Hey folks,
I'm in my first semester of University studying screen production, and my assignment involves me having to create a 1 minute film without any dialogue, lyrical music or text (with the exception of the credits).
I have literally lost hours and hours of sleep formulating (what I thought were) cool and intricate film ideas, from drama-based to science-fiction inspired, but I always find that the story becomes too complex to really fit into a minute and I end up scrapping them.
This time I'm set on staying with it, but in order to really do that I need to LOVE it and feel confident that I can pull it off in a minute. Since I'm a huge horror fan, I think I'll do something in that area but I want it to be really, truly terrifying and unsettling and as original as possible.
An idea I've been playing around with so far involves an innocent young boy's older sister modelling for his sketch. A shot would slowly dolly away from the girl, who's sitting there fidgeting and amused by the boy's child-like determination, followed by another shot dollying towards the boy, who's sketching. This dolly-shot would end as a CU on the boy's face. The sound of his pencil scraping across the paper would halt and he would look up, then to the side of his sister, then back at her (but the audience would still only be seeing his face). A demonic growl and the sound of snapping bone would follow, coupled with the boy cringing. The shot would then dolly backwards with the boy still in frame, walking towards where his sister was. He'd put his sketch on a bed nearby and eventually kneel down by her contorted body. A final shot shows his sketch: a tall, large-eyed figure leans over the girl.
Opinions? Other ideas?
Tips on how to really get under the audiences skin in a minute?
Thanks in advance
I'm in my first semester of University studying screen production, and my assignment involves me having to create a 1 minute film without any dialogue, lyrical music or text (with the exception of the credits).
I have literally lost hours and hours of sleep formulating (what I thought were) cool and intricate film ideas, from drama-based to science-fiction inspired, but I always find that the story becomes too complex to really fit into a minute and I end up scrapping them.
This time I'm set on staying with it, but in order to really do that I need to LOVE it and feel confident that I can pull it off in a minute. Since I'm a huge horror fan, I think I'll do something in that area but I want it to be really, truly terrifying and unsettling and as original as possible.
An idea I've been playing around with so far involves an innocent young boy's older sister modelling for his sketch. A shot would slowly dolly away from the girl, who's sitting there fidgeting and amused by the boy's child-like determination, followed by another shot dollying towards the boy, who's sketching. This dolly-shot would end as a CU on the boy's face. The sound of his pencil scraping across the paper would halt and he would look up, then to the side of his sister, then back at her (but the audience would still only be seeing his face). A demonic growl and the sound of snapping bone would follow, coupled with the boy cringing. The shot would then dolly backwards with the boy still in frame, walking towards where his sister was. He'd put his sketch on a bed nearby and eventually kneel down by her contorted body. A final shot shows his sketch: a tall, large-eyed figure leans over the girl.
Opinions? Other ideas?
Tips on how to really get under the audiences skin in a minute?
Thanks in advance
