How do you come up with ideas so fast?

seems like i came up with an idea myself quite fast... put up some different "requirements" out of them thought of possible targets, outcomes and everything just fell into places! scriptwriting process started! thanks to conspiracypenguinproductions!
 
I just heard about the time fest- I was moving so I did not get a lot of internet time. But I already have a pretty solid idea, hard to say where it came from. I just think about something crazy or haunting or shocking something very climatic like a car crash, or a bomb, foot chase, anything really then I just make up the events that lead up to it.
 
I see pictures in my mind...usually to music. I see emotional moments and they coalesce into an idea that I then flesh out by brainstorming with people I trust.
 
Actually I am constantly writing Characters. Once it's announced, I pick a genre, a style, a story structure and then add the characters in. From there it's just filling in the blanks with creative thinking. You can hash out your concept in a few hours if you know your characters. Then you start casting while you are writing. Your actors may bring something to the character that takes you in a different direction which always makes it fun! NOW Having said that, this will be my first DVX fest, but I have done some other timed competitions. This isn't that fast actually! Try the 24hour film fest. You have 24 hours to write, cast, shoot, and edit your 2 minute film! INSANITY
 
I already had 3 ideas that fit into this theme, surprisingly. Two are feature ideas and one is a short idea that we're considering developing into a feature. One of the features already has a treatment and the other will actually have a completed feature script tomorrow (taking a break from working on it right now). So we're considering adapting shorts from the two features and shooting the other short as well. Bottom line, they're all existing stories and extensions of existing stories.
 
I just read the rules and started thinking of ways to meet the requirements and the ideas started flowing. I personally start thinking of shots and scenes I can do and then think of a story.

I tried to think of movies but those all turned out bad cause well all the movies sucked. The last thing I want to enter to Timefest is something like NEXT :D
 
I'd like to see someone pull off a NEXT in TimeFest. Pull it off well, I mean. Nothin' wrong with that.
 
i think ideas come quickly and naturally, but then shaping them & executing them... that's what takes so damn long.

and post, and finding means to feed yourself and yours

but ideas, they sure are fleeting and quick as has been my experience.

(most are not 4 star ideas btw, but hopefully some that see their way to fruition are...)
 
Painter Grant Wood (American Gothic) said; "All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."

I've never milked a cow but I did write a blog called "Where Do Ideas Come From? (A+B=C)" that you may find useful. Coming up with ideas is a bit like staying in shape...it has to be a lifestyle.
 
thanks, scott. excellent read. you know, someone gave me that book, "The Artist’s Way", but i never read it. perhaps it's time to crack it open.
 
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