Friday 10 January 2014

Script to Screen Ideas

My Three words are

Photobooth

Juggler

and

Rollerskates

My basic idea is a busy single mother who is juggling jobs to save money to buy her daughter some rollerskates. The photobooth would appear in a few scenes to show characters ageing and the passing of time. Below is my mind map of ideas so far


I liked the idea of setting it in Tokyo because of their famous purikura photobooths. I also like the idea of incorporating the "suicide forests" near Tokyo- a lot of business men commit suicide there JUGGLING their work and busy lives etc. 

Their would be three characters, mother, daughter, and father- the father would only appear in flashbacks and in photos.

Feedback welcome please!


4 comments:

  1. You know I like your lateral thinking, Livi... and there's a glimmer of J-Horror peeking out at me somehow from this idea; the notion of the Photo Booth proving prophetic somehow - producing photos of more than what was inside of it (secret photos) feels creepy (haunted photo booth?) and suddenly the roller-skate feels like it could take on an uncanny vibe (in the way childhood objects always can) and 'the juggler' as an apparition or boogeyman or 'shadow' - 'juggling souls'?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-oGv-BG-mI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31MUHXCdwaE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Z-MOqAvtY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gQOnhAl_sU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuH5FaUpFm4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nJ3vrPH_9o

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    1. Thanks for scaring me senseless!
      I like the idea of the dead father playing a more prominent or sinister role though

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  2. Hi Livi, it's really interesting you talking about the pressure of jobs and they also relate to the family, and just make me think of an animation called El Empleo(2008), hope it helps :P

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-oGv-BG-mI

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    1. Ooh I really liked that Candice! It was really haunting. I like the piano music- i'll bare this is mind when thinking of sound

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