[Stephen Greenberg]

Assignment 1

Genre: Thriller

Title: Three Days Missing based on book by that title

Concept The love of a parent for her child gives her the strength to overcome her fears and work with others to find her kidnapped child.

What is attractive about the story: This is a story about every parent’s nightmare. What would I do if my child was kidnapped? This is a story of a kidnapping, but the wrong child is taken. What happens to the two families (the kidnapped and the would-be kidnapped) is what will draw the audience to this story.

Target to: Managers of actors, production companies, potential financial partners (other producers, streaming platforms, movie investors)

What I learned in Lesson 1: It’s important to match your material to the target you are approaching. You need to know what it is they are interested in, what it is they want. If your script matches what they want, you have a chance of being considered.

[Stephen Greenberg]

Hi Everyone,

I hope this is getting out to everyone, although it looks like it is only going to Cheryl.

Sorry I’m about a week behind, but I’ll try to catch up.

My name is Tony Greenberg, and I’m a bit of an anomaly to this class. I’m not really a screenwriter, but I think the purpose of this class will be totally meaningful to my objectives.

I’m a new producer having come from another profession altogether. I’ve always loved movies and wanted to participate in their creation, but lacking the talent of screenwriting, acting, artistic design, or photography. As a producer, I’ve acquired options on several books which I hope to get produced.

While I’ve hired screenwriters to create the scripts I need, I have the challenge of getting the production of those scripts financed. So, in a sense, I am looking for the same sources as the writers taking this class. However, rather than selling the script, I’m trying to find partners with much more experience than I have who will want to produce it with me. This might be even more difficult than the writer’s challenge.

I hope that this class will help me better evaluate the material (optionable books and the scripts that get adapted) and give me skills to better market the scripts that I acquire. I’m not sure how applicable some of the assignments will be since I’m not a writer, but I will try my best to accommodate the requirements.

[Stephen Greenberg]

Sorry, Cheryl, I’m not that familiar with posting on forums, so forgive the previous post.

1. Tony Greenberg

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

1. Stephanie Schwartz

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.

Tony Greenberg

[Stephen Greenberg]

Tony Greenberg