My idea: Red Herring

So it's fair to say that i've not had good luck with ideas these past few weeks, instead doing vague tests which i'm not sure will apply to the final project. However, this weekend I came up with an idea that i'm very happy with. I'm currently writing it out in full and doing a storyboard and a small script, but i'll outline it here.

It's called Red Herring. It will be about tricking the viewer into thinking something is going to happen, and then something else happens. It's about taking the mickey out of film conventions and throwing the viewer off the scent.

The original idea was "Attack of the inanimate objects!", and that idea is being incorporated into my new idea. I originally imagined a line of objects, some real, some CGI. The viewer could try to guess which objects would move by which ones they thought were CGI, or which ones looked the most threatening.

The main threat in my film will be self-aware plant pots throwing themselves at people's heads, but the viewer will THINK that it's going to be giant robots.

When the film starts, there'll be two people walking down a street, they'll walk past a car with the radio on, and you'll overhear a news report saying "scientists warn about the imminent danger of giant robot attacks". You'll walk past a kid playing on a portable games console, and it'll show for a split second some footage of a robot destroying a city, and his mother might make a comment about these games being too violent, and then the kid might say "but it's not realistic at all!".

Then, the ground will start shaking, and people will look to the parting in the building's expectingly. THEN, a pot hits one of the guys in the head and the shaking stops, and you realise you've been tricked into the fake robot attack story.

I'll write the rest of this later.