Themes from brief
-Sound
-Time
-Space
Themes for Story-line
-Ambiguous ending, more questions than answers
-Dark humor
-3-7 minutes long
-Thriller techniques
-Start or ends with extreme situation (or maybe seems serene but isn't), then story explains how that was reached.
Opening/ending scene
-The movie opens in a open landscape just before dawn, with grass and trees reminiscent of the west coast, The camera pans on a landscape devoid of people, but continues panning to reveal a figure standing on a pier. The camera goes through a series of slow cuts before coming to a stop next to the protagonist; who is facing out to sea and watching the sunrise with one of those thousand mile stares that renders the character unreadable.
-As the sun rises the character blinks and turns to walk away from the view.
-At the end of the movie the same event occurs but is cross cut with a similar scene on the top of a building. The difference is this time the scene continues... The character slowly walks about 5 meters from the edge in both scenes and then suddenly turns and starts running towards the edge. In one scene this is relatively harmless (he is going to dive into the water) but in the other it's certain death. at this point the scene ends. Slow motion with a soundtrack for this section would be powerful
-Another idea that can tie into this is to take the concept that under-lays the short story 'the door' by hg wells, in this story the protagonist finds a door in a wall that leads to an unspecified 'garden of eden'. I would like to take this idea and mix it with something I saw in a film, by having a non de-script derelict building that represents something altogether out-of-this-world. As the protagonist walks into this building he is in-fact walking into a concept embodied by the movie (e.g. freedom).
Ideas
-Arriving at a bad situation by trying to be good - Down to earth vices VS up themselves virtues - Morality - Beliefs
-Journey vs destination
-Life/Society/Human Nature <<>
-Cause & effect, what if this didn't work?
-Death & the afterlife
-Black button short film, very simple concept, very powerful themes
-Movie trailer style?
-Dialogue >> Disconnected, Narrated, Played over a visual track as a remembered conversation
-"I have seen the enemy, and they are us!"
-"A hunter of shadows, is himself a shade"
-HG Wells 'The Door'
-Sci-fi >> A seemingly ordinary device/ a new drug has unusual powers
-A non-descript building houses something life changing, cant find the building twice, heaven/hell?
-Mystery? Thriller?
-Mansion of many apartments
-theme from a psychological precept (e.g. ego, mansion of many apartments, etc)
-"you think you are killing me, I think you are committing suicide"
-Take a theme or story from a poem, quote, short story, game or comic
-Triptych, During a scene in the movie when multiple story-lines come together have the frame separate into three separate movies with different soundtracks in each (events in sync)
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