I Need An Idea For A Short Film.
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<div class="IPBDescription">Preferably easy to make.</div> Ok, I'm in a video editing class at my school, the advanced one <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (hehe, advanced)
Anyway, I'm a decent editor, pretty familiar with final cut and general video editing. Anyway, on to the topic. I suck at coming up with ideas. I'm artistic in my own way, I can work off of existing ideas, but I have a dificult time coming up with stuff.
I'm not asking for you to do my work for me, but I'd like an idea to develop a script from to film this short film that's worth a lot of my grade.
It needs to be doable too. I have a camera, a boom mic, photografic lights, and not a lot of time. I'm supposed to have this thing filmed and captured by next Tuesday.
I could really use some help with ideas. Describe the characters, the general story, etc.
It needs to be 10-15 minutes in length, and I have no budget, so somthing within the bounderies of normal life.
I do however have a crappy greenscreen (made of green paper <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->) that doesn't work very well available to me.
Anyway, I'm a decent editor, pretty familiar with final cut and general video editing. Anyway, on to the topic. I suck at coming up with ideas. I'm artistic in my own way, I can work off of existing ideas, but I have a dificult time coming up with stuff.
I'm not asking for you to do my work for me, but I'd like an idea to develop a script from to film this short film that's worth a lot of my grade.
It needs to be doable too. I have a camera, a boom mic, photografic lights, and not a lot of time. I'm supposed to have this thing filmed and captured by next Tuesday.
I could really use some help with ideas. Describe the characters, the general story, etc.
It needs to be 10-15 minutes in length, and I have no budget, so somthing within the bounderies of normal life.
I do however have a crappy greenscreen (made of green paper <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->) that doesn't work very well available to me.
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Suddenly, all walls explode.
I'll be expecting my royalties check soon. :P
I had an idea, but my teacher kicked it out the window because it sounded like terrorism.
I had an idea, but my teacher kicked it out the window because it sounded like terrorism. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh you gotta tell us all in Internet Land what your grand terrorist scheme was please please please
you could just follow one person(the main character) through a series of short events that slowly develope this character.. envolve some friends and at the end have something either real funny or tragic happen. Works for independant films on Sundance! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It involved a guy, and he worked as a software developer for the giant corperation named "Macrosoft" He ploted to expose the puppy killing evils to the world by stealing information from the inside, but Special Agent John Doe of the FBI is hot on his trail, but allways one step behind!
Woo Hoo!
It involved a guy, and he worked as a software developer for the giant corperation named "Macrosoft" He ploted to expose the puppy killing evils to the world by stealing information from the inside, but Special Agent John Doe of the FBI is hot on his trail, but allways one step behind!
Woo Hoo! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
pffffff
as long as you don't mention "bomb", "building", "tower", or "jihad" you're in the clear
Is your teacher even aware of Martha Stewert, Enron, or Halliburton?
A girl broke up with a guy.
Suddenly on his way home, the rain falls.
When he got home, he turned on the shower.
He went into the shower with his shirt on.
He looked at the mirror, then smashed it.
He came out of the bathroom, then had a flashback of the time spending with her.
Then he trashed the room.
Music fade.
courtesy of 90% of the music video released in my home.
The win.
Do a cheesy black and white flick with no real meaning, they'll go insane for it because they think they understand nothing.
This is a good idea. In addition to it, you should have a text prompt at the bottom of the screen where commands are typed in as you do them, and their responses shown, as if someone is playing a graphical Zork, and you're the graphics.
Nonsensical or invalid commands should be inserted at random for comedic relief.
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Well then, in that case it is clear to me that you must dress up as Jesus christ, singing and dancing and playing street hockey with judas, only to trip upon a banana peel and fall onto the pavement for all mankinds sin.
your probabaly gonna have to do this over a weekend, since you're goinna need to be up early, REAL early
Scene opens to a city, completely decimated, the main character's voice chimes in on how "It" happened, have your character walk aroung like his on patrol, ripped up clothes, some sort of weapon (My version had him with a Spas 12, but a baseball bat or a ax will work too, although you may have to weather them) Have the guy waling around in the daylight, nobody is on the streets, everything's deserted (hence the weekend, at 6am on a sunday most areas are dead quiet)
Have the main character, through flashbacks, remember how he couldnt save anyone he cared for (Girlfriend, Best friend, Wife, Child, ect...) Have the narration go on as he partols the area, then...
The three ideas i had were
1) thing that's caused it is dead ahead, never have the camera focus on it, but have it fade out with "I couldnt even protect myself...." *RaygunNoise.wav*
2) Female in wartorn Refugee clothes comes running round a corner, unearthly noises behind her, main character readies his weapon "At least, i'll give someone a chance.) Fade out, breathing heavily, battlecry *hear hero weapon noises* *unearthly death scream
3) 'I Hope this "Freeman" guy gets here soon" Screen goes black *Combine Alert noises, Manhack startup, general fighting, audio Fades out with explosions *
By the way, who do you have to do acting for you?
Call it "Cubicle".
You'll get an A. I did.
here's a few typical ideas that usually turn out fun to watch and have some kind of character development usually inherent to them:
<b>1) "IT"</b>
The character starts off in 'normal life' but as the film progresses it becomes clear that something isn't right and the protaganist ends up being chased by something that nobody else can see. S'up to you if the antagonist is some sort of spiritual nasty or just the protaganist going nuts. Plenty of possible plottwists possible with this one, even in a short time :3
<b>2) "Trapped"</b>
The character is sealed in some place and tries to get out. The more surreal it is the better. This can be a room with no doors or windows (how the heck did they get in there? a mystery solved in the story maybe?), a staircase/corridor that seems to infinitely loop so you end up in the same place all the time or even a giant complex of rooms (cube? :p ).
Once again... plenty of room for the character to develop and the ending result is up to you whether they escape or end up stuck forever (possibly for their crimes in life or something). Antaganist in these is entirely optional; you don't even need to include one :D
...and I was gonna type more but I just got a sudden surge of laziness. Might type them later ^~
<b>edit:</b> And those two plus the additional ones I had in mind are all possible with what you have as long as you're creative. Some friends of mine made a film called 'The Hellix' which takes place in a stairwell and follows story type 2 basically ^^
Or.. pimping my own stuff here, you could use <a href='http://vocabbook.lux-lucis.net/?p=7' target='_blank'>this story</a> as a base. Then you could follow the plane and what Domnick does afterwards. You could have some sort of parallelism going on between what happens to the plane and Domnick. Irunno, can't get anymore creative at this hour. It's also creative common's licensed btw, I just haven't gotten around to adding the license information yet.
The character starts off in 'normal life' but as the film progresses it becomes clear that something isn't right and the protaganist ends up being chased by something that nobody else can see. S'up to you if the antagonist is some sort of spiritual nasty or just the protaganist going nuts. Plenty of possible plottwists possible with this one, even in a short time :3 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I like this idea. I think I can make it work. Now, off to write a script.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->George is a normal guy, he goes to school, gets pretty decent grades and hangs out with his friends on the weekends. However, one day he finds a wallet laying on the ground. He looks around, nobody is in sight. He quickly takes up the wallet and pockets it. After arriving home, he looks at the wallet and searches through it. He finds a considerable amount of cash inside. There is no identification inside the wallet to show who owns it. Out of nowhere a voice starts talking to him, questioning his morality. After having a conversation with the voice, he brushes it off as his conscience and decides to ignore it. A friend calls later and wants to get together to hang out, so they make plans to meet at the Starbucks for a sweetened caffeine filled beverage of dewm(!). He arrives, and greets his friend. They place their orders and go outside, sit at a table and start talking. A man walks up to George and asks him if he has seen a wallet laying about to which George replies “Nope”. His friend says “nope what?” and George replies I was talking to that guy about his wallet. The friend asks “what guy” and George looks around and the man is nowhere to be found. So he explains what the guy wanted and they continue their conversation. The man comes up on the other side this time and asks if he's sure he hasn't seen a wallet. They start talking, and the friend looks at him funny. Eventually, George can't even hear his friend, and starts nervously talking to the wallet man. Eventually he runs off, but the man is always a step ahead of him. He asks passersby to help him, and they all look at him like he's insane. Eventually, he gives up and throws the wallet at the man but it lands on the ground and he disappears. Soon, another person picks it up and a transparent version of the man appears in the background laughing.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Imagine some guy, middle aged and unremarkable the usual wife and 2 kids, no hobbies or anything. Just grey suit, grey hairs, grey personality, grey life. He's pretty miserable, never smiles or anything like that, never achieved a goal or a dream of his. In fact the people around him don't particularly get on with him, they don't hate him or anything he's just... boring. Dull. Lifeless.
One day he wakes up earlier than usual (strange, he never gets up this early!) with a splitting headache, tries to go back to sleep but can't. Goes in to work and suffers for most of the day until, in the middle of the office with people working, whispering and worrying, he smiles. No, more than that, he almost grins and in fact, two seconds later he does just that. He looks puzzled but cheerful, happy in fact. He finds himself giggling, now laughing and people are looking at him "oh god, he's cracked" "whats so funny" etc and a few other people are standing and smiling at him. Now he's crying so hard the tears are rolling down his face, he just can't control it. The boss comes out and he tries to stop but just can't and so he's asked to leave and come back when he is more sober (not in an alcoholic way).
I'm not going to tell the whole story like that but basically he is happy, finally happy and just can't stop smiling (and thats when he can stop laughing). He finds his life for the next few weeks better, brighter and... colourful. People like him more and want to spend time with him, he and his wife get invited to parties and without meaning to, he naturally draws people in to laughing with him. He looks years younger etc.
The only down side to this is that the headaches keep coming, getting worse actually. He eventually goes to the doctor (cos you can't laugh everything off) and finds out he has a brain tumour which is why he's laughing, it's pressing on something inside him which has made him happy, almost like it's releasing all the laughter he's had in him for years but never felt. He sits in the waiting room thinking about his life recently compared to how it was and makes a decision, he won't have it removed. He's finally close to his kids, his whole family. He has more good friends now than he did for the past 10-15 years.
Eventually of course he has to tell his family and you can just imagine the scene as he sits them all down and tells them of the bad news, they think he's joking at first, anyone would as he's sitting there with a big grin on his face. Looks like he's taking them to disneyland instead of telling them he's going to die. Of course it soon sinks in and the tears start, maybe the little girl running to grab him and sob in his arms, the older brother storms off slamming doors. The wife in tears and, torn between husband and son, quickly rushes from the room to comfort her boy, trying to stem the tears as she leaves and so the camera is left on Father and Daugher, tears rolling down both faces but with this stupid out of place smile on his face looking so unnatural.
Of course this could go in lots of ways and it wouldn't be easy for you to do but I think it would make a good film. You could get lots of tricks in as it could start off with very muted colours or black and white, have the first ray of sunshine, this splash of yellow across his desk as he begins to chuckle in the office and see how it spreads as his laughter infects his colleagues.
I dunno, I just have ideas like this a lot and it would be nice for this to be used by someone, no credit necessary if you use it although as I said, not quite sure if its possible in the time you have. What do you think though, is it any good?
Guy does things. Fade to black, roll credits.
Might want to change the guy to a girl if you're trying to date someone and think they'll like you if you put them in the movie, or if you're worried about being attacked by feminists for being too male-centric. I'll need 10% off the top by the way.
I wouldnt reckon that one would be too hard, if youve got a decent Army Surplus store near you.
So, no a WW1 era thing wouldn't work out to well <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> I also don't have a middle aged man, I'm going with actors that are 17-18 years old, most liklet suck at acting (as I do)