Sunday Picture Post 12 / Memorial Day Weekend
photo credit: digiyesica
For The Sunday Picture Post, we are going to flip upside-down the saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Thousands of words are great if you are writing a novel, but if you are writing a screenplay, you need to do the opposite and be as concise as possible.
Each Sunday I will post a picture. For your screenwriting practice in brevity, in the comments section, please post one or all of the following:
- 1 word describing the theme, mood, or scene
- 1 sentence to describe the scene
- A pitch to sell the entire movie
The more colorful and creative you are, the better! Use any genre.
A good screenwriter is laconic, using a few words to say a lot.
SCREENWRITING TIP OF THE DAY: MEMORY AIDS
Scripts of 90 to 120 pages become a lot of information to keep in your mind. Outlines and scene cards are good to create for quick reference. To tell a better story, you might want to put certain scenes before or after other scenes; with cards, it is easy to move the scenes around and see what works best. Separate sheets that have character and story point breakdowns are useful as well.
Having tangible reference sheets outside of your computer are helpful.
For Memorial Day, enjoy the favorite meal of a lost loved one and remember their funny eating quirks.
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I love this image, I have to participate in this one.
~ Candy
~ 99 uniquely designed colorful magick sugar skulls line the Mexican blanket that sits on a cardboard box.
~ Marlena, an incarnated goddess of balance, appears as a homeless gypsy in northern New Mexico selling her magick sugar skulls for a dollar. Those who eat the sugar skulls take on a incandescent glow, passing joy and happy miracles to all those who they touch.
Cannibalism
Harold places on the table the skull-shaped candies depicting the victims he plots to eat alive.
Harold has 60 minutes to complete his mission of eating his 60 victims that he must find around the city. When he discovers that he’s part of someone else’s plot of the same kind, he must not only complete his mission in the limited time, but he must also find and kill his attacker before it’s too late.
SizzlyP – Wow, that is an excellent pitch! (in all its gory)
Those are both tubular ideas and I am completely willing to spend the proper amount of money to witness those ideas come to life on the big screen.
Seems Jaden has put a lot of herself into her main character. Keep up the joy and the happy miracles for all of us shall continue. The thing about the glow is that it is actually you that provides the glow, much like the sun, and we’re all just the planets encompassing it.
:-)