Have an idea for a film?

Hello all. I am in need of a film idea for a final thesis project. No… not BK and/or SPAM and/or Pepie or combination of all three.

I love fishing. I am the kind of guy who makes his own lures and takes pictures of his tackle box to use as computer wallpaper. I also live in Rochester, MN. So an idea related to fishing in some way and that could be filmed close to the Rochester area would be ideal.

Shoot me some ideas if you are willing to share. Most likely a short at 15-20 minutes shot in HD, Final Cut X.

Thanks!
– Boogs

Maybe a film that focuses on a team of cheerleaders attempting to earn enough money to send JD to Dallas, Texas, to try out for the famous “Texas Cowgirls” cheerleading squad?

What about shooting something relating to “Driftless Area” trout fishing. The area down there is beautiful and full of life. As far as being visually appealing, it’s hard to go wrong with fly fishing. Think ‘River Runs Through It’.

Cp3 – I swear that film has been done before. I just know it. I should mention that my advisers have already shot down a grumpy old men approach and also an entire film shot under the ice during fishing season through the eyes of a walleye (think GoPro).

I just got home from driving up HWY 61 from Dresbach to Hastings. If you did a historical look at the river valley, how it was formed with a time lapse going through the seasons I think it would be great. As a secondary theme include interview style clips with a real river rat to gain a different perspective. People know very little of life on the river, what it means to the people, how the river came to be what it is today. Your problem will be keeping it as a “short film”.

Launch at Itasca in a canoe and fish your way to New Orleans. Document your catches and if you wanna get all Michael Moore on it you could test for metals and such. or you could just live off the river the entire way down….I’d watch

Scene 1 a bird shits on your shoulder. You look up and look in awe, then say I’m gonna get ms that bird.

Some reason, vengefulness or craziness, you will have that bird. Takes you on a trip up and down the river and creeks(think miles and miles, not blocks) incorporating all the people along the route(insert good characters).

Finally you get the bird somehow. Final scene you pluck just a feather from it, go home, tie a fly. Then have the sweet gopro rod bending moment and it ends on that.

Add some special effects on the bite. Almost as if Shamu bit it. And don’t show the fish. Audiences are like women, leave em wanting more.

PM me next year on where to send the Emmy.

A short 5 minute segment on the correct, proper, and efficient way to launch a boat at a public access. Followed by 20 minutes of idiots on a Sunday afternoon doing everything wrong.

SR

Steve Root wrote:

A short 5 minute segment on the correct, proper, and efficient way to launch a boat at a public access. Followed by 20 minutes of idiots on a Sunday afternoon doing everything wrong.

SR

Problem being his professor is probably one of the idiots!!

How about the life of a young man saving to buy his first boat. Think we all remember saving money to buy the 1st boat.

A documentary on Gabe would be awesome, and I think get a lot of looks from everyone on here. More seriously a film on the travels of river fish, or something on the wide ranging Guides who are on our bodies of water daily would be really interesting too imo.

When people think of the Mississippi River, the scenery comes to mind, but to me that’s only a great backdrop for the characters.

The River produces an endless supply of just plain fascinating people. River Rats, Duck Nuts, Houseboat Hippies, hang glider soul surfers… You just have to find the right character and your film makes itself.

The scenery is there, you need the character and the story. My father knew the real Slippery, founder/owner/chief bartender of the original place by the river in Wabasha. You could NOT make him up. Fiction would pale in comparison to the truth.

I remember ice fishing one time with dad and this snow machine comes toward us. A guy pulls up and he’s got a hole drilled in the plexi face shield of the helmet and a cigar comes all the way out through the hole and it’s lit on the end sticking 3 inches outside of the helmet. That was Slippery to the core.

I wish somebody would have filmed the last of the big spread bluebill duck hunters down by Winona in the 60s. You could have made a film about any of those guys.

Find the character and the film makes itself.

Grouse

I was thinking a documentary on the key players in the deb dallas saga!!!!!!!!

Steve Root wrote:

A short 5 minute segment on the correct, proper, and efficient way to launch a boat at a public access. Followed by 20 minutes of idiots on a Sunday afternoon doing everything wrong.

SR

…Lol. My camper at EVERTS is right in front of the double boat ramps. Don’t tell them but I should pay extra for that camp site. What a HOOT to watch some days. I have seen about every thing you can think off, an ton more that you could never think off.!! … rrr

How bout a film set in the future. Close your eyes and picture this.

The ozone layer is almost fully depleted, soil makeup in the great plains has made it impossible to grow wheat for a few years, meaning the nation and world are relying on corn(which is also slowly dying). Dust storms are worse by the year, a layer of dust finds itself on everything.

But NASA has figured out that a black hole is open near Saturn, and it might hold the key to human survival. The only problem is they are one pilot short. Can one last space expedition find suitable life on another planet?

I don’t know, just something I came up with today. Not sure what your special effects budget is, but as along as you have a few hundred mill laying around you should be able to make it work.

After that…^^ a good history of Spam doesn’t sound so far fetched.

I’am thinkiing the Big chub quest, you go from creek to creek and get little dinks, then you come around the bend and their it is the heaven hole full of 7 to 9 inch red tails. And you are so HAPPY. DK.

That fish taco thing you posted several years ago got my attention. Maybe film catching a few fish, then turning them into delicious fish tacos.

I have a film suggestion! I DO have some experience in the art of the Thea-tah

Nice Deb.

Deb Dallas wrote:

I have a film suggestion! I DO have some experience in the art of the Thea-tah

jighead-two wrote:

That fish taco thing you posted several years ago got my attention. Maybe film catching a few fish, then turning them into delicious fish tacos.

Combine the two?

Cp3 wrote:

Maybe a film that focuses on a team of cheerleaders attempting to earn enough money to send JD to Dallas, Texas, to try out for the famous “Texas Cowgirls” cheerleading squad?

I’m in! Can’t wait to squeeze into my shortie shorts!

I’m in! Can’t wait to squeeze into my shortie shorts!
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I don’t know if you do any fly fishing, but there has been boom in the past 5 years of people fly fishing for non traditional species. (bass, crappies, bluegills, walleyes, pike, and muskie) Talk about the types of flies, how to tie them, and how to fish them and jump on board with an old time sport that is becoming popular once again.

Build a canoe using design techniques similar to the ones available during the Louis and Clark expedition and Navigate the Mississippi river from it’s headwaters down to the Twin Cities while living off of only what you can catch/kill along the way.

Alternatively you could make a documentary about trying to spend a period of time (6 months, 1 year, etc) eating only meat that you catch/kill and then comparing the health benefits versus an average american’s diet based on meat that they get from grocery stores/restaurants.

Awe heck… Who am I kidding, JD in shortie shorts would be much more entertaining

Boogs – by now you are probably regretting posting this question to this particular segment of the population. Since you were foolish enough to do so, we are obliged to reply.
I’d like to see a brief Ken Burns-style mini-documentary comparing musky and northern pike fishing in the day of Louie Spray, 1949 – row boats, tackle, rods, line, firearms, to today’s methods, including CPR.