Andrew Buckles has a dream. An enthusiastic master of a musical instrument that gets little respect – the air guitar – Andrew is determined to compete in the World Air Guitar Championship held each summer before an audience of more than 3000...
*Visit www.mobilestories.ca for more films! Good narrative stories generally have something to tell us about ourselves or our world. This is where the artist gets to really operate, because the theme of a narrative story might not be immediately...
Connected in some sense to conflict, your main character(s) has to want something at the outset. The conflict arises in the character's pursuit of that goal. In a longer story, that goal can change over the course of the story, and often does,...
Every story must have conflict. You can make an experimental film that is only about images or sounds. But to tell a narrative story there must be some form of internal or external conflict. An individual or group of people must be struggling with...
*Visit www.mobilestories.ca for more films! Your story will be strongest if you know, in a nutshell, what your story is about. It can be stated in the simplest of terms; in fact it's a good exercise to try and do just that before writing, let...
*Visit www.mobilestories.ca for more films! Unbeknownst to one another, a journalist and a young woman share a flight. In a hurry to get to their hotels, they grab each other's luggage by mistake. Instead of calling the airport and reporting...
A grown man transports himself in a vivid memory. He is 10 year-old boy living in the country with a father struggling with depression and alcohol. Feeling helpless and hopeless, the boy becomes obsessed with trying to escape. He looks up and sees...
*For more entertainment visit www.ithentic.com!* Mikey stands at the bank teller wicket, anxiously watching as the teller speaks to her manager. He braces himself as she returns, obsessing over what could be wrong. They do the last thing he...