Story Ideas

Well this summer my plan was to come up with and idea for my thesis short before class started. So I walked around everywhere I went with a notepad and anything that inspired me I wrote it down. I even made sure that I if I was watching a movie or TV show that I had my pen and paper with me. By the end of the summer I had a book full of ideas. These are some that I felt I might be able to go with.

1) Do Superheroes Retire? Showing the struggle of an old man with physical challenges still trying to help to save the day, even if it’s just for a cat stuck up in a tree.
2) A boy that feels like he belongs in the city but is raised by farmers: A Skateboarder type of kid is raised by farmers. He hates living on the farm and one of his daily chores is to get fresh milk for breakfast. Show how the kid struggles to get milk from the cow.
3) A dog needs a home: A young boy is fishing and a stray dog spots him. The dog decides to swim under water so that the hook gets caught on his collar, which it does. The boy has no interest in the dog until he realizes that the dog can catch fish too. Now the boy can bring home twice as many fish.
4) Boys imagination gets the best of him: Show a boy with a newspaper pirate hat on and a wooden sword. He’s battling play mobile type characters on a pirate ship. We hear his mother call him and the boys in the bath. Show the reaction of the toys as the water draining effects the ship.
5) Is Technology Better? Show two guys mowing their lawn. The older man has a push mower and the younger one has a high tech mower. Play with the gag that the newer mower won’t even start. Show that the push mower, older guy is done before the young guy with the newer mower even starts.
6) Strongman – Show the strong man game at the carnival. A muscular guy comes up with his girl and scores on the game pretty well. Than a nerd walks up and hits the base and the ball shoots up and knocks the bell off the stand. He looks surprised; the audience sees that the strong guy has loosened the screw. The girl walks off with the nerd.
7) Inside a Bee Hive -Bear going into a Beehive, show how the bees live. Bees are at work and the bear is taking their honey. The Bees become angry and begin to chase after him, and the bear runs. The bear as to get ride of the bees.
8) Tin Dog and Cat Fight – A tin dog is outside and it begins to rain. The tin cat locks him out. Play with the dilemma of the dog trying to get inside before he rusts.
9) Angus- Bully / underdog story: Angus is the worst player on the baseball team and Bruno is the Bully. Angus is at bat and strikes out twice, the third time he actually hits the ball. He’s never done that before and is now unsure what to do and starts to run in the wrong direction.
10) Angus Dunk Tank - Bully / underdog story: Take off of the one above, except Angus is practicing his throwing to get back at his revile. Bruno will be at the local carnival in the dunk tank with the baseball team. Angus plans on dunking him.
11) Gopher – A gopher is obsess with golf balls and lives on a golf course. The golfers keep getting annoyed that their balls disappear. Caddy Shake like. The Golfers see the gopher and try to blow up his house/hole.
12) Ant Farm – Nerdy Boy loves his Ant Farm. Mom starts to vacuum, he takes one of the ants out to play with it and it falls on the floor as the mother is coming down the hall to vacuum his room. All the other ants gather together to save the ant.
13) Crowded Subway – A man is waiting by the subway. As the train pulls up he is first on line. As he goes to enter the train, he gets stampeded and flattens out as the crowd walks over him.
14) Car – How does a car feel? Show the emotions of a car, from being made, to the first time being bought, to the junk shop, to being restored.
15) Fish - The fish has to live in our world with a fish bowl around his head, he never fit in. On day the world is about to end and the fish has to go into outer space to save earth.
16) The Grimm Brother Fairy Tales - Hansel and Gretel
17) The Grimm Brother Fairy Tales - The Fox and the Cat