[Mike Green]

Mike Green’s 10 Most Interesting Things.

What I learned from this assignment is we have a lot of work to do to make a coherent pitch.

1. Go through your project and see which of these specific hooks you have:

A. What is most unique about your villain and hero?

Villain – Quirky assassin disguised as a diplomat. Lama/panda kid keeps thwarting his assignments.

Heroine- Spurned party girl TV personality who is failing as a single mom. Her M.O. is tricking people into babysitting her problem child. Ascending arch to work through her baggage and become a good mom.

B. Major hook of your opening scene?

Opens with a quintessential rom-com aerial shot of San Diego, but we meet both villain and heroine as her morning show blares at the airport gate. Gets us inside the TV station where the problem child wreaks havoc and ends up on the air.

C. Any turning points?

The male lead inadvertently reads Buddhist literature to the problem child as a bedtime story, to keep him from killing the cat. Total supreme enlightenment? (Naw the kid is just imitating a panda from the story.)

The lama/panda kid finds two trapped stoners under Balboa Park and ends up swapped into a gaming tournament at Comic Con. Saves the first African Pope from assassination.

D. Emotional dilemma?

The heroine’s old friends try to pull her back into the nightlife. Either stay on the path of motherhood or go back to partying like a rock star.

The betrayed love-interest must decide if he will forgive the heroine and help her find the source of what changed her child’s behavior.

The villain meets the lama/panda kid and he is offered redemption. He owes too many favors to powerful people so he opts out.

E. Major twists?

There is a series of coincidences that suggest possible divine intervention but nothing that can’t be explained by following a little kid around town. The twist is that the mom is really the one responsible for his behavioral changes.

The diplomat is a fading Russian billionaire who owes favors. (He arrives as an envoy for the Orthodox Church but is really an assassin.)

The leading man is an online gamer. The lama/panda child ends up taking his place at an important gaming tournament.

The Ugandan Pope disrobes his “religious cosplay” down to jeans and a T-shirt.

Stoners get trapped under Balboa Park with a map of maintenance tunnels leading to the Convention Center (where the Pope will appear). They end up causing a gas explosion authorities investigate as a bomb. They were simply trying to sneak into Comic Con.

F. Reversals?

Setup is a little kid who experiences some form of Buddhist enlightenment. It is actually the heroine’s enlightenment.

Setup is a diplomat who is negotiating world peace. He is actually an assassin.

G. Character betrayals?

The heroine betrays the male lead by tricking him into babysitting.

Cardinal we think is a good guy betrays the first African Pope.

H. Or any big surprises?

The heroine experienced enlightenment, not the panda child.

The Rock Star (absent father) returns and wants his family back.

The Pope’s most vocal opponent is not the Vatican conspirator but a protector.

2. Make a list of any other things in your script that could interest a producer. (10 most interesting things.)

Karate Kid of online gaming.

She’s Out of My League meets The Golden Child.

Heroin appears successful but she’s a hot mess of a single mom.

Heroine betrays the hero but finds redemption.

Introduces a new children’s character, Piddle Paddle Panda.

Ties-in with huge aspects of pop-culture, online gaming, and movies.

Worldwide appeal and multi-cultural.

Turning point is a moment of enlightenment, but the reversal is who actually found enlightenment.

Quirky villain. He likes vodka and old books. In cohorts with another surprise villain.

New prototype of world leader (Ugandan Pope).

[Mike Green]

Subject Line: Mike Green- Producer/Manager

1. How will you present yourself and your project to the producer?

I think I’d begin by researching what types of projects and budgets they’ve produced, and try to tailor the pitch to them. I produced projects for broadcast so I’d include this experience as willingness to do whatever they say needs to be done.

2. How will you present yourself and your project to the manager?

Build upon the credibility of our coverage and accolades from other industry professionals. I’d mention experience working with Editors and deadlines. Have a few other high concepts to mention standing by.

3. What I learned today is the need to be versatile and pliable to each process.

[Mike Green]

Subject Line: Mike Green – Marketable Components

What I learned today is that we have a well-written script (according to professional coverage) that might be hard to pitch.

1. Current Logline: “A struggling single mom finds her Zen and falls in love when her problem child suddenly behaves like a mystical panda cub.”

2. A. Unique

C. Inspired by a true story.

3. A. Our audience is billions of people (worldwide) who love their mom. Struggles and all, we all root for mom. (And panda bears.)

C. My mom invented the 1960’s, and this is the story of our chaotic lives when she met my lifelong stepdad.

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[Mike Green]

Mike Green, Crayola Zen, Streaming Market.

1. Comedy, Crayola Zen, What does it mean to be childlike?

2. Busy adults are affected by the sudden change in behavior of a problem child, when in reality it was their own behaviors that needed changing.

3. Actor’s production company, because the three online gamers were written in voices of Simu Liu, Andrew Phung, and Andrea Bang from Kim’s Convenience.

4. What I learned today is I need to become a better marketer.

[Mike Green]

1. Kenneth “Michael” Green

2. “I agree to the terms of this release form.”

GROUP RELEASE FORM

As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.

2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.

I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.

4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.

5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.

6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.

[Mike Green]

1. Michael Green

2. This is my first script.

3. I hope to learn how to market this screenplay beyond entering it into screenwriting competitions.

4. I Directed the #1 morning show in San Diego, California.