Two more ideas...

I had a couple more ideas for my Time project. I came up with these while I was at school yesterday before class, but they were not developed enough to convey without dragging on.

The first one deals with the way two individuals make use of their time. Think of it as a cooking version of the old "Tortoise and the Hare" story. It starts with the two people living together and wanting to ease their hunger by making something to eat. The video would focus on the meals they make within that hour (probably something that takes about that long to make, like a burger or cake for example) and their contrasting cooking philosophies.

I wanted to reflect their personalities in the way they cook, and the clothes they wear. The patient guy that cooks his food with care would probably wear something muted, like greens and browns. The other that rushes through his cooking and ends up burning the food he makes would wear lighter, more streamlined clothes.
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The other idea I had was dealt what people do when they are forced to spend more time than they desire on a given task. You know how cross walk signals can take forever sometimes to change, and when they finally do, they change back way before you get to the other end of the street? I wanted to make a film that greatly exaggerates the way the cross walk changes, almost as if it was alive and really does not want the person to cross the street.

With some camera work, I could give the illusion traffic starting and stopping as soon as the cross walk changes from red to white. This could make for some interesting interaction between the person and the crosswalk itself, especially if the person in question has somewhere to be. For example, the person gets ready to give up, starts to walk away from it, to cross down at the one down the street, sees the crosswalk change to white, tries to run across the street. The signal all of a sudden turns white, but stops short as he or she is about to get hit by a car. At the end of the video, about an hour later one of his or her friends shows up and offers a ride.

I'm still working on developing these ideas, and the déjà vu idea from yesterday a bit more so I know for sure which one I want to do. Any thoughts on these two? I asked around to get multiple opinions and was told that both ideas would work fine, although the first one might be easier to do.