6 exercises for the development of creative thinking

These exercises are most useful to those involved in writing scripts or want to try myself in this skill. However, they also help to develop the skills of a good storyteller, and even you can use it as a fun game with friends.

funny

Select drama, thriller or horror movie and overwrite it (paraphrase) as if it's a comedy.

Seriously

Select a comedy and make it a drama.

FBI undercover agent

No matter what happens in the end - comedy or drama, for now your task - to come up with an unusual place in which it may be an FBI agent. For example, he works undercover in the culinary arts school in Provence.

Custom school

Here, as in the previous paragraph, no matter what your intention is to create: a comedy or a serious film. Let the film will be about school, but not about the usual, and, for example, about the "School for Wives".

opposition

Come up with several pairs of people in which there is a certain confrontation worthy of a good story.

My cat - a serial killer

What are people, animals or things that may be a homicidal maniac.

It is through this brainstorm and get ideas most interesting and unusual films and books.

Among friends, you can also do these exercises. It should be fun and exciting game, which also will be useful for the development of creative thinking.

Have you ever done these exercises?

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