After having my short story idea critiqued upon, I realised that I have not put much thought into the entire film. It seemed to be a problem most people stumbled upon based on the story ideas in the tutorials. I guess most of us brain stormed on 'story ideas' and not so much as to whether it would work out great as a 'short film idea'.
Christine suggested that the reason why most of us struggle with this was that we were exposed to long movies and weren't familiar with the structure and composition of short films because we didn't watch them as much.
I realised that this made a lot of sense and went home to watch some.
Be my brother
This is my favourite of the lot.
There was a twist at the end which brought the story nicely together, and was quite unexpected.
At the same time, it deals with a deeper issue of the mentally challenged in the society and the social stigma they face daily.
So far, I've seen a variety of short films, some comical and lighthearted and others having a more serious tone. There are many different genres of short films out there which somewhat surprised me initially. Yet as they are so short, if you miss a part of it, it would be hard to catch on with whats going on in the film.
Back to the topic of my short film idea. Zee gave me a really good suggestion which helped to pull my entire film story together and make it plausible as a film. Credits to him!
I'll be going along with that idea, and will post an updated version on this space soon!
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