First Idea
For my first idea, I decided upon a Romance genre for my short film. I decided to brainstorm my ideas which I later scanned in to the computer - bizzarely it scanned in pink!
Unfortunately some of the ideas were cut off, but this helped me to get my initial thoughts down. My idea was mainly set in a college / school environment as my target audience of students (male and female) aged between 13 and 19 would be able to relate to the film more. The story line was about an average male student who falls in love with the most popular girl in the school. It's a typical storyline associated with romantic teenage films, I think because the audience can empathise with the character(s). However, I would try to incoporate more comedy elements within my film to try and make it more enjoyable. Also, I would try to include more twists, such as having the male turn out gay at the end; instead of following the predicted pattern of liking the female, he in fact liked her boyfriend all along. I thought of many techniques which I could use in the film, influenced by my initial research in to short films. At the beginning, I thought about using parallel editing and possibly use a split screen to show the male and female protagonist getting ready for college (accompanied by modern pop music) and travelling to college to show that these two are destined to meet and possibly be together. I tried to keep location and cast numbers low so that they would be more managable and easier to schedule. Most of the props were associated with romance, i.e. flowers, but the file links not only to the theme of college and study, but can also be used as a flirtacious device. For example, I thought that the female could possibly drop the file and the male pick it up for her - hence how they meet.
This was the beginning of my script for the idea. I thought if I planned out the narrative with some ideas about the cinematography then I may have other ideas of what to include to make it more different. Unfortunately, I didn't go any further with this script as I thought that the narrative was too predictable and wasn't very different from the other storylines out there. So, I decided to expand on the idea and look at other possibilities that I could explore.
Unfortunately some of the ideas were cut off, but this helped me to get my initial thoughts down. My idea was mainly set in a college / school environment as my target audience of students (male and female) aged between 13 and 19 would be able to relate to the film more. The story line was about an average male student who falls in love with the most popular girl in the school. It's a typical storyline associated with romantic teenage films, I think because the audience can empathise with the character(s). However, I would try to incoporate more comedy elements within my film to try and make it more enjoyable. Also, I would try to include more twists, such as having the male turn out gay at the end; instead of following the predicted pattern of liking the female, he in fact liked her boyfriend all along. I thought of many techniques which I could use in the film, influenced by my initial research in to short films. At the beginning, I thought about using parallel editing and possibly use a split screen to show the male and female protagonist getting ready for college (accompanied by modern pop music) and travelling to college to show that these two are destined to meet and possibly be together. I tried to keep location and cast numbers low so that they would be more managable and easier to schedule. Most of the props were associated with romance, i.e. flowers, but the file links not only to the theme of college and study, but can also be used as a flirtacious device. For example, I thought that the female could possibly drop the file and the male pick it up for her - hence how they meet.
This was the beginning of my script for the idea. I thought if I planned out the narrative with some ideas about the cinematography then I may have other ideas of what to include to make it more different. Unfortunately, I didn't go any further with this script as I thought that the narrative was too predictable and wasn't very different from the other storylines out there. So, I decided to expand on the idea and look at other possibilities that I could explore.
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