Sunday Picture Post 19 / Dreams
photo credit: Jule_Berlin
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:
- A title for this movie
- 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: DREAMS
To create a story, you may use day dreams: things you think about while you are awake, your ideal life, your dream world, a place you would rather be than here.
Strange dreams from your sleep are also great to inspire an original script.
Or, for your screenplay, you can use your haunting or recurring nightmares.
Keep note of your dreams and browse through them from time to time to see if one jumps out at you as a compelling and engaging story.
Dreams are a fantastic source for unique ideas.
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I’ve had some weird dreams over the years, even some that came true.
I can remember a haunting dream from when I was a kid. I was in a swampy area and there was a misty fog (just like in Star Wars). Sitting on a tree branch was Kermit the Frog….on another was E.T……..and then walking on the ground was Yoda. I would wake up so terrified. All 3 characters would somehow always appear in my nightmares.
SizzlyP - Kermit, ET, and Yoda! Green little men don’t sit too well with you it seems. You could never get the rights to them, I doubt, but wow what a funny movie that would make based on your nightmares. A short script based on that would be good writing practice for you; it could finally give you comic relief from your nightmares.
Yes, I have had quite a lot of dreams come true as well. I love pondering the possible reasons why this happens.
Dreams in themselves are basis for a good movie. Why do we dream? What do they mean? How is it that we can have prophetic dreams?
Dogs and other animals notably dream as well. So whatever it is for us, it is for them too.
Lots about which to think! Thanks.
Word: Wonder
Damaged, ruined and yet one hospital room stands as a scarce reminder that once, long ago something exsisted on this cold deserted planet once called earth. (This scene would follow an ariel view of a torn up planets surface that is devoid of all life and structure.)
Pitch: Inside a cold, torn up hospital wing a secret lies as to the strange dissapearance of an entire planets population.
Norman — Welcome! Good pitch.
Immune
Escape
Charles leaves the crowded streets to a place always known to be empty, the hospital.
The year is 2013 and man has been cured of all known disease, but something has to control the population.
I like the idea, but it’s still pretty rough.
Title: Blue Moves
Tortuous underwater ordeals that know one wants to know of start here. And then it is drained.
I have this vague idea of this being some kind of torture chamber and then it is drained for some reason. Something to do with sea creatures. As far as I got. Can’t think of anything else. I usually get flashes of things.
Great titles Adam and Ellen.
Adam — A world without diseases could be more grim than a world with diseases, definitely something to consider. Sounds like Charles is going to make some fun new virus, eh?
Ellen — Interesting. Sounds like one of my sci-fi stories… I think you are tapping into my little noggin with that one.
I love this image, it captures the imagination. So many different directions one could run with this one. It’s weird to think this place actually exists.