Possible film ideas.

FIlm concept 1 - Possessed book.

3 people move into a house together that the managed to get on the cheap, during their move in they find a book lodged in behind the fridge. As soon as they begin reading the book the characters begin to have strange inclinations to take part in murderous activities. On each other. Through out this episode of killing an image of a dead figure appears in various places, explaining to the characters just how to commit their murders and then inevitably the final character lefts murder.

This film would be a psychological horror that would create an eire feel towards people who are moving, because you never know what you are moving into. This lighting would be dark and the setting would be a typical house so that the views would feel even more uneasy within their own homes.

The concept of a possessed book has been used before with in another canadian short film named “Todd and the book of pure evil” where the book would grant your most needed wish. This was then developed into a TV seise. The filming style of this could be something we could look at if we intend to develop this idea into our own short film.

Film Concept 2 - Poisoned apple.

This concept would be an adaptation of Snow White. The beginning of the film would be set at a party where we would see the jealousy of one girl towards our representation of Snow White. This girls jealousy would be the reasoning behind her drugging “SW” with the drug “poisoned apple”. Disoriented “Snow” would walk through the party seeing dwaf like figures until she eventually passes out. When “snow” wakes up she is seen trapped inside a freezer, and then freezes to death whilst the jealous girl is happy that she is “fairest of them all”

This film would be a horrific twist on a classic story. This would create a complicated reaction towards our film because it would allow people to have their own ideas on how this classic would be changed into something more modern.

Fairy tale adaptations have become a new trend within the film industry so making our own version would most likely be something that appeals to a large audience since the concept has worked so well in the cinemas. 

Film Concept 3- intense drama (unnamed.) 

Following the inside thoughts of a young girl as she is about to commit suicide. It takes a back track look throughout her life to dictate the reason behind her standing on a roof about to jump. The backtrack would show different points in her life which have made an impact on her happiness and have led her to such drastic measures.

This would be a drama, and would also be very controversial as some people may find this type of film offensive, or might not want to watch something about something this serious.

Suicide films are something more of a rarity in the big hollywood films, however films with mental illness as their themes have done quite well, such as Girl, interrupted. This leaves a gate way toward taking on something involving serious issues. However putting something this serious into a 5min time frame might be unfair to the issue.

Film Concept 4 - Hunger games parody.

Based on the Hunger games, we could make a parody of this by taking out parts of the film and making them funny whilst keeping to the same basic storyline of the original. This would be a good idea because if you’ve watched the film, you would find this funnier, however if you haven’t watched the film then it would be hard to follow the story since parts would be missing. Also another issue with this idea would be trying to condense the whole feature film into the 5min short film we would be attempting to make.