Our given scenario is "Failed or Forgotten Superheroes", in which we must create a short comedic skit from. Most of our initial ideas leaned more closely towards failed superheroes than forgotten ones, so we came up with a large variety of different powers/heroes to base these skits on. We explored a lot of possible personas and powers for heroes to possess, including; dinosaur guy, wolf man, drunk guy, super smell senses, OCD man, overly emotional superheroes.
We found ourselves producing way more ideas than we knew what to do with, so we moved on to thinking of scenarios and structures to follow as a direction change from just jotting different powers and heroes. We considered working with "the top 5 worst superheroes" but that would have required thinking of 5 different characters with totally different, silly powers. Other ideas included superheroes in rehab, prison and mental institutions sharing their experiences of how they became to be failed/forgotten. Other ideas emerged involving scenarios such as "your week, as told by..." and "a day in the life of..." for example.
Towards the end of idea gathering, we pushed towards the direction of a tutorial video, with steps or rules to being a good superhero, like a rule book or step by step guide which includes examples that are given by a terrible superhero. After lingering in this area, we've come to the conclusion of producing a short series of skits based on a wanna-be superhero, who's territory does not stretch any further than the front lawn of their mother's house. The character could be an adult aged superhero fan who's lair is the shed in the back garden. With a 1950's style instruction video, the character can show examples of how to be a good superhero, oblivious to the fact that they're a complete failure of a superhero.
More information on this current idea will come in the next post.
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