Media Coursework Ideas

After some thought, I have decided to change my idea for my coursework. Before I could make a final decision as to what my short film was going to be about I had to plan a few ideas and work out which one was going to be more suitable for the task in hand as well as what was more realistically suitable. To help myself; I decided to plan my ideas using the structural system a short film should follow; using the equilibirum of normality, followed by the disequilibrium then finishing with resuming to the characters everyday life in the second equilibrium.

Idea 1; was a development and a slight change on my initial idea of a love story.

The first equilibrium: A boy happy in his relationship with his girlfriend.

The disequilibrium: His girlfriends ex, gets back in contact and expresses his remaining feelings for her, which causes a lot of friction in the couple's relationship. 

The second equilibrium: The girl turns to her friend (who would therefore stand as the agent of change in the film) for help and advice on how she should deal with the situation, telling her ex that she has moved on and explaining to her boyfriend that she wanted no-one else apart from him.

Idea 2; came while watching the film 'Almost Famous'.

The first equilibrium: A band practising at their local youth club, socialising and promoting their band by sticking up flyers and leaflets and sending out letters and emails to record labels requesting them to sign the band to their label.

The disequilibrium: The band get another rejection from a record label, another one that gets added to the pile of many that they have already recieved. The lead singers takes this to heart, and begins to get pessismistic about the bands future and voices that she is close to giving up her dream and moving her life path into another direction. Her fellow band mate reassures her and persuades her to keep going, and promises her that the band will pull together and work extra hard to make sure that the band make it into the music industry.

The second equilibum: After practising really hard and putting posters up on every lampost and every tree, the band finally get a phone call from an owner of a small venue offering them a local gig who also turns out to be the owner of a music record label. The band are then shown walking out of the venue looking exceedingly happy with their performance and feeling quite optimistic about their bands future.

Idea 3; was going to be based in a school, showing the effects of bullying but also expressing that the people who look weak aren't necessarily as weak as you would first think.

The first equilibrium: Normal school life; showing the stereotypical social groups of a school and the way they react to each of the other social groups. 

The disequilibrium: The bullying starts. A group of bullies against a group of "nerds". One individual member of the bullies targets one individual member of the "nerds".

The equilibrium: After the student getting bullied confides in a friend outside fo school, he decides to stick up for himself. Gaining his dignity and pride back, as well as earning himself acceptance with everybody else in the school.

Idea 4; was going to be based around drugs.

The first equilibrium: A group of people dealing drugs around their area, dealing to the usual customers and not doing anything else that didnt relate to drugs or earning money.

The disequilibrium: The group experience a sudden decrease in the amount of custom they have, so they move out of their current area and into a new area not too far away; only to find there is already a group of drug dealers who are a lot bigger and stronger than themselves. The local group warn the smaller group away and explains the cnosequences if they didn't listen to what they were being told. A police officer who has turned rogue, introduces himself to the new group and explains that he is also wanting to sell drugs but because of his occupation prevents him from doing so, he confides in the group and gives them hints and pointers as to how they can make sure they sell their drugs as well as gaining custom from the bigger local group that the local drug users are used to.

The second equilibrium: The new group listen to the rogue police officer and do so with great success. They steal 90% of the custom from the already existing group forcing them to move out of their area and into a new area.