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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
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Anecdotes from the Industry's Past!Please use this forum to view and post anecdotes and stories from the Motion Picture and Television Industry's past! |
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The exchange:YOUR MASTERPIECE ACT ONE FADE IN: 1 INT - COMPUTER - SCREENWRITERS' EXCHANGE - - Day 1 We open on a computer screen. Reflected in the glass we see the face of an intense individual. As the camera pans around it reveals that YOU are engaged in surfing the internet and come across IndustryCentral - The Motion Picture and Television Industry Professional's First Stop! As you click through the pages, you locate the ScreenWriters' Exchange. YOU (amazed) Wow! This is what I have been looking for. The mood intensifies YOU (continuing) Now I know where to start to have my story become a reality! (CONTINUED)
The Rules: Reading SubmissionsAnyone with WWW access can read submissions on this exchange. To read submissions, navigate to the submission of interest by single clicking on the links from the list of topics and subtopics. You can navigate backwards using the navigation bars at the top of each page. Adding your Storyline/Synopsis If you would like to submit the Storyline/Synopsis of a screenplay that you either are working on, have completed, or simply an idea for one that you wish to develop and would like to "Pitch" in the IndustryCentral ScreenWriters' Exchange, you are welcome to do so. The first step is to register as a user on this site by clicking on any "Login/Register" link and following the instructions. Please note that not everyone is approved and in theory should have some involvement or association with the Motion Picture & Television Industry. Once you have completed this process, simply navigate to the Genre' that is appropriate and click on the "Submit a Synopis" button. Your submission will be reviewed by one of our Expert Moderators who may chose to offer a brief analysis of your submission. This process may take a day or two to complete as our moderators are busy working professionals who have agreed to volunteer their time. In the spirit of cooperative feedback, your submission then becomes part of an open forum where others may add comments. Hopefully within these comments you may find a new twist or idea that might just make your screenplay get that all important option that is the first step in reaching the big or small screen! Contributing to SubmissionsAuthenticated (logged in) readers are encouraged to offer constructive feedback on any of the storyline/synopsis' already submitted to the exchange in order to assist the Writer in developing his or her script. In order to contribute feedback or post a new storyline/synopsis of your own you must first complete the registration process by getting an account. To offer feedback to an existing submission, fill in the "Add a Message" box at the bottom of the page. You may use formatting (source) codes or basic HTML tags to improve the appearance of your post via our basic HTML WYSIWYG Editor. At the discretion of the moderators, the discussion may allow public posting or may require a user account (username and password). Follow the instructions on the form to supply the necessary credentials for posting. Where available, you may click on a "Submit a Synopsis" button to start a new discussion. This will add a subtopic with the subject you specify and start a conversation with the initial message that you specify. After filling in the subject line, post a message as described above. Rules and "Netiquette"When writing your messages, please use the same courtesy that you would show when speaking face-to-face with someone. Flames, insults, and personal attacks will not be tolerated. It's fine to disagree strongly with opinions, ideas, and facts, but always with respect for the other person. Great minds do not always think alike, and that's where the fun is! Also, note that messages express the thoughts of the writers, not the exchange or its moderators.
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Action/AdventureAction film is a genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Action films tend to feature a resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life-threatening situations, a villain, or a pursuit which generally concludes in victory for the hero (though a small number of films in this genre have ended in victory for the villain instead). Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences and other visual effects that required the efforts of professional stunt crews in the past. However, reactions to action films containing significant amounts of CGI have been mixed as films that use computer animations to create unrealistic, highly unbelievable events are often met with criticism.[1] While action has long been a recurring component in films, the "action film" genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. Common action scenes in films are generally, but not limited to, car chases, fighting and gunplay or shootouts. This genre is closely associated with the thriller and adventure genres, and they may also contain elements of spy fiction. |
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DramaWhen used to define a specific genre or type of film or television programme, drama is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular subgenre, such as "political drama", "courtroom drama", "historical drama", "domestic drama", or "comedy-drama". These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent (mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels, short stories, and narrative poetry or songs.[1] In the modern era before the birth of cinema or television, "drama" came to be used within the theatre as a generic term to describe a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy. It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted. "Radio drama" has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a live performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio. |
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Horror/ThrillerA horror film is a movie that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences. Initially often inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, horror has existed as a film genre for more than a century. The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres. Horror films often aim to evoke viewers' nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, satanism, gore, torture, vicious animals, evil witches, monsters, zombies, cannibals, psychopaths, natural or man-made disasters, and serial killers. Some subgenres of horror film include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, disaster horror, holiday horror, horror drama, psychological horror, science fiction horror, slasher horror, supernatural horror, gothic horror, natural horror, zombie horror, first-person horror and teen horror. |
2 | 2 | By Mike Belson 4 years 3 months ago |
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ComedyComedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary (such as The King of Comedy and Wag the Dog). |
1 | 2 | By Leslie.JC 6 years 5 months ago |
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Science FictionScience fiction film (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. In many cases, tropes derived from written science fiction may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science fiction is traditionally held. The genre has existed since the early years of silent cinema, when Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon (1902) employed trick photography effects. The next major example in the genre was the film Metropolis (1927) - being the first feature length science fiction movie. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubrick's landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the science fiction film genre was taken more seriously. In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences after the success of Star Wars and paved the way for the blockbuster hits of subsequent decades. |
1 | 1 | By BSimon 6 years 7 months ago |
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WesternThe Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter[1] armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse. Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, soldiers (especially mounted cavalry), settlers, both farmers and ranchers, and townsfolk. Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a "...mythic vision of the plains and deserts of the American West". Specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Common plots include the construction of a railroad or a telegraph line on the wild frontier; ranchers protecting their family ranch from rustlers or large landowners or who build a ranch empire; revenge stories, which hinge on the chase and pursuit by someone who has been wronged; stories about cavalry fighting Indians; outlaw gang plots; and stories about a lawman or bounty hunter tracking down his quarry. Many Westerns use a stock plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shootout or quick draw duel |
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Situation Comedy (Sitcom)A sit-com or sitcom, a portmanteau of the full term "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. This form can also include mockumentaries. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. During filming productions, the laugh track is usually prerecorded. |
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DocumentaryA documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.[1] Such films were originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made into a TV show, or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries. |
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.