First Shortfilm
Hello, everyone! I’m working on my first short film, and I have an outline set up. I’m a huge movie nerd and have spent the last month researching films in the genre I want to make.
Any advice for a fledgling filmmaker?
I don’t want to give away too much of the premise out of fear of it being stolen, but to sum it up: it’s a psychological thriller about an unreliable narrator trying to escape his situation.
The ending is something I really want to keep. The protagonist appears to successfully escape, and we fade to black. When we come back, we reveal the facility he supposedly escaped from, ending the shot on our protagonist, mutilated and left to suffer.
Throughout the script, I want to plant subtle hints that what the viewer is seeing isn’t real without making it too obvious. I want the audience to be able to look back afterward and realize the clues were there the whole time.
Any advice on how to pull this off effectively, or general advice for making a first short film, would be greatly appreciated!