'10 Minutes'

As a group, we came up with a new film idea about a school boy who's life changes due to the setting of his alarm. We thought that this would be a good idea to use because it covers many genres; comedy, social realism, among many others. This makes it an easy film for us to relate to, and produce. 

The new idea (10 Minutes): 

This film is about a schoolboy who has an upcoming exam, and (in one half of the story) wakes up late, causing a series of unfortunate events and, ultimately, ending up with him missing his exam. The other half of the story shows the opposite of this, the boy wakes up on time, causing him to avoid all of the previously shown unfortunate events, and eventually he turns up on time to his exam.  This results in him receiving a good result, setting him on a good path for the rest of his life. 

We decided to use this idea for our film because, the basics of it has proven to be successful by mainstream films. Films such as 'Run Lola Run' and 'Smoking or not smoking' have used the same idea as we plan to, and have become successful and well known as a result of this. Our film will follow two stages of our main characters life. One will be the unfortunate side, where he wakes up late and misses his exam. The other will be the good side, where he wakes up on time and does well in the exam. 

We also felt that this idea would easily relate our film to our target audience, adolescents. Using a young schoolboy helps us do this, along with the themes of comedy and social realism.