I do it for....the plot

From my genre research, I have a couple of basic ideas, but one that I just keep coming back to. I find it pretty difficult to write and come up with stuff, it's definitely my weakness when it comes to production, which is why its important that I push myself to try and do it more often. And a problem I have is that I just get stuck on an idea or two and then fail to branch out or think of new things. But I think I just need to write down this idea and flesh it out a bit in order to see if I want to stick with it or try and move on. 

So from the drama research, I talked about tragedies being a subgenre, and this fit in perfectly with an idea I've had for a while now and I think this may be a good time to put it to paper and try and make it.

Kinda the eerie look I'd be going for

The basic premise of my idea is a really lonely kid who shuts himself away from the world in his room and is looking for an escape, a way to distract himself. He has this radio that he speaks into to pretend that he's an astronaut, or a pilot, or something, and then someone answers back. A girl. They begin talking and then it becomes a daily thing. It becomes something the protagonist looks forward to everyday. It doesn't matter how much his day sucks because at least he'll talk to the girl when he gets home. He begins to conjure up this imaginary relationship, he thinks that their connection is deeper than it is. She becomes all he cares about, its not like he had much going for him before. The protagonist does something to creep her out, maybe asks to meet in person or just says something weird or maybe calls her by something that makes her uncomfortable. Then she stops coming to the radio. A day. Two. A week. A month. The protagonist starts to lose it, shes all he had, what more is there to his life. At this point, I think that he would break the radio and then cry in his bed or end with him alone in the shot, just something to cement this loneliness,  at which the credit would roll. 

I like this idea and I think I can make it stronger. I can definitely flesh this out more and a lot of it is reliant on dialogue so I would have to make it most engaging there. But I don't want to limit myself to this, so I'm gonna sit on it for a little bit and see if I can come up with something else.

In the meantime, I'm gonna watch a few student short films to get some inspo. I'm mainly gonna use All American High School Film Fest youtube channel as my resource since there is just soooo much good stuff there, but I will come back.