I'm trying to come up with ideas for a short film I have to do for my class and I'm a little short on ideas.

I'm not asking any of you to come up with any, but what do you normally do when you're stuck? Where do you go for inspiration?

P.S. It is a 1 min silent one. The lack of dialog is proving the hardest part for me.

Well if the no dialogue part is the hardest, try taking some of your ideas that have dialogue and just put it in the eyes and faces of your actors. Its very possible, most of my films have little to no dialogue and it works.

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Originally posted by Shookster:
I'm trying to come up with ideas for a short film I have to do for my class and I'm a little short on ideas.

I'm not asking any of you to come up with any, but what do you normally do when you're stuck? Where do you go for inspiration?

P.S. It is a 1 min silent one. The lack of dialog is proving the hardest part for me.

You could bend the rules; use captions, roadsigns, subtitles, written words or even sign language if you really, really want dialogue but have no sound.

what i do is that i walk alone in my terrace in the night and stare up. This has worked several times for me when i'm in want of ideas. serious.

you have no dialogue. thats great!
so u dont have to think up of any! PALM TREE is right.think in terms of expressions and body language. example, instead of saying **** you, u can show the middle finger. its more expressive.
hope u got what i was tryin to say. have fun. keep posting.

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Originally posted by Loucien:
You could bend the rules; use captions, roadsigns, subtitles, written words or even sign language if you really, really want dialogue but have no sound.

I had this idea for an iPod advert, where everyone speaks in sign language, cos they are listening to their iPods. It's entitled the iPod Generation.
and the tagline that ends the ad is: Learn to sign... the iPod Generation.

There's no way they'd make it, it's probably not sensitive to deaf issues, using a sign lanuage created for people who can't hear, to accomodate people who refuse to listen. But I still think it's funny.