Developting three ideas: (1) Brainstorming.

Well, this has to be five minutes, I'm going to brainstorm here as much as i can and create a lot of options for myself. I'm not too sure how to go about making a documentary so I'm trying to be prepared. Here we go...

Idea (1) Comics: (hm, no underlining options...)

• The History of comics

- looking back at how comics have developed, the art/artists, stories and their development, the progression into story lines continuing into other comics/the writers.

-The era's of comic books, -what defines the era's,-Comics within the era's

-Certain writers/creators/artists (modern/old)

-Certain comics, how they have grown (e.g Batman/Superman/Green Lantern/Hulk)

-How comics came about, what started if off?

-Japanese manga, where did it start?

• Comics Media

-How comics have developed into film, comics and film the relationship.

-One comic through the ages e.g. superman (movie/comics/cartoon/TV show/merchandise), so exploring how comics, through one comic, has spread into other media, through one or many comics.

-How a comic is made, the process of creating a comic.

-The comics industry, how they are marketed.

• DC or MARVEL comics/ other comic publishers

-Look at DC/MARVEL or others, their history and how they came to be and how/why they became successful.

-Their people, how they became individually successful.

• Comics in society

-Mostly Captain America comics during WWII/Cold war.

-Comics promoting patriotism, 'say no to drugs', fight against racism etc, and also negative aspects e.g. Wertham’s Law, violence.

-Representation of women in comics i.e. artist representations, idea of 'Frigging', superheroine costumes, too skimpy? too busty? therefor sexist?

-What does the material say about the times, how do they reflect society? men/ women presented equally? How are different races presented? who are the bad guys? What are the stereotypes?

• Comic Culture (Manga comics/Western/web comics etc...)

-Anime/manga convention in October=filming opportunities.

-Manga and Japan craze 'It's like a different world'.

-Comics and fanfiction, free comic book day, comic con, whats the package?

• Personal bit

-What are comics to 'me'?
-How did one get into reading/collecting comics? What was it that got you started.
-A general talk about comics.
-Why does one like them? Whats the addiction?
-Whats the general public's view of them?

• Elements for the documentary

-Sone idea's for music, related to comic books. I can do something with this song, i dont really have any prticular types of songs i want, but i might just use a song from an anime.



-Example of the kind of anime song i could use. There is a close relationship between anime and japanese comics. This could either be back ground music, music to fill in the bits where there is no talking etc..



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OK, that's as far as I'm going to go on this, 5 minutes can go by quite quickly. I have all that i need here i believe, so I'm going to have to pick a title. What i had in mind was a general title of 'Comics' then i can put in any of these ideas into the documentary, or i can have something specific like my coloured headings for a subtitle. The parts i really want are above in bold, some of them may or may not be dropped, or some added.

I'm going to need quite a bit of research, these are parts of Comic's that i know *of* but not actually know well.