My idea for the daydream project is to create a horror short that is drawn from Nightmare on Elm Street. My break from reality is going to be a nightmare in which the main character is chased, fought, essentially terrorized by the villian/ horrifying creature. In reality previous to the nightmare, the main character has been plagued by these nightmares often. I am wondering how to show that without much dialogue because, in my opinion, the more the viewer learns through subtle objects or actions, the more interested they are in the story. This main character will be attempting to chug coffee and play music/ watch tv in order to avoid the nightmares, but fails and slips into an intense, animated ofcourse, alternate reality/ nightmare. In this nightmare the creature, to be named and created later, will chase and essentially hunt down the character. Just as the fight is about to "end", one almost winning or getting away, the character wakes up. As they wake up into their normal reality they come to an unnerving realization about what they thought were just scary nightmares...
As the video goes on, I want the dialogue to be minimal but important. I want the viewer to have to be paying attention to what they see in order to understand the full story. In the beginning, it won’t be said that there have been many sleepless nights due to many nightmare-filled ones, but there will be signs of being wired, paranoid. Writing in a “nightmare journal,” having multiple cups of coffee ( both old and new) laying around, and staying off the bed would all be signs someone is trying to stay awake. This will continue the whole video, but 1) I have yet to think of all of them/ write it out fully and 2) I don't want to spoil it ;)
I am also working with this story board:
I want the nightmare to look/ feel like a never ending sequence of forest turned to a hallway turned to a hallway that is rotating etc. These images are my inspiration for the nightmare reality:
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