Initial short film ideas

A level Media studies

1. Initial Short Film Ideas By Andras Pinter

2. Dare You Dare you film about two friends going home from school, daring each other to complete various crazy stunts. As two friends go home from school, they keep making bets and daring each other with crazier stunts to prove which one of them is better then the other one. Pros: Two lead characters required Possibility to improvise during filming No specific permission needed to film on location Cons: Stunts might be dangerous due to the storyline Actors must be very skilled Difficult to film outdoor and on various locations Appeals to specific audience Technically and equipment wise demanding

3. Tricksters Internet dating with mistaken identity while chit chatting with a person over the internet, boy/girl creates their own vision of a person, they are communicating with. A lonely teenager wishes to get a girl, in order for this to happen, he registries on an internet dating site not aware that various undesirable characters are waiting to take advantage of his needs and wants. Pros: Story can be developed into various of different storylines and characters( underage. Over aged, robot…) Storyline relevant to current social relationship issues Cons: Advanced editing skills needed

4. O versized In order to achieve physical strength and perfection a teenage boy takes a shortcut consuming internet order supplements. As the things go differently then he hoped and expected, he achieves the growth but not the one he expected. A teenager decides to take pills in order to achieve growth on his muscles. Things go very well until one day he wakes up with an oversized body part due to the supplements. Pros: Only 1 Character needed Easy to film on indoor location Not a complicated storyline Cons: Realistic body props(body parts) needed to be created Possible use of CGI in order to enhance visuals

5. In Trouble A troubled teenager seeks revenge on his pranksters A students gets bullied in school constantly , after a while he gets loose and starts to get back at all the pranksters and bullies. Things go pretty well in the beginning until…. Pros: Few locations required On the spot improvisation Not professional actors required Cons: Needs to be filmed after school hours Special permission required Large number of extras needed

6. Nightmare in the house After failing his AS level a student’s nightmarish grandmother is moving in to straighten him out. Student who failed his exams is in trouble due to his lack of studying, his Scary grandmother moves in to make sure that his grandson will pass his exams in order to achieve advanced results enough for him to enter a proper university, Studying becomes his every day duty. Pros: Everything can be filmed at one location(indoor) Only 2 characters needed Cons: Directing and acting at the same time Appropriate character in regards to age, with acting experience Realistic acting from Grandmother due to comic scenes

7. Self-Obsessed Selfie and social media obsessed person is on the quest to turn her Photoshop image into reality. Social media obsessed girl keeps on trying to turn her Photoshop made pictures into reality, as she believes that this is possible, she even has the perfect plan to.. Pros: Only 1 character needed Indoor location required Easy for the audiences to understand the meaning of the film Cons: Acting must be very good Professional make up artist required Related to a specific audience

8. Memories F rom the Past Stumbling upon pictures on the old computer a person is on quest to find people/ person that he does not remember. Pros: Story can be developed in wide range of storylines Appeals and attracts wide range of audience Cons: Many characters needed Filming on various locations

9. Locked Escape room, a person wakes up in an unfamiliar room and in order to leave they need to find a way out, finding the clues within the room or retracing memories, while finding clues they have to remember that each clue sets them to remember event prior to contemporary action to the film… Cons: Filming on different location Technically and equipment demanding Complicated script Many extras needed Pros: Interesting storyline to develop into variety of possible scripts Appeals to wider audience

10. Escape Room Overturned O maĝe to Irreversible film, in which the story is told backwards Inspired by the escape room idea, but in this case, the character has to find clues and remember their past in order to find way out from the escape room. The storyline is depicted in reverse order. Cons: Difficult editing process All stages of production needs to be detailed, in regards to planning and organization Filming on various locations( Indoor and Outdoor) Pros: Unconventional way to tell the story Interesting and appealing to wide range of audience

11. The Best Shot Sport film ( basketball, 2 guys competing for the tryouts and who is better) Two friends meet in school discussing a basketball game, which they watched together earlier, They cant decide who is better in real life so they compete for the tryouts and for the girl they like through basketball. Cons: Access to a court Pre-Production has to be well organized Two not professional actors needed Sport person required Pros: Two lead characters needed Appealing to a wide range of audiences Filming can be done both indoor or outdoor

12. Development of short film ideas

13. 1) The Protagonist is locked in an escape room. She finds herself in a room where she has to complete mind blowing puzzles and physical strength related tasks, she is watched by antagonist. The antagonist had a miserable childhood where he lost his parents, now he is 35; he has nothing. He is of an idea that he has to punish people due to their happy life and outstanding professions which he couldn’t get. The only problem is that she isn’t alone. There are other victims captured for the same reason. The escape room is located in a kind of a warehouse made of different rooms, each with different tasks in order to escape, but no one knows if in the end you can actually escape.

14. 2) After partying whole night in a club with his friends, a drunk guy wakes up in a room with which he is unfamiliar. He has no idea how he got there, or why. The only thing he knows is that he has to get out. As he starts to get conscious he realizes that he is in an escape room, all alone by himself, with only a voice in his head. The unknown voice is coming from a Speaker which is telling him riddles/instructions of what he has to do. The only way of succeeding is by following the orders and try to escape the locked escape room.

15. 3) A guy wakes up in a room which is completely unknown to him. He is an amateur basketball player who loves to hoop. He starts to look around the room, when he finds and exit and leaves. He finds himself in another room with little space and a basketball hoop. As he gets closer to the basketball a guy appears with a mask on his face to challenge this basketball player. He soon realizes that he has to face him and beat him in order to escape. The only problem is that he is claustrophobic, he gets depressed in small spaces and to focus in such a place and to win an unknown guy can get really tough.

16. 4) Few friends wonder around the city searching for fun. They find a place which looks to be interesting to them. In the house they realize that there is an old escape room which isn’t in use anymore. They decide to renovate it and try it out. 4 friends push the youngest one in the escape room and lock him. They agree on giving him instructions via phone, through calls and messages on how to find the way out by doing mind gazing tasks.

17. Two basketball players are arriving at the basketball court. As they start changing and preparing for the game they are opposite each other and on the first instance it looks as if they are ignoring or not registering one another. As the time passes by they start exchanging glances as if they are communicating. During that time we see flashback of what has happened between them the night before the crucial game. (One of the players has witnessed the other player betting against his own team.)

18. Two rival basketball players are in the changing room, getting ready for the game. They are talking to their teammates about their latest conquest and the girl they have been with. Before they are ready to start the game, on the way out of the changing room, they see a girl, both of them start rushing towards her to address her with different names.

19. Two best friends playing for the same basketball team. The night before the crucial game, each of them receives a text message which will force one of them to win and the other one to lose the game. During the game we see the determination of each one of them fighting at their best ability to win or lose.

20. 5) 2 groups of friends decide to go to the haunted house escape room adventure to show each other that by working together, anything is possible. Both groups have people who do not fancy one another from the other group. The Game master makes the Triplets in order to start the game. However he manages to put a group of triplets where all of them hate and have problems with each other. The other 3 groups have successfully completed the adventure game but this last group got stuck due to their bad teamwork. In order to finish and get out from the escape room they have to start working together or who knows what’s going to happen while being locked in such a room.

21. Final Idea 1 Escape Room

22. After partying whole night in a club with his friends, a drunk guy wakes up in a room with which he is unfamiliar. He has no idea how he got there, or why. The only thing he knows is that he has to get out. As he starts to get conscious he realizes that he is in an escape room, all alone by himself, with only a voice in his head. The unknown voice is coming from a Speaker which is telling him riddles/instructions of what he has to do. The only way of succeeding is by following the orders and try to escape the locked escape room.

23. Based on my experience and knowledge, looking at my script, I have decided to change my topic, as there were problems with the location and settings, and also character choices.

24. Final Idea 2 Battle of the Sexes

25. An average sporty teenage couple who are into basketball during everyday conversation end up arguing with each other about who is a better player, so they end up playing each other. As the game progresses they realize there is more crack in their relationship than they originally thought. Nobody wins but they break up. As the game becomes more heated the exchange becomes more intense, instead of one of them winning they break up.

26. Based on my script, I couldn’t find a proper female character who could have played the role of my female protagonist therefore I have abandoned this idea.

27. Final Idea 3 Accident

28. Girl and boy playing for same club, each are talking about who they met online, but each have a fake profile, they are actually texting each other and by accident, they bump into each other and both of them drop their phones and each of the takes their other phone and see their messages.

29. Final Idea This story is a modern representation of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

30. They go to the same Basketball club, texting each other constantly, while being on fake account. After few flirting sessions, they set up a blind date, however as they are not self-confident, they send a substitute instead. As the substitutes meet up they realize they know each other and end up getting together, while the other two are …