I want to make a short video that would make the audience uneasy, make their stomach tighten from the tension, and something that is completely surreal. I will do this by taking the recognisable parts of fairy tales and children stories; and using them to show the thought process of someone who has Fantasy Prone Personality (FPP). If you don't know what FPP is; it's where people can have stages of not being able to tell the difference between what is real and what is fantasy, this is due to the fact that they have a personality trait that makes them experience a deep involvement in fantasy. The inspiration for the surreal look has come from years of reading the Brothers Grimm fairy tales and I would like to use the following as references:




  What I would like to create is a short film following the journey of our main character, who is having lapses of fantasy vs reality involving each of the sections of the stories used. I want to be able to build up the tension through the film attempting to make the audience stomachs tighten, until it ends with her waking up with a bathtub full of book pages giving it the surreal feeling until the very end. I'd like to open with the following quote, hopefully sending the audience in the right direction to help them understand what they are about to see:
"Some people, a fascinating minority, spend most of their waking lives lost in a fantasy world, leaving it to join the common reality almost as a visitor. The fantasies are not mere fleeting daydreams but something of a cross between a dream and a movie, where an elaborate scenario unfolds once a theme is set."  - Daniel Goleman, 1987