Thursday, June 05, 2003
The idea about teen pregnancies is excellent. To do it right will take about six years because you need to find three or four pregnant teens and follow them (if you want to have a compelling film). If you find people who HAD kids while they were teens and ask them about what happened, you get a talking heads film of people remembering how it went bad. If you follow 3 or 4 couples, maybe one will give you a good story. And, because you are following it in real time with them, you will see their earnestness, see the drama, be there when their naive hopes are dashed by reality.
