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| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
oooh!! i have a goal to write a screenplay, even if it doesn't get looked at or whatever. i think it'd be fun. i have "screenplay writing for dummies" and other books about it, but it's the software that i need. the format is foreign territory for me and all the lingo is different too. it's like a whole diff planet of writing. it would be so much fun, but it's hard to find time and motivation to do something like that between school and work...i wish it was a homework assignment for me.
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Yeah man, that's why I love my program...Media Arts. Interpret movies, learn all about the media, classes like Photography, Filmmaking, Radio...it's really cool.
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
Assuming you know the format and that it should be 5-10pgs long , you're set.
ideas, i got plenty. I had to write a few screenplays last semester.
think surreal. Dont play the normal card. I hate that. At the end of my class 3 plays were picked to be carried out into real plays and mine was the first one picked.
it was about about a guy in his apartment who had anger management/ OCD at the same time.
he'd wake up, throw his alarm clock against the wall, smashing it all over the place....then take a shower.
a maid walks in and lets him know she is there, cleans everything up.
he seemingly hurries to finish his shower and put on clothes, and the moment he gets out, she is gone.
he sits down, opens a drawer, and has a picture of her.
then lights change, salsa music comes on *she's latina* and they start dancing salsa....he is surprised he knows how to dance to begin with lol.
after a while, he realizes this is all in his head, sits back down, she leaves, lights go back to normal, and he smashes the picture frame against the wall and ends up sobbing.
it was just a surreal play on something tragic. It was mainly about his love for her, and she would never know about it......unrequited love *sigh* the horror! 
but it was nothing out there, nothing in your face like some one getting raped (like all the other kids in my class tried to portray). Apparently THAT was tragedy.
stay away from ghey horror movies and played out stuff. Go for something psychological/philosophical. Even something simple. If you can capture simplicity in a creative fashion, you're set.
maybe im not making sense.
basically, be crazy, be original.
i had a screen play with ONE word in it.......and the word was "goodbye"......i mainly played with camera shots and atmosphere.....you can capture a lot of meaning without words.
think creative, s0N!
dont write something boring and mundane like everyone in your class is bound to create.
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There's some pretty cool ideas in there Pink, I like how you think. The whole idea of a guy with OCD is pretty cool, I like him waking up and throwing the clock at the wall hehe. You're right about getting away from the cliches, it's tough to come up with new and twisted ideas though. It has to be with dialogue, so creating mood by images is out of the question really. You need fantastic dialogue in order to keep your viewers interested and informed, and that's an art I'm trying to learn. These pro scriptwriters do it so well...fitting so many things into so few words, it really impresses me. Anyway I still haven't started the bloody thing, so I gotta get to it. Thanks for all you help.
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