6 Dynamic Ways to Brainstorm Multiple Ideas for Your Short Film
Coming up with multiple ideas for your next film can be quite difficult. It may seem very easy while you play out the idea in your head, but by the time you get around to developing your story-line, your initial ideas are long since forgotten or buried under a mountain of thoughts. In this article, I’ll take you through easy processes that will inspire you to generate multiple ideas for your short film. 1. Start In a Nonlinear Way Naturally, you’d want to start from the beginning, to the middle and then the end in a linear fashion. That could frustrate your creative process. You don’t have to follow a straight method when you can start from any point where you feel certain emotions and build your story or ideas from there. Since it’s a short movie, it’ll be easier to start from the middle or even the end of your story and articulate your characters, their flaws, location etc. from there. Taita Waiititi’s response to writer’s block explains it perfectly. He said –