I found my previous idea of a girl leaving town hard to build on so I decided to continue to think about other ideas I could do. For example I thought that I could have a short film where a character finds out they have a terminal illness and in turn try to live their life completely differently. However I decided I didn't like this because I didn't want it to seem like I wasn't taking an awful illness seriously.
I have finally come up with an idea I am going to stick with. It is based around the notion of 'groundhog day'.
The short film will be about a girl who finds her self on a roof about to commit suicide, however she doesn't end up going through with it and ends up sleeping on the roof. The next day she wakes up on the roof, leaves, goes outside and walks down the street. She will be in the same clothes as she was the previous day. She will go get a coffee and go sit on a bench and time will pass. She will then go back up to the roof and the exact same cycle will happen. She will wake up again and again there as she has put herself in a false groundhog day so she could never live anything else other than this fabricated moment. As time is going on, she will continue to look more rugged, making the audience aware of this relentless loop she is in. The loop is broken when she attempts to go into the house to go on the roof but the house has construction making it impossible. It will then cut to before she was on the roof showing what lead her to go onto it in the first place.
I still have a lot to develop with this idea but I am pleased with it so far. I am sure some aspects will still change, like what caused her to go onto the roof in the first place and want she does when she live the roof in the loop. Here is a pitch for my idea:
I have finally come up with an idea I am going to stick with. It is based around the notion of 'groundhog day'.
The short film will be about a girl who finds her self on a roof about to commit suicide, however she doesn't end up going through with it and ends up sleeping on the roof. The next day she wakes up on the roof, leaves, goes outside and walks down the street. She will be in the same clothes as she was the previous day. She will go get a coffee and go sit on a bench and time will pass. She will then go back up to the roof and the exact same cycle will happen. She will wake up again and again there as she has put herself in a false groundhog day so she could never live anything else other than this fabricated moment. As time is going on, she will continue to look more rugged, making the audience aware of this relentless loop she is in. The loop is broken when she attempts to go into the house to go on the roof but the house has construction making it impossible. It will then cut to before she was on the roof showing what lead her to go onto it in the first place.
I still have a lot to develop with this idea but I am pleased with it so far. I am sure some aspects will still change, like what caused her to go onto the roof in the first place and want she does when she live the roof in the loop. Here is a pitch for my idea: