Initial ideas for my film:
Documentary style film of lizard eating crickets, dramatized with music and close up shots to create fear and tension in the viewer. Whilst the lizard is in the background there is a greater story being told in the room that the lizard and meal-worms are completely unaware of as the lizard hunts the meal worms fighting for their life.
A film of people chatting with few shots/movement/no change of scenery, inspired by tight jeans. Maybe friends talking about important issues or chatting about personal things etc.
During creation
I started with the lizard shots, making a dramatic documentary style film that showed a lizard hunting with dramatic music whilst he hunts, but after creating this first draft I decided I wanted to further add to the dramatic story going on, and decided on a dramatic, dark story that seems some-what light in the beginning. I used myself and Joseph Valler as actors during the film, as-well as Josephs lizard.
Final edit of film: Shots of a lizard eating meal worms cut between a conversation with point-of-view shots (inspired by the TV show Peep Show) of a couple arguing over who will take custody of the lizard as they are splitting up. The short film then takes a drastic turn, with the man looking as if he has not slept in a long time, in a dark room surrounded by empty bottles of beer, suggesting he has turned to alcoholism after he killed his girlfriend. There is still shots of the lizard and after the man puts on a record, he sits in bed in his dark room, with bottles behind him and tells the lizard 'You're all mine now' with a sinister smile. The film then abruptly ends.
