yea i agree with motorstorm, art imitates life. shoot things you like to do or something you appreciate. use something thats happened to you but fictionalize it, exaggerate it, abstract and obscure it. youll have plenty of ideas that way
i would go for something different. everybody else is going to be choosing the easy emotions, so there is inevitably going to be similar themes and cliches. do something that sets you apart. i would go with worry or lazy. they dont have awkward do they? lol awkward is the best.
what i got out of his post was that he wanted it seamless, as in no "cop-outs" that make it obvious its a loop. any shot that combines the people in the first scene and people in the last scene will work. you could have the people from the first scene walk by the mother and child on their way to...
you could do a number of things. for instance you could start the take with the boy on the bike riding past the two people conversing in the first scene then at the end have him ride away from his mother back past the two people in the first scene. edit it together and you have a loop that will...