentally.
• Create a character who is a metaphor of the journey.
• Overcoming trauma – PTSD. Triggering aspects.
• Discovering your sexuality.
• Freeing yourself from an abuser.

Journey of losing yourself (negative and sad)

• Falling into a depression. Starting happy and getting sad.
• Falling in love with an abuser. Noticing the changes. How you feel smaller and smaller and burnt out.
  How does the beginning feel? Does it get worse the longer it goes on. Does the character feel small, like an ant.
• Journey of grief.
  Where does the journey begin? At the first moment of death or a few days down the line. How long do you grieve for? Weeks, months, or years? Does the journey ever get better? Does the feeling start with loneliness and sadness and become emptiness and numb?
• Journey of addiction .
  From the beginning you see the effects of the addiction, how you lose yourself to the addiction.
  What is the addiction? Is it a person? A drug. Alcohol? Does the addiction present itself in anger or sadness, or maybe it’s a journey of ups and downs. Happy and sad.

Colour palettes:

Restricted: black and white: could represent emptiness, loneliness, hollow feeling. Numb.

Warm: Happy, vibrant, joy.

Cool: Sad, lonely, exhausted.

Metaphors/Characters:

Does the character start out large and grow small or the other way round?
Is it an animal? Or a person?