Issues with Plagiarism - Ella

Unfortunatly, after we had thought of our idea we did further research and found out there were similar ideas already made. Therefore, have to change our idea so it is not exactly the same.

Screenshots from Saving Me. The music video gave us the inspiration of having counters over their heads which show how long someone has left to live.

Time and information about people - only they can see it. Time countdown (In Time) (Saving Me-Nickleback music video)





Seeing others countdown timer (2:20). After going on Virgin Media Shorts on the homepage it had the winner from last year, and saw the idea was very similar to ours. Instead the character uses glasses and sees time limits

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/1772/2-20

We know that we need to change our idea so it is not exactly the same as the short videos. So far our idea is different from 2-20 because firstly, our idea is set in the daytime (in Croydon) and the protagonist is going to be getting bullied and that is how they start seeing the timers. Secondly, in 2-20 the male character only sees the times when he puts on the 3D glasses, and he dies.

Original possible ideas:

Using a female protagonist
Using a child protagonist
Drawings become real life (the opening)
Train journey - cross cut to character sitting on train, then to the events happening on the drawing.
Camera zooms into paper and drawings become real life