Firstly I came up with an idea for a short horror. It starts with an old-ish man, with a lot of hair, pale skin, cuts on his body, and rather plump. He is wearing old styled clothing, with grey trousers, and a tight white shirt tucked into his trousers. He has an apron over his clothes, with two front pockets, with cutting utensils in them. His apron is really dirty, splattered with what looks like blood. You see him walking around in his small-ish, dimly light kitchen, with a few candles planted around the room with jars of meat on the shelves. He slaps down a big slab of meat onto the work surface, he starts hitting it with a rolling pin. Then you see a close up of him grinding the meat through a mincer. Then adding salt and chopping more meat. A radio is playing faintly in the background, and he starts singing along to the Christmas carol 'Silent Night' and looks at his cat which is perched on the window seal. He carries on with his meat cutting, and begins to sniff it, we then see more close ups of his mouth, licking his lips, then his eyes, gleaming, his forehead sweating as he wipes it with the back of his hand. Then the doorbell rings. He looks up at the door, and smirks, and shouts out merrily, 'Just a minute'. He quickly pulls his apron up over his head, and opens a drawer, where we get a glimpse of children’s shoes, a watch, a football and other belonging of children, and he throws his apron into the drawer. He wipes his face with a napkin, and heads towards the front door, pulling the kitchen door slightly closed behind him. As he opens the front door, there is a group of 3 small children, who begin to sing the Christmas carol, 'Silent Night'. From a distance we see the old man smile, and he opens his door wide, and opens out his arms in a welcoming gesture, and ushers them inside his house as he tells them he has some change on the kitchen table, as they walk in, he takes a quick look out the door, to check there's nobody with them, and slams the door shut behind him.
My second idea is more of a serious topic focusing around neglect and abuse. My initial inspiration for this idea came from the short film, 'The Sofa' written by Marcus Shepherd, however this is based more on a comedy, but is still focused around children accidently breaking things, and dreading their parents finding out.
It's about a young boy who is crying in his room, sitting against his bedroom door, covering his ears with his hands. We then see a flashback shot, of the young boy (roughly aged around 8) dropping a glass on the kitchen floor in slow motion, hence the reason why he's crying. It then goes back to the present, and we see the boy on his bedroom floor suddenly look up to the lens on the camera, as we hear someone coming from outside. The boy knows he's in big trouble for breaking the glass. A close up shot of feet walking towards the front door of the house then appears. The shots then continuously cut between the boy, clearly getting more distressed and the feet getting closer. We then see a hand shot of a person putting a key into the door, but then the person drops them. They pick the keys up again, and enter through the door. The door swings open from the inside, and we see the feet step into the house. We see another side angle of the boy sitting against the door, trying to keep it shut. Still focusing on the boy, we hear the person standing on the broken glass, and yelling violently. The camera then fades on the boy's face, as a tear strolls down his eyes.
This idea is of a more serious topic, which if I do decide to carry out in creating, would have to be done carefully and properly to ensure that it isn't offensive towards anybody, and that it's to make more people aware of child neglect and abuse.
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