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15 minutes of short film brainstorming #2

So me and a friend of mine have a pact to make a short film together so I gotta get brainstorming. So far I have...a title and a general premise. I like the title and will not change it :P . Some of this is copy and pasted from my first brainstrom.

Alone in the Moonlight

  • About dementia
  • Dreamscape
  • Images to include
    • In a rocking chair by the window (maybe looking at moon?)
    • Post-it notes with different reminders, repeated, with shaky handwriting
    • Caretaker appearing and vanishing in different places in the room
    • Child appearing and vanishing on couch
    • Seasons seeming to change constantly (or maybe not at all though the calendar has changed)
    • Half-read books (as shown by bookmarks or books left open)
    • Half-done crosswords
    • Clutter 
      • Clothes
      • Newspaper
      • Mail
      • Charging cables
      • Glasses (maybe blurry shots when lost?)
      • Half-eaten trays of food
    • Mirror
    • The moon (maybe opening and closing shot?)

  • Scenes to include
    • Walking in the snow in slippers
      • Maybe in leaves if we shoot in the fall or just outside depending on the weather
    • Repeated questions
      • Who are you? Why are you here? (to the caretaker)
      • Why are you talking this way? (to the child)
      • What do you do? (to the child)
      • What's wrong with me? (to the child)
      • Muffled responses?
    • Caretaker and child tidy
      • Maybe questions happen during this time
    • Calling someone the wrong name
      • Could show by slight disappointment on face and/or calling the person the correct name at another time
  • Child of main character
    • Concerned
    • Tries to be patient
    • Tidies out of anxiety
    • A little prim
    • Less present than caretaker
    • Looks a bit frazzled at times
      • Hair awry
      • Rumpled clothes
  • Caretaker
    • Kind
    • Patient
    • Respectful
    • Insistent
    • Tidy (in both manner and action)
    • Wears uniform (assuming we can get scrubs or something of the kind) but accessories and hairstyle change to demonstrate change of time
      • Accessories: hair clips, shoes, hair scrunchie, headband, jewelry
  • Main character
    • has dementia (maybe hint at cause being alcohol during scenes with repeated questions?)
    • male (I could easily be swayed female) [maybe this will just depend on who we can cast lol]
    • short term memory very bad
    • has better memory of things long ago
    • still knows who child is (assuming we have this character)
    • still tries to do mental things like read books and do crosswords
    • wears glasses, but loses them
    • most of film is from their POV
(Prompt by me but also kind of Amelia Sacco)

"Helen Taft, May Allison (LOC)" posted by The Library of Congress


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