Class Exercise
We brainstormed ideas together in a group and I realized that my story was a bit too generic and didn't have the unique spin that I wanted. After brainstorming some words and researching further into some of the subject matter in the lyrics I found a Idea that I could use to start off my story generating.We were asked to find a word that all our discussed stories had in common and we found that the word choice was the most common among them all.
I decided to go for the story along the lines of self discovery in life and finding themselves through the different choices that are presented. Maybe in the form of good and bad advice from others.
Brainstormed Ideas on White Rabbit (Trying to brainstorm ways of putting a different spin on the story within the lyrics)
-Protesting and war with the conflict of different opinions-Drugs and Hallucinations
-Dieting
-Anorexia
-Chasing an illusion
-Peer Pressure
-Choices
-Role models (the good and the bad)
-Possibilities
-Advice from others (one pill makes you more popular and the other one doesn't and nothing seems to change from your mother's advice)
-Own Experiences
-The white rabbit dream reflecting the inner emotions of uncertainty/ the white rabbit is interpreted as a guide showing which path to take (is it good or bad)
-Discovery
-Making decisions
-A dream ( Alice as a doll that a child played with and always talked to, then when she grew older alice was not talked to and she started to make bad decisions?)
-Being Arrested (when the men on the chessboard...)
-Transformation
-decisions
-change
Song Lyrics
"White Rabbit"Jefferson Airplane
One pill makes you larger ---------guitar then with steady with drum tune
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall- Chorus
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small - Chosen Verse
When the men on the chessboard ------- Change in pace in song
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know - Chorus
When logic and proportion -Chosen Verse
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
Links to others sites I looked at:
White rabbit dream- what a white rabbit symbolizes in dreams
http://www.dreamomania.info/dreamdictionary/animals/rabbit_meaning/
Drew up some Thumbnails to figure out more ideas for the white rabbit song
Explored the following ideas through thumbnails:
-Idea of growing up or leaving childhood behind
-Idea of being controlled
-Idea of drifting away
-Idea of being sucked into dream world
-Idea of nightmares/hallucinating
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