A Rough Idea

After repeatedly thinking about an idea for my short film and how I wanted to portray my creativity through this short film, I settled on a daydream as this is something that happens to me quiet often. However, I wanted to give this average scenario a twist and throw in my love of drawing into the film too. The idea in fact originally came from a dream about how all my drawings came to life one day. The conventional storyline of any film or short film is an equilibrium, disequilibrium and then back to an equilibrium. This is how I wish to show my short film as it is the simplest way to create a basic storyline for my short film. After applying this to my original idea I needed to think of an disequilibrium that would be enough danger to cause my drawings to come to life within the daydream. Why would they come to life? What would they do? Do they have weapons? I kept asking and got members of my target audience to ask all these questions to help me build a strong idea to build up my idea with depth, meaning and creativity for an original short film idea...and this is what I've got.

Every teenager nowadays has problems about something, inner demons they need to defeat, shadows of their self... but not many know how to defeat these 'Shadow Selves' within their minds. The Girl (main character) is sitting at her desk one day looking at articles on the internet about something that troubles her (look up the most common problem for teenagers). These shots fade in and out, making it difficult for the audience to decipher when she goes into a daydream until suddenly her wardrobe door swings wide open. The girl isn't startled though as when in a daydream you are in control, nothing seems to surprise you within a day dream... she starts to walk towards the open door, and just before she reaches it she closes her eyes. The screen goes black before she appears in a forrest. She stumbles upon a book where it tells her to draw to defeat her Shadow Selves once and for all. She experiments first by drawing out a shoe, it comes to life, she then draws out her characters one by one before the final battle. After killing the last of the Shadow Selves it suddenly cuts back to her at her desk, confused as to what had happened but knowing that she is free. The book from her day dream is in front of her, "Save the others' ('others' meaning other teenagers with Shadow Selves).