Production Ideas for Term Two
Idea One:
Based around memory, the concept of this story is about remembering. Influenced by the videogame ‘Second Sight’.
Second Sight Box Art
A man wakes up in a medical research facility. He has no memory of his past except for a mundane task occurring six months before. He learns from a computer he finds in the medical facility that his mentality suffered from the death of someone close to him shortly under six months ago. He then has a flashback in which he prevents this death. This changes what the computer says back in the medical facility. The rest of the film focuses on the protagonist reading what may have contributed to his incarceration in the medical facility and fixing it back in the past. Nothing seems to be fixing the situation as the protagonist changes the past until he reaches the final possibility for his mental state on the computers list. The final flashback (him and his friends experimenting with a wigi board) is repeatedly interrupted by a series of flash-forwards, showing the various outcomes that the protagonist has prevented so far via the actions in his other flashbacks. During these, the protagonist discovers that he has not been having flashbacks at all. The séance is still ongoing and incomplete, whereas all his experiences in the medical facility are merely possible futures, and are a manifestation of his mental ability: precognition. Now knowing the truth of his situation, the protagonist pushes the wigi board off the table and leaves his ‘friends’, ensuring his stable mental state and giving himself a second chance at life.
Idea Two:
A standalone sitcom-style spoof episode called Sod’s Law. Detective Inspector Sod is a homosexual police officer whom is very dedicated to both his occupation and his sexuality. The idea is that the conclusion of every episode sees D.I. Sod right at the point of solving the case but unfortunately always failing at the last-minute for a reason related to him being gay.
Idea Three:
A reality game show called Death Row where the ‘housemates’ are ‘killed off’ every week. This is of course just a bit of fun. However, one week there’s an accident and someone actually dies during one of the ‘executions’. The film becomes about who is to blame for the death, the creators of the show or the public that voted for which victim should ‘die’ and how they should ‘die’ as the decision was theirs as was the power.
