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INT. OFFICE CUBICLE - DAY
With the invention of the blog comes the concept of 'screen' writing to the power of 9 because what is blogging but writing on a computer screen. One person decides to change his name to WRITER, first name SCREEN and makes an impact in the industry when his agent succeeds in finding him work.
SCREEN WRITER
Is the search really over?
EDITOR
What writers don't see are
the spider bots which scan
and read entries weeding out
the bad stories from the good
A thought bubble appears above SCREEN displaying his surprise over being duped by his very own writing machine in his endeavor to break into the movie industry.
SCREEN WRITER
No wonder bloggers constantly see
their stories being used in films
and TV series which they were
never hired to write for.
All the creative blog writers in the office perk up, their ears focused on the conversation.
BLOGGER
Nothing beats the convenience of
being able to type directly onto
the computer and have entries
displayon the screen in colorful,
fancy fonts which can attract
readers from all walks of life.
Nobody considers the bots that hackers use to scour the web for unsuspecting writers leaving their intellectual property gullible to the vast amount of readers who have no morals over plagiarism. And so the spider bots rear their ugly head in the form a repressed subconscious suggestion.
BOTS
Just as soon as we perfect OCR
technology, we will rule the world.
CPU
Especially now that peeps like
Harvey Weinstein are being put
behind bars.
For a little piece of mind, what I do is I like to think, by updating my blog this way, I've stumped the spider bots from identifying the text in my prose. It would take OCR technology to decipher words from an image file.
WRITER
Oy, what about all the special
paranthetical abbreviations yo?
And this is something I have not seen much improvement in as I wait for news in development circles where new mobile phones will have the ability to scan a form and convert it into ascii text, or recognize my chicken scratch writing and convert my handwriting into text. |
<-- Using <tt> tags at the start of your composition calls up the fixed width font so your text prints the way movie producers and movie directors know and love.Screenwriting is all about community. The misleading google results that pop up when beginning screenwriters search online for tips and guidance is how-to instructions for everything under the sun, from pitching loglines to joining competitions, but never seems to encourage hands-on practice and sharing with fellow strugglers in an environment that protects and supports intellectual property<-- Using <center> tags for CHARACTER names indents and capitalizes automatically.
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</tt>P21Fest is a celebration of independent film and animation in Philadelphia hosted by Project Twenty1, a volunteer-run arts organization dedicated to inspiring, connecting, exhibiting, and promoting artists from all disciplines. The festival opens with the one-time-only Philadelphia Premiere of "You Might As Well Live" (October 1 @ 7:30 pm) , an off-the-wall comedy where Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money and a championship ring.
Over 50 films will screen over the 4-Day festival, including the 21-Day Filmmaking Competition films, a collection of animated & live action shorts from all over the world based on the common secret element "Key". P21Fest will also host educational workshops, including Pitch Yourself!, a seminar to teach you pitching dos and don't, along with “Speed Networking” (a business card swap similar to the style of speed dating, but more productive)
And if you're into parties, you can't miss “Shorts and Shots” (an open-mic-style casual screening you can BYOShort!) and Friday Night FX (October 2 @ 9:30 pm), a celebration of Special FX Makeup Artists at The Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum.
For tickets, schedule and info, visit www.ProjectTwenty1.com
I'm putting together a project for a college teleproduction class, and I have an idea that I'd like to get written for screen. It's for a 5-10 minute short. It'd be for screen credit and a copy of the finished product. The production date is (ostensibly) next spring. I need to start getting things together this fall semester.
Alex Epstein, a screenwriter and author of Crafty Screenwriting and a blog of the same name, wrote a little commentary on character names: Name Trends.
Besides the Social Security data, he links two sites I hadn't seen before that use the Social Security data:
• Baby name wizard Voyager
• Name Trends
The first one is a lot of fun, but I find the second more useful. Not only is it good for finding names that strongly suggest a character's age, it also helps find common names that don't strongly suggest an age. When writing a script set in a specific era (including the present), a name should be consistent with the character's age – maybe not strongly suggest an age, but at least not disagree with the character's age. But when writing a script set in an indeterminate era (such as not-so-immediate-future science fiction), it's probably best to use names that don't suggest any specific era – I favor names that don't show wild swings in popularity over time.
I hope others found this message as useful as I found Epstein's pointer to Name Trends.
Finally (and off-topic), for those in the US, happy Independence Day.
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