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Free ideas, post em take em love em

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A woman has a psychic experience foretelling a school bus crash, however, her own child is on a waiting list for a heart transplant!

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eraserhead_in_time said:
... speaking of which, any ideas for this film contest?
http://www.focusforwardfilms.com/faq

Which invention would u choose?
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"WHAT IS THE SUBMISSIONS WINDOW?
All submissions must be uploaded between April 23rd, 2012 and August 23rd, 2012"​

Better get thinking and moving!

I wouldn't get too excited about guessing any candidates.
Whatever it is they're looking for will be in the initial development & introduction stages of the product life cycle, thus few people will even be aware of its existence outside of developers who may be seeking their own promotional material.

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freebies

These are some free concepts that I have thought about: not the most original but could be funny, some are meant to be serious.:D

Carpool: Two young men ages 17-18, bite off more than they can chew when they try to make a little extra money to go to prom by driving a trunk load of drugs to another town for a local drug lord. This might be the car ride they will never forget! (copyright@racereed)

Club Fever: A group of freshman high school friends spend weeks planning a eleborate plan to get into their towns new 21+ topless bar to get a lap dance. They pull out all the stops and put all their resourced together. They need Fake Id's, disguise's and enough money to recieve a lap dance, but first, they will have to get pass the bouncer! Will there plan work or will they get caught? (copyright@racereed)

Autobiography: Two friends spend a weekend camping up in the mountains. Both men dissapear, ironically, under the same bizzar circumstances found in a book one was writing about the other. (copyright@racereed)


Untitled#3: December 7,1941. The Japanese sneak attack devistates pearl harbour. 7 decades later, while uner hypnosis, a woman recalls in vivid detail, the events of that took place that dreadfull day , a day that took place a full 40 years before her birth. (copyright@racereed)

Untitled#11: Three men go searching for a century old legand of a lost treasure, some believe a vicious highwayman, a sherrif turned outlaw burried millions of dollars worth of gold in the rugged mountans in Montana. Will they find their gold or re-open a century old case and prove the sherriff inosence. (copyright@racereed)

Untitled#23: A radio opperator onboard a US Navy submarine spends his days listining and tracking the locations of enemy ships and subs in the area, one day he starts hearing what he thinks sounds like voices of prior sailors who died during the days of war and went down with their ship. Are they trying to tell him something or is it all in his head? (copyright@racereed)

Untitled#31: A scientist invents a incredible device that seems to make life easier for people. Although this device is popular amonst people, does it do what is was intended to do or does this little device have a mind of its own? Will this device become a bigger part of their life than they asked for or will the scientist have enough time to fix it?

Enjoy
Race
 
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Two OSS officers who immigrated from Germany to America were sent to Germany to unravel the mystery sourounding the Nazi regime following the surender of Germany in 1945. Will they find crucial evidence or are these officers double agents and hiding a deeper secret?:D
 
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racereed said:
These are some free concepts that I have thought about: not the most original but could be funny, some are meant to be serious.:D

Carpool: Two young men ages 17-18, bite off more than they can chew when they try to make a little extra money to go to prom by driving a trunk load of drugs to another town for a local drug lord. This might be the car ride they will never forget! (copyright@racereed)

Club Fever: A group of freshman high school friends spend weeks planning a eleborate plan to get into their towns new 21+ topless bar to get a lap dance. They pull out all the stops and put all their resourced together. They need Fake Id's, disguise's and enough money to recieve a lap dance, but first, they will have to get pass the bouncer! Will there plan work or will they get caught? (copyright@racereed)

Autobiography: Two friends spend a weekend camping up in the mountains. Both men dissapear, ironically, under the same bizzar circumstances found in a book one was writing about the other. (copyright@racereed)


Untitled#3: December 7,1941. The Japanese sneak attack devistates pearl harbour. 7 decades later, while uner hypnosis, a woman recalls in vivid detail, the events of that took place that dreadfull day , a day that took place a full 40 years before her birth. (copyright@racereed)

Untitled#11: Three men go searching for a century old legand of a lost treasure, some believe a vicious highwayman, a sherrif turned outlaw burried millions of dollars worth of gold in the rugged mountans in Montana. Will they find their gold or re-open a century old case and prove the sherriff inosence. (copyright@racereed)

Untitled#23: A radio opperator onboard a US Navy submarine spends his days listining and tracking the locations of enemy ships and subs in the area, one day he starts hearing what he thinks sounds like voices of prior sailors who died during the days of war and went down with their ship. Are they trying to tell him something or is it all in his head? (copyright@racereed)

Untitled#31: A scientist invents a incredible device that seems to make life easier for people. Although this device is popular amonst people, does it do what is was intended to do or does this little device have a mind of its own? Will this device become a bigger part of their life than they asked for or will the scientist have enough time to fix it?

Enjoy
Race
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Lot of copyright notices for FREEBIES?
 
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oo oo oo, also I've often played with an idea for a short about someone who starts hearing voices. And the audience hears them as well.

Like we share their psychotic experience.

Uh, but that's all I've got on it.
 
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maralyn said:
oo oo oo, also I've often played with an idea for a short about someone who starts hearing voices. And the audience hears them as well.

Like we share their psychotic experience.

Uh, but that's all I've got on it.
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You should watch Mr. Brooks Great film.... and seeing Dane Cook getting his throat slit by a shovel was always a dream of mine. They actually fulfilled that in this movie.
 
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naaaah, I'm not in to blood. I'm more into the fear of blood.

I thought it would be fun to just mess with their minds a bit.

I dunno. It's just a free idea. I'm never going to write it.
 
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Mrlifeandstuff said:
Meh, can't think of any ideas
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1 Literary genre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genres
1.1 Action - A healthy looking fellow wakes up in a limo racing down a country road with a pillowcase full of cash in one hand, a bloody machete in the other, and no idea WTH is going on.
1.2 Adventure - A merchant marine travels from port to port around the globe, always greeted by a different wife and child, always with no recollection of these people.
1.3 Comedy - A clowd of ambivalence turns to a shower of apathy then a flood of denial of any accountabilty one afternoon for the President of the United States.
1.4 Crime - A horrific crime is surrounded by a preponderance of evidence and clues that don't really seem to implicate anybody in the obvious felony.
1.5 Documentary - The differences between Alzheimer's and dementia in the senior mind are explored.
1.6 Erotic - The decade's indisputed porn queen has literally "done" it all. All of it. She and her manager are at a loss for what to do next.
1.7 Faction - Inmates consider the possibilties of planning to escape the newest supermax prison.
1.8 Fantasy - NTSB inspectors consider the nonsensical evidence before them to come up with an explanation to what overtly looks like a extraterrestrial crash into a jumbo jet - without explaining it as such.
1.9 Historical - The US Treasury discusses how to both preserve the institution of banking by making it both conservative while allowing it to take enough risk for the economy to grow.
1.10 Horror - An aggrieved witch curses an entire metropolitan hospital so that the medical staff looses all ability to care for the hundreds of patients in house.
1.11 Mystery - Law enforcement and city leadership are at a loss of an explanation when first it was small things, then increasingly more sigificant things around the city started coming up missing.
1.12 Paranoid - Jackkk Benson explains how he built and implanted "mind control bots" in the heads of thousands of people across the last four decades.
1.13 Philosophical - Keyboard commandos and 'Dr. Phil appostles' contemplate why they have no more money in the pizza box.
1.14 Political - Police try to get the same people who called for help, who'd complain if they didn't help, to explain why they won't provide information to stop the bad guys.
1.15 Romance - Love triangles shift shapes between and amid psychology students and their study subjects in their quest for the true nature of forgetfulness.

To be continued...

1.16 Saga - .
1.17 Satire - .
1.18 Science fiction- .
1.19 Slice of Life
1.20 Speculative - .
1.21 Thriller - .
1.22 Urban- .​
 
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Dreadylocks said:
You are aware, though, that you cannot copyright an idea? You can only copyright a script.
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Actually, you can copyright an idea, doesnt mean its protected though:D http://legalwritepublications.com/copyright/can-you-copyright-an-idea/

Im not trying to start a debate, but i was hired along with others by Bilken Bros. Publishing to write a collection of short stories for an easy to read book for teenagers, I just added the copyright info to inform that these were not just random ideas that i had, I added these to this forum because, a lot of the other ideas were crap and i wanted to contribute something different.
 
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mussonman said:
You should watch Mr. Brooks Great film.... and seeing Dane Cook getting his throat slit by a shovel was always a dream of mine. They actually fulfilled that in this movie.
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I love that film! In all actuality, I would have never started watching Dexter had it not been for this film. It was what introduced me into the idea, and I've loved it ever since.

And I've always wanted to see Dane Cook murdered as well!
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I've always thought he was a poor comedian.
 
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Budget:0 said:
I love that film! In all actuality, I would have never started watching Dexter had it not been for this film. It was what introduced me into the idea, and I've loved it ever since.

And I've always wanted to see Dane Cook murdered as well!
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Is Dexter anything like that movie? If so, I am morally obligated to watch it.
 
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Hey, but voice hearing is inherently scary though, isn't it. It's like ghosts, it's some sort of deep seated, instinctive fear.

Makes you want to run.

I actually even researched it for a bit, thinking maybe it could be a feature, and there are many different types of voice hearing.

There are the cliche ones, telling them to kill people, and ones that tell them to kill themselves, and there are more abstract ones, where they think someone has spoken, and they haven't.

Or where the words are jumbled, and they attribute meaning to them.

Some people actually just hear screaming.

But it's not for me.

I definitely think the voice hearing thing has been a savagely neglected fear inducer though. I mean, they could hide behind their hands, but even then, they'd still be hearing the voices,

Aaaaggghhh !!!

scream fest.
 
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Talented and promising scriptwriter gets kidnapped by gangsters in need of a good script to steal a lot of money from investors/studios/filmfund/(whatever the funding system in your country). She is locked up in a high building to write something brilliant. Her attempts to escape fail until she demands more paper to write. She uses the paper and ducttape to build wings to escape throught the window.
The movie starts with a fast introduction of the writer: from birth till the moment the movie starts: this introduction turns out to be the presentation one of the gangsters is giving to the rest of the gang to explain his 'cunning plan'. Secretly he has actual filmambitions.
An arrogant, but not so brilliant director has depths, so he has to sell the story to get the money or die. (He's the puppet the gangsters use for their scam.)

A little absurdism and fairytale elements that showup more and more as the story progresses could be fun :P

(I should look up the notes I made years ago: I know there is more than this.)
 
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maralyn said:
Hey, but voice hearing is inherently scary though, isn't it. It's like ghosts, it's some sort of deep seated, instinctive fear.

Makes you want to run.

I actually even researched it for a bit, thinking maybe it could be a feature, and there are many different types of voice hearing.

There are the cliche ones, telling them to kill people, and ones that tell them to kill themselves, and there are more abstract ones, where they think someone has spoken, and they haven't.

Or where the words are jumbled, and they attribute meaning to them.

Some people actually just hear screaming.

But it's not for me.

I definitely think the voice hearing thing has been a savagely neglected fear inducer though. I mean, they could hide behind their hands, but even then, they'd still be hearing the voices,

Aaaaggghhh !!!

scream fest.
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True... would be quite a creepy night, if you hear whispers, but can't find where they're coming from
 
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