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Hi, Everyone I'm new to the forum. Sorry for being blunt about this but I'm in a bind and was wondering if anyone could help.
So I'm in the pre-production process of shooting a short film. The short film is kind of like a twilight zone / edgar allan poe story.
The story takes place in two locations. A house ( which I have ) and a park/forest.
The story climaxes at the end when the character goes into an environment that is unsafe. The character risks going into the environment to get something, but as he goes to get it the environment proves too dangerous and kills him. It's not important that it kills him, so much as the character losses a lot. Although I would prefer if it was death.
That is what I need to happen dramatically.
In the context of the story I wrote a cave. And that the character is a security guard/ranger and has gotten a memo that the cave is dangerous, and should be avoided. He goes in to get something and eventually it collapses on him and dies inside.
The problem I have is that it is damn near impossible to shoot a film in a cave. All caves are either blocked off or tourist attractions. So I am stuck. I either need to figure out how to "fake" a cave or find a substitute environment in the context of the story that is able to do what the cave did dramatically.
The problem also is the character goes into the location in the first place to get something of value. The character risks going into the cave because he believes there is silver down below and it's worth the risk.
I thought about the character wandering into a closed off building and then getting caught by the police, but it's not dramatic enough.
I thought about the character waking across a rope bridge, and it proving unsafe, but that seems too coincidental.
I thought about the character selling everything has and then placing a bet, and then loosing, but it just isn't the right genre.
The genre is meant to be a horror, and to me it just doesn't feel like a horror if at the end of the story the character just losses money or is arrested. I also don't want to cheat and have the character fall off of a ladder or something convenient like that.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
So I'm in the pre-production process of shooting a short film. The short film is kind of like a twilight zone / edgar allan poe story.
The story takes place in two locations. A house ( which I have ) and a park/forest.
The story climaxes at the end when the character goes into an environment that is unsafe. The character risks going into the environment to get something, but as he goes to get it the environment proves too dangerous and kills him. It's not important that it kills him, so much as the character losses a lot. Although I would prefer if it was death.
That is what I need to happen dramatically.
In the context of the story I wrote a cave. And that the character is a security guard/ranger and has gotten a memo that the cave is dangerous, and should be avoided. He goes in to get something and eventually it collapses on him and dies inside.
The problem I have is that it is damn near impossible to shoot a film in a cave. All caves are either blocked off or tourist attractions. So I am stuck. I either need to figure out how to "fake" a cave or find a substitute environment in the context of the story that is able to do what the cave did dramatically.
The problem also is the character goes into the location in the first place to get something of value. The character risks going into the cave because he believes there is silver down below and it's worth the risk.
I thought about the character wandering into a closed off building and then getting caught by the police, but it's not dramatic enough.
I thought about the character waking across a rope bridge, and it proving unsafe, but that seems too coincidental.
I thought about the character selling everything has and then placing a bet, and then loosing, but it just isn't the right genre.
The genre is meant to be a horror, and to me it just doesn't feel like a horror if at the end of the story the character just losses money or is arrested. I also don't want to cheat and have the character fall off of a ladder or something convenient like that.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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