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Post Secrets

The task was to read a secret and build a short film from it, you could have branched off in any direction it was really how to read the postcard.

My first postcard read:          

                                                                                       

“I’d gladly trade this car to have a BIG PENIS”

This is the story ideas i made from it:

• Main character: Let’s call him Johnny
• ·       Wife left him because he had a small willy, with his best friend who he now knows has a bigger willy from catching his wife and best friend during a very intimate moment. Johnny makes the comparison between himself and his friend and wants to do something about it
• ·       Johnny goes on a mission to find ways to make his lower regions bigger
• ·       A technique he uses makes his willy have erection problems and decides he isn’t man enough anymore and decides to have a sex change
• ·       I wanted this to be film like a witness/confessional with a talking silhouette, and a ‘reconstruction’ telling his story

However this idea was shut down, with all fairness though it wasn’t the most thought out idea and it just doesn’t seem logical for a short film. As it had too much narrative and not enough straight to the point ideas.  Also I wanted to call it ‘Don’t look at me *covers penis*’, this wouldn’t have been the best film title ever.

My second postcard read:

“What hurts the more than losing you...is knowing you’re not fighting to keep me”

My uber solid idea:

• ·       brain damaged patient (she is paralysed and unable to talk)
• ·       husband doesn’t want to keep her on life support
• ·       the narrator is her thoughts ‘talking’ to the audience, she is more concerned that her husband doesn’t love her/doesn’t want her around than the actual thought of dying
• ·       husband decides to turn off life support

This one was more straight to the point, would have been more simple to film and had clearer ideas about the narrative and what I wanted to actually do with it. It also relates directly to the postcard, as if it could have been written by the woman in my story.

 In the lesson we also made our own post secrets which we made a small synopsis for, this was slightly harder as we had to things of our own secrets and turn them into something, but this task helped to generate ideas for films in different ways.