Really for me this was not a difficult prompt. With my family background there are masses of runaways, but I decided to look at my mum's family... And my Irish ancestors. It has to be the potato famine... Did you know that recently they have found that the particular blight that caused the famine appears… Continue reading Logline 8 – Runaways
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Logline 7 – Stolen
This is an excellent prompt... Stolen... What is stolen? Who is stolen? Is it a romance or a thriller or a crime? The questions are endless. And I've got to choose one. There is the stealing of a child - but I don't want to do a story about that. Lately in Wales the stealing… Continue reading Logline 7 – Stolen
Logline 5 – Record Holder
So this had me confused... Is it a record holder as in a person who holds a record, or is it a thing that holds records? So I did what any confused person would do and Googled it. I do find it great that Google is a verb. So what came up were record holders… Continue reading Logline 5 – Record Holder
Logline 4 – Booby Trap
The first thing that came into my head was The Goonies, okay so I'm a bit of a nerd... Then I started to think about it in terms of traps. One thing that come to my mind was Mousetrap the game. This led me to thinking of games and a conversation I had seen on Facebook between… Continue reading Logline 4 – Booby Trap
Logline 3 – Diamonds
Oh! The choices... But I did quickly decide on one idea. The only problem is that it desperately wants to be a story so I have beaten it into submission and twisted it into a logline. Although I have a feeling it will soon be a story. 🙂 Logline Recovering from a divorce, in which… Continue reading Logline 3 – Diamonds
Screenwriting 9
The assignment is almost finished and I was just popping the last few bits together when I realised I had a scene I had cut. So I thought I would pop it on the blog just to show what I've been up to. So this is the point when the antagonist, Philip, finds out that… Continue reading Screenwriting 9
Independent movies and the ABC of Death…
So over the weekend I got to go and see the anthology of short films called The ABC's of Death. It is a collection of shorts charting the alphabet and using 26 different directors. They were given complete control over their word, which they were given free rein to choose. It was surprising as to… Continue reading Independent movies and the ABC of Death…
Screenwriting 8
I was researching for my reflective essay on the screenwriting and I came across a quote that sums up a bad screenplay. I had to share it because it also puts the problems with my dialogue in a nutshell. "Is that your green-eyed blonde younger sister crossing the dual carriageway over there?" From Rib Davies,… Continue reading Screenwriting 8
Screenwriting 7
Step outlines... This was new to me. I'd never heard of it. So I sat expectantly wondering what I was going to find and really hoping it would only be a list of scenes. And actually it is just a list of scenes... and... a brief description. Had to be really. A list of scenes… Continue reading Screenwriting 7
Screenwriting 6
So, I managed to hand in three-quarters of the completed script (my lecturer had asked for the lot but it had been a little too much work). I gave it to him and then spent a nail-biting week waiting for the verdict... I shouldn't have worried. The verdict was - clumsy in some areas but… Continue reading Screenwriting 6
Kate Murray - Cleaver 