Sunday Picture Post 32
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SUNDAY PICTURE POST
For The Sunday Picture Post, we 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 post a picture. For your screenwriting practice in brevity, in the comments section, using the image above, 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.
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“The Broke Down”
boredom
Noah Madison* and a companion are waiting for road side assistance and tell stories to pass the time.
A fresh-out-of-college graduate, Noah Madison, takes a cross-country road trip to “find himself” and seeks adventure by visiting old friends in various locations, and making new friends on the way. During his travels, he encounters people with extraordinary stories too incredible to believe, and has fantastic experiences all his own that he shares with people he met. Although he is exploring life from many different perspectives, he’s also avoiding the reality of his real life waiting for him at home with his estranged step-father whom he has kept a promise to one day return.
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*This is another character I have created for a series of road trip short films. Loosely inspired by a former college roommate, and various popular “road trip” or storytelling songs.
“The Broke Down” would probably be a chapter somewhere in the middle, but closer to the end. I haven’t a clue right now, I only have very broad outlines written.
t.sterling — Aaaah, I like it. Feel good film. This photo was taken while driving across country and comes charged with a bunch of great stories. You can click on the image and go to his site for lots of other great inspiring photos.
Those pictures were awesome. That inspired a lot more for me to write about and I love the scrolling style on the site. I couldn’t find the picture you used though, but that’s fine. This makes me want to get a better camera and just take pictures all the time.
Hmmm.. this looks familiar.
Is it around the Lake Powell region? (Perhaps the Vermillion Cliffs in Arizona?)
naw. It’s not around Lake Powell, but I do believe it was Arizona. It’s off of HWY 40, there’s a little Indian Reservation Service Road, (no-white-man-allowed style) … but I didn’t know that until I was about 2 hours into it. You have to pass through a bunch of chained gates (should have been a clue) and eventually you come upon a hidden reservation (which you shouldn’t know exists) but really, even with a map I’m pretty sure I couldn’t find it. No. I could find it. But I wouldn’t think it was smart to go there twice.
“America Under Attack”
Survival
In the middle of the arid desert of Arizona, Austin Duane, a Homeland Security secret agent, is making his surveillance rounds on the US-Mexican border.
For years, America has been paranoid of being attacked on their homeland and has created various bureaucratic institutions to assure the nation’s security. It’s been afraid of the Nazis, the Japanese, the Russians and now the Middle East…but what about Mexico, it’s little friendly neighbor? “America Under Attack” is a comedy looking at Mexico’s attack on America, when each of the 108,700,891 Mexicans assault North America’s most populated country with their tacos and nachos in hand. How will the patriotic Americans fend for their nation? Will they use hamburgs and hot dogs? Assault riffles?…or will they use another atomic bomb?
SizzlyP — Too funny! Nice twist on politics.