I had three ideas for the short film, two of which I put forward to the group. One that I called "Normal", and another named "Loss", and the third "Bound".
The first film - "Normal" features a protagonist whom suffers from anxiety. The idea of it was to try and put the audience through her unease of the seemingly normal events using film techniques to off put the audience and make them feel empathy.
The second - "Loss" is much like the first, but stemmed from a compleatly different idea. There was to be three characters, a family, sitting and eating around a dinner table. Again the audience would be made to feel uneasy, but unsure as to why. As time went on you start to realise that the mother never responds or eats. The plates pile up around them, the kitchen is in a terrible state. At the end of the meal, the camera pans past the father and sons empty bowls to the mothers which lays untouched, it then pans up showing the mother not to be there at all. She was a figment of her grieving families imagination.
The third - "Bound" is about a girl who finds a book on a shelf with her name on it. She picks the book up, despite being told not to touch anything, and in it shows the story of her life. She flicks through it and it shows her triumphs and downfalls throughout the years. In between these, however, there are her brothers achievements. It becomes clear through the pictures and the girls body language that she becomes uncomfortable. Her parents are pushing her into working in a area that she doesnt want to. Someone calls her name, she slams the book shut and hurriedly tries to put it back into place. A photo falls out face down as she does, and before walking out she bends down to pick it up. Dust floats up, as she reaches for it. She stands with the picture in her hand, deciding whether or not to look at it, to look into her future. At the last second she turns and tosses it into a near fire, before turning her back on it and walking out.
