First Light Studio Grant
We’re making two films with young people under 11, based on their ideas:
When Worlds Collide
What happens when you don’t know if you’re dreaming anymore? What would you do if the things you can do in a dream were possible in real life? What would happen in if you couldn’t wake up?
When Worlds Collide will be an experimental film that explores the line between awake and asleep and what happens when we can’t tell the difference. At the start the joy of being able to do anything will mean our character(s) will experiment and have fun, but it soon becomes obvious that others can be in the dreams and sometimes you can’t control them. The film will use that moment when you realise you’re dreaming and wake yourself up, and initially the character wont be able to, and will have to try and find a different way out of the dream. The character will believe they have left the dream but as ore and more strange things happen it will become clear this is not reality. The film will end with the character being woken by another who had heard their cries and assumed they were having a nightmare.
Ideas from younger children will be incorporated to build the strange dream landscape, such as people being filled with air and floating away, or the ability to grow huge in seconds to scare away things that frighten you.
What is that Sound?
Taking the wonders of physical comedy and exploring their use with sound and no dialogue, this film will be a funny, frantic and silly slapstick comedy. The film will centre around something quite normal, such as getting ready for school or having dinner. This normal event will be sent in chaos when everything starts to go wrong. Taking inspiration from the comic timing and wonder of films by Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin (especially the machines that are supposed to make life easier) the film will exaggerate the characters difficulties in the simplest of tasks and the soundscape will take noises out of their original meaning to add further comedy to the visual images. This film will have no dialogue but will have sounds and music. It may have word slides (like in old silent movies) but this might not be necessary and will be decided during the project.
