Fairy God Mother Activity

Today, we took what we knew about the average "Fairy God Mother" and switched it around to something totally opposite and interesting.

This activity helped us ignite our creativity in thinking about a non-cliché character.

What we know about a fairy god mother

Some things that we know all fairy god mother's obviously are 

• a woman
• sweet
• usually old
• wise
• powerful
• gentle
• understanding
• helpful
• shows up when protagonist is in trouble
• hypothetically magical
• small in size 

My fairy god father

(A trailer that I come up with that will shock the audience and make them feel the urge to watch the rest of the movie.)

1. long shot of a person sitting in their lounge room, they aren’t identifiable, sitting back with feet up and watching television
2. revealing can of coca cola spilt on the floor
3. close-up on a packet of potato chips and a hand going in to grab some
4. over the shoulder shot of the person watching television
5. panning shot revealing the mess and crumbs on the lounge room floor
6. close-up of their mouth, chewing loudly on their potato chips
7. shot revealing only their legs and a can of coca cola in their hand
8. over the shoulder shot of them drinking their coca cola
9. long shot showing the full length of a middle aged man on his couch eating his potato chips, he looks into the camera, winks, pulls out his wand from his pocket, waves it and he disappears into dust and sparkles