Minutes for Female Driven Thriller - 10/23 meeting
written by Kirsten Mitchell, actor (and producer at Praxis)

Hey all,

Here are the meeting notes from last week:

Characters homework was a way for Bob to learn more about us and for us to stay connected to the project outside of meetings.

Today: Start imposing challenges; questions still unanswered: What is the world of the play? What is the crime?

Types of thrillers: Personal crime(classic), and Political crime(social/topical)
Example of a personal crime thriller, DOA, characters have base motives, the victim solves his own murder and finds out the reason for his death is trivial. Example of a political thriller: The Manchurian Candidate.

Bob's aims: Selfish, to bring the group to the play. Selfless, find out what's going on in people's minds today.

Focus on the future, predict from a pattern. What will life be like 40 years from now? What about the difficulty of being identified, what tactics will be used to be recognized?

Perhaps there will be some sort of international id. Karin brought up her difficulty to open a bank account as a foreigner. Today's ids are becoming inadequate. People are becoming the victims of fraud. What about drug testing and credit checks, results could be manipulated. We're being watched, analyzed and filed. What if a homeless person is actually the victim of descending status brought about by someone else.

What if the solving of the mystery had a time limit like 90min.

World cards:
1) Recreational drugs of the future shut off some of your senses
2) Reflection: a brain mapping lie detector
3) Wrapping: gives you skills instantaneously, mental plastic surgery
4) Closing your halo, hiding your thoughts
5) Halo: software containing everyone's personal info data
6) Bitmass: radio frequency transmitters, sensors
7) The leith pill: used to forget bad memories
8) Virus inhibits one's ability to use systems
9) Information replaces currency
10) Everything must be bought
11) Dating: quick background sessions

Homework: In roughly 200 hundred words construct a world in the future, make it multidimensional, 3-4 dimensions or aspects.