falling art

This has everything a short should be, very inspirational. good work guys

design

This little short here have an awesome art style to it. I thought this would be a great way to create the short I was coming up with about the guy trying to get to sleep. By playing with the saturation of colours really helps with enhancing the mood of each scene. Also coming up with a character brief helps to create a more interesting character and this leads to a more believable story. I feel by having a strong character and character arc your story will be more interesting even if the story is cliche.

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story test continuation from the story below

The music stops. The guy comes running back inside slamming the door behind him, and locking the door as fast as he can. He takes a breath in and walks calmly back to his bedroom. Relaxing back and snuggling back in to his bed closing his eyes and nodes off BANG BANG BANG!!!!! He jumps out of bed from the loud banging next minute there is 3 gun shots the door gets kicked in and a big man bends down to fit through the door looks at the room and walks to the bed room and yells " YOU EVER KNOCK ON MY DOOR AGAIN WITH A GUN ILL STICK THIS RIGHT UP." The guy in the bed just looks at him and the guy walks out. 5 minutes later the music starts back up again but twice as loud.

All as the boy can think is that he has a job interview tomorrow. He tosses and turns in his bed then jumping out and throwing his pillow. running toward the spare room with clutter every where he creates a contraption that looks like 2 big pillows tired up with headphones and a alcohol dripper. he walks back to his room and slips this contraption over his head and starts sucking on the alcohol dripping through.

Waking up with the sun on his eyes he looks out his window to see the guy from next door on a billboard pointing a wrench towards him with a caption "are you ready"  the guys mouth drops and notices that the job he moved states for the manager is the guy from next door.

The long night

The other night I was having trouble getting to sleep and it got me thinking about the idea I came up earlier so I started to build a little more on it so here it is.

looking up towards the big heavy stainless steel fridge door with the calendar with tomorrows date circled many times over in a big red texta.  Running over towards the door from a mouses point of view going in to the room climbing the bed side table and looking over at the glass of milk left half drunk a boy lies there with his eyes wide open with one eye twitching. All of a sudden there starts up a really loud song form the neighbours room. the boy in bed rolls over with his pillow under his head. gets up grabs his gun from the top draw and goes to the door of the apartment. Forcefully opening the door that hard it swings open then closes and hits him on the ass on as he stomps out the room.

That is all I have so far.

Tying it all together

I have been critiquing a lot of short films in the first few blog posts that I have done. To me this has been a great way to learn and build some better story ideas and what not to do. The things that I seem to have noticed time and time again was the relationship with the characters in the shorts. This could be one or two things that is happening when the shorts are being developed, either they have not paid much attention to the character design and the way the character have changed throughout the story, or that they have tried to make the film shorter and leaving important character growths and arcs. 

Late night drive

I came up with this idea as I was driving home late the other night and I was falling asleep at the wheel.

A Truck driver named John driving down a country freeway at 3am in the morning. Doing his double shift to help pay for his rehab. With only 2 hours of driving to go on his shift he is finding it very hard to stay awake. Looking over at a snap lock packet of small pieces of speed, in the shape of small bits of broken glass, a brown hazed up crack pipe from heavy use, moving back and forth taping on the packet making a slight sound making john look over and having greater temptation of shooting up.

As john looks back from the tapping of the crack pipe he looks up and over to his revision mirror where a big blue token hangs with the number 30 in cased in gold, this resembles that he has been clean from drugs for over 30 days.

From it being an icy cold night John has his heater on but he is starting to get sleepy and his eyes are getting slower and slower with his blinks every blink he does is staying shut for longer and longer. Jolting to stay awake he shakes his head from side to side mumbling “only 2 more hours” Turning on the air conditioner on to try keep him awake.

chef

Watching My Kitchen Rules the other night and this gave me an idea on a little short that could be quite interesting.  having a guy trying to make a perfect meal for his girlfriend. he has already made the entree and mains. Working on the dessert he is having problems  getting the toppings done right he looks at the cake and it is moving underneath him. he is not sure what is going on he looks down to the cake only to realise the his dog is on the other side licking off the icing.  he gets very angry and picking up the dog throwing it out the window. he starts to make a moose instead the kitchen getting dirtier and dirtier. As he dishes up the mouse in nice little acapulco glass he notices that there  is a massive .........