From the course: Making a Short Film: Start to Finish

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Where to look for ideas

Where to look for ideas

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Where to look for ideas

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- Alright, first things first, script. Well and in order to write a script you need an idea. So here's the thing. No one can tell you how to have a good idea. But there are tips and tricks for sort of where to look for inspiration and how to get inspired that can help sort of get the juices flowing and get you on the right track. Now the thing is, is that human beings the way we're wired, we kind of see stories in everything. It's just sort of how we interpret the world. That's why, even your evening news when they're reporting on the water main break, you know, at fifth and market there's going to be sort of this sense of it being about this guy was just trying to get to work and the water main stopped him. We look for stories everywhere. That's how we interpret the world. And what that means is that potential stories are everywhere. And the inspiration for them is everywhere and you just have to be open to it. So how…

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