Any Screenwriters On The Board??
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The TV ONE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION 2017 promotes the production of creative, contemporary, engaging and relatable screenplays that can be turned into original movies for television. Genres include, but are not limited to comedies, romantic comedies, dramas, and family adventures (submissions should be non-period stories). One (1) Grand Prize Winner will be selected from three (3) Finalists and announced at the closing night event of ABFF.
The potential Finalists will be notified by e-mail, telephone and/or mail by April 10, 2017. The potential Winner will be notified in person during the “ABFF Filmmaker Ceremony” taking place on June 18, 2017 in Miami, Florida.
TV One will award 3 Finalist prizes and 1 grand prize. Each Finalist will receive a trip to the 21st Annual American Black Film Festival in Miami, Florida, taking place June 14, 2017 through June 18, 2017 and the opportunity to have a scene from their screenplay read by actors at a Table Read. The Grand Prize winner will receive Five Thousand Dollars ($5000.00) and the opportunity to have their screenplay developed and produced to premier at the 2018 American Black Film Festival.
All online submissions must be completed by 11:59 pm EST on Thursday, February 16, 2017.
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Thank you.
I've been an amature writer for years. Did well in the bgol contests, but my dream is to write and publish a full length screenplay. So far the furthest I've gotten is 20 pages unedited.
Plots are easy. I have dozens of those. What's hard is tying together characters with a central theme.
For instance, I watched a YouTube video about American Beauty. The author explained how the central theme was finding your true self and how every character represented that theme in a different way. It explained how dialog was used to determine relationships and power dynamics, sometimes with only a few words.
I have never been able to pull this stuff off. Not on the context of a feature length movie.
Has anyone else had trouble with this hurdle? How did you overcome it?
Plots are easy. I have dozens of those. What's hard is tying together characters with a central theme.
For instance, I watched a YouTube video about American Beauty. The author explained how the central theme was finding your true self and how every character represented that theme in a different way. It explained how dialog was used to determine relationships and power dynamics, sometimes with only a few words.
I have never been able to pull this stuff off. Not on the context of a feature length movie.
Has anyone else had trouble with this hurdle? How did you overcome it?
I read as many screenplays that I could until something clicked. I would even say just write, don't edit at all, just write until you get enough pages - up to lets say 90. If you have a deep story, you can go beyond that but going past 120 is too far. Edit the first thirty pages. Then the next. Then the next. Make sure your 1st act meets the 2nd act and then the 3rd.
Make up back stories for your characters and learn them and their decisions to make sure it rings true to the story. Know your ending. Again, I just read script after script until it just all made sense and I'm still learning. 500 days of Summer is quick and witty, Social Network is wordy, There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece but its dense and Wild Things is sexy as hell. Feel 'em out and see what works for you and your style.
There are some greats that you have to check out but off the top of my head
1. CHINATOWN
2. BACK TO THE FUTURE
3. SEVEN
4. DO THE RIGHT THING
5. NETWORK
6. AMERICAN BEAUTY
7. INSIDE MAN
8. FARGO
9. THE THING
10. RESERVOIR DOGS
oNE
Most of the stuff i been writing(here and there) were pitches for either videogames(open world/RPG variety) or comics/graphic novels
Thanks!! I'll start with the ones I've seen and go from there.
Like Darth Furious said, just write. When you're done with a first draft or two, a central theme will start to emerge. Look hard at some of your past scripts, you'll probably see the same theme repeated over and over. Our unconscious is always trying to work out some issues. Your job is to identify and refine them.
Wow, I have two days to complete this? Wow I wish I would have known with more time. I just won my first writing contest on the writers forum, and I've participated and a couple of the contests here on this board. One of these days I'm going to finish my novels
Wow. Congrats man, I didn't know that. You been talking about it for awhile. Gotta just devote the time to it and push it out. Then get your edit in there, proofread it and go from there.
My problem is letting real life distract me from personal goal. Sometimes I'm in the office like 12 hours a day for weeks and that shit drains on my processing skills. I forget entire ideas during my stretch. Matter fact, I gotta friend of mine that writes multiple books in a year, the same span of time I was working my ass off to get over 100k. On one end, I got a lot of shit done for the house and the fam and splurged a bit but she finished TWO BOOKS and is making money off self publishing. I gotta ask her more because she's trying to steer me to writing a book with her instead of script doctoring and screenplays.
I just gotta do better. We all do.
oNE
Dude, time, or rather finding it, or rather better utilizing it instead of watching TV shows, playing video games or just sit on my ass. It dealing with the fact that I probably have ADD and I have insomnia and sleep apnea - so I can't sleep and when I do sleep I don't sleep and you've got a clusterfuck
I got up to 32,000 words and then started over. I wanted to get to the kill as quickly as possible. I know that being a first-time author, I only have a short period of time in which to grab ahold of a reader, which means getting to the conflict/kill faster. Anything drawn-out will lose them.
I'm up to 12500 now on the reboot and I can always use the 32000 I've already written to add on when I get there. I've got a female protagonist doing it illegal shit, a couple of cops trying to kill her and a White guy playing the part of the Magic Negro to a Black heroine. It's pretty intense.
Good luck finishing yours. I know from experience it's not easy
CO SIGN MAN...
I'm there now. And to boot, when I work too many hours and going on days and days like that I end up passing out and sleeping like 10 hours straight. The shit got me all messed up. Part of getting my habots together will help free up some time so I can focus more on what I have to do. My thing is I got multiple scenes and bits and pieces already written that I need to arrange in order to finish my next two scripts.
On another note, I don't even have to know the plot, what you stated for a story is enough to get heads turning and someone interested. Switching the roles around is new and fresh and with the right plot, it'll work!!
oNE
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a823660/get-out-director-jordan-peele-has-this-amazing/
Get Out director Jordan Peele wants young black filmmakers to get in touch
Jordan Peele's directorial debut Get Out is absolutely killing it at the box office in the US, already taking
$113m (on a budget of $5m). It's a brilliant, frightening and funny horror about modern liberal racism (check out our review), which has gone down a storm with critics and audiences alike.
One of the things that stands out about the film though, is that it's a story that's rarely told. In fact black protagonists in horror films, and black directors of horror films, are a rarity.
Peele wants to do something about that.
Talking exclusively to Digital Spy, he offered this to would-be black movie-makers...
© PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES
"For young black horror filmmakers, if you have a script, reach out and I'll try to help it get made. Monkeypaw Productions is my production company and we're really trying to promote untapped voices in genre."
Peele blames the lack of diversity in Hollywood on a couple of things.
"One is there's this misconception in Hollywood - that is hopefully nearing its end - that black leads in films don't do well, particularly overseas," he explained.
"But I think even more, the reason we don't see more films about the African American experience is because we haven't nurtured black talent, we haven't encouraged young black filmmakers to dream big.
"When you have that, that's when you have this systemic problem where artists aren't getting their platforms, aren't given their platforms.
"Some stories it's impossible for a white person to tell."
© UNIVERSAL
Peele says he has plans for four more horror movies "with each one to take on a different demon embedded in society".
In the meantime, he offers this advice for up and coming filmmakers: "I would say, write your favourite movie that hasn't been made."
Get Out is out now in UK cinemas.
Get Out director Jordan Peele wants young black filmmakers to get in touch
Jordan Peele's directorial debut Get Out is absolutely killing it at the box office in the US, already taking
$113m (on a budget of $5m). It's a brilliant, frightening and funny horror about modern liberal racism (check out our review), which has gone down a storm with critics and audiences alike.
One of the things that stands out about the film though, is that it's a story that's rarely told. In fact black protagonists in horror films, and black directors of horror films, are a rarity.
Peele wants to do something about that.
Talking exclusively to Digital Spy, he offered this to would-be black movie-makers...
© PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES
"For young black horror filmmakers, if you have a script, reach out and I'll try to help it get made. Monkeypaw Productions is my production company and we're really trying to promote untapped voices in genre."
Peele blames the lack of diversity in Hollywood on a couple of things.
"One is there's this misconception in Hollywood - that is hopefully nearing its end - that black leads in films don't do well, particularly overseas," he explained.
"But I think even more, the reason we don't see more films about the African American experience is because we haven't nurtured black talent, we haven't encouraged young black filmmakers to dream big.
"When you have that, that's when you have this systemic problem where artists aren't getting their platforms, aren't given their platforms.
"Some stories it's impossible for a white person to tell."
© UNIVERSAL
Peele says he has plans for four more horror movies "with each one to take on a different demon embedded in society".
In the meantime, he offers this advice for up and coming filmmakers: "I would say, write your favourite movie that hasn't been made."
Get Out is out now in UK cinemas.
Maybe i need to contact him about my "reverse sundown town"ideaGet Out director Jordan Peele wants young black filmmakers to get in touch
Jordan Peele's directorial debut Get Out is absolutely killing it at the box office in the US, already taking
$113m (on a budget of $5m). It's a brilliant, frightening and funny horror about modern liberal racism (check out our review), which has gone down a storm with critics and audiences alike.
One of the things that stands out about the film though, is that it's a story that's rarely told. In fact black protagonists in horror films, and black directors of horror films, are a rarity.
Peele wants to do something about that.
Talking exclusively to Digital Spy, he offered this to would-be black movie-makers...
© PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES
"For young black horror filmmakers, if you have a script, reach out and I'll try to help it get made. Monkeypaw Productions is my production company and we're really trying to promote untapped voices in genre."
Peele blames the lack of diversity in Hollywood on a couple of things.
"One is there's this misconception in Hollywood - that is hopefully nearing its end - that black leads in films don't do well, particularly overseas," he explained.
"But I think even more, the reason we don't see more films about the African American experience is because we haven't nurtured black talent, we haven't encouraged young black filmmakers to dream big.
"When you have that, that's when you have this systemic problem where artists aren't getting their platforms, aren't given their platforms.
"Some stories it's impossible for a white person to tell."
© UNIVERSAL
Peele says he has plans for four more horror movies "with each one to take on a different demon embedded in society".
In the meantime, he offers this advice for up and coming filmmakers: "I would say, write your favourite movie that hasn't been made."
Get Out is out now in UK cinemas.
could even market it as Get Out II 
One movie idea which i may get back to writing,i had envisioned the soundtrack to feature this kind of music
Cold ass music, but dated as hell. I don't know how you would mix it in. The beat is too busy on the second one. I would remove the keyboard and whatever percussion that was in order to utilize it right.
I'm up to 18,900. I got dreams of an EGOT. As soon as I can get this bitch completed I want to write the screenplay as well as a few songs that would go on the soundtrack. An Oscar for best original screenplay, a Tony for the play, a Grammy for Best Song.... Still don't know how I'm going to get the me but I'll be three quarters of the way there
Lol, I know. It's funny, we see a lot of throwback 50s movies.. even Back to the Future went back to the fifties. I don't know many movies that have gone back to the 80s. Best of luck, famPresumbly because what im writing is 80s-set
Still thinking of turning this into a video game(though my nephew and his friends are better workers with Unreal 4 than i am..) since E3 coming up next weekend into the following week ill have to see if there are a few seminars i can attend
The 80s have been a growing trend in movies/TV for a while now. Lots of indie genre films have attempted to capture the retro look and sound of 80s films (It Follows, The Guest, Drive, etc). Stranger Things is currently the most popular example. Snowfall, John Singleton's new series on FX, takes place in the 80s with the rise of the crack epidemic. It's a great opportunity for Black storytellers who want to try something different, and for nostalgic Black audiences...
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