Documentary Pitch #1

My first documentary pitch has to do with childhood wonder or imagination. I remember so many times in my childhood where my imagination would take control of my days and I would have so much fun but growing up you always lose that childhood wonder. Imagination is a huge part of many "art" type majors in college but if you grow up and lose that sense of childhood wonder and imagination, I want to know where people grab their creativity from. I think there needs to be more sense of imagination in the world nowadays but it seems in alot of areas, it is lacking. I understand this pitch is not very tied together but I really like this topic of imagination and childhood wonder. There were so many times that my best friend and I wandered through our days just creating worlds that we would imagine we lived in, everything faded away and the days passed so quickly. I miss those times where all we needed to get through the day was imagination.

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  1. UnknownMarch 12, 2018 at 11:51 AM

    I think that this is a really interesting idea for a piece, but my only question is how you would come to any sort of resolution. Maybe you wouldn't, but this almost seems like an unanswerable question, but it's a good one. There's a lot of interesting research going on about creativity, and I'm sure that you could talk to a lot of people from a lot of different fields about how creativity has been and currently is a part of the their lives, so it would interesting to think about if people even do get less creative and imaginative, or if they just express it in different ways.

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  2. UnknownMarch 13, 2018 at 8:53 AM

    I am especially compelled by the part where you mention artists and creative people, because I feel that even as a writer, my imagination is rubbish compared to when I was a kid. Sometimes, when I write, I am able to create things that seem pulled from that childhood of play, but when I'm not writing I'm not imagining or playing in that sense...is it even possible for an adult? That's what hooks me.

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  3. UnknownMarch 13, 2018 at 2:01 PM

    I like the concept of this idea, but it still seems pretty vague at this point. I think this concept would resonate more to readers if you were able to recall a specific world, character, or concept you created as a child. Is this something you feel you wouldn't be able to think of now? Why or why not? What, in your opinion, makes us lose this creativity? Is it actually lost, or do we just not make it a priority? What do you do now (gaming, art, etc.) that is worldbuilding (but in a different way)?

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