Film Ideas

This week, we finally started our final projects. We'll be working on our film opening first, as that is our AS level project. We will be creating our film opening and short film together, as one. Our original idea was a story called Reina, about a lesbian teenager growing up in south Florida, but as we discussed our project, we realized that 5 minutes was way too short to actually develop our main character enough so that we would be satisfied with the result. The time constraint was a real problem, and we knew that we had to have a storyline that is simultaneously simple, yet poignant. 

We entertained many ideas, some decent and some downright humorous, but we eventually came to the conclusion of: ROBOTS IN HIGH SCHOOL! Well, specifically, one sentient robot in a high school dominated by humans, and his journey throughout the day. We really wanted to explore coming-of-age themes like loneliness, alienation, and growth, and what better way to do that than to portray our protagonist as a literal cyborg, separated from humanity in nearly every way? 

To open our short film, we watched several exceptional film openings, and one of my favorite ones that I watched was the Napoleon Dynamite film opening. It stood out to me in its exceptional simplicity, yet it was never boring, and I really want to recreate the POV shots in our own film opening. We've decided that our film opening should be of a mixture of POV shots and regular shots, all depiction our robot's methodical morning routine, from waking up to brushing their teeth to eating a hearty breakfast complete with a cup of oil. 

In my mind, our opening would establish what type of character our robot would be, and it introduces the most glaring fact- that our protagonist is not a human being, and that that makes them different from anything out viewers could relate them too.