Fill in the following chart with the Top 5 Favorite Lists you just
created:
Characters
Settings
Subjects
Genres
Software
Bigfoot
teenage girl, new age shaman, 16 Angelina Jolie
lost
underground ancient city
Bigfoots
Comedy
3D
bigfoots
Tall
blond Nordic archeologist 32, explorer, Peter Weller
Prague
1992
Lost
cities
Animated
supernatural comedy
2D
photo collage sets
NYC
party girl 28 hip techno, shock artist, Naomi Watts
Tunnel
crypts under Paris 2007
shamans
Romantic
myth thriller
2D
lightening bolt FX
Polar
bear boy 9, fat orphan, Owen Wilson
Inside
a cat's brain
Native
Americans
Buddy
spiritual adventure
bluescreen
actors
Dog
headed Gothic detective, 32, Nicolas Cage
Lightening
bolt storm
crop
circles
Mockumentary
horror
hand
drawn 2D characters
Create
3 Story Concept Sentences using the above chart to fill in these
spaces:
It is a story about a Top
5 Character who lives in a Top
5 Film World/Setting. This story explores
the subject of Top 5 Subject
in a Top 5 Story
Flavor using Top
5 Software.
Be
flexible with how you phrase the sentence to make it sound best.
Feel free to add things not on the lists if you come up with better
ideas. Your goal is to end up with at least one Favorite Story Sentence
you would love to see as a film. Here are some more examples:
It
is a story about a
3D teenage bigfoot girl who
lives in a lost underground city.
This story explores the subject of shamanism
in a supernatural
animated comedy using 3D
bigfoots on 3D sets.
It
is a story about a
dog headed gothic detective
living in Prague investigating
a series of bigfoot sightings
in an animated
crime thriller comedy using
bluescreen actors, 2D photo collage sets and
3D bigfoots.
It
is a story about a
fat polar bear orphan boy living
in Alaska
trying to survive global
warming in an animated comedy
using 3D creatures,
3D sets and some DV sets.
Pick your favorite Story Sentence to develop
for the rest of this Writing A Great Script Fast Nutshell Sample
Workshop. Make sure it is a story idea you would stand in line in
the rain on a dark cold night to see!
Coming
up next we will be adding plot goals and an antagonist to this one
favorite story sentence idea..
