@Phil @Alan Premise Ideas Development

After my tutorial today I have realised that the ideas that I am putting forward lack any theme or concept which I need to change in order to think of more fleshed out ideas. Having talked with both Phil and Alan, I need to both think of ideas that have a clear theme or concept as well as looking into existing issues or information that I can use as a framework for my premise. Alan recommended Ripley's believe it or not, which are interesting facts and articles. I have looked at some articles and found some I would be interested in developing: 

1) Abandoned Shark found in defunct Wildlife Park - I saw this and I thought of possibly making this a story. It would begin with the wildlife park when it was in its prime but eventually the animals from the park start to be moved because it closed down. Abandoned "Rosie" is now all alone in her tank. She spends her days swimming alone hoping someone will return. One day a man enters the wildlife park exploring and finds Rosie, he then helps to get transported to a more suitable location. Although in the article Rosie is a preserved dead shark, I feel like this can still work with her being a living shark.     

2) A Bone Trumpet made for calling Demons - Since one of the suggests Phil and Alan made was an infographic type animation, I found this and thought that it would be interesting. I imagined a Horrible History style of presenting the information, using humour and interesting character design.

3)  War Pigeons and Their Stories - Again like the shark article I imagine this one being told as a story rather than an infographic, but they work both ways. This would start with the pigeon being "breifed" on its mission and being told the value of the information it is carrying. The pigeon the "suits up" and heads out for its mission. We would see the sorts of conditions that it has to deal with such as weather conditions and then in the final act being faced with a do or die situation in order to deliver information that can save thousands. I like to imagine this in a sort of Disney way where the pigeons have their own world that they communicate and represent archetypes associated with war films that is separate from "reality" where when humans come into contact with them they're just normal pigeons. This may be a bit hard to understand but hopefully it makes some sense. 

4) 512 year old Shark found in North Atlantic - This one would be an infographic type animation from the sharks perspective, explaining the facts and how it has survived so long.