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re: Writer's Club: Part 1 - Single Sentence Pitches
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:16 am to magildachunks
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:16 am to magildachunks
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So what's the resolution? Do they accept her, or does he choose between the family and the girl? Or does his mother finally stand up to the father?
His father never accepts her (I haven't decided the roles of siblings) but the mother stands up to the father and against his wishes becomes involved in their life when some time after the wedding she finds out the her daughter-in-law is pregnant and she will be a grandmother.
This post was edited on 5/10/12 at 10:17 am
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Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:17 am to magildachunks
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High-concept.
is the fact she's religious important? And i would cut out this part:
Really its just the first twenty minutes. Her parents are part of a religious group in the year 2450, where most people have been assimilated into a hive like culture which is controlled by the Singularity (and thats the title which unfortunately Roland Emmerich is going to be using and completely frick it up into a more Terminator/Matrix like film). Her colony is quickly raided and everyone but her is killed instantly, but she's knocked into a coma, and uploaded to the Singularity. She then feels isolated from her parents (who she believes made it to heaven) while she remains isolated in the unforgiving environment of the Singularity. Considering making the first twenty minutes live action and then the rest CGI, since things in the Singularity just get too weird for it to work in live action.
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Or just reword it to read something like: Mortally wounded girl is uploaded to virtual environment by cyborgs.
Good rewrite. You don't need to know she's religious from the pitch, although its very important.
This post was edited on 5/10/12 at 10:22 am
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:18 am to Freauxzen
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I've considered it, but the event just seems so wrapped in cultural issues that you couldn't break free of that.
Yeah, you couldn't do it on Katrina. You'd have to do it set during Katrina and the aftermath.
You'd also have to avoid trying to do a movie about response. It would have to be based on a small group. Something like three friends or a family try to navigate the streets to find safety in the aftermath.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:19 am to Freauxzen
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All focused around the idea of the singularity?
Yes sir. Roland Emmerich is going to frick this concept up so much its unbelievable.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:19 am to Freauxzen
How do you think that dilemma would vary between a story set in New Orleans and a story set in like Gulfport or Biloxi?
I've done a piece like this before, but always been curious how others would do it. Only thing I've read close to the issue are Trethewey's Beyond Katrina poems
I've done a piece like this before, but always been curious how others would do it. Only thing I've read close to the issue are Trethewey's Beyond Katrina poems
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:22 am to fouldeliverer
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His father never accepts her (I haven't decided the roles of siblings) but the mother stands up to the father and against his wishes becomes involved in their life when some time after the wedding she finds out the her daughter-in-law is pregnant and she will be a grandmother.
Good idea. At the end though, maybe the closing image, I'd have the father cradle the child After a final confrontation with the mother.
My dad was in a similar situation with one of his family and he basically told the non-accepting father that although he may have a problem with the marriage, you don't blame the child. You take it out on a child for something you have against the parents.
I always liked that philosophy.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:23 am to OMLandshark
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Really its just the first twenty minutes. Her parents are part of a religious group in the year 2450, where most people have been assimilated into a hive like culture which is controlled by the Singularity (and thats the title which unfortunately Roland Emmerich is going to be using and completely frick it up into a more Terminator/Matrix like film). Her colony is quickly raided and everyone but her is killed instantly, but she's knocked into a coma, and uploaded to the Singularity. She then feels isolated from her parents (who she believes made it to heaven) while she remains isolated in the unforgiving environment of the Singularity. Considering making the first twenty minutes live action and then the rest CGI, since things in the Singularity just get too weird for it to work in live action.
Good stuff.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:24 am to tylerdurden24
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How do you think that dilemma would vary between a story set in New Orleans and a story set in like Gulfport or Biloxi?
That's actually a really good distinction, but at the same time, could it be as epic if it were in Biloxi/Gulfport?
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I've done a piece like this before, but always been curious how others would do it. Only thing I've read close to the issue are Trethewey's Beyond Katrina poems
I felt Katrina art has been forced, and I don't know why. The movies, the written pieces. Something about the event just doesn't gel for some reason.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:25 am to magildachunks
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You'd have to do it set during Katrina and the aftermath
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It would have to be based on a small group. Something like three friends or a family try to navigate the streets to find safety in the aftermath.
Absolutely. The short story format suits this concept really well, too, as it kind of acts like cutting a piece out of the giant event. Accordingly, you have to do something personalized. I hate using the example because it isn't a great representation of what I'm getting at, but Benjamin Button taking place as a story told in the context of Katrina hitting New Orleans and threatening to demolish the family history of dying Cate Blanchette
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:26 am to Freauxzen
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Good stuff.
Thanks. I'm actually writing a few scripts right now as a hobby. The Singularity idea is still just in outline mode and a planned trilogy since there's just so many implications of what could happen in such an environment and what it would mean for the world. The Mars script though I've got around 50 pages, and would certainly be just one film and about an hour and a half from what my current plan is.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:27 am to Freauxzen
My students are working on their study guide for their final. I'm going to give them (8th graders) this assignment the last five minutes of class and see if any come up with a decent idea.
I'm sure there will be plenty of humorously awful ones.
I'm sure there will be plenty of humorously awful ones.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:29 am to tylerdurden24
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Accordingly, you have to do something personalized.
Here's one: a friend of my dad's from medical school found out his mom stayed behind with her boyfriend, 78 and 76 respectively. After the storm, the friend tried to get into the city and couldn't. Authorities turned him away.
he ended up contacting a friend with a boat and they decided to cross the lake from the north shore to go get her.
Right before they were about to launch, he got a phone call from his wife in BR. His mom and her boyfriend were at his house.
Apparently, when the storm passed, they decided to evacuate. They had to swim through flood waters, then walk the streets till they found an older model car. The boyfriend hot-wired the car and they drove it to baton rouge.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:31 am to Freauxzen
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That's actually a really good distinction, but at the same time, could it be as epic if it were in Biloxi/Gulfport?
I think it has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, Biloxi/Gulfport isn't as renowned or covered media-wise as New Orleans is/was. So you have a little more flexibility with creative license. On the other, the story can be a masterpiece, but you're not going to have that initial draw of New orleans
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I felt Katrina art has been forced, and I don't know why.
Kind of why I'm asking. I don't know if it's because it's still a relatively fresh wound on the area, but there is something about it that makes it feel untouchable and it's interesting to me why that is
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:32 am to fouldeliverer
What do you teach?
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:41 am to OMLandshark
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Thanks. I'm actually writing a few scripts right now as a hobby. The Singularity idea is still just in outline mode and a planned trilogy since there's just so many implications of what could happen in such an environment and what it would mean for the world. The Mars script though I've got around 50 pages, and would certainly be just one film and about an hour and a half from what my current plan is.
I've actually been cultivating a Singularity idea that stemmed from another project of mine (one that ended up getting too close to the Deus Ex storyline, so I scrapped it). That's one I am working on, so I won't post here.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:42 am to tylerdurden24
Social Studies.
Out of the 12 guys in the class 10 of them pitched movie ideas involving mutants or zombies lol.
The other two ideas made me laugh.
Out of the 12 guys in the class 10 of them pitched movie ideas involving mutants or zombies lol.
The other two ideas made me laugh.
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Kevin Hart stars in a comedy about an up and coming comedian who is actualy a serial killer who murders audience members who don't laugh enough at his act.
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An unlicensed barber goes to jail for rpping everybody off with bad hair lines.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:42 am to fouldeliverer
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My students are working on their study guide for their final. I'm going to give them (8th graders) this assignment the last five minutes of class and see if any come up with a decent idea.
I'm sure there will be plenty of humorously awful ones.
Kids are one of the best places for ideas. No lie. They make connections we, as adults, reject.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:42 am to fouldeliverer
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Kevin Hart stars in a comedy about an up and coming comedian who is actualy a serial killer who murders audience members who don't laugh enough at his act.
Would make a great horror-comedy.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:43 am to Freauxzen
Two friends go on a last road trip with their dying friend.(friend has cancer)
Or
Two friends are reunited when they have to take a third's ashes cross-country.
Or
Two friends are reunited when they have to take a third's ashes cross-country.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:44 am to tylerdurden24
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Kind of why I'm asking. I don't know if it's because it's still a relatively fresh wound on the area, but there is something about it that makes it feel untouchable and it's interesting to me why that is
Agreed. I don't think it has anything to do with time. In general, we're almost too far away from the event for things written about it to be important.
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