After having many discussions with Sam on our new idea: "Single Parents", we decided that we have to finally have to sort out something that would form a great film. We emailed Helen with our "single parents" idea and she brought to our attention that it was quite similar to another group's idea. Which brings us to the point where we had to decide whether or not we had to carry on with it or use it as a starting point to form another concept. And so we did, we decided that we had gotten to our final stage to form something else but similar to this one.
So I sat down again with Sam and wrote a list of mini ideas that could combine with our initial one, Single Parents. I've attached it below:
So we FINALLY decided that focussing our film on parents raising children with learning disabilities would be a great idea, as it would be a combination of our previous mini ideas with our single parent one.
As we were thinking about our final idea, we both got inspired by people around us, friends and family members that we know of, that are experiencing this concept. I, for example, got inspired by a close family friend, that is a single mother that raised her autistic son alone after her husband abandoned her due to their son's condition. This is actually one of the aspects we want to focus on: the 'danger' of one of parents leaving the other due to the condition of the child and what effects does it cause to the family, as well as how the child is raised. Sam's inspiration was one of his close friends when growing up, that was autistic, and is now at university (for details, visit Sam's blog. Just click here). However our main focus will be on how even though these 'children' have a learning disability, are successful in their lives (for example, like Sam's friend being able to go to university or like the son the single mother raised, that now runs his own business) and how these parents are great heroes for raising their children so well and being able to deal with the daily struggles and consequences of raising a disabled child.
Thank you for reading, and I will update you very soon on the progress of our idea.
Yours,
I.
So I sat down again with Sam and wrote a list of mini ideas that could combine with our initial one, Single Parents. I've attached it below:
So we FINALLY decided that focussing our film on parents raising children with learning disabilities would be a great idea, as it would be a combination of our previous mini ideas with our single parent one.
As we were thinking about our final idea, we both got inspired by people around us, friends and family members that we know of, that are experiencing this concept. I, for example, got inspired by a close family friend, that is a single mother that raised her autistic son alone after her husband abandoned her due to their son's condition. This is actually one of the aspects we want to focus on: the 'danger' of one of parents leaving the other due to the condition of the child and what effects does it cause to the family, as well as how the child is raised. Sam's inspiration was one of his close friends when growing up, that was autistic, and is now at university (for details, visit Sam's blog. Just click here). However our main focus will be on how even though these 'children' have a learning disability, are successful in their lives (for example, like Sam's friend being able to go to university or like the son the single mother raised, that now runs his own business) and how these parents are great heroes for raising their children so well and being able to deal with the daily struggles and consequences of raising a disabled child.
Thank you for reading, and I will update you very soon on the progress of our idea.
Yours,
I.
Can you update your progress on the ideas asap
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