Sunday Picture Post 10 / Happy Mother’s Day
photo credit: utpal.
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.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
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1. Tsunami!
2. The submarine desperately tries to warn the mother and child of the impending danger, but their sand castle agenda on Malibu beach takes priority over the blinking morse code signals.
3. Little Jimmy, finding himself soaking wet and sitting on top of the “H” of the Hollywood sign, with his feet dangling in sea water, concludes that Global Warming is a possiblity. Mom floating by on a chunk of ice berg with a horny submarine captain confirms his speculation. But all is not lost. Spielberg is standing on one of the L’s photographing the catastrophy, and Jimmy is the star.
1. Invasion
2. Junior uncovers a strange object buried in the sand, and yells at Mom to come take a look.
3. Junior finds what looks like a strange insect-like larva on the beach. Mom is curious and brings it to her biologist friend who works at the university. All the professors are puzzled, for this is nothing they have ever seen before. One thing they know for sure, is that this thing is ALIVE, and it’s rapidly growing. Suddenly more of these larvae are discovered, not only on this beach, but beaches everywhere on the planet. By the thousands. And they are all growing… into something. Goverments are powerless as people panic. Something BIG is about to happen…something that will change all life on this planet as we know it. …but WHAT?
- Gift
- A mother is desperate to send a message out to sea, so that her and her young son will be rescued.
- A mother and young son stranded on a remote desolate island send out to sea, a message in a bottle pleading to be rescued….25 yrs. later, a fishing boat rescues them. The now 28 yr. old son Josiah, begins to have dreams telling him that he is “the chosen one”, and soon discovers the island has somehow given him healing powers to cure all known diseases and injuries. Josiah then decides to go to Afghanistan to use his gift to heal and cure the injured war soldiers. The one soldier he is unable to heal or save, is his own father! In his grief, he journey’s back to the island that gave him this gift, to find out why. Where will his journey take him, and will he find the answers he’s searching for from the island or from island inhabitants, and will he still have–or even want his healing powers, once he leaves the island?
Hey, I haven’t given up on these… I think they’re fantastic… but with a new baby in the house my internet time is limited… and creativity, as it strikes me, is often a well drawn out event. Hopefully I’ll have some time this week to throw my hat in.
Nanu — CONGRATULATIONS on the new Reel Ninja Baby!!! The sequel! ;-) Surely, Baby Ninja will inspire some new ideas.
Bill — Nice to see you back. Funny one. I love imagining the submarine sitting out there under that beautiful tranquil sea. Hollywood sign under the sand there is funny too.
Friar — Ewwwaaaah! …but that’s a good one. Glad you are liking these. You are good at it.
Jan — I am glad a woman came on scene here to contrast the two masculine takes on the image. Thanks. Lovely story idea.
All your story ideas went to unexpected places — really good!
Lurking
Hidden beneath her wide brimmed hat, book in hand, though not a page turned for the past twenty minutes, she sat in wait.
Her advanced years earned her an immediate position of trust with the unsuspecting mothers. None would realize until it was much too late, that she had laid in wait for the perfect moment to lure their children to their brutal death.
Nanu — Good gawd! That was a dark one… on such a sunny day. Don’t mess with the Ninja’s Wife! Very good. Nice job flipping that image completely upside down.