Skip to main content

Narrative Ideas

Brainstorm of narrative ideas

 - Party gone wrong - comedy

- Stalker's life - thriller

- Unexpected neighbour - serial killer - thriller

- Girl being followed home/stalked - thriller


Main idea

- My idea for my short film is in the theme of a thriller and creating suspense with the camera rather than the dialogue. The film will focus on a girl leaving a party or some sort of social event and being followed home by a stalker. I want to incorporate both the girl’s view and the stalker’s view with various camera shots, for example, a shot of the girl walking down the street either in 3rd person or in 1st person and then cutting to a shot of the stalker’s view of her walking down the street, creating two-viewpoints throughout the film and different reactions to the situation. 

 I had this idea for my film after seeing multiple cases of stalkers and kidnapping of women in the news in public places, like the Sarah Everard case. Using this, I want to include public transport as part of my set, to portray the danger in places that are claimed to be ‘safe’.

 

The themes that will be prevalent in my film is voyeurism and how that is portrayed. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Shooting Schedule Day 1

 
Post a Comment
Read more

The Arrival - Daniel Montanarini

The Arrival (2016) directed by Daniel Montanarini, is a short film around a pregnant women, sitting in a cafe waiting for the father of the baby to show up. The basis of this film is off her decision on whether to get a decaf or caffeine coffee, a voiceover depicts her thoughts in this pinnacle decision as she also is decided at the same time whether to keep her baby or not and this decision of which coffee impacts her decision. Although this question is seemly harmful in everyday life, for a pregnant women, this is a consequential question and this film investigate the internal debate of the woman, Anna, and the reasons to and not. This film was inspired by a documentary that Montanarini was making at the time, All about Mothers, which explored the relationship between mothers and their children as they discovered that they were pregnant. The film was also inspired by a photograph of a young woman sitting in a cafe by Alexander Nesterov.  Genre - Drama Narrative - The ending of ...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Fly - Olly Williams

The Fly (2015), directed by Olly Williams, is a comedic short following the wait of a getaway driver for a bank robbery.  While waiting, the getaway driver becomes more and more irritable by a fly in his car, he begins with mild annoyance until by the end of the short, he is driven crazy and furious over this fly.  Throughout his rage and extreme reaction, his 3 parters are looting the bank next to the car.  The Fly subverts and challenges our expectations of this type of heist genre of films by changing to focus of the film and creating comedy in this overreaction, that later costs him and ruins the heist. Genre - Crime, Action, Comedy Sound - Sound is key in this film as the film has little to no dialogue at all and it is pinnacle to the depiction of the story. To begin, a sound bridge is used with a black screen shown, the sound of guns cocking and  one of the criminals saying 'right boys, 3 minutes, Go, Go, Go'. This sets the scene instantly establishes the sto...
Post a Comment
Read more