Film and Character Ideas

"Geoff is a normal guy in his early 20's who hates his job and hates his life even more. He has a horrible boss, annoying neighbour, no money and no girlfriend. In a bid to impress a girl he learns to lucid dream which changes his life; he can now control what happens to him in this new dream reality. This quickly becomes an addiction as he loves the power he has in the dream world and slowly loses the ability to distinguish between reality and fiction. What could possibly go wrong?"

This is the current working synopsis for our film "Overdoze". The name is intended to be a play on words of overdose as our character overdoses on lucid dreaming and after overdoing it and lucid dreaming too often losing the ability to distinguish between reality and fiction. This was intended to create humour through the play on words and also subtly suggest the theme of sleep in the film by using 'doze' instead of dose. The screenshot above is the current title we are using at the end of our spot trailer. I added the little z's at the end of the E to enforce the idea that sleep plays an important role in our film and to add some more character to the title.

Geoff is the main character in our film, we follow his life as he is overloaded with work from his boss and is ignored by his fellow colleagues until he becomes lonely and bored, tired of his day to day until he becomes sad and reaches a low in his life. He's had his eye on a girl he knows for a while and has a massive crush on her but is always too awkward to talk to her or ask her out. After finding out the girl he likes is a hippie and is trying to learn to lucid dream, he attempts to learn it himself in order to create something between them that could draw them close together. Somehow he manages to crack it and discovers a wonderful world in his dreams where he can control his life and replay scenarios where he has been picked on or made to feel useless in real life, changing what happens to make himself more important and a more confident person. This starts to impact his real life as he builds his confidence and starts making friends and changing his life so he is happy. He punches his horrible boss and kicks his neighbour's dog, even asking out the girl of his dreams. The lucid dreaming impacts his life positively as he improves his real life quality by building his confidence in this fake reality.