maingon

We have to do a movie thats around 8 minutes. its due sometime in the middle of December. Our teacher has just told use to come up with 3 ideas. In the class handout it said 1-3 people in a group. Yet he hasnt said nothing about this or gave us anytime in class. so only a couple people who already know each other are doing it in a group. The rest dont know. its a college class where you come in and leave no one really talks to each other. The film is going to be shown on our colleges auditorium on a projector. My friends arent the ones to get into a movie and "act" and then have them be seen on a a big screen infront of alot of people

Have no idea what i am gonna do my movie on, dont even know when and if they have videocameras to borrow and when we get them. So far no one has mentioned the film project in class. and if I do it on my own, I would only have 1-2 people in it.

any ideas

Breakfast with Girls

Do an 8-minute documentary about something mundane that you can spin into something funny. Like the lack of parking or catching people making out in the library or something.

maingon

thats what I was thinking of, I had a couple ideas, but by the time we film theres gonna be snow on the ground in michigan (snowing right now). So right now I have no ideas.

PopcornTreeCt

Kill your friends in the snow. Blood looks awesome in the snow!!

William Fuld

College? Seriously?

Drexl

Could you explain the 3 ideas? Do you have to have 3 ideas in the film, or 3 possible ideas for your film?

Your friends aren't the type to act, but are you?

Does it have to be completely original, or are you allowed to base it on material such as a comedian's rant?

Do you actually have to shoot any footage? Could you just edit existing footage?

Numanoid

Come on, it's a student film. You can show the face of a clock ticking away for eight minutes, interspersed with some stills of Abu Ghraib, and it will win several film circuit awards*.




* Must be shot in black & white.

devilshalo

Shake the camera a lot and just shoot 8 mins of your POV of a girl's room from a shelf. Then have the girl enter the room, come up really close to the camera and say "Oh shit, I forgot to turn this off". Fade to black and the title goes up "The Life of a Vibrator".

PopcornTreeCt

Holy Carp, Sundance here I come!

RagingBull80

RagingBull80

Go to a highway near you and set up on the overpass. Shoot the traffic.
Intercut that with footage of people walking in the mall...

Oh yeah, you can't forget to put some really cool music over it...

Shit it's a student film...go as artsy as you can!!!

honking

I had to do this for one of my college classes a few years ago, but we got the assignment on a Friday and it had to turn it in Shot, Chopped and finished that Monday... So myself, three buddies and an 80 year old man made a hunting video that just had people getting shot out in the woods, the 80 year old man cussing a lot, lots of blood from shooting off arms and leg and people in capes and super hero costumes humping deer out in the woods... It wasn't Citizen Kane, but it was fun.

Rockmjd23

Go out into the woods with your three worst-acting friends. Have them roam around endlessly searching for some lame colonial folk-tale monster, always swearing at eachother while they look. Make the camera work as nauseating as possible, and throw in a few cheap scares. Make sure you zoom into the woods at night, always expecting something to jump out, but it never does. Make one person drop the camera at the end, and fade out and say the footage was found 30 days later. Don't worry about it ripping off a movie made 20 years earlier, because most people will be too dumb to realize it and many will even think its real. Instant $100,000,000 dollars.

MasterCXtreme

I did a mock-gangster/mafia flick for my high school Lit & Film class... a lot of my group wasn't very cooperative, but the ones that were had the big roles. I wrote it all myself but really just combined the plots from Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, and Miller's Crossing. We played it serious, but didn't take it seriously... lots of overacting which fit quite well in case the whole thing ended up sucking. Luckily it turned out quite well. I'd try and post it on but i had trouble ripping it and i'm not sure where the copy is anymore.

... the best bet is to do something funny... avoid the artsy shit.

outer-edge

This is my suggestion as well. On a college campus, there should be plenty of things you could shoot eight minutes of and spin it into an interesting documentary.

Fincher Fan

Lesbian porn is always popular.

Brain Stew

Fine, I'll be in your movie! Don't beat around the bush so much next time!