DESIGN BRIEF: “Brave New Vids”
Creating and adapting “classic” stories to a non-traditional format.

Create a 1-3-minute video that shows or tells an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”. It must have an audio track but needn’t have dialogue… This is an exercise in creative thinking. This story has been adapted many times in a variety of science fiction vehicles. IT will be up to you to recreate it in a fashion which may offer a new spin on it, because, frankly, speaking it is pretty worn territory.

You will be given a synopsis for the story “ Brave New World”. Read it, and then recreate/reinvent the characters based on what your experiences, your viewpoint and your context. The rub is these characters cannot be as they are depicted as author Huxley describes them but as something completely different. Their motivations MAY be the same. There may also be similar dialogue, but your job is to develop a story which uses your abilities to create NEW THINGS from OLD.

You will also be asked to condense the time-line for the sake of expediency but also as way to develop your story telling, and imagination skills. Your adaptation may be a comedy, or a drama. Think in terms of the Coen Brothers movie, “Oh Brother”, for inspiration. There is something else to consider while you ponder taking this story, analyzing it and then dissecting it in the hope of creating a new form. The french new wave adherents of film, as well as the Italian neo realists, after WWII tried to create story interest by relying on non linear timelines, or other means of low tech solutions to compete with American film makers. They used rudimentary equipment, had no budgets for sets, and little else but their imagination to create, but some of their work has been so memorable that the methods they used are still in use today. AND::::::

Remember the words of Sol Lewitt,“ Irrational judgements lead to new experience.”