Brainstorming: Day 2

My second brainstorming idea would be a documentary of a male bar servers/bartenders. I am currently a server at a bar and as a male you encounter much different situations than women. My documentary would consist of how the male server is perceived in a restaurant, troubles a male faces as a server and many more ideas. Being a male server is so much more difficult and you really have to learn how to read people in order to make good tips, I've learned this through experience. I know I am not the only male server who experiences what I do so I think it would be very interesting to reach out to other males who are servers and get their insight. In the film I would also address general of issues of serving, for both males and females, such as hourly wages (Avg. $2.13/hour not including tips) , tip out percentage and take home pay. It would probably be a sporadic and nonlinear film depending on how the server population responds to the questions at hand.

Brainstorming: Day 1

Nearly everyone you meet knows at least one person who is or was in the military but what we do not all know is how much war affects our own town. Most people look past the fact that there are military personnel in our area that are struggling after returning from war whether it be from PTSD, injuries or homelessness. My first brainstorming idea would be to do a documentary film about 1-3 war veterans, young or old and possibly their family from the local area. The veterans would tell their stories about before, during and after they left war in a linear fashion. Obviously the work would be fiction as most biographies are.The film would highlight their return home and how playing their part in a war has changed their lives forever.