Short Film Ideas Some tips and tricks These

Short Film Ideas – Some tips and tricks • These are SNAPSHOTS OF A PERSON’S LIFE! A short glimpse in… • Should have a twist in the end if you can… • Keep it simple • Use your family members • Use a video game • Do animation • Use dolls

Short Films • Pandemic (D 4 Darius) • https: //youtu. be/Prq 3 w. Kp. Sq. SU • Pandemic – How D 4 Darius made the movie • https: //youtu. be/lp. U 9 azbc. Lnw • Tales from the Multiverse • https: //www. filmsshort. com/short-film-pages/tales-from-themultiverse-magnus-moller-mette-tange-peter-smith. html • Good Bones [EXPLICIT] • https: //youtu. be/DOGCC 7 -I 2 MY

Single-Location Films https: //www. lightsfilmschool. com/blog/3 -examples-of-single-location-shortfilms-to-inspire-you https: //www. borisseewald. de/portfolio/momentum Doodlebug – Christopher Nolan https: //www. filmsshort. com/short-film-pages/doodlebug-christophernolan. html Social Security – Animation (Stop-Motion) https: //youtu. be/g. Qjzoctu 3 -c Speed Dating [EXPLICIT – watch from ~2: 07] (this one follows the looking screen Right/Left concept of Mr. E’s) https: //youtu. be/me. Ofqy 09 YLc

Ideas around the “dinner table” (everyone has a place to eat) • A son/daughter sits down to dinner with an absentee father/mother (resulting conversation could be dramatic or funny

Short Film Ideas [(x) = substitute this thing] • A person who is alone has memory loss…how would that work? • A person hears voices (crazy or not? ) • A person sees things (crazy or not? ) or has visions • A person working up the nerve to ask another person out (over the phone; wants to leave house but can’t; stopped by things beyond his/her control…) • Use the Random Word Generator to get you started somehow… http: //creativitygames. net/random-word-generator

Short Film Ideas • A person battles a lemon (x) in his house • Last person on earth • Zombie apocalypse • A person talks him/herself through an emotional state – maybe something intervenes/interrupts to help in a positive way • A person decides whether to try coffee (x) for the first time • A person struggles to record the perfect voice mail message • What your furniture (x) does when you leave the house

Short Film Ideas • Online dating • A Zoom meeting gone wrong • Talk show • Vines/Tik. Tok/Thomas Sanders-esque things • Documentary • Video essay • Video poem

Technical Concepts • Change your costume and location/wall and have different “locations” and “characters” entirely • Green screen or solid color background can be keyed out (maybe later when we know how to edit…) • Pay attention to light…don’t have BRIGHT light behind you • Ask others to help you: people in home, other schools, virtually or physically there – THIS IS YOUR CHOICE! THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT! • Needs to be handed in ON TIME and with the MINIMUM RUN-TIME REQUIREMENT!