For a short film to be effective in keeping the audience entertained it must have a strong controlling idea. A controlling idea is essentially the idea that the film revolves around, usually the controlling idea isn’t revealed to the audience until the end of the film. It is common for many short films to have more than one controlling ideas.
We have decided to have more than one controlling idea in our short film. Our controlling ideas are;
1. Murder
2. Swimming/ Drowning
3. Romance/ Betrayal
We chose murder, swimming and romance as our controlling ideas because these are areas that we think will interest the audience and influence our story line.
We have chosen more than one controlling idea because we feel, as a group, that this will add a sense of mystery to the film. We also chose multiple ideas because we felt it would give us more option with story line, setting & locations and target audience.
