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Small town, USA. At the start of a story, a horrible bus accident takes the lives of 22 children. There are only two survivors, who coincidentally happen to be siblings. After a few days of recovering in the hospital, the siblings return home to their loving parents. The antagonist is a local widowed farmer, who lost his only child in the bus accident. He refuses to accept that his only child died while his neighbors get to keep both of their children. Blinded with rage and feeling abandoned by God, he decides to take action and bring balance.
Obviously still got quite a bit of developing to do, but I think it's a solid start.
So, it's the magnificent world of writing a feature screenplay. And more than that one of my favorite writers here is host and will participate alongside...
Well, the parameters sound pretty character bound, which is fine. Now I must find a "contained" angle within this first week to get things rolling.
Especially location and theme is what I look for now.
I googled a bit about what's in public domain and the only one that felt interesting yet, regarding the "big" ones, was a Phantom of the Opera kind of game - in a modern interpretation and expression of course.
So, so far, there's a misfit that rules within his/her specific surrounding.
First brain fart idea: A ((wo)(man)) runs a solar farm where s/he lives in. Ironically s/he's allergic to ultraviolet light so can't go outside of the facility themself. Sounds stupid enough, right?
However, just a short nod toward James and his statistics that I probably will try when I see a trace. And I truly want that needed certain spark - so wish me luck.
Alex! Yes get in here we need you!!!
With regards to that idea you mentioned, that actually sounds pretty damn good to me. But I don't think it would fit the parameters.
I want to clarify that you're picking a relatively common life change.
It doesn't have to be something everyone has experienced, but common enough where anyone would be familiar with it and probably know someone who went through it.
Getting an extremely rare disorder doesn't fit that.
So, pick a fairly common, significant, stressful thing that can happen in people's lives. And then focus on the change in circumstances that results.
For example, if you were to pick retirement... maybe it'd be a story about a workaholic who finally retires and starts to unravel with nothing to do now. He becomes convinced there's some dark secret at the company he worked for, some evil force that's been there all along, and we're not sure if what he's investigating is real or he's losing his mind.
Lemme know if you have questions. It's good to go over this cuz I want everyone to be clear on the rules.
I want to write about a woman who moves to a new place with her kids after some life-altering events that happened to her. All the neighbors are nice and welcoming, almost too welcoming. But the house appears haunted. The house is kind of alive two and it wants to take the woman and her kids. She learns the story of those people l/ghosts and it�s similar to her own. They were sort of outcasts in their neighborhood for being different. So she decides to revenge. Basically lures the neighbors in, one by one to be horrifically dissected, mutilated (or mutilated and dissected). Possibly she starts canned meat production later too.
Small town, USA. At the start of a story, a horrible bus accident takes the lives of 22 children. There are only two survivors, who coincidentally happen to be siblings. After a few days of recovering in the hospital, the siblings return home to their loving parents. The antagonist is a local widowed farmer, who lost his only child in the bus accident. He refuses to accept that his only child died while his neighbors get to keep both of their children. Blinded with rage and feeling abandoned by God, he decides to take action and bring balance.
Obviously still got quite a bit of developing to do, but I think it's a solid start.
This is nice. Lots of drama and room for possibilities. Now, where’s the promised gore?
Small town, USA. At the start of a story, a horrible bus accident takes the lives of 22 children. There are only two survivors, who coincidentally happen to be siblings. After a few days of recovering in the hospital, the siblings return home to their loving parents. The antagonist is a local widowed farmer, who lost his only child in the bus accident. He refuses to accept that his only child died while his neighbors get to keep both of their children. Blinded with rage and feeling abandoned by God, he decides to take action and bring balance.
Obviously still got quite a bit of developing to do, but I think it's a solid start.
I want to write about a woman who moves to a new place with her kids after some life-altering events that happened to her. All the neighbors are nice and welcoming, almost too welcoming. But the house appears haunted. The house is kind of alive two and it wants to take the woman and her kids. She learns the story of those people l/ghosts and it�s similar to her own. They were sort of outcasts in their neighborhood for being different. So she decides to revenge. Basically lures the neighbors in, one by one to be horrifically dissected, mutilated (or mutilated and dissected). Possibly she starts canned meat production later too.
With regards to that idea you mentioned, that actually sounds pretty damn good to me. But I don't think it would fit the parameters.
I want to clarify that you're picking a relatively common life change.
It doesn't have to be something everyone has experienced, but common enough where anyone would be familiar with it and probably know someone who went through it.
Getting an extremely rare disorder doesn't fit that.
So, pick a fairly common, significant, stressful thing that can happen in people's lives. And then focus on the change in circumstances that results.
Lemme know if you have questions. It's good to go over this cuz I want everyone to be clear on the rules.
All right, I hear you. Actually, I don't see it as an even hard challenge to include that "dramatic life situation", since I think that somehow most stories include such kind of personal situation in its dramatic structure.
In my case, I can think of, f.i., that our isolated person who lives in the "solar farm facility" is suddenly confronted with his/her child because the parent outside, who originally had the child's custody, can't provide it anymore (for some reasons).
So, our freak now becomes a parent.
I think that would qualify, wouldn't it???
As said, I personally, actually don't think that it is such a big problem to include a life changing moment or obstacle that confronts the protagonist… Sounds pretty natural to me
My concept is fairly simple and straightforward, nothing too challenging, a woman survives an attack by a serial killer, suffers PTSD and plots revenge. I know it's been done a multitude of times before but high concept scripts aren't on my radar yet.
In saying that Good Luck to everyone entering
If at first you don't succeed........bribe someone.
My concept is fairly simple and straightforward, nothing too challenging, a woman survives an attack by a serial killer, suffers PTSD and plots revenge.
A little vague, but it could be interesting. Good luck with it.
A little vague, but it could be interesting. Good luck with it.
It's a vague idea at the moment but I'll see how it spins out. I have a couple of touches that might make it more appealing but I'm still developing them.
If at first you don't succeed........bribe someone.
All right, I hear you. Actually, I don't see it as an even hard challenge to include that "dramatic life situation", since I think that somehow most stories include such kind of personal situation in its dramatic structure.
In my case, I can think of, f.i., that our isolated person who lives in the "solar farm facility" is suddenly confronted with his/her child because the parent outside, who originally had the child's custody, can't provide it anymore (for some reasons).
So, our freak now becomes a parent.
I think that would qualify, wouldn't it???
As said, I personally, actually don't think that it is such a big problem to include a life changing moment or obstacle that confronts the protagonist… Sounds pretty natural to me
Yeah, I think getting thrown into parenting would count.
I know what you mean about it not being that difficult to come up with life changing moment. I wanted it be something pretty broad so people wouldn't get forced into some crazy scenario for a feature.
It actually ended up not being exactly what I intended. It's a long story. But people seem to be getting ideas from this and running with it so it's all good.
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