This is so much harder than I thought it would be. Coming up with a storyline for our short film opening is taking longer than expected. There are so many things my partner and I want to do, but we have to limit ourselves to our genre characteristics. In addition, it is hard to make a storyline that differentiates from other coming-of-age movies but still stays in the genre. After much consideration, we have narrowed our troubles down to two main causes: thinking of the storyline as just the short film opening and coming up with a storyline that is not identical to other popular coming-of-age movies.
It was extremely difficult to come up with a plot when we were just brainstorming what we wanted to include in the short film opening alone. Consequently, seeing our storyline as just being in a two-minute timeframe limited our ideas. This is because we weren't able to develop characters, their motivations, their storylines, or their purposes, which are what drives a character's actions. Without thinking of the storyline as a whole, our protagonist would feel very two-dimensional when instead they need to be intriguing, especially in a coming-of-age movie where the plot centers around the character's emotions. Shifting our way of thinking can be compared to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel since all our ideas started rolling in right after the switch. From now on during the pre-production process, we will see this whole project as a full film in order to better develop our short film opening.
A very accurate depiction of what coming up with a storyline feels like.
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