Short Scripts
N.B. These short scripts are bastard children in a sense. I had to take my stories and then tailor them to instructions for particular submission guidelines or for groups working on a team project. Five years later, I skim through the pages and wonder whether I should re-write the scripts or just pull them from view. Time will tell... but I do believe that the kernel of the stories are very strong conceptually.
"Ersatz" |
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Precis: Short script tailored from a better story for submission to a talent search contest sponsored by Jameson Whisky and boasting the talent of Kevin Spacey and Adrian Brody.
"Leeway" |
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Precis: This short script was designed for the USC MFA Screenwriting application. The only instructions were to write a script under 7 pages that reveals a dilemma between two people – one wants to leave where they are while the other wants to stay.
"Told You So"
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Precis: This was a short script designed for the USC MFA Screenwriting application. They requested a script under seven pages that was set at New Year’s Eve where someone is finding it a challenge to get to the celebration.
"Conspiracy" |
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Precis: This was a short script designed for the Final Term project at Toronto Film School Video Game Design and Development program. For the last twelve months of the program the cohort works together on a game. The director of the program asked me to contribute a script and "Conspiracy" was what I came up with. It is a strange script because it was written with a game already in mind. In fact, The story is tongue-in-cheek and focuses on a situation where all of human conspiracies familiar from tabloids and internet forums would converge. In this case, Grey Aliens and Reptilians are battling to construct a WMD on top of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
"Fusionpunks" |
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Precis: If you note the short script above this, entitled, "Conspiracy" was written for the Term 6 game at the Toronto Film School's Video Game Design and Development program. The cohort had a very difficult time marrying a wide variety of interests in games in order to progress with a consolidated and coherent project concept. I re-wrote the Conspiracy script into a new story that would relate to the game that they have agreed to make as a team.
My story posits that a human race much like our own has been sundered into two factions - Dieselpunks who are run by an authoritarian bureaucracy that ration the fleeting supplies of fossil fuels and the Cyberpunks who had a spiritual pilgrimage to create a new civilization built on renewable resources, such as solar energy. An engineer of great repute worked hard to foster fusion energy and succeeded but felt that the aggressive punk cultures would abuse the power source and destroy each other and their planet, Vertumnus. He entrusted the knowledge to a high-powered computer he built called Engine Nero. However, the engineer disappeared and Engine Nero has been degrading for lack of maintenance. Both punk factions have seized the opportunity to strike at Engine Nero and steal the coveted knowledge of fusion power.
Worth noting, is that I consider this a "speed script" because after some mental planning, the actual script was written in under an hour. My other speed script was "Ode".
My story posits that a human race much like our own has been sundered into two factions - Dieselpunks who are run by an authoritarian bureaucracy that ration the fleeting supplies of fossil fuels and the Cyberpunks who had a spiritual pilgrimage to create a new civilization built on renewable resources, such as solar energy. An engineer of great repute worked hard to foster fusion energy and succeeded but felt that the aggressive punk cultures would abuse the power source and destroy each other and their planet, Vertumnus. He entrusted the knowledge to a high-powered computer he built called Engine Nero. However, the engineer disappeared and Engine Nero has been degrading for lack of maintenance. Both punk factions have seized the opportunity to strike at Engine Nero and steal the coveted knowledge of fusion power.
Worth noting, is that I consider this a "speed script" because after some mental planning, the actual script was written in under an hour. My other speed script was "Ode".
Here is a narrative overview that was prepared for the project's GDD.