Week 2: Theme and Logline

After considering my inspiration I've come up with the following theme for my project:

1) Discovery is a natural part of any journey. I want to show how it's possible to find fun and beauty in a journey, even if you're worried about the route you're taking. I want to explore how curiosity and exploration can make life meaningful. This idea has a lot of personal relevance to me because it's how I feel about my upcoming graduation, and I want to share my optimistic attitude toward the future with my peers.

My current logline is this:

2) A reindeer migrating north finds himself traveling alone, but this doesn't stop him from enjoying the trip and ending up exactly where he's meant to be.

Our reading for this week talks about universal stories, and to me this reindeer concept is about as universal as you could get. I think everyone gets nervous about where they are and whether they're headed in the right direction. This concept is also influenced by the idea of cultivating originality through personal experience. All stories may seem the same, but we engage with them because the storyteller has contributed their unique experience. This reindeer concept is about a character that is doing the same things everyone else has done, but having a totally unique experience of it because of his curiosity and willingness to discover new things.

Staying curious and discovering things is really important to us as storytellers trying to tell the same stories in a new and interesting way. It's like how you can watch six different documentaries about reindeer migration and be interested in all of them; they're all doing the same thing, but each one talks about a different experience. That's what makes life interesting!