Hello, I have to make a 5-10 min film for a film class that I'm taking this semester, and I am perfectly horrible at coming up with good ideas for the story. I've been trying to come up with a storyline for about the last month, and this project is now due in two weeks so I really need help coming up with a good idea.

I am hoping to make some kind of comedy, and pretty much all my friends that could be in my film are girls and I live in a really boring city so I don't have a lot of places I can go to film besides my apartment, parks, and then around my campus. So those are kind of my limitations.

I'm just wondering if anyone could help steer me in the right direction or maybe help me come up with some ideas to get me started because I am completely stuck right now.

Thanks so much!!

What are your hobbies? Favorite Movies? Favorite Thing to do with friends? You seem to be thinking to hard for something that can easily be found in front of you. Make the movie about what you know and love, not what you hate and have no interest in.

I know what I'm saying is not very detailed but if you just think about what inspires you and what you love you may find what you are looking for, and no one said it had to be complicated.

Standup comedians often make their acts out of insignificant trivial things, like buying bottled water (ridiculous isn't it?) or Hot Pockets. Watch Mitch Hedburg and you'll see a lot of this. Try to make a big deal out of little things and you might come up with something quite funny.

I would recommend you to glance through local, unpopular and old newspapers and magazines.

It's always hard to "come up with an idea" when you just sit there and try to think of one. Ideas tend to find you. Just forget about it for a while. Carry a notebook around, and whenever an image, or a sentence, or whatever strikes your eye or flats through your mind, write it down. Eventually they'll start sticking together and you'll think of more and more little bits of stories, until you've got the beginning of a movie.

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It's always hard to "come up with an idea" when you just sit there and try to think of one. Ideas tend to find you. Just forget about it for a while.

I agree completely, but when there is a deadline you have to meet as is the case here, it can be very frustrating waiting for that idea to hit you.

The notepad idea is definitely a good one. Write everything down!!!