- Make a movie using an unusual light source
- Make a movie in one take
- Make a movie in which the main characters never appear in frame
- Make a silent movie/movie with no dialogue
- Make a movie where the characters don’t move
- Try a new piece of equipment at Studio 47
- Make a movie where none of the sound is recorded live
- Use the green screen!
- Use color-correcting in a creative way
- Make an experimental film
- Flip to a random page in the dictionary and point. Make a movie inspired by whatever word your finger lands on.
- Make a movie in the style of your favorite director
- Make a movie about something you hate
- Make a movie with exterior night shots (outside at night)
- Make a movie using one of the screenplays in the Screenwriting Guild binder
- Make a movie based on your seventh most used emoji
- Make a commercial
- Make a movie about the first interaction between two roommates
- Make a movie based on a text message your received
- Suggest a new mascot for your college
- Make a movie about something you fear
- Ask a friend/relative to suggest a topic and make a movie about that topic
- Make a horror movie in one room
- Film something at a 5C that is different from the one you live at
- Film an interview or series of interviews
- Make a movie where no human beings appear on camera
- Make a comedy about lizards with no dialogue
- Make a movie based on a dream (the sleeping kind or the self-actualization kind)
Other Prompt Resources
- 6 short film prompts
- Filmmaking ideas
- tumblr film prompt archive
- Cinematic screenwriting exercise
- Screenwriter’s toolkit
- eight good sources for creative writing prompts: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.