Worst Day Ever
General Idea
My Short Interactive Film will be called “Worst Day Ever” and takes you through the day in the life of a young uni student called Lee. Problem is it’s a really bad day where everything seems to go wrong.
I’ve decided to write a script like this because of it’s simplicity. I didn’t want to spend ages writing a complex Short Film with hard hitting views and twists when nobody is going to get it. Also it would be so much harder to make it interactive with multiple paths and endings.
I got some help on the interactivity part from watching Sliding Doors (1998) which had two parallel universes of a woman’s day working around missing the train and catching it in time.
Research
After completing a script for my proposed interactive film I started casting and location scouting. It then came to me, why not make the whole short film Point of View. Like what I was going to do with the Parkour trail but an actual film. Not like “Cloverfield” where it’s a camera but actually as though the audience is the character.
I had thought of the idea before and so I started watching several films that could help and studied how they managed to use P.O.V. effectively. Layer Cake (2004) was extremely helpful as it showed a man getting beaten up in P.O.V. and it’s one of my favourite film scenes.
(It’s near the end of the video)
I found Gangster No 1 (2000) had a similar clip.
And of course I watched Cloverfield (2008) which although was more camera still was similar to POV.
I then realised that the whole film isn’t violent and that there are parts where Lee (the main character) is just doing normal things like getting dressed and walking around. He is by himself for a lot of it as well so to keep the audience interested having conversation isn’t going to be an option.
Then I thought of Peep Show (2003) the perfect example to help with my idea.
So the answer is thought tracking. While he is walking around you can hear his thoughts.
