Alternative History Rethought...

As I continue to try and film, I increasingly feel like the theme of my movie might be too melodramatic. I've been filming scene ideas for another storyline, which takes on the idea of creating an opposite world where we operate the most basic parts of our lives completely differently.
A couple different scene ideas:

Beginning with the idea of someone being born and automatically put into a box.
Switch to sitting in a classroom, all the way up to college, and then have a line of people come out to receive their diplomas, all with boxes on their heads, each receiving an "educated" stamp on their box-forehead.
A family sits in the living room, watching TV. There's a box around the TV, boxes on all of their heads.
Someone sits down, takes off the box, and starts to cut it apart, and put it back together in a different way.

The world turns topsy-turvy.

Sounds work completely different. As someone walks down the stairs, it sounds like splashing water. Dropping the keys on the counter, it makes the sound of breaking glass, etc.
People eat with the table upside-down. They also eat with their hands.
Everyone takes showers outside in the rain.
Plucking the guitar strings, each one makes the sound of a woman's voice.
Instead of everyone sitting down in the living room to watch TV, they hang up a different painting everyday in the same spot on the wall and observe it.

The person who originally took apart the box reverts back to it. Instead of trying to make a completely different shape, the person tries to make something completely different out of the box. They paint it, cut holes in it, and parts to it, but the original box shape remains the basis.


I'm having a harder time developing this subject to what I want it to be. With parts of it, I feel I have the same problem as with my haikus - they all point to an interesting concept, but don't delve farther than that. I think the overall storyline has a lot of depth and meaning to it, but its individual parts still need to be developed...

I've been filming scenes for both ideas, and plan on taking the one I don't use for the 3rd project, developing it, and using it as footage for my fourth film.