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Hi. I need to make a short film, which could be something between 7 to 12 minutes. The main idea, the climax, is THE GUY (the only real actor of the film), gets trapped inside a television set! It's about a cinephile who's life is just watching movies and reading about them (books, magazines and...). I have problems filling the 7~12 minutes. Here's the parts I can think of:
1. We show him in his messy home, with his DVDs and books and movie posters around him. He's just sitting and watching films.
2. He gets kinda dizzy, in front of the TV, and falls sleep. When he opens his eyes, he's not in front of the TV anymore, instead he's inside the very exact location/place that he was watching before. It could be done cheap. I plan to pick a silent film with a very simple/basic set design and re-create it. So now the guy is in the movie, inside the television.
3. He panics, and starts shouting HELP! in intertitles. The intertiles get bigger and bigger.
4. Somebody, probably his brother or roommate or someone, comes out of his room. Brother/Roommate see's that TV is on, meanwhile THE GUY is still shouting HELP! but brother/roommate doesn't really pay attention to the TV. While he's shouting HELP! brother/roommate turns the TV off. As he's about to leave, he turns back and take a quick look at the TV, as if he's hearing something, but he just turns his back again and goes to his room.
5. The final shot is the turned off TV, and we're hearing Swan Lake, as an homage to Universal horror films, playing over it. The credit comes up.
I feel that my idea is still shallow and needs something else. I have a deadline and I have to to finalize the script in a few days. Please help me improve this idea. Pitch me any ideas, anything that I could add to these ^ 5 steps. The film has no dialogues. It could have dialogues, if it's necessary. But right now it doesn't.
Why am I asking help in Nitrateville? because it's somehow an homage to silent horror films. The film he's watching is a silent (I haven't picked on yet) and he shouts in intertitles.
Many many thanks in advance.
1. We show him in his messy home, with his DVDs and books and movie posters around him. He's just sitting and watching films.
2. He gets kinda dizzy, in front of the TV, and falls sleep. When he opens his eyes, he's not in front of the TV anymore, instead he's inside the very exact location/place that he was watching before. It could be done cheap. I plan to pick a silent film with a very simple/basic set design and re-create it. So now the guy is in the movie, inside the television.
3. He panics, and starts shouting HELP! in intertitles. The intertiles get bigger and bigger.
4. Somebody, probably his brother or roommate or someone, comes out of his room. Brother/Roommate see's that TV is on, meanwhile THE GUY is still shouting HELP! but brother/roommate doesn't really pay attention to the TV. While he's shouting HELP! brother/roommate turns the TV off. As he's about to leave, he turns back and take a quick look at the TV, as if he's hearing something, but he just turns his back again and goes to his room.
5. The final shot is the turned off TV, and we're hearing Swan Lake, as an homage to Universal horror films, playing over it. The credit comes up.
I feel that my idea is still shallow and needs something else. I have a deadline and I have to to finalize the script in a few days. Please help me improve this idea. Pitch me any ideas, anything that I could add to these ^ 5 steps. The film has no dialogues. It could have dialogues, if it's necessary. But right now it doesn't.
Why am I asking help in Nitrateville? because it's somehow an homage to silent horror films. The film he's watching is a silent (I haven't picked on yet) and he shouts in intertitles.
Many many thanks in advance.