Final 3 Ideas and more Research

I have now narrowed my options down to my final 3. They are as follows:

1st idea:
A 11 year old boy starting his first day of school is transformed into Lego after being hit by a football. He wakes up as a Lego boy who must adapt to Lego life if he wants to return home again.

This idea came from a mixture of wanting to do animation and he British hit TV drama "Life on Mars".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vavHlnztnuo

We chose this idea as we like the idea of someone entering a environment there not familiar with but must learn to adapt to it like a child starting a secondary school so they can relate and learn from it which should get more viewers.
However we think this is our weakest idea as we no Lego is copyright and we will have to ask for permission to use it through e mail or letter. Also a Lego drama is not a TV drama as it must have elements of real people and a whole drama on Lego does not support this.

2nd Idea:
A 11 year old boy starts high school and makes new friends. However he finds there seems to be problems behind every corner such as evil teachers and bully's. So he and his friends work together to solve the problems.

This idea came from the Nickelodeon drama "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQYmJctb-TQ

We liked this idea as it also was about school life and children could relate to it in several ways like how to make new friends and how to avoid evil teachers.
However the problem with this idea is it is very original and doesn't really challenge anything plus we wanted to use animation which we wouldn't be able to do. Also we would need to film in a school during school time so we can make it as real as possible. But this would be very tricky as We don't think a school would let us film on site during school hours regardless of sending a letter or e mail. Another reason why this idea would be hard is the children wouldn't be themselves if we had a camera in front of there face.

3rd Idea:
In a world of Lego a young superhero is shot by a evil villain with a human ray gun. This transforms the the superhero into a human boy who must now go to school and learn what its like to not only to be a human but to adapt to secondary school.

This idea is the opposite of the first idea but with a twist. We wanted to mix animation and school life together and we thought this was the best way. The same problems as the first idea still apply but this time it is a TV drama and with the following we can develop this idea:

# Lego characters and Lego setting
# Actors from high school
# Appropriate lighting
# School location
# Stop motion Animation

Our final idea will be announced in my next blog post under the Treatment.

Research

If I am going to use Lego In my Childrens TV Drama, I will need to look at how lego works with stop motion animation.

Here are a few fantastic sites I have looked at which will really help me if I chose to do Lego stop motion animation in my Childrens TV Drama:

http://tryit.adobe.com/uk/director/?sdid=ENNBM

http://www.filmschoolexposed.com/?gclid=CIGWmdSqqJ0CFVtn4wodIA5Yiw

http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=3021374&gclid=CPSO3tyqqJ0CFZQA4wodfk-Jkg

http://www.stopmotionpro.com/

http://nfb.ca/explore-by/title/?title_range=All&lang=en&genre=2&decade=&time_range=?ac=g+animatedfilms

http://www.brickfilms.com