Build Your Own Business Biopic

The Brand is the Star: Build Your Own Business Biopic Final Project Prompt For your final project, you will create a ten-slide PowerPoint proposal for a hypothetical business biopic based on a company, brand, or entrepreneur of your choosing. You may want to begin by thinking about the businesses and products that have had the biggest impact on your life so far, and then perform some research on their histories to determine which of them would make the best subject for your project. Once you’ve selected the subject for your business biopic, complete the attached questionnaire to provide an overview of what a movie about that subject might look like. We’ll discuss a range of potential topics in class. Good luck! Note: You cannot choose a company, brand, or entrepreneur that has already had a film produced about them. Any projects about Elon Musk will receive an automatic F. For extra credit, you can create an original movie poster for your business biopic. Build Your Own Business Biopic 1. Which company, brand, or entrepreneur have you chosen as the focus of your business biopic? Why did you choose this particular focus? 2. What are three potential titles for your business biopic? Which title do you think would ultimately work best for your proposed business biopic, and why? 3. Who are the main characters of your hypothetical business biopic? What would make them compelling personalities in your movie? 4. What’s the setting and time period of your business biopic? Why did you choose these specific settings and time periods? 4. Provide a 250-word summary of the plot of your film. See if you can make the narrative have a comprehensible beginning, middle, and end. 5. Which creative team from one of our assigned films would you hire to make your hypothetical business biopic? Why did you choose this creative team? 6. How would you integrate your first chosen recurring narrative into your hypothetical business biopic? 7. How would you integrate your second chosen recurring narrative into your hypothetical business biopic? 8. How would you integrate your third chosen recurring narrative into your hypothetical business biopic? 9. What is the story that your business biopic is trying to tell about the United States before, during, or after the Great Recession? 10. Does your business biopic speak to an American national character that is evolving, stagnating, or declining? *** For Your Reference: The recurring narratives we’ve observed in this class are 1) The visionary individual empowered by technology 2) Rich people suck—or do they? 3) Rising distrust of established institutions and corporations 4) Old Guard v New Guard 5) Getting fired 6) Post-2008 industrial and socio-cultural transformations as a kind of software update for the American economy and, by extension, the American Dream.