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Day 1 Assignment
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6 Replies
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1. Give us your Genre, Title, and Concept.
Dark comedy, Serpent’s Tooth: An eccentric businessman’s dementia means financial opportunity but which of his devious children is competent enough to cash in first?
2. In one or two sentences, tell us what you think is most attractive about your story.
It is a topical subject that is low budget and easily produced. There are several strong female parts as well as the eccentric businessman’s role.
3. Tell us which you will target FIRST — managers, producers, or actor’s production company — and why you picked that target.
I think that approaching managers first would be the best approach because of my current status as an unproduced screenwriter.
4. I learned today that initial planning on how to target my screenplay is important prior to marketing.
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Joan’s Project is Over the Edge and Market is producers
Genre: Magic Realism (an amalgam of drama and fantasy)<div>Concept: A young jail keeper in a remote rural community arrests a returning storyteller, a childhood friend, to keep her from telling their shared story.
The time is ripe for stories buried, forbidden, neglected or untold. Telling them can amuse us, challenge us, present us with new choices but also set us on the path to healing, as one particular story does for Tiago in Over the Edge.
I’d target producers first because I don’t have enough for a manager to do.
What I’ve learned today is how to create a new framework for this script that seems to work better than any other I’ve had.
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1. “Rhapsody In Blue” is a police drama which I’m writing in the style of Film Noir.
2. Two stories in one. Policeman, who was adopted, gets a post mortem letter from his mother. As he tries to find his real father, who is still alive, he uncovers layer after layer of evidence of his parent’s shady past, including a scandal from 35 years ago. He’s also having an affair with his married partner.
3. First target would be a producer.
4. I learned that marketing and writing go hand in hand.
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1. Give us your Genre, Title, and Concept.
Genre: Psychological Horror; the title: Ripple Road; Concept: an insecure poetry teacher driving cross-country to his new teaching job must first contend with his road rage doppelgänger.
2. In one or two sentences, tell us what you think is most attractive about your story.
The story is fast moving and fun. And there’s a terrific role for a lead actor wishing to play both a sensitive & psychological damaged person, and his psychotic doppelgänger.
3. Tell us which you will target FIRST — managers, producers, or actor’s production company — and why you picked that target.
I really don’t know. This is the stuff that makes no sense to me. I just want to get it out there to someone with clout to move it forward. An actor with the ability to green light his own projects would be a good step in that direction.
4. I learned the difference between Telling and Selling.
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1. Give us your Genre, Title, and Concept.
Sci-Fi Comedy, “Beyond Epic” The mostly true story of an inept production company scrambling to secure millions of dollars in funding in order green-light the “greatest Sci-Fi movie ever imagined.”
2. In one or two sentences, tell us what you think is most attractive about your story.
Besides being a very funny and irreverent comedy, Beyond Epic is a contained movie with a small cast and a single location. It is easily adaptable to a TV series.
3. Tell us which you will target FIRST — managers, producers, or actor’s production company — and why you picked that target.
Producers. With minimal financing we can go after actors and managers.
4. Answer the question “What I learned today is…?”
Film Making is a business and should be treated as such.
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Larry Ridlen’s Project and Market
Genre: Sci-fi
Title: Befuddled Path
Concept: A man discovers he has the power to traverse dimensions after grudgingly becoming a mule between Jamaican drug lords and the New York mafia in order to pay his special needs brother’s inadvertent gambling debt.
As he finds a flaw, mistake or failing in his dimension, with practice, he learns to merge alternate realities into his own to create the best possible life for himself and those he loves. Also, he totally crushes the bad guys!
Producers. Seems like this might go easier with a smaller, perhaps independent company.
What I learned today is…
Marketing is a necessary tool to learn to
utilize as a screenwriter.
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