SoaringEagle's video
General Talk
I dunno what others have come up with, but I decided to come back with some ideas.
First I think we need to decide an AIM for this video, WHY are me making a video about dreads?
Answers I cam up with included "Because it's Cool" (this one kinda reminded me of something Johnny Clean would say, perhaps not the best option), "We want to give perspective dreadheads an educated and unbiased perspective on what it takes to grow healthy and beautiful dreadlocks." (This seems to be on the mark), and finally "Becuase we LOVE our dreads and show them off." (perhaps a lesser AIM than the previous one, but I think they are actually tied together quite a bit, ie. I love my dreads, and I want others who want dreads to love their dreads too)
So with that in mind I went on to brainstorming ideas to keep with the two latter themes discussed above. My favorite idea was to have lots of "my dreads..." statements. So those humans inclined to help in making this "movie" would message SE, or someone else appointed to this role, if SE didn't have the time or energy to do so, with their "my dreads..." statement for approval and editing into the final product. Examples of My dreads statements are "my dreads are all natural, I just threw out the brush, and stopped caring" or "my dreads started with a lie, Johnny clean convinced me I needed wax and stuff to start, but that (insert wax issues here). But not my dreads are wax free, lie free, and naturalized!"). They could be ANYTHING, as there are an uncountable number of features to love about one's dreads, it could be short, or long, ferociously passionate, or goofy... Whatever one wants to make it, it just has to start with "My Dreads..." and possibly have that line in there a few more times, for editing's sake; but most importantly it must be TRUE.
With this method no one would have to read from a script, it would be personal, and honest, which I think will come across in the final product. It frees anyone up from having to write for lots of different people whom they may not know intimately, and people can say exactly how they feel. It gets the message across that dreads don't need anything, people will talk about how they started their dreads, what worked, what didn't, who screwed them over, etc. But it is perhaps a bit more subtle than some other movies. Also, Rather than just having ONE person saying over and over how one doesn't need STUFF to start dreads, it's LOTS of different people actually telling the viewer that they can do this on their own.
Let me know what y'all think about this idea, hate it, love it, changes, improvements (all change should be an improvement), other ideas?
