Up until now I haven't really ever taken a shot at creating a serious short...just fun little videos that are generally quite silly.
However I do have multiple ideas floating around, and I plan on beginning to put them into action
So anyway, I had an idea for a short film about a man who gets back from a tour in the military. Upon arrival home, his girlfriend breaks up with him claiming she couldn't wait for him to finish his deployment and simply moved on. We then see that the main character has some psychological problems from his experience in the war that have not been properly dealt with. He explains to his therapist that while over 'there', he shot and killed a small child by accident, but the experience of watching the child die left his mind altered. His therapist then prescribes him antidepressants. This is implied through a simple shot of the drugs in the characters hand as he examines them while shaving the next day.
the camera then cuts to the main character in a park at dusk, drawing in his notebook. Suddenly an older model car comes driving down the road and turns onto a side path leading into the woods. This perplexes our character, but he makes nothing of it. Suddenly the car burns out of the side path and back down the road. Intrigued, the main character walks down the path and sees that it leads to a body of water. Something else needs to happen as filler (lol) and then there will be another scene at the lake, this time the main character observes the man in the car throw something in the water. The next scene will further reveal information about the kidnappings, and that a car has been flagged suspicious, and it matches that of the car the main character saw by the lake.
From here, I've had two ideas of what could happen.
1. The main character, through his drive to fill a purpose, and his feeling of guilt for killing the child, begins a quest to hunt the man responsible for the kidnappings, and is successful, but perhaps dies or something at the end, not sure.
2. The combination of the antidepressants, his psychological problems, and his drive to again fill a purpose cause him to hallucinate, and imagine that he is seeing things that lead him to the killer when really he is making things up based on circumstantial-ism, and a side effect of the drugs in general. This causes a twist-the viewer thinks he is on to the real killer, when in fact he is chasing geese as it were.
My THIRD idea was to not include the bit about the kidnappings AT ALL, and make the rest of the movie as a more 'Garden State-like movie, where it's really about his journey to find himself and become happy.
ANYWAY I would really appreciate some help, any and all advice is appreciated. Sorry for the long read, and as of now I do actually have this in more detail in the form of a screenplay, but like I said I'm unsure which direction to take it.
Thanks again
However I do have multiple ideas floating around, and I plan on beginning to put them into action
So anyway, I had an idea for a short film about a man who gets back from a tour in the military. Upon arrival home, his girlfriend breaks up with him claiming she couldn't wait for him to finish his deployment and simply moved on. We then see that the main character has some psychological problems from his experience in the war that have not been properly dealt with. He explains to his therapist that while over 'there', he shot and killed a small child by accident, but the experience of watching the child die left his mind altered. His therapist then prescribes him antidepressants. This is implied through a simple shot of the drugs in the characters hand as he examines them while shaving the next day.
the camera then cuts to the main character in a park at dusk, drawing in his notebook. Suddenly an older model car comes driving down the road and turns onto a side path leading into the woods. This perplexes our character, but he makes nothing of it. Suddenly the car burns out of the side path and back down the road. Intrigued, the main character walks down the path and sees that it leads to a body of water. Something else needs to happen as filler (lol) and then there will be another scene at the lake, this time the main character observes the man in the car throw something in the water. The next scene will further reveal information about the kidnappings, and that a car has been flagged suspicious, and it matches that of the car the main character saw by the lake.
From here, I've had two ideas of what could happen.
1. The main character, through his drive to fill a purpose, and his feeling of guilt for killing the child, begins a quest to hunt the man responsible for the kidnappings, and is successful, but perhaps dies or something at the end, not sure.
2. The combination of the antidepressants, his psychological problems, and his drive to again fill a purpose cause him to hallucinate, and imagine that he is seeing things that lead him to the killer when really he is making things up based on circumstantial-ism, and a side effect of the drugs in general. This causes a twist-the viewer thinks he is on to the real killer, when in fact he is chasing geese as it were.
My THIRD idea was to not include the bit about the kidnappings AT ALL, and make the rest of the movie as a more 'Garden State-like movie, where it's really about his journey to find himself and become happy.
ANYWAY I would really appreciate some help, any and all advice is appreciated. Sorry for the long read, and as of now I do actually have this in more detail in the form of a screenplay, but like I said I'm unsure which direction to take it.
Thanks again
