initial short film ideas

1. Initial short film ideas
A Media Studies Nikolas

2. 1: Biting off more than one can chew
This short film includes the same metaphorical components as the story of Icarus :
* Two friends who have been in the slumps together for a while now. Both extremely low on
money and surviving on the streets. Both in extreme desperation for cash. The conditions of their
local area feels as if a prison. At one point they see people entering an eerie sketchy place, they
follow and see that its an out of government surveillance cage fighting industry. They watch the
fight and see the winner earn a bunch of cash. The two friends get the idea of training and
getting into that. They train for a while looking at boxing and martial arts magazines. After a time
skip of about 3 months, they seem ready to enter the cage bouts. They win some fights one by
one, and get a very promising amount of money. This could do alot for them. But as both of their
matches had ended. One of the friends started shouting to bring their strongest champion. The
other friend doesnt like whats happening, they have already earned enough money... The friend
shouting, overconfidently saying he can beat anyone. The champion is summoned by the
director. They have enough prize money already but the first friends ego had grown out of
control. The champion and the friend fight as they are fighting... its not going well for the friend.
The friend watching says to himself : ( name ) you have flown to close to the sun... The friend
fighting gets knocked down hard to the ground.

3. 2: Dare you
Is a film about two friends going home from school daring eachother to complete various crazy stunts.

4. Act of kindess
A man who is in horrible living conditions is monitored throughout the film. Even
doing some bad things he has nothing to lose for. One day a man starts helping
him regardless each day. Later revealing that the helping man wants to help the
weak, just as this man helped his father on his deathbed no matter how poorly his
father treated everything including his son.

5. Horror film continuation
From the opening sequence of the last project. A Short Film about a boy who buys
a book with no author in it. Later on as he reads the book, the paranormal activity
within the book at first glance is to be perceived as mere fiction, ends up
replicating itself in real life. Infront of the boys eyes.

6. Echoes of time
A lonely street musician finds an old radio that plays messages from the past, connecting him to the lives of people
who once walked the same streets. Through these messages, he discovers a sense of belonging and purpose.
"Echoes of Time" is a heartwarming short film about the magic of unexpected connections.