Tell Me a Story

Story Idea: How people are immersed with Christmas when it's still months and months away...

Let me tell you this story, not including print, in three different ways.

I'm imagining a radio broadcast where the host describes this story by highlighting three different subjects, each with their own story. The broadcast will offer most of the information through clips of interviews given by each subject. I want to offer this world only through audio.

Then I'm thinking about a visual representation, specifically in photography. I want the subjects to offer us into their homes and show us just how crazy they are with Christmas not in the month of December. I'm thinking these people have Christmas-themed rooms in their houses dedicated to the jolly holiday. In a perfect world, I would have these people simply sitting in their rooms while I snap these pictures. They would be from all different angles, offering many vantage points into how much they are dedicated to celebrating the holiday in the middle of the summer.

Another awesome possibility to telling this story could be from the subjects alone. I would hand them a blank sheet of paper with only a question at the top saying: "What does Christmas mean to you?" I would give them a box of art supplies and let them loose. I'm thinking I would be able to get some cool visuals from that as well. I would offer this project to them twice, once in the middle of summer and another during the actual Christmas season. I predict some changes to the drawings during that simple switch in time.

I'm starting to realize just how crazy this story idea may be. The story is there, it's just up to me to tell it, even if I just started thinking about it for this recent lab assignment. If I did this project in May, then decided to perform it again in December, the difference would be great, but that difference is something I'd be willing to tell.