Ideas for Anti-Tobacco Film

Crimson

Crimson

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So, there's this contest at my high school, you make an anti-tobacco movie 1-3 minutes, the winner gets 250 dollars (getting AT897 if I win). I'm really excited about it, because last year only two people entered the contest , and it's a chance to show what my DVX can do.

But...I know good lighting and cinematography can only help so much, and it's the idea that will make me win or lose.

It has to be 1 to 3 minutes, have at least 3 facts about anti-tobacco, and be done by November 9th.

I kinda have a loose idea going, a group of teens break out a pack of cigarettes and offer one to one of the kids (non-smoker)...he envisions his future from that day on, yellowish teeth and wrinkles, bad coughing, and having to announce to his family his lung cancer, which after a quick hospital shot goes to a very solemn funeral, his kids and wife crying, and flashs back to the teen being offered the cigarette, and he says, "I don't think so" or something.

Any ideas? I'll post the video as soon as I finish it.
 
maybe construct a black lung sitting on a plate and smoking. and have it covered with and oozing out all kinds of vile thick fluids, and making bubbly wet drippy sounds for like 1-3 minutes and then cut to some stats. then maybe pan to a baby laying on the table next to it kinda starting to cough. lol, happy friday!
 
Two friends are going out on a double-date... the one guy knows the girl he's getting and the other one is a blind-date friend of the other girl... she is said to be EXTREMELY hot, but they haven't seen her in months.

She arrives for the date (or they meet her) and the car is filled with smoke (fog machine, canned fog)... when the girl emmerges from the smoke it's an old lady (find a real older person to play this) dressed really hip like any chick from your school.

From this point on you can explore the creative direction all you want. Either show quick cuts of the date... like going to a restaurant and the waitress asks "smoking or non-smoking" and the 3 non-smokers all say non-smoking as the old lady over-powers their voices with "SMOKING"... you could show the cute non-smoking couple in the backseat with the guy complimenting his date's beautiful skin... or the smell of her hair... then cut to the front seat... and just show sideways glances from the kid to the aged passenger.

If you like this idea I can keep 'em coming... but there's no point in blabbering on if you don't want to or can't do it. I just thought something like this would be a good approach for the age group.
 
I would get a list of chemicals that are added to tabacco and do like a product shot of them and show the warning labels on the product.Go to this link and buy what you can from this list at Home Depot. Put these products together on a table, shoot them and put up titles or narrate what each ones actual purpose is for but yet are added to cigarettes purposely. whatta you think/ Being a teacher I think this would affect my students also.
 
I've worked on one over here in the UK where the video was showing what damage passive smoking does. Unfortunately there's some CG involved.

Some examples were Wide shot of mum smoking in armchair in lounge camera tracks right to left and into baby sitting in baby chair, smoke creeps with track along from mum and ties round babies throat.

Another setup was a bunch of workers sitting having their morning coffee break. The new kid who's just started is sitting at the head of the table. Camera tracks back and reveals the smoke piecing his body like arrows from several diffrent directions.

Hope you get the idea.
 
Crimson, I think the idea you have is cool. As soon the kid grabs the cigarette he'll see his future, thats how I would do it. I had to do something like this back when I was in high school only it was an anti-drug commercial and it got me kicked out of school.
 
Hey Crimson, I really like your original idea the whole flash forward thing is very cool, I wanted to twist it with MattinSTL’s idea a bit. What if he takes the cig and suddenly all the cool kids are shown as old people with various problems. One is on an oxygen pack; one is smoking through a throat tube, etc. They are still encouraging him to smoke, phrases like ‘what’s it gonna hurt?’ are heard. Kid runs away, and all the old people try to chase him, but of course they can’t keep up. Show the kids as kids again hacking and wheezing from the short run. Then one of them says he doesn’t know what he’s missing, the group agrees and they whip out their lighters again.
 
Ahhh geez, I could give you a ton of ideas. The idea you have is great, go with it. Here is one that I thought is funny, kind of in the mind set of truth.com.

Make a infommercial about selling magical eye glasses. These glasses can see "the truth" when it comes to smoking. So when they person wears them:

1.what appears to be a beautiful woman smoking and reveals to see a old wrinkley yellow tooth woman

2.or you see just some random person smoking, glasses on you see a grave

3.you see what appears to be a in shape person, with glasses on you might have xray vision and you see all the tar inside them and how tore up their insides are

4.you see a gas attendant selling a pack of cigarttes but with the glasses on its actually a group of suits with mone bursting from their pockets (aka Phillip Morris goons)

5. you look at a cigarette and see with the glasses just a pile of chemicals there.

Maybe I will use this just to make my anti smoking short video. Good luck and have fun.
 
UPDATE:

I just recieved news literally a minute ago that I won the contest!!!!!

The final uploaded video thread is located here.
 
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