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Winter Tales Ideas – Short Films For The Holidays
For many people, December is a magical month. It is a month full of stories, happy events, and holidays. In some places of the world, it snows. In other places, it is a beautiful warm sunny day. There are many Holidays that happen during Winter: Christmas, Hanukkah, St Nicholas Day, Kwanzaa, New Year, and many others. During this time, families and friends get together and people try to be better than they usually are during the year. There are also many traditions that revolve around these Winter Holidays.
For many generations, Winter Holidays have been the main inspiration behind many Winter Stories. It is not too late to come up with new Winter Tales and turn them into original Short Films. Here are a few suggestions:
1. Snowman – if you are lucky enough to live in a place where it snows during the Winter Holidays, you can make a real Snowman. Your short film could tell the story of how that Snowman was made and you can connect this small event to the story of those who make the Snowman. If you live in a place where it doesn’t snow, you can make a Snowman out of cotton balls, paper, marshmallows, and other materials that you have available. You could tell the story of someone trying to do a Snowman without snow.
2. Tradition – you can make a short film about the tradition that you and your family have during the Winter Holidays. What holiday do you celebrate? How do you celebrate it? What food do you eat?
3. How do Winter Holidays make you feel? – you can create a short film about how this time of the year makes you feel. Do you feel extremely happy? Sad? Anxious? Excited? Why?
4. The Food – you can talk about how you are preparing for the Holiday and what food you or a family member will be making. Everybody has a different way of making food and some families choose to eat something different for each holiday.
Inspiration is all around us. All you need to do is find a topic and shoot a film about that topic. What makes it different is your unique way of telling this story, the people that are in your life, and your own personal experiences.
What Winter Tales do you wish to turn into a movie during the Holidays?
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I should make a short film about a young adult trying to survive the family gathering without getting depressed that he is not married yet, doesn’t have kids and he doesn’t have a great job yet. From my experience, these are the biggest problems that me and my buddies have to deal with during family gatherings.
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I would make a movie about someone not even having a big family or a big family gathering. Some people have small family gatherings – just the kids and their parents.
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Every mother and every grandmother has a different recipe for the same food. I did not see two families to have the same food for the holidays because of this. Sometimes, my mother would argue with my grandmother for the recipe because they do the same food in different ways. I think this could be a good idea for a movie, not many people seem to know this happens to others as well and it can be relatable for the audience to watch
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Jeffery.
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