bretts ideas!!!

Section 3- Ideas For a Short Film
By Brett!

Idea 1
For my first idea I thought of, was based on drug abuse and the ‘tripping’ side of drugs. The film would start with a group of young teenagers pushing each other into taking an ecstasy tablet in a empty house. But when they’ve all taken one, they would all start to ‘trip’ and then we would film it as we are following the teenagers through there ‘bad trip’ where they encounter violence, criminal activity and other things which they would not usually dream of doing. Then the film would end with one of them dying in a back alley and the rest are surrounded him, a point of view shot from the dying boy would show the faces of those staring at him till the film seems to end but after 10 second or so. It would cut to a clip of the boy coming back to life and a still would show him sitting up.

The audience would be seeing the ‘trip’ through one of the boys eyes which makes them interact and make them want to know what happens.

The audience for this film would be teenagers to warn them about drugs therefore it could be used in schools with year 9 or 10. The narrative is a closed ending because the audience knows the guy isn’t dead.

Idea 2
A Young boy at school is falling asleep in a history lesson when he falls into a deep sleep. His classroom is full of noisy children and the teacher doesn’t notice. But while he dreams with his head against his table, something indescribable happens, when he wakes up he looks around and the room is empty. He starts to look in the cupboards thinking it’s a practical joke but there’s no one there. He walks out and the building is totally empty, there is bags and books all over the floor. But then he sees another young boy, who he finds out that bullies put him in a cupboard at the time but when he got out he too was in the same position. The two set off looking for people but they have no luck.

The audience follows the students around the building and the interaction between the protagonist and the audience makes them wonder that has happened.

The audience for this film is young teenagers and maybe the young adults. It is similar to the film ’28 days later’. This would be a open ended narrative because the audience are left in thought of what has happened. And if they will find their family and friends.