Can I really make a short film about Coldplay's Yellow?Anyway what I get from the song is someone completely in love and devoted to another person. From that I got this: An unpopular boy and popular girl (drug addicted) fall in love. She loves and leans on this boy for support. He does what he can to help her battle this addiction but other factors overpower him. In the end his efforts are unfortunately futile. Her desire for friends regardless if they truly care for her or not, and her desire to remain among the social elites begin to drive them apart. The girl does not show affection to the boy in public much less in the presence of her "friends." As she delves deeper and deeper into addiction, the boy keeps his distance, yet clearly remains in her line of vision, hoping that with one look in his eye and the yellow lily in his hand will help her escape the darkness. She finally takes notice of the world around her and the heartache she caused him and feels guilty to the point of suicidal thoughts. These thoughts lead to action upon realizing that despite everything, the boy remains deeply in love and devoted to her. The deed is done and as the boy buries his head into her shoulder, cradles her in his arms and cries into her hair, he remembers the good times they had when love was simple, when image and status weren't the foremost thoughts in her mind.
The purpose of this film is to inform the public on the dangers of drug addiction, how it affects the person and those around them. This film will explore problems that young people face on a day to day basis including image, social status, self- perception and by extension identity.
I've been trying to write a script but I don't feel I'm getting to the point fast enough, especially with five minutes to send a message. My teacher made it part of a contest so I only have this week and March to finish it. Since I have experience, my teacher is putting so much pressure on me to make some oscar winning short not to mention this is what makes me graduate or not. I know there are brilliant people on this site and I hope you can help me graduate. I'm not sure if this story will work so other ideas are welcome as well.
Posted by ♥krista♥
hopefully the film will be shorter than the novel u just typed up there O_o
Posted by RayBot
Please don't be offended, but I didn't read all you wrote. While what I read was interesting, it was mostly about your story idea for this movie, and not really about the question you posed. So take this for what it's worth:
Can you write a movie about someone else's song/art/character? Yes, but you can't make any money off if it. If it's a school project or film festival you have "festival rights" to use copyrighted material as long as you don't plan to make any money off of it. But the moment you receive a nickel for your efforts or plan to distribute it even if you aren't going to make any money, expect lawyers to come knocking looking for their cut and their client's cut.
However, the good part is if you do it and it rocks and receives acclaim, the owner of the material will be more likely to cooperate and may even cut you a deal for the rights because the use of their material is advertisement for them at that point.
Because this is for a school project, you can use the song all you want. But if your wannabe producer teacher gets the wise idea to use your film as a real PSA or for any other distribution, the flack will come down on the school administration and not you.
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