1. A student experiences anxiety while giving a presentation in class. Their anxiety feels like drowning. Their friend notices they are struggling and calms them down, allowing them to continue their presentation. 2. A boy wakes up confused after an accident and believes he has died. He sees his parents grieving and is alone in his home. He becomes ill and wakes in the hospital, learning he fell into a coma but survived. 3. A boy becomes sad when his cat goes missing. Despite his parents' warnings, he searches for the cat but gets lost. He imagines seeing the cat but cannot find it. The police later find the lost boy.

1. INITIAL SHORT FILM IDEAS
Polina Zalevskaya
A level Media Studies

2. 1. ANXIETY
• A student has to present his project, however once he stands up in front of a
class to start, he gets anxious. This film explores how can anxiety feel and
visually presents it. For example, anxiety might feel like drowning while you are
simply standing in a classroom. Some time passes while the main character is
trying to start a presentation when his/her friend who was late to a class walks
in. He/she notices that something is wrong and asks if they are okay. That
calms down the main character, and they calmly starts the presentation.

4. 2. SORROW
• This short film starts with a boy waking up. For some reason he acts weird – he
seems not to recognize his place and does not reflect in a mirror. As it turns out
he has passed away and his parents cannot see him. Film shows how are his
parents dealing with death of their child. Mother, for example, is looking at his
old photos while his dad is screaming due to the pain this has caused him.
Suddenly, parents run out of the apartment and boy stays home alone. He starts
feeling sick and like he is about to lose consciousness. When he opens his eyes,
he realizes he is in a hospital surrounded by his parents and a doctor and that
he in fact did not die but was heavily injured and fell into a coma.

6. 3. LOST
• Boy loses his cat and gets very sad because of that. He is heartsick and can not
deal with grief, so decides to go look for his cat himself despite of his parents
warning him not to. A few times he sees his cat and tries to follow him but is
not fast enough. However, that is only his imagination and he does not actually
see his cat or cat he sees is not his. He still tries to find him but gets lost in city
which makes him even more sad. The suns sets down and it gets dark. Boy, now
crying, sits down, until police finds him and brings him home.

8. 4. THE PROCESS OF FALLING
• This story depicts a process of falling in love, from the first eye contact to being
in a relationship. It explores how 2 people feel throughout that time in their
lives without dialogue. However, that feeling of love does not last for very long
and one of the main characters gets bored, annoyed and mad at the other one
until they break up. Then it all starts again, but in a new relationship. This short
film would reflect on our society in which people can catch feelings very fast,
loose them even faster and get into a new relationship in a flick of time.

10. 5. WILT
• A story of a dying (wilting) house plant and its owner whose life is falling apart.
A slow descent into depression, told from the perspective of a house plant.