Concept 4 -- Restorative Justice

A woman has been murdered. Her family was offered an opportunity to meet the killer in controlled circumstances by a restorative justice organization. Her husband agrees to do so. On the night before the meeting is to take place, he argues with his adult daugher and sister in law about his decision.
Ultimately, he chooses not to attend, because having already forgiven the defendant, he has no need for answers. His daughter, originally against the idea, chooses to go. The sister in law severs ties with both of them.
Or some such.

Concept 3 -- Reverse Noir (Building on Ara's McDonald's Comments)

A dame enters a private investigators office. She is entirely professional with him, and has no particular sex appeal. She asks him to investigate her husband's activity, not really fearing that her husband is cheating, just to get to know him better. The investigator learns that the husband spends time away from home because he is involved in charitable undertakings. The investigation leads him to examine the husband's business, which he discovers to be an outstanding corporate citizen. He discovers the existence of several shell corporations, which are in fact philanthropic foundations. Employees of the husband's company catch the investigator snooping around the office, and offer him a tour and a soda. He discloses his findings to the company's board of directors who fire the husband.

Concept 2 -- "5-4=1"

Here is a second possible concept --

Four characters try to write a screenplay about five people. Each character writing the screenplay is responsible for the dialogue of one person in their script. They share responsibility for writing the lines of the fifth person in their script. The process reveals information about who the fifth character represents to them.

E.G.
The Fifth character is a woman they are all secretly in love with.

The Fifth character is a person they knew whose death they witnessed.

The Fifth character is an amalgam of their own unrealized wishes for themselves.

How to decide?

What are the ground rules? How do we choose which ideas to discard in which ideas to move forward on? For example, I'm inclined to write about a world where -- on Mother's Day -- children stand in a line to slap their mothers. And in this world, mothers of all ages tremendously appreciate the gesture. So a hypothetical storyline for such a universe would involve a mother whose ungrateful children do not slap her on Mother's Day.

However I could see how others might not warm to this theme.

Concept Bullpen -- Concept 1 (McDonalds)

Outline ideas for basic concepts in the comments

Character Bullpen

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Okay So

its actually pretty simple. We will try to update anyone participating via the blog on anything that is written or discussed via periodic postings. Posts will be easier to notice out in cyberspace than comments. Due to space limitations, we will try to send out updates to the master script via attachments to email.