ideas for live action drama

  • A drama that moves from location to location, with no dialogue at all, just lots of looking and seeing
  • Something simple and very script-led, perhaps just a few characters talking around a table
  • Action packed, with lots of movement
  • Something atmospheric where the sets and costumes tell more of the story than the words
  • A fairy-tale where some basic special effects are used

In feature films the director is god; in documentary films, god is the director - Alfred Hitchcock

ideas for documentary

There are many different ways of tackling a documentary. For example:

  • Going out and and getting some hard hitting vox pops on the street
  • Setting up interviews with carefully chosen subjects
  • Following one person around
  • Fly-on-the-wall where you cover an event or group in action
  • A dreamy montage of different images with a well-chosen piece of music to conjure up a picture of an event or place

ideas for animation

With animation almost anything is possible so you are perhaps best to choose your animation type before your theme.

We now know what type of film we want to make