Randomly Generating a Film

I often get hung up on projects thinking they need to be perfect or well polished and get into a bit of a freeze where I just make nothing instead or get overwhelmed by how much there is to do. In order to make this impossible for myself, I did a challenge where each day I would get a new scene prompt and make the next minute of my film based on that. I found breaking things down and giving up some creative control actually allowed me to tackle each problem a lot easier. I've made a video detailing the experience:
The prompts that I ended up getting were:
Day 1: A New Technology is Released
Day 2: Find Something
Day 3: Mystery
Day 4: Sitting on a deck
Day 5: Accidentally killing someone
I wouldn't spin the wheel on what I would be working on until the start of the day so I really could only focus on one thing at a time. Here is the final film:
I'd highly recommend anyone interested give it a shot, it is a fun way to make a short film and forces you to just get things done, in the same vein as 48-hour film projects.
 

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