The New Normal - Filmmaking

Yeah, everyone loves the phrase “the new normal”, don’t they? Well, tough, I’m sticking with it for this short strand because it’s my blog and I make the rules (and then frequently break the rules when I forget what the rules were in the first place). In this ever changing world in which we live in*, there can be no doubt that, once they get back up and running again, the popular culture that we enjoy will undoubtedly be impacted. With that in mind, here are some of the films that I imagine we’ll start to see over the coming months and years.

Hidden Love
Two strangers - Jinty Plelm and Allevia Henchback - meet on a daily basis in the local supermarket. Faces hidden by masks, their love blossoms via the eye contact they share. Love turns to horror when, on their first real date, Jinty discovers that Allevia has, instead of a mouth, a portal that leads straight to Hell.
Genre:- Romantic horror.

You’re On Mute
A home worker, Corbin Forbin, finds himself unable to speak when he leaves the house until someone says the phrase, “You’re on mute.” He meets and falls in love with a woman who can only be seen when someone tells her to switch her video on. 
Genre:- Horrific romance.

Zoom Room
Humptphrey Flenk finds himself trapped within the frame of the Zoom window he is in. escape is only possible when he generates a virtual background with a door in it.
Genre:- Charlie Kaufman-esque existential whimsy.

Dash
An action-packed real time thriller set on the last day before lockdown. Mefelda Clume must dash from shop to shop trying to find the last pack of loo rolls before she shits herself.
Genre:- Intestinal action.

So there you go, just a few of the possible options likely to be making their way to one of the 73 available streaming services currently clogging up your smart TV....



*That’s catchy, someone should use that in a song lyric; maybe as the theme tune for an instalment of a long running spy-based film series