Ideas for Fiction Field II

- A gang of teens tries to rob a bank to get cash for Spring Break. They inadvertently set fire to the building and all but one is killed. (This is actually good. Dammit. I was going for spoofable ideas here.)

- Oh, here's one: Sex romp featuring a vampire and a nerdy kid in high school. Have corny name such as "Love At First Bite" or "Blood Lust" or "Twi-Boobs."

- A few hipster kids frolic in the forest, smoke a hookah, and talk about obscure bands. The climax of the film is when one of the girl characters doesn't know who Band of Horses is.

- Mimi, a young stripper, decides to turn her set one night into a song and dance. She is fired, but discovered by a talent agent who is visiting. They fall in love and she becomes successful, but not without opposition from Betty, a veteran actress who sees her as nothing more than "filth."

- A robot spends two hours being sexually frustrated and humping things at a gas station.

- A weird kid creates a robot girl for his pleasure. She ends up killing him and going out with the school jock. Moral of the story: Creepy kids don't win. Ever.

- White privileged people feel bad about destroying an indigenous world. Everyone's also blue. And -- oh yeah -- we rip something straight out of TV Tropes. "Unobtainium?" It's been almost three years and I will still not forgive James Cameron for that.

Screenwriting

I know I may be a little late for this now that our Golden Doorknobs are finished, but I believe that if you want to make movies, you should always be writing and thinking of ideas. A friend of mine showed me a list (the link is in the title) of screenwriting tips that I thought were really helpful. Read it, love it, marry it, cheat on it, divorce it, shake your fist in apoplectic rage at it, me da igual, but they're some things to think about the next time you sit down to write a script.

Breaking a Door Handle

I've been trying to figure out how we are going to accomplish one of our shots. The scene starts off with a close-up of a door handle being dropped on a table and breaking. In order to do this we need to wear down the handle until a simple fall will break it or break it then loosely glue it back together so it will fall apart again and still look convincing. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this. Gluing the handle back together might look strange on camera so if anybody can think of a way to pull this off, please let me know.

Golden Doorknob

Just wanted to drop by and share our idea (molly and steve MW 8am) for the golden doorknob. One of our ideas is a young couple maybe in grad school or working in a bad neighborhood. Basically their house gets broken into and they go to a locksmith to replace their door/lock (with a golden doorknob). Then the locksmith sells a copy of the key to some bad guys that then go and rob the house...basically.