It's
fine for me to talk about using our
own experiences to get ideas for a short film, but let's face
it,
most of our experiences are pretty tedius.
What we need is the 'What if' factor.
What if this happened, instead of what actually
happened.
So really, base
your ideas
for a short film on your experiences, don't
actually make a short film about your experiences.
Unless you routinely get involved in exciting car chases with
international terrorists or criminal organisations.
(sigh; another day, another exciting car chase.)
Shooting
a short film - the tragedy factor
It's fun and entertaining when things don't always work out the way we
expect them to do - as long as they don't work out for for someone
else, of course.
This kind of situation is called 'tragedy' and it's the basis for many
films, plays and novels.
It might be an idea to develop a sense of tragedy.
This doesn't mean that you have to be depressive, it just means that
you have to be aware of the potential
for tragedy.
More realistically, try to develop
this
awareness.
Spirit of
the Wind is a short horror film\funny
comedy
film that
features a girl spiritualist or ghost hunter who
accidentally contacts a spirit or ghost that has a habit
of farting.
How to get ideas for a short
film
One way of getting ideas for a short film is to make
use
of your own personal experiences, which is of course
very
similar to one of the recognised ways of
getting ideas for writing a novel or short story.
The idea for Spirit Of The Wind came to me after I became very slightly
involved in the fringes of spiritualism.I went to a few
spiritualist
meetings and took a few shots at what is called 'auto
writing.'
Auto
writing is trying to contact
the spirit world - if it exists - by
asking the spirits to contact you in writing.
Basically you have a
piece of paper and with a pen or pencil lightly held between your
fingers you ask the spirits to contact you by writing
a
message on the
piece of paper. The idea is, 'certain forces' - either your
own
certain forces or
the spirit's certain forces or both - again, if they exist
- make
the pen or pencil write the message/s.
The key point is, you can also
specify that you want only 'good
spirits' or 'friendly spirits' to contact you.This
is intended to
warn evil spirits to stay away from you.
It's the key point because it creates
an opportunity to speculate
what might happen if your warning was ignored - if you attracted a bad
spirit instead of a good one.
Obviously, my 'bad' spirit isn't really a bad person - he just can't
stop farting.
This isn't so bad, who knows - maybe in life he was a very nice person.