Mood Board

Mood Board for Story One: Milk Crisis

Short Story Pitches

 Short Story Pitches

Story one

Log Line:
Guy runs out of milk for his cereal, but can't find his cow.

Pitch:
A farm boy pours cereal into a bowl but realises he has no milk left. Since he's particularly hungry, he decides to go out into the paddock to find his cow, and get some milk from it. When he goes out into the paddock he's confronted by a large aggressive bull. He tries to edge around it but the bull charges at him. He jumps out of the way and the bull hits the fence, getting its head stuck in place. He looks up to where his cow was previously, but now it's gone. He looks around and can't see it anywhere so he goes back into the farm house. When he opens the door he sees his cow in the kitchen, having eaten all the cereal.


Story two

Log Line:
A mime is stuck in an invisible box, and can't get help.

Pitch:
A mime is stuck inside a large invisible box. He tries to indicate to people to show that he's in that situation, but everybody thinks that he's just miming. He slowly runs out of air and collapses to the floor. After a moment a bird flies into the invisible box.


Story Three

Log Line:
A spy must infiltrate Asgard, but has an overly attached girlfriend.

Pitch:
An agent from earth is sneaking into Asgard, in aims to get information. He must sneak past guards, climb tedious obstacles, and stay undetected. Unfortunately for him, his girlfriend back home is an overly attached and very jealous girl from the ghetto, and doesn't know he's a spy. She keeps calling him at the worst times, and he struggles to keep his cover. He finally gets in position and she calls him again but this time he hangs up on her. A bang comes from the other end of the room and she walks in through the doors she just kicked open. The guards and Odin try to stop her but she sasses them out and blows the spy's cover. They are both executed.

26th February 2015

Today I also began concepts of my main character. 

26th February 2015

Today I began conceptualizing the bull antagonist of my short story.

25th February 2015

Today I began the design process for the characters to go into my film.

To start the morning off I worked on revising the storyline, and it's much more rounded out now. 

I did some rough concepts, and got some advice from Oana. 

With feedback from Oana I began developing my character further. 

24th February 2015

Today we began the planning process for our short films. 

After starting the day with a master class about storytelling and brainstorming, we started with individual planning in the morning. We then moved onto group planning later in the day. 

We experimented with different styles of planning and mind mapping.

I learned a new process of brainstorming where you create a grid with a genre at the top, and a genre on the side. Using the grid you mash movies up until you find a neat little log line which you find appealing.

We also experimented with planning using nouns and associating nouns.