Monday, 17 December 2018

Developing Ideas For Characters

Character 1:
Story: Follows a man we assume is about to terrorise gov building, turns out he's mentally ill and escaped a mental asylum.
Name: Robert Grasinski
Age: 31
Jobs: Unemployed
Barriers: Security
Aspirations: To go home
Family: Daughter

Character 2:
Story: Man working in cafe notices a couple, where the woman gives a suspicious look, as it turns out she's been abducted
Name: Toby Waterford
Age: 22
Jobs: Waiter
Barriers: Doubt and inaction
Aspirations: To find purpose in life
Family: Nada

Character 3:
Story: Alienated man suddenly goes viral online, but how long will this last.
Name: Fred Colson
Age: 30 (his birthday at the start)
Jobs: Leaflet distributor for social media company
Barriers: Introversion and isolation
Aspirations: Have people care about him
Family: None

Character 4:
Story: An injured criminal seeks help from nurse, but the nurse may not be who they seem.
Name: Ed Garrison
Age: 38
Jobs: Professional Criminal
Barriers: His injury
Aspirations: To get better
Family: A daughter

Character 5:
Story: Discovers they can stop time, slowly fall into corruption. Stuck in stopped time forever in the end.
Name:  Harrison Ackney
Age: 35
Jobs: Garbage Man
Barriers:
Aspirations:
Family:

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Short Film Mindmaps







Creative Box

Local News Story:


Suspicious man tries to enter government building, the spectator is lead on to believe he is a terrorist, gets killed, turns out he's mentally ill and escaped a mental asylum, and didn't know where he was.

National News Story:

Teddy bears supposed to help kids during long drives turns out to be the cause for crashes.

International News Story:

Father and daughter Christmas shopping have to survive terrorist attack

Story about family:
Grandfather's uncle
Man comes back from war, suffers PTSD visions, or are they actually real.

Story from social media:
Flashback comedy on how two nuns came to Las Vegas - they committed a heist at their school.

Story from something I saw in public:
Once saw a man and woman walk down a street in a suspicious manner, led to me thinking what the nature of their situation was and why they were so.

A man and woman walk down a street, but the woman has a worried look on her face, as we later find out he's abducting her.

Dramatic story from youth:
Once nearly drowned as I was being pulled by waves

Child tries to battle waves pulling him away from shore,  turns out he was actually like a meter away from shore the whole time.

Lyrics:
"Lay with a snitch, die with a coward" - Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst

Man seeking asylum after on the run from enemies, turns out person who took him in has evil intentions

Strange object I've found:
An old microscope I found on my living room table, origins unknown.

Boy looks through mystery microscope, gets transported to whole other world, tries to find way home.

Junk/Spam mail:

Man gets stopped on street for survey to win money, but the questions are not like any other survey.