Short-Film @university

Hello there. Last months have been crazy for me with the amount of work i need to deliver at Master degree and right now me and 3 ugly nerds got a new challenge at one of the lessons we attend (Image, Audio and Video).

We need to produce a short film (7-10 mins max), with a solid story line (begin - end). But we are kinda out of ideas.
Thats why i need your input here, dear CF users!


We want something that has effect on people feelings. For example:
- a tragic end
- something completely unexpected (ex: in the end, it explains the story was just a dream.. or the person was already dead, i dunno)
- epic and original
- (not love related... we'r 4 guys, so nah)

Any brilliant mind out there?

Thanks in advance!
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close your eyes and turn on Johnny Cash song called Hurt and after all you will imagine great sad script.
true story :D
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gonna try it now :D
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wow man
wow....
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wow man
wow...
you are a fag
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Why not do some gay mini-movie?? 4 Guys its perfect for a "Bangbro's scene"

- Tragic Ending- Guy dies of cum poisoning
-Definitely unexpected
-Epic & Original

Brilliant
I'm pretty sure ag0n won't say no if you take him by balls :DD
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You obviously haven't read Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk,
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Can you do great FX ? You can do the story about a soldier back the war. He is firt dreaming but we don't know it. He is in a
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He is in the grass looking at the sky and smiling, then he heard multiple shot. BLACK screen. He wakes up finally, he looks scared and he sweat. He goes into the bathroom to put some water on his face ... he look into the mirror and see his face, but it keeps flashing with another face and a dead face. Yeye he lost his brother at war and he see him at the mirror with dead face. BLACK screen. Now you've got the attention of the public, starting the new plan with that guy walking in the street, he looks like lost and a bit afraid of people. You start to tell his story with a off voice. The guy is going in a place (Pôle emploi in france XD) to get a job. He sees the hopeless face of people here waiting with him and he ask himself if he looks like this too. Finally his name is called, they may have a job for him in a security company but they need someone they can trust, someone ready. Cleary he is not ready for that but he takes the sheet anyway and call the company. BRRR back to when you tell his story you can add he was "the badass" of the group and now he is a pussy to make it more dramatic :D. So when he shop up at the interview with this security company he find out that a guy he was in army with is also working here. That other guy looks well, he even tell, hey boss I know that guy he is a true badass he was in army with me etc ... So yea they hire him. He soon discover that the company is not about protecting but it's a fake, they steal things. Ok now i have no idea have fun :D
that was a bad van dame movie m8 :D
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loool sounds like a very weird story line :D
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got shits to do, expect epic story ~7pm when ill be back
do something with a guy taking cocaine and being on a concient dream if you know wat i mean.
les choses se passent sisi, on va leur péter les chevilles !
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4 friends go out during evening to celebrate almost finished with school, get nice and drunk together. They head outside when bar closes, then there comes a guy who passes by and one of the 4 friends starts laughing about some joke another one made. Guy who passes by thinks he's being laughed at, starts making a scene. 4 friends tell him to calm down but suddenly the dude pulls a knife and stabs the one who laughed, then runs away.
The one friend who is stabbed is brought to hospital -> dies -> funeral -> 3 other friends can't find comfort in anything. The guy who stabbed their friend can't be found.

One of the 3 remaining friends loses his mind and starts hating society real bad. Starts planning something horrible. Ends with him entering the school they were about to graduate from with a gun with the intention to kill as many as he can, including himself.

That is where the shortfilm ends, leave the rest to imagination.
lol nice1 :D
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Sounds like a typical week in Finland l0L
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Thanks, not a bad one to be honest!

But i forgot to remind that we are a bit stuck due to effects / scenarios etc. Getting him to the entrance of a hospital should be easy considering my university has few around it, but a real funeral (we would need a coffin atleast! or perhaps we can just fake it with few crying persons dressed as black in a cemetery) won't be easy.
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Something like the funeral can be left out of course. Easiest thing to replace it with is something like the dead guy's parents getting the news brought to them or w/e.

Same as taking the guy to hospital, could just make it a fade out from the dying ones' point of view.

Good luck with your assignment anyway, wish I had to do stuff like this for my education :)
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Thanks for the tips!

Well, my assignment as Master at Informatics Engineering, has some lessons related to multimedia. Not everything is so "cool" as this class. At one of them we had to code a ray tracer ( http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/lukeh/WindowsLiveWriter/RayTracerinC3.0_1388A/Spheres11.png , using a text file we could create a similar image...we had to calculate the pixel position, the effects of ambient light, reflected light, refracted light etc etc), wasn't that easy, lots of maths).
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Looks and sounds great, keep up the good work and gl :)
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4 guys? The Hangover Part IV could do a job :D.
just do walking dead :D
Forgot to say those kind of scenarios are not easy. It requires alot of makeup and post-production effects and thats not the whole point of this assignment.
We have been over this idea xD but thanks anyway
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-Frank and the stolen kidney-
By MarcoCarola

After graduation from film school Frank and his friends decide to do a massive drinking night. After hitting several bars Frank passes out. He wakes up in a public restroom in New Dheli, india, completly naked. When he looks around he notices a big scar on his body. Frank discovers that some indian dudes stole his kidney.

Franks starts his journey to find his kindey (make him meet unusual characters and shit).

Frank wakes up in the pub back with his friend and realizes what a f*cked up dream he had.

plot twist in the end: When frank and his mates walk out the bar, Frank is dripping blood from the kidney area.


BOOM, you're welcome
Thanks, will suggest this one to my buddies!
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just put a brazzers logo to the end

GL with your work ag0n, no time to come up with normal ideas:(
Kid needs help, he gets to see a psychiatrist. He lives alone with his aunt. The kid tells the psychiatrist that he sees dead people. The guy tries to help the kid, but in the end it turns out that he himself is actually dead and the kid was actually helping him.

You're welcome.
Thats it! I though about a similar one and it would be a good synopsis, but to create effectively a good story like this it wouldn't be so easy :D

Thanks
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Ye make a 7-10min version of The Sixth Sense.
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Never seen this one, but i will take a look, thanks
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Well the storyline he told you is the storyline from The Sixt sense :D
And if you havent seen the movie, check it out its really good, also if you like this kind of movies with a twist watch "Shutter Island"
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If that doesn't work out you should do a short film about a 17th century village with a forest around it and everyone who enters the forest gets killed by a mysterious creature. Then a blind girl, who doesn't afraid of anything needs to search for help from the outside and when she gets out the viewer finds out that it's actually present day and village elders have been keeping it secret from the villagers. Too bad the girl can't tell the tales from the outside world because she is blind.

Or you take a beloved cartoon series and rape it in the butt so everyone hates you.
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We've decided the story! My friends loved this one so far: http://www.crossfire.nu/journals/149696/short-film-university#c4310824

But thanks anyway!
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Because apparently didn't notice: they are all movies by M. Night Shyamalan.
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still waiting for someone to make a short video with burial music on the background and without dialogue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHjxJItKbLQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTrCYvchnak
I made this as an application for a marketing communications scholarship. ofc the design is nothing great but maybe you like the idea. This video fits well to your description of the story line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESM8LThiJMg&list=LLdpH_IiDKEMlLbN_vHXYF4A&feature=mh_lolz
here is your scene:

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make a film about kamz life. story would be like this:

kamz play copmtuer game 24/7.
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