'90 Second City' Project (My First Idea)

For this Project we have to make a one minute short film or animation with innovative content influenced loosely or directly on the character or the characters of Derry city. We are allowed 15 seconds either side for titles or credits if required.

My original concept for my film was to try and put across the point that coming from a small town into a city can be a very lonely experience. Everyone know's everyone in a small town and nobody know's you in a city and quite frankly nobody cares either! In cities everyone is looking out for themselves, I wanted to show that you as a person are very important no matter how many people are around you. My aim was to do a time lapse on people going about there business in the city but then to zoom into just one person. I planned to do this with a traffic scene and also a scene that included a flock of birds. Then I planned to stop some pedestrians and film them saying 'I am one' as in I am my own person and I am important. I was going to do my own voice over and come up with a powerful script and have limited sound on other areas of the film.
Here was the storyboard I was working on for this particular idea:

After I put my idea out there to my group in class I was given some ideas such as:

- Make the crowd scene greyscale and then to put the one person that I was going to focus in on in colour, this would make them seem important as they were the only one in colour.
- Follow someones typical day in the city.
-Put in some still images of different types of people randomly throughout the film.

I was doing some research on quotes that tied in well with my film for the beginning and end of it, here are a few I really liked:

"Today you are YOU, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than YOU!"
- Dr.Seuss

"The most important thing is to enjoy YOUR life, to be happy, it's all that matters."
- Audrey Hepburn

"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
- Lady Gaga

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, coz we were born this way bitch!"
- Lady Gaga

I wanted my film to make people feel good about themselves when they watched it and I thought these quotes summed that up perfectly!