Im an 18 year old aspiring filmmaker making a short film around 10 minutes long or under. My teacher reccomended picking a subject we feel passionately about, I aim to really raise the bar with this project by undertaking proffesionally from all angles, past students have been selected for large film festivals and I believe I can even go beyond if I manage to pull this off.
After struggling to think of anything I truely loved enough to create, I watched a short Korean film about a man with a cocaine addiction and its effect on his relationship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7dBSWoyBI
Addiction is quite a generic topic, and the majority of films (particularly student films) about addiction are a bore, always the same rehashed cliche's and I find myself clawing my eyeballs at the sight of suicidal endings. However Alcohol addiction is something I am more than familiar with, having been a victim of it since birth, my dad is a recovering addict who was at deaths door on life support two years ago, so as far as picking a topic im passionate and knowledgable on it seems the perfect fit along with some impressive shooting techniques gained through watching Spike Jonze's "Her" and Steve Mcqueen's "Hunger" and "Shame".
I have had an idea to shoot a story about an addict and his girlfriend (im not sure what that story is atm but it will be something simple like the short I linked above) with narration by the protagonist who is speaking of his love, and the affect his "love" has on him. We are unsure whether he is speaking of his girlfriend or alcohol addiction and its grip on him, until the end when the camera cuts to him speaking in a recovery group where the narration was coming from. I dont know if it is possible to write a script vague enough to express similarities between a being and intoxication so I could do with some advice. Im definitely not looking to approach the subject light-heartedly or as a fun and goofy film, im looking for a hard hitting and emotion evoking film such as Mcqueen's works. I am also not a fan or linear storytelling in all short films, I loved the Korean short because it involved flashbacks and the idea the girlfriend was dead. It made it interesting. So any help/ideas would be appreciated, I am still learning this craft, if this idea was a sandwitch is has no filling atm lol
After struggling to think of anything I truely loved enough to create, I watched a short Korean film about a man with a cocaine addiction and its effect on his relationship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7dBSWoyBI
Addiction is quite a generic topic, and the majority of films (particularly student films) about addiction are a bore, always the same rehashed cliche's and I find myself clawing my eyeballs at the sight of suicidal endings. However Alcohol addiction is something I am more than familiar with, having been a victim of it since birth, my dad is a recovering addict who was at deaths door on life support two years ago, so as far as picking a topic im passionate and knowledgable on it seems the perfect fit along with some impressive shooting techniques gained through watching Spike Jonze's "Her" and Steve Mcqueen's "Hunger" and "Shame".
I have had an idea to shoot a story about an addict and his girlfriend (im not sure what that story is atm but it will be something simple like the short I linked above) with narration by the protagonist who is speaking of his love, and the affect his "love" has on him. We are unsure whether he is speaking of his girlfriend or alcohol addiction and its grip on him, until the end when the camera cuts to him speaking in a recovery group where the narration was coming from. I dont know if it is possible to write a script vague enough to express similarities between a being and intoxication so I could do with some advice. Im definitely not looking to approach the subject light-heartedly or as a fun and goofy film, im looking for a hard hitting and emotion evoking film such as Mcqueen's works. I am also not a fan or linear storytelling in all short films, I loved the Korean short because it involved flashbacks and the idea the girlfriend was dead. It made it interesting. So any help/ideas would be appreciated, I am still learning this craft, if this idea was a sandwitch is has no filling atm lol