Story development, screenplay writing and Direction for VFX Short Film: FUTURIANS

Abstract

A superhero short film based on visual effects is really hard to make with a small team. The VFX market around the world is huge and it’s growing day by day. In 2017 Bangladesh has earned $800 million from multimedia technology sector. Bangladesh along with the world is moving into a digitalized world. Given the digital sector is huge and will play a big part in the 4th industrial revolution our govt is investing a lot. The growth of digitalization is astonishing. With this rapid growth our future will be based on digital media. New technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality that future is pretty near. Our final project is a VFX short film. The VFX industry is huge and there are many areas to explore. We selected the short film route by seeing the massive success of Marvel and DC movies. A short film based on superpower and visual effects is pretty common now a days but very hard to full off right. To make a good film which the audience will like first we have to understand what the audience want. Reading the audience mind is very important. So, we did our research and found what the audience like. To make a short film memorable we have to have a name which suits out short film perfectly. This name will bear the identity of our short film. As our film is based on future and revolve around superpowers, we selected the name of “FUTURIANS”. The short film revolves around a gangster’s son who is oppressed by his father. Once he reaches his limits he starts fighting with his father and kills him and get all his wealth. After getting everything from his father he wanted to gain even more. He wanted to rule the world so he wanted superpowers. This leads to him reaching to a scientist who can help him make a serum to make superhuman. The scientist creates the serum but there were casualties. After realizing the danger of the Serum, he ran away but Shawon gets the serum and gains power. After gaining power he starts to destroy everything to show dominance. Other experiments who gained power goes to stop him.