RESEARCH AND BASIC IDEA

INSiDE is a short film, directed by Trevor Sands, about a schizophrenic man who is waiting to see the doctor about his release from a psychiatric ward. He is seen being moved from a secure unit at the start of the film, to a room to talk to the doctor. When they start talking there are many totally different types of character behind him, that in-turn speak at the same time as the main character to the nurse, each displaying a different type of emotion. After a while, the nurse gets fed up and tells them to be quiet and that she can’t help “them” if they won’t help themselves. At this point the other characters disappear and you are left with just the main man and the nurse. She then walks behind the man, and another man walks in, who introduces himself as the “Dr”, and asks how the man is feeling, the nurse then appears again and talks at the same time as the schizophrenic man, leaving the viewer to feel that she was another part to his imagination and personality, and was the way he controls himself.

This is a basic idea that I am planning to use in my film is the man having things going on in his head that are very hard to control. For my initial idea I have planned to have a man that is addicted to drugs hallucinating and thinking that people are coming for him. When the other characters finally have him cornered there will be a shot reverse shot, to show his fear and when the camera looks back it will be the man on drugs looking back at himself. The idea behind this film is that his mind is telling him to stop and that it can’t take anymore of the drugs, which is portrayed by the closing in of what he thinks are the antagonists that he is imagining.