Based on how to make a short film guide I have decided to come up with short film ideas which can then be developed into a short film. Short Film Idea 1
Strange Days: Similar films
Videodome: Similar films
Set in a dystopian future where illegal playback of tapes are circulating the backstreets of a city. The illegal playback tapes are created by taking memories from a person's cerebral cortex and allowing others to experience the same memory. The protagonist becomes an expert dealer of the illegal tapes, allowing others to experience highs they have never felt before. However they are sent a package containing a playback tape which reveals a horrifying murder, something that needs alerting to the police.
The protagonist secretly deals the illegal playbacks, offering them to the classic wire-tripping junkies, high class businessmen, men, women, anyone who has the cash to pay for a unique experience. Amputees can experience what it's like to walk, to run, women can experience what it's like to be a man, what it's like to rob someone, but the protagonist will not deal in snuff playbacks which they start receiving. It is then the difficult decision for the protagonist arises as they have to decide what is the right thing to do, expose his illegal activities and be jailed but give justice, or keep quiet and allow the murders to continue?
The similar films are similar in their narratives and props, for example within strange days the main focus of the plot is on the ability to experience other peoples memories and experiences via a floppy disk. I chose Strange days as a similar film as it features a futuristic technology and future, something which I think is interesting to explore within my short film. The other similar film is Video drome which allows people to be transported into their TV's. I chose this as a inspiration for my idea as it features a technology that we could replicate in order to demonstrate to the audience that this is the future. Videodrome allows people to view seemingly violent and gruesome acts of violence and feel it as they watch TV.
Potential Props:
Casette Tapes
Headphones
Computers
Wires
Briefcase
Similar films: The trailers
Similar film: Seven Pounds
Short Film Idea 2
Similar film: Return to me
Two women are parallel to each other as they are walking, one woman gets ran over by a car and the other has a heart attack. Both are rushed to the hospital but only one survives. The survivor however needs a heart transplant and receives the heart of the woman who died. The survivor successfully takes to the heart but shortly forgets her own life and forgets those she loves and becomes infatuated with the dead woman's husband, children and friends instead to the point of where she is sent to a mental institution. The similar films I took inspiration from feature a transplant procedure of a deceased and donating it so that one can live. I wanted to explore the idea of love within this idea and found that the similar film Return to me is highly similar in the narrative content. Return to me features a woman who receives a heart transplant from a woman whose husband later falls in love with her as he feels because she has his deceased wife's heart, she has the ability to love him. Potential Props:
Human Heart
Surgical team
Similar films: Trailers
Short Film Idea 3
Similar Film/TV: American Horror story
The year is 1940 and Elizabeth Short has been murdered and universally become known as the Black Dahlia. The year is 2015 and a murderer replicates the Black Dahlias death multiple times in the same spot, yet gets away with it, it turns out to be the main leading detective on the case who visits the true killer of the Black Dahlia for guidance, his grandfather. I took inspiration from a real life murder which has recently been featured on American Horror Story. The Black Dahlia is an unresolved murder from the 1940's, her body was found mutilated in a park with a smile cut into her face from ear to ear, I thought this had the potential to create a suspenseful horror and allow us to explore special effects and interesting costumes. I also thought the transition of being in the 1940's to present day would allow us to create period costumes. The idea of continuing a serial killers legacy is a common feature in horrors and psychological thrillers and I thought it would be an interesting plot twist for the perceived hero of the plot to actually be the killer.
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