Rainy Day, Pizza, Brainstorms

The storm raging outside didn’t affect the shark tank inside the Hamilton Hall fishbowl. Fueled and energized by every college student's favorite food...pizza! With the exceptionally greasy pizza of Sweet Melissa’s pumping through their veins the Ocean Exchange Film Interns brainstormed potential movie ideas for the ten finalists. Each intern had claimed a finalist solution to present the basic summary and a handful of potential pitches for it at this nights meeting.

Interns bonding and joking over greasy pizza before brainstorming begins.

Listening to the basic summary presentations of a finalists research submission.

Though some solutions may have required a Ph.D. to decipher, the pizza fueled brainpower helped see the interns into burning the midnight oils. Ideas are limitless, especially when digital effects are involved. Ideas tossed about included superheroes, sign twirler competitions, Michael Bolton torture, and a LEGO movie parody.

Attempting to decipher the finalists submitted research...

Not managing it...

Not impressed by it...

Bouncing ideas about, the interns strove to find the main purpose of each solution to determine the main focus of the film. Adviser, Mehmet Caglayan, pushed the students to think about their senses and the scale, how they could make the solutions tangible. He told the students not to take the solutions too literally.

Interns bouncing ideas off of each other for possible short film scenarios.

Listening to Mehmet urge them to find the main purpose of the research and submission idea.

The rain outside soon faded as the brainstorm session drew to a close. Each person left, tasked with the need to nail down on the film ideas that had been brought to attention and approved of by the rest of the group.