Making a Short Film

Stadtski

Stadtski

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I'm making a short film for a screenwriting class. 15ish minutes. I'm having terrible writers block. NS, what should I write about.

inb4 dildos inb4 OP's mom inb4 OP's mom's dildos
 
pick something that you're passionate about and turn it into a story. What's something that you've always wanted to do in life? Here's your chance to do it through a short film. That might not have helped, but you can literally chose anything and make it a story
 
The year is 2035. A group of stealth combat agents are attempting to assassinate overlord Kim Jong Un. On their way from the moon colony to earth, they crash and are slowly killed off by the majestic alien darude and his sandstorm insurgents.
 
13160529:SourSteezle said:
pick something that you're passionate about and turn it into a story. What's something that you've always wanted to do in life? Here's your chance to do it through a short film. That might not have helped, but you can literally chose anything and make it a story
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Yeah, I just can't really think of anything besides making an edit, but the teacher said I can't do that.
 
13160531:OREOPRAH said:
The year is 2035. A group of stealth combat agents are attempting to assassinate overlord Kim Jong Un. On their way from the moon colony to earth, they crash and are slowly killed off by the majestic alien darude and his sandstorm insurgents.
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Then Tim Wallace comes and attacks the insurgents with a barrage of buttery pretzels?
 
Write about a nice, family man that's life is turned upside down. He slowly starts becoming a 4 legged domestic animal. In the end he learns all about love and his hatred for dogs disappears. You can call it "the shaggy dog"

Cast tim allen as the shaggy dog
 
13160570:Wampire said:
Write about a nice, family man that's life is turned upside down. He slowly starts becoming a 4 legged domestic animal. In the end he learns all about love and his hatred for dogs disappears. You can call it "the shaggy dog"

Cast tim allen as the shaggy dog
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John Candy could play the man once he becomes the 4 legged animal.
 
Write a story all about how

My life got flipped-turned upside down

And I'd like to take a minute

Just sit right there

I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised

On the playground was where I spent most of my days

Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool

And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school

When a couple of guys who were up to no good

Started making trouble in my neighborhood

I got in one little fight and my mom got scared

She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day

But she packed my suit case and sent me on my way

She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.

I put my Walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.

First class, yo this is bad

Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.

Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?

Hmmmmm this might be alright.

But wait I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that

Is this the type of place that they just send this cool cat?

I don't think so

I'll see when I get there

I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out

There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out

I ain't trying to get arrested yet

I just got here

I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near

The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror

If anything I could say that this cab was rare

But I thought 'Nah, forget it' - 'Yo, homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8

And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'

I looked at my kingdom

I was finally there

To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
 
13160728:JAHpow said:
Write a story all about how

My life got flipped-turned upside down

And I'd like to take a minute

Just sit right there

I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised

On the playground was where I spent most of my days

Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool

And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school

When a couple of guys who were up to no good

Started making trouble in my neighborhood

I got in one little fight and my mom got scared

She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day

But she packed my suit case and sent me on my way

She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.

I put my Walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.

First class, yo this is bad

Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.

Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?

Hmmmmm this might be alright.

But wait I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that

Is this the type of place that they just send this cool cat?

I don't think so

I'll see when I get there

I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out

There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out

I ain't trying to get arrested yet

I just got here

I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near

The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror

If anything I could say that this cab was rare

But I thought 'Nah, forget it' - 'Yo, homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8

And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'

I looked at my kingdom

I was finally there

To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
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Gonna be a classic
 
In all seriousness you just need to pick some normal thing, add a conflict, and go from there. The best short videos and films aren't over the top with unrealistic and dramatic plot turns and twists. You just don't have enough time to justify aliens taking over the earth. The best thing to do would be to pick something like, I don't know, going to get gas, and then changing it up with a conflict. Like say you're getting gas (make sure to include enough establishing shots. Don't just open at the gas station) and you get a text from a friend that says you need to be somewhere in fifteen minutes. Then just make a bunch of awesome scenes between then and there.

Or aliens. Fuck it.
 
maybe I'll make an edit, and after a bit there is a train, but as we all hit the jump we get vaporized by alien ray guns then they take over the world..
 
13161381:Rosa_Park said:
maybe I'll make an edit, and after a bit there is a train, but as we all hit the jump we get vaporized by alien ray guns then they take over the world..
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Sure why not.
 
Make a movie about the difficulties of making a movie.

Simple as that op. Remember me when you make millions.
 
Do something with biking and how there is a kid that like to bike, and is good at it and he doesn't spend tons of time on his phone and the computer and stuff like every other kid. How he gets out and does stuff unlike everyone else
 
Do something with biking and how there is a kid that like to bike, and is good at it and he doesn't spend tons of time on his phone and the computer and stuff like every other kid. How he gets out and does stuff unlike everyone else
 
13162297:Danal. said:
Do something with biking and how there is a kid that like to bike, and is good at it and he doesn't spend tons of time on his phone and the computer and stuff like every other kid. How he gets out and does stuff unlike everyone else
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Unlike the people who would be watching it...
 
15min long slow-pan filmed with a Panavision 70 of Liam Neeson's who is sitting on a Hong-Kong roof contemplating things whilst the sun is setting.

Just tell the teacher it's art and beyond his comprehension.
 
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