Filmmaking- Film Initial Ideas

After just returning back from summer and starting level 5 on the Creative Film and TV Production course at university, the first lesson back with our new timetable is Filmmaking. With the two new pathways that were introduced we had the choice between Digital Production and Filmmaking, I choose Filmmaking and this first lesson was to just introduce us to our new briefs and what we should expect and what is to be expected from us this year. Once we understood what each brief entitled and what we would be producing, we were asked to just briefly right down some quick initial ideas for any films we might try to write or create this year. We then went round the table with everyone sharing one or a couple of their ideas to see which ones stood out and got the room talking about it. These are a few of my quick ideas I wrote down.

Film Initial Ideas-

TRASH- Trash is a short film about the broad stereotype that is trash. It explores how people are viewed and what it means to be trash, some people embrace the term trash such as punk rockstars and also filmmakers who create trashy movies (Johnny Rotten and John Waters). Trash can also be used as a demeaning term to make people feel bad, because of maybe the wear people dress or if they don't have a lot of money. Trash would follow the story of two students who have recently started education in either college of university, these students will be the opposite of each other. One student will have moved out and living somewhere and struggling to get by and have a job, whereas the second student will be continuing to live at home and not struggling or working thanks to their parents. The first student will be judged for what they wear and how they look whereas the second student will be favoured upon greatly due to having nicer and more socially acceptable clothes. Then the story will start to examine how they act and how they treat others and show how the first student is much more caring and appreciative to people and life whereas the second takes things for granted and treats people mean because he thinks he's better than them. The film will try to show as much as possible between these two characters and allow the audience to decide at the end on their own definition of Trash and which if either they think is classified as it.

Critics- Critics is more of a feature length film idea that revolves around these three critics who are best friends. A film critic, a restaurant critic and a hotel critic, who once a year schedule one amazing weekend a way together because their jobs happen to cross over. They use this to their advantage to get away from wives and girlfriends and get a free weekend a way at a fancy hotel, with an normally expensive but free meal at a high class restaurant and finished off with a movie premiere. The plot is still under construction cause there needs to be something happening throughout this weekend or something to go wrong but still undecided.

Untitled Journalist/Political Drama- A more recent idea I had follows a young journalist who receives a tip from a source that this business tycoon turning politician is laundering money out of his companies. The politician of course denies all claims and tells the journalist to stay away. The journalist begins investigating and manages to get records of the companies income and spending expenditures and sees the missing money been moved to an unknown account. He then takes this information to a established newspaper/ news company to see if they would be interested in the story, a second journalist sees interest in the story but knows he needs more evidence, he points the first journalist to a man who might be able to see who owns the account and where the money is going. It is discovered that the account has been used or draws similarities to an account used by a hitman and that the politician might be trying to assassinate someone. The journalist has to uncover weather this is true and who the target is before its too late.