Ideas for My Short Film

Idea 1:

Name of the film: The Vlog

Genre: Horror

Synopsis: The main protagonist is a youtuber who vlogs his life away. One day while he was vlogging, he felt as if someone/something was stalking him; and gets carried away with this feeling. He ends up in an abandoned school, but doesn’t know where he is. What will he do now, is he trapped, is he mentally stable; no one knows.

Main Actor: 

• Preferably Male

• Character is in his teenage years

Props:

• Vlog camera for the main character

Equilibrium:

Vlogging is his normal everyday life, he has a youtube account and is looking for content to put in his vlogs.

Disequilibrium:

Main protagonist feels like someone is watching him/following him. The thing/person who follows him is almost everywhere, and it somewhat leads or guides his to this abandoned school (HKA).

New equilibrium:

• Wakes up in his bedroom and apparently all of the above was a dream; and none of what he dreamt of was actually real. He then goes and gets ready for his day to vlog.

• Wakes up in his bedroom and apparently all of the above was a dream; and none of what he dreamt of was real…or was it all real (sees the stalker in the background of his room).

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Idea 2

Name of the film: The Vlog

Genre: Psychological Horror, Realism

Synopsis: The Youtube community starts to disappear slowly, throughout each country, hundreds of vloggers as well as other Youtubers are disappearing and are found either dead or almost dead. And now, the psycho murder is in Hong Kong and is after its Youtube community (ie. vloggers/gamers who upload videos to Youtube). The main protagonist who is a vlogger is captured while he was on his day out to vlog. Where will the story end or begin?

Main Actor: Either Male or Female

Age of actor: 13-18 years

Props: Camera, either a DSLR or a small compact camera

Equilibrium: Character does his thing everyday (ie. vlogging his life away, earning money and fame)

Disequilibrium: Vlogger gets captured by a mysterious man who is hunting small groups of youtubers

New Equilibrium: Vlogger makes it out safe by a slim chance, starts to carry a backpack with tools for self defence

Structure of film: Non-linear, starts with the main protagonist captured in a dark room with a swinging lamp above his/her head; then the scene cuts to the equilibrium where the main protagonist gets up to start his day to vlog.

Notes on this film:

• Vloggers could have been kidnapped?

• vlogger on the ground

• How the information could have been told?

  • News articles

  • Youtube video saying what happens

    • ie. warning on youtube

      • montage of voices reading comments

Idea 3

Name of film: Colours

Genre: Realism

Synopsis: The main protagonists dream is to become a pilot one day, but then, he/she is suddenly diagnosed with colourblindness. The story then progresses with the main protagonist trying to find out how to live life as he/she can’t see the colour: red, at all. The main protagonists colour blindness is strong Protan (red-green colour blind). You as the viewers/audience will be guided through the life story of the main protagonist dealing with his problem, being colourblind.

Main Actor: Male/Female

Age of Actor: 13-18 years

Props: Colourblind glasses

Equilibrium: Character thinks he is perfectly fine and is living his life to the fullest and he dreams to be a pilot.

Disequilibrium: Character points out a colour of an object to the parents, and tells the wrong colour. The parent then calls a doctor to diagnose him to see what his problem is; and then he/she is diagnosed to be colourblind. The main protagonists dream is then crushed as he is told that he cant be a pilot because of his colourblindness

New Equilibrium: It was the birthday of the main protagonist, and he/she was given a present, the present being a colourblind glasses to help him/her to see the colour red. He/she is then told that the rules to become a pilot has changed and they are allowing people with colourblindness to fly planes, only if they have a prescription to proper colourblind glasses.

Notes:

Something to do with my colour-blindness

• Documentary-like

• Realism?

• Someone stalking the main protagonist

• Problems with seeing things

• Change the colour palettes

  • Premiere Pro

    • Remove and add colours

Idea 4

Name of film: My Life

Genre: Realism

Synopsis: Since little, a young boy started the life of becoming a scientist, this all started when the young boy was aged 4 and his mum started to teach him strictly on maths, english and science. It has been 12 years since studying non stop with his strict mother and then the day came when he was offered a job at a scientist company, but had to study and get a degree at any university before he can start working. Is his dream finally come true, or will his destiny change?

Main actor: Male/Female

Age of actor: Child - 3 years, Teen - 13/14, Graduate - 17/18

Props: Glasses, Tie, Smart clothing

Equilibrium: Studying math, english and science for his whole life under supervision of his strict mother.

Disequilibrium: Offered a job to be a scientist, but need to get a degree at any university before he can start working.

New Equilibrium (may not be a new equilibrium): The boy might change his decisions with what type of job style he wants, ie. not be a scientist and turn down the job offer. Or, he takes the job.

Other Notes:

• Story of My life?

  • Tiger mum, Chill dad

  • Strict mum makes child do maths work at the age of 3

  • Studying for his whole life until he/she graduates

  • Can’t go out with friends

  • Mum is over protective

  • Story is about the main protagonist growing up with a strict life

• Open Ending

  • Disequilibrium ends the film

    • Main protagonist breaks free from what he/she normally does (ie. study)

  • Closed Ending

    • New equilibrium

      • Problem with the mother is resolved by proving her that she can do whatever she/he wants while keeping his/her grades up

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Idea 5

Name of film: Time Bottle

Genre: Sci-Fi

Synopsis: In the afternoon, a boy was heading out with his parents to their friends place as he was going out to his friends place to hangout. But, on the way to his friends place the boy saw this sign where it said “Get a drink here”, but what the boy didn’t read at the bottom of the label was “by drinking this, you can go back a day earlier”. Soon after going past this sign on the way to his friends place, he gets sick and his mum turned around to help him when suddenly their car got hit by a truck. The boy then woke up suddenly right before his alarm went off. What will happen to him now?

Main actor: Boy

Age of actor: 16 years old

Props: Rugged clothing

Equilibrium: Heading out with his parents to see his friend.

Disequilibrium: After drinking the drink he got in a store, it does something to him and makes him feel sick; shortly after that, their car gets hit.

New Equilibrium: Boy saves his family by not going to his friends place?

Other notes:

• family goes off to another country

  • brother, mother, father?

• As soon as they take off

  • plane explodes

• Person goes home

• wishes all of this to go away

• next day

• wakes up with his family in his house waking him up to tell him to get ready to go

• what happens now?

  • change the future?

  • go back in time somehow?

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Idea 6

Name of film: Hong Kong Here and Now

Genre: Documentary, Realism

Synopsis: Questioning my father about events in past when he was a teenager in Hong Kong, and also how much Hong Kong has developed over the past years he has lived in Hong Kong.

Main actor: My Father

Age of actor: 51 years old

Props: None

Equilibrium: Hong Kong now at present with all of the events happening currently

Disequilibrium: Problems that occur here in hong Kong now or the major changes which Hong Kong had in the past are gone now which ruined the scenery and the ‘old’ Hong Kong

New Equilibrium: Summing up the differences of Hong Kong and try to think of of future?

Other notes:

• Time lapses of Hong Kong street

  • Night and Day time

• Try to ask for old footage

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Idea 7

Name of film: Vision

Genre: Realism, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: A young teenage boy has a hobby of taking photographs in the streets of Hong Kong, he holds an Instagram account where he has a lot of followers and uploads daily. One day he starts to feel that something is wrong with his eyes as he started to not tell the correct colours properly, he then thought that he was tired and had a nights sleep. The next day he goes out to take photographs again, but then he notices that he is seeing less colours than he did the day before. This slowly progressed in 5 days until his vision started to go blurry with long distance photos he was taking and eventually in short distance photos he was taking. He hasn’t told his parents yet as he was too scared to hear the outcome of what his parents would say as well as what the doctor will say.

Main actor: Teenage boy

Age of actor: 14-18 years old

Props: Camera, 18-55mm lens & 50mm lens

Equilibrium: Teenage boy taking photographs everyday to post these images on Instagram.

Disequilibrium: One day the main protagonist starts to not see some colours. As 5 days continue, he see’s everything as black and white. 2 more days later, he can’t see at a long distance range and a short distance range.

New Equilibrium: Main protagonist is told from the doctor that he has gone blind, the cause was unknown; although he said that its most likely staying up late, watching TV or going on his lap top and phone a lot (lap top and phone is the reason). Lives his life as a blind man.

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Another Way for the 3 Part Narrative

Equilibrium: In the future, a teenage boy has a hobby of taking photographs everyday and posts these images on Instagram.

Disequilibrium: One day the main protagonist starts to not see some colours. Following after that day he starts to lose sense of seeing colours, this continues for 5 days; on the fifth day, he see’s everything as black and white. A day later, he cant see anything in a long distance; another day later, he cant see anything in a short distance. A day later, he goes blind

New Equilibrium: Main protagonist is told that he has officially gone blind, later on the day, he has some flashback memories of why this may have happened (could have been caused from a car accident or from substances he took before that could enhance his vision). After flashback scenes are shown, it shows the main protagonist walking with a stick and a camera strap around his neck, sits on a bench and takes a photograph of a bird.

Other notes:

• Ending could cut to multiple scenes of different people in different locations starting to have the same affect as the main protagonist

  • This would suggest that not only he is affected by this problem but also that there is a possibility that this may be a cultural epidemic throughout earth

• When main protagonist is blinded in the end

  • His other senses starts to open/kick in

    • Ie. having a sixth sense

      • Sixth sense could be to feel the presence of others around him/objects and materials

• Another way to take this idea

  • Main plot of this is how a teenage boy who is a photographer lives after he has turned blind

    • The struggles in life after being turned blind?

      • How he felt

    • Show how he/the main protagonist turned blind

    • Stripped of being a photographer which he dreamed to be

• Another disequilibrium

  • main protagonist gets chased by a person who lives in the streets (homeless), gets chased cornered eyeballs gauged out.

    • 6 months later

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Idea 8

Equilibrium: At present, a teenage boy has a hobby of taking photographs everyday and posts these images on Instagram.

Disequilibrium: One day the main protagonist starts to not see some colours. Following after that day he starts to lose sense of seeing colours, this continues for 5 days; on the fifth day, he see’s everything as black and white (this is a colour blind disease known as ‘Monochromacy’).

New Equilibrium: The main protagonist takes beautiful pictures of architectural, landscape and street photography, he is then known all over Hong Kong and is starting to become a small but famous photographer.