Pre-Production Unit- Considering my Production format and problems.

I have recently spent a lot of time considering certain technical aspects about my Superhero idea. In the past, I brought up the debate about whether or not I wanted to create my Superhero idea as a television series, or one singular film.

I have done some more thinking about this and discovered several potential problems that may occur with each of these problems, which I will list below.

Problems with creating a series-

• Each episode will have to be fresh and interesting, bringing something new to the story. (Avoid traditional television "filler" episodes, episodes which do not have much story relevance, and are merely created in order to fulfil a network obligation or pad out the number of episodes in a series.)
• I have to consider whether or not I would like my series to have one continuous story (much like Lost, Breaking Bad) in which case viewer's may become frustrated if they drop in half-way through the series as it may be confusing for them to pick up on what is happening due to having not watched from the very beginning, or make it so my series is created with each episode having a new story so that viewer's can comfortably drop in and out of the series at any point and still enjoy the product for what it is (much like X-files, Friends etc.)

Problems with creating a singular film-

• In creating a singular film, there are many things I have to consider, including the fact that it is very unlikely that I will be able to create a full-length movie for my major project. Most feature-length films are about 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours in length, and with a student sized budget, it would be incredibly difficult for me to pull something like that off.
  There is of course the possibility of my creating a short-film instead (around 20-30 minutes), but this amount of time severely limits the amount of story I can tell in the product, and isn't a particularly great format to tell the kind of epic story a super-hero product usually tells.
• There is also the fact that creating one singular film quite limits the amount of story-telling I can do. I have a ton of ideas that I want to incorporate into my film, and if I were to include everything that I wanted to, especially into one film, there is a risk that the film will become oversaturated with plot-elements and be too confusing to watch.