Short Film: Ideas

During class, we came up with a list of ideas for a short film and where to get ideas from.

Here's the list:
In the lesson we listed some ideas for the short film task:

• Love - Cute/Old/Obsessive
• Comedy
• From a film you've seen
• Songs - Lyrics
• Kids
• Crime - Twist in the tale
• Death - Murder
• Sentimental
• Betrayal
• Poems - William Blake - Innocence vs Experience
• Shakespearean story/tale
• Rework a fairy tale - Canterbury Tales
• Old people
• Other stories/books - make it modern

We also thought of what problems would occur with doing a short film:

• Have to write a screenplay - one thats interesting
• Continuity issues - hair change/clothes changed/nails/makeup etc
• Time
• Deadlines
• Having too much in the film - too many camera angles/sound effects etc
• Planning
• Talent - actors ill/unwilling/lazy
• Organisation