PLANNING: THE TOP LINE AND BIG QUESTION

Research

 I have watched this presentation by Frank Ash and understood what audiences want and how important the Top Line and Big Question is. Frank Ash, who is a creative consultant from the BBC Academy, started by talking about the Top line and Big Question and later went on to talk about what the audiences want.
Frank made the point that when making your production you have to work out what you as an audience member might want from a story and claimed you should think as a member of an audience when making this and discuss what main universal themes or ideas you want to convey, that connect us as humans together. If you could do this then it would be good as the audience would be able to relate to the main message that you are portraying meaning that the audience can really understand the production better and almost put themselves in the story. This comes under the idea of social trends.
He finally states that if you can go into filming something with answers to these questions then you are in a much better position as you will have the confidence so you can make the right decisions whilst filming to make sure your film has the right elements needed to make it as compelling as possible.

Frank Ash, a creative consultant who has taught storytelling and creativity techniques across the BBC and beyond

Whilst looking at social trends I noticed that Artificial Intelligence was a current topic, in media, that many people were interested in especially the relation between humans and AI and how we stop AI from going 'rogue'.  This interested me and wanted this to be the front idea and main aim of our production to display how AI could go 'rogue'

The Top Line definition is: Think about your favourite book or film or any 'good story' that you have recently watched, could you sum up its narrative into 'one elegant sentence' to provide its 'toppling'. For us the top line will be one sentence which sums up the narrative and main aims that it presents.
The Big Question definition is: What was its big story, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text. For us the big question will be what the main story/ aim is of our production 

Our Production

Top Line: An inventor who works for a highly identified company 'Robotica' creates the newest display of technology in the form of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Himself with another inventor took the robot home to enhance the technology however, it all goes horribly wrong.

Big Question:  Is this the start of AI take over?