Initial Story Ideas

Three short story ideas for our short film

1. PTSD Girl

A girl suffering from PTSD from an attack/kidnapping is on a recovery incline. Slowly starts noticing minute details or triggers that give her flashbacks eg. An item of clothing with the same pattern; a certain song that was playing in her “prison”; a tic or a thing that the person may recognise even a stain on an item of clothing could be something that triggers it but they are all very vague and have no follow up. Then maybe someone who keeps triggering her trauma is looked at as a suspect followed up with a police report putting ease to her mind that her attacker/kidnapper has been caught. Some sort of family reunion or event occurs and someone close to her shows all signs of her triggers but there is never a follow up conclusion.

2. Hangman

A boy who got murdered has both his hands and feet cut off and was found in the bathroom ceiling at school. He was best friends with another boy Matt. Matt had changed schools three weeks later to somewhere further away. As soon as she changes schools there is a murder in the exaxt same way. Matt couldn't change schools this time because his parents didn't have enough money. Later Matt eventually makes a best friend. This friend is called Jacob. One night Matt has a nightmare. He is in the school very past closing time with Jacob. In this nightmare he is walking with Jacob through the school halls and diverts him to the school bathroom. In this nightmare he gruesome murders Jacob, cutting off both his hands and feet before hiding him in the ceiling.

Matt wakes up from his nightmare drenched in sweat. He is relieved it was only a bad dream. He calls Jacob but gets no response. He walks to school on his own to realise the school is empty. It's a saturday. He decided to do a little exploring around the school and decided to take a pit stop at the bathroom. He smells something really bad coming from the ceiling. Blood is dripping down. Can it be? Surely not? He moves the ceiling panel out of the way. He grabs the sides and pulls himself up. He screams. He runs out of the school. It was Jacob. Matt killed him.

3. Two Metres Apart

Parent force their son to comply with the lockdown rules and wont let him go out while they are a key worker and have to go out and make money. He stays at home and witnesses a burglary in his own home. The burgurlars beat him up when they realise he has witnessed their crime. His dad comes home and feels guilty and the son has an argument with the dad about if he had just gine out he would not have been beaten up. They have a signature that they spraid on the wall before they found the son. Report of two men dying from covid turns out to be the burglars which they are identified because of their tag is heard by the boy on the radio. Turns out the boy had covid the whole time and gave it to the criminals since they did not stay (Two Metres Apart).