Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 10

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by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³

Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 10

In this installment of Film Making Tips, I want to talk about what is probably the most important thing when you’re first starting out…getting ideas.

If you’ve already got an idea for a movie, great. But maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re scratching your head trying to come up with something. Here are a few tips for coming up with ideas.

1. Look At What’s Already Been Done

How many times do you see remakes of old movies or, at the very least, movies that have very similar themes to movies that have already been made?

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. There have literally been millions of movies made. You should be able to easily get ideas from just going through your own list of favorite movies.

2. Look To Life

I know that real life is really not very interesting, but take something like Law

& Order. Many of the stories they told were actually, as they called it, “ripped from the headlines.”

There is an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. There are plenty of news headlines each and every day that can inspire a story. We have crime, infidelity, human interest stories, health scares and on and on. During the bird flu outbreak, there was plenty of opportunity for somebody to come up with a movie on some kind of epidemic. And throughout cinema history, there have been plenty of them.

3. Look To History

There have been so many things that have happened in history that are just ripe for story telling. You can go as far back as the bible or as recent as the war in Iraq. How many historical movies have already been made? I can’t count them all. History is always a good place to start.

4. Look To Categories
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