My initial idea was to have a child in an orphanage, grow up without parents. She would dream about them and one day before she goes to sleep she sees them in real life, but it is unclear whether she is dreaming a lot. This idea stemmed from the fact that Tim Burton's movies usually incorporate innocent children lying in bed (either being told a bed time story or they go into a parallel universe).
Now that I have backtracked to square one, with the help from some of my friends, I have brainstormed other ideas that could be even more achievable. The image above shows the progress and the writing at the bottom is the storyline idea that I have settled with.
This is what it reads:
"Girl isn't allowed to play with dolls because her parents are too strict
She finds a dollhouse in a cupboard in her house that her parents had hidden because of its special powers
She begins to play with it a lot and hiding it from her parents
One day her parents almost catch her getting it out of the cupboard
She hides in the cupboard as they walk by (dark POV shots)
Suddenly, real life dolls pull her aside and she begins her parallel universe journey
Her mother finds the cupboard door open?"
Obviously, the idea is still undeveloped and still need a lot of work and details but I am keen to go into it further as this idea seems solid and doable. My friend Bella had offered to let me use her house for some of the scenes as she has a 'creepy cupboard' in her house that she believes would be perfect for this film idea.
Challenges:
I guess the only challenges I know right now that I will have in the future is trying to fit the storyline into the time limit that I a given.
Also, I must make the 'real life' dolls look something like the actual dolls. So I must work closely with the appearance of my actors and my props.
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