After having watched and studied various short films, I've come to the realization that our initial idea is too hard to wrap up in 5 minutes and that it's not intriguing enough for a short movie and would be more suitable for feature length movie rather than a short movie. Our new goal is to come up with a idea that is much easier to do, features less characters, less locations and less plot. We came up with a hybrid idea, we want to combine the short movie genre with a documentary, in a way a fictional documentary, therefore a mockumentary. We feel like the given limit of 5 minutes is just right for a movie of this genre and due to the limitations of a documentary, shooting, writing and directing the movie will be a lot less stressful, chaotic and complex.
Our storyline resolves around a teenage guy's death and the documentary will spend a great amount of time interviewing those close to him, including family, friends, his girlfriend and teachers. While on the surface, the mockumentary seems to be about the crash and a death himself when actually, it mirrors some issues today's teenagers deal with and the stress they are exposed to. Trough the various characters the main character was close to, we also see different aspects of his life and all the different expectations people had in him.An interesting aspect of the storyline is the reveal that the main character, a talented and popular young man, is actually a heavy drug-user who struggles to cope with life, something that will make the reactions of his close ones interesting to see.
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