Unproduced Short Screenplays
| The following short screenplays are all, to this point, unproduced. If you're interested in filming them, please contact me. | |
My writing group has an annual project in which we all take on the same creative project to do what we will with it. In 2010, our project was to rewrite the Lilith story. What I settled upon was to reimagine it in the modern day, with LIlith invited to the wedding of Adam and Eve. When I'm part of a 48 Hour FIlm Project team, the idea chosen is not the one I would have chosen if it were up for me. This is a script I wrote in the wee hours of the morning after we wrote the script The Poughkeepsie Job. I think it would have been a hoot, but the wheels had been set in motion for the other idea. |
The 2010 National Film Challenge with the Malarkey Films team was the first time I wrote for a team which had a sensible method for choosing a filming idea. Usually, teams waste the first four or five hours aimlessly arguing half-formed ideas before settling for the lowest common denominator idea. This time, when we received the criteria we all started writing out full scripts or treatments for the first hour and a half. That way we were able to judge and choose between fully formed ideas. The script that we ended up filming was my second idea. This was my first one. It was melancholy and overly serious and was lackign something, but it might have worked if we stuck with it. But the point is, I'm very glad to have had this choosing structure in place that gave me time to get to a second fully formed idea. We actually practiced writing for the 2010 National Film Challenge. I had long argued that writing and choosing the filming idea was the one part of a 48 Hour Film Project type thing you could have a complete dry run for, so you're not panicking during hours that count. We gave ourselves critera just like if we had if we were in a 48 Film Project situation. In this case, the genre was Sci-Fi, the prop was a mail package, the character was Simon, a farmer, and the line of dialogue was "I wish I had a bigger box". There might be a plot hole or two that might need some working out, but it has potential. |
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