Choose a digital project

30 free ideas for digital producers

1. Amazing real life stories.
2. Stories about items (typewriter/telegram) going obsolete.
3. Stories of the euphoric days of new found freedom of your country.
4. Missing links and exceptions
5. Profiles of people who make a living pretending to be someone else; even 'bahrupiya' tradition/artists.
6. Collect stories about  maiden ventures of people.
7. Journeys that revealed the life to me.
8. Recall moments: a turning point or watershed period for nation or people.
9. Pulse of the nation.
10. Elderly people share one piece of advice they’ve learned in their many years
11. Investigate how easy it is to plant a tree in a public place (apparently not very)
12. Run for Panchayat/MLA in the next election and make a documentary about it.
13. Visit every World Heritage Site in the country and document: In Haryana, sites of archaeological interest may be covered.
14. A collaborative piece where people across the city find out where their waste goes.
15. A website where people are counselled for problems related to career.
16. Competitions to bring people from around the world together to solve a big problem – crowd sourcing problem solving
17. A platform to show news packages from around the world..how have different countries covered the same event?
18. One leader who is less talked about.
19. Documentary on Folk tradition of your state/ community.
20. Films about people who do a dying trade (blacksmith/wood turner etc)
21. If we could build the internet from scratch, with everything we’ve learned, what would it look like?
22. Repackage old themes in visual and engaging way
23. Taking a story that offers two-sides of the same coin; presents the alternative point of view on an issue; Use splitscreen to show two sides to an argument
24. Investigate how people abet and support corruption in the government?
25. Tell a story using comic strip.
26. A celebration of unconventional solutions to problems
27. A visual rundown of all the different types of material and  how long they take to decompose
28. Take someone who’s in a bad place in their life on a creative journey.
29. Get 15 brilliant people from completely different industries together to try and solve a problem in a weekend. Document it.
30. Stories about ethnic groups or ways of life becoming obsolete.

Adapted from Source: https://adamwestbrook.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/30-free-ideas-for-multimedia-producers-and-digital-storytellers/