Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Ideas for short films

Ideas

1.   A detective walks along an abandoned corridor (apartment building) and into a room numbered 18. Inside the room is an empty apart from a table with some paper on is. The detective walks over and looks through the papers. They have names, numbers, addresses and photos of people who have gone missing within the last few days. She runs out the room with the papers in hand. The door closes behind her revealing a hooded figure. Titles. The detective is in an alley way next to a missing sign with one of the pieces of paper in his hand. Matching the photos and missing posters she starts to look around the site talking to herself about what she is trying to find traces of.

A woman walking the other way texting almost falls over the detective and drops her phone, it smashes. Angrily she starts to shout at the detective who is still rambling about the case. The detective walks away and swops the papers round in her hand the picture of a male. The woman who was shouting at her (who happens to be a journalist) follows her claiming she knows the man. They soon come to another street corner with the matching missing poster. The detective looks around in the same way. She talks to herself but this time the journalist answers her rambling.  Together they walk to the next wanted poster and repeat the process. By now they are close to unravelling the common factor between the ‘kidnappings’.

The detective decides to go home to figure out the rest however the journalist insists that she come too as it would make a good article. They go home and draw out the common factors on a sheet explaining as they go along. All of a sudden the doorbell rings, the journalist goes down to get it. There is an envelope with a DVD inside. She takes it upstairs to the detective who puts it on.

The DVD shows a woman kneeling on the floor with a gun to her head. Then cuts to a dog. A hooded figure comes into shot with a large canister that looks like some type of gas. The figure puts on a mask and opens the canister. The dog goes to the floor and dies. The DVD then cuts back to the woman with a gun to her head but this time the hooded figure is in shot. It puts the gun on the floor and brings a similar canister onscreen. It then goes black.

The detective tells the journalist to keep watching the part with the dog to find where it could have been filmed. The screen then splits. One half shows the detective at the apartment building from earlier and the journalist drawing out silietts from the back ground and checking them on a map. She draws on map and calculates the time of day trying to work out where abouts on the map the gassing took place. The detective becomes locked in the apartment with several canisters around her. A sign is on the back wall, “ONLY ONE IS LIVE, YOU HAVE ONE HOUR.”

The screen opens up another shot of the hooded figure running down a street. The shots cuts to the journalist doing the same with the map in her hand with a circled area.  The shots keep flicking between each other occasionally with a shot of the detective looking for the live canister. The cuts keep getting faster.

It then cuts to a shot of the woman from the DVD who has the gun in her hands. She shoots.

We see feet slow down, knees drop to the floor followed by the body.

The detective has found the live canister and pulls out the cord on it. With that the door opens to reveal a map with a ring around it-the same map the journalist had.

The detective runs to the street with the map in hand.

She sees the feet and the journalist and runs to her. Her eyes are closed. The detective shouts for help.

Scene cuts to a hospital where the journalist lies in bed. She opens her eyes as the detective explains

-Voice over-

 The woman who shot the journalist was really the ‘mastermind’ and the hooded figure was really the captive. The hooded figure was the last missing person as the others bodies were in with the canisters. Each one was mad to kidnap another person so that the mastermind was never found out, when they came close to finding the answer she made herself look like the victim. Because the journalist was so close to finding out the truth she was shot. Another person was kidnapped and the hooded figure was put with the rest of the body’s in a new placement…this happened to be the house next door the detectives.


2. A girl sits in bed watching a film, its morning and the sun is rising. She gets ready for work (montage) and sets out to work. On her way she hears a bird as she always does but this morning she decides to see it. She walks down a different street where the sound is coming from. As she does she looks up to see a person standing on top of a building, she jumps. She runs to help the person but when she gets there they are gone and everyone is carrying on as normal.

So she decides to go back where she came from and get to work. But the moment keeps replaying in her mind. The persons face, a woman, the ways she fell with such force, her scream.

She hears a bird again. This time she ignores it. The bird comes even louder in a shrieking tone. In surrender she goes to look this time she comes to a wood. It’s all dark except for a strange light coming from the trees, she looks up to see the person who jumped from the building, high upon a tree. They jump. Exactly the same as before but all different at the same time, they hung themselves. The girl decides to run back on her route to work.

She replays this image in her mind and remembers this person was a man but the definition between the two events is becoming one. She gets to work. She sits at her computer desk.

There it was again, the bird, she looked out of the window on to the streets of houses. There she saw a woman stab herself.  But also she saw an elderly woman have a heart attack. 

Scared she decided to go home. A day ill in bed was sure to help. She got in the elevator alone and pressed the down button. It began to go down but stopped on level 6. The lights flickered off.

Only the screams of the 4 people she had seen die hung in the air. She could see nothing but then he could see everything. All the death playing at once only with many more at the same time.

Then it all went dark, the screams stopped and the lift carried on going down.

The birds where crying.

At the bottom the doors opens to reveal the girl dead on the floor.


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