Short Film Ideas
For summer work I had been asked to come up with a few ideas for short films that I could make for my coursework. The ideas had to meet some guidelines but those were quite loose to begin with - meaning that I could make short films about whatever or whoever I'd want to. The first was an idea based on a short story or novella. When I was in Year 5 (I would have been ten years old) I read a collection of short stories by Michael Morpurgo and one stood out in particular - The Giant's Necklace. It is a described as being a ghost story for children and the ending is something that has stuck with me for the eight years since I last read it. Adapting this into a short film could be something really interesting and quite cool to do - with a more personal story as well, a short film could work better than full feature. The second idea is based on Dr Barry J Marshall, the man who discovered that H.Pylori bacteria causes stomach ulcers. His story is fascinating - he drank all of th...