After a long weekend of watching drama and romance films to inspire me for other film ideas, these are some options i’ve come up with…

My first idea that I thought of this weekend was about a bookstore owner that finds a series of love letters hidden in between old book pages. The show “You” was one of my inspirations for how I wanted the setting and lighting to look like. Thinking of this show I just wanted to think of a way to create this into a romantic film. Although this show has absolutely nothing to do with my idea I just loved Joes library setting. I’ve also just always loved the idea of filming a camera shot through a bookshelf to introduce the character.

My second idea that led me to conclude to my third and favorite idea was also inspired by the same film, my favorite film, “Someone Great”. “Someone Great”s opening setting is in a subway station in New York, but since I live in florida I wanted my opening film to take place in a bus stop instead. My original idea was to film best friends that over time became strangers but found each other at the bus stop and go through a series of flashbacks replaying their memories together. I was also inspired by this idea from the book “Picking Daisies on Sunday” by Liana Cincotti. Which is about best friends that lost touch after their high school graduation due to a misunderstanding but after finding each other at a bar four years later they are able to reconnect a create a romantic relationship.

In my last blog post I spoke about this idea but as I said in my last blog post my favorite idea was about a widow that reflects on the memories of her husband that passed. I wanted to start my film opening in a graveyard or in a church memorial for her husbands death. The reason I began to think about creating my opening scene there is based on the book Taming 7, by Chloe Wash. In this book the main character “Gibson” lost his father and sister in a boat accident. The book begins in their funeral and works its way backwards using various flashbacks to tell the story of their deaths. Like Taiming 7, Someone Great also uses various flashbacks throughout the movie to give the audience a better understanding of the Jenny’s relationship.