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David · 04-06-2003, 06:30 PM

i do... i've written 14 for the same show, but I plan to keep them to myself.... lol.. but, i had to change some because sometimes I end up using THree's Company/8 Simple Rules jokes

webuster · 04-07-2003, 04:21 PM

tjl, have you got your 70's shopr script posted anywhere online? I don't use script software- I don't see wy scripts have to be so complicated to lay our, if you can read it, spaced out, and camera and character actions included, I call it a script. (My camera and character actions are in the same brackets usually)

Born2HaveOwnSitcom · 04-07-2003, 05:14 PM

I write sitcoms and have wanted to since I was in my teens, I sent a Family Guy spec and my bad luck that it got cancelled a few months after but I got a reply saying they would keep me in mind and how they enjoyed it.

ABlairican Pie · 04-07-2003, 10:22 PM

Okay, I wanted to keep the suprise about my story, but I'll be more specific:

What if you found out your newborn baby....

...was switched with an ALIEN CREATURE??

webuster · 04-08-2003, 03:54 PM

Cool Premise ABlairica, a few months ago I wrote a few pages for a premise of a film- It involved the FBI mixing up some glasses after breaking into some places, and a womanreceiving IVF treatment is impregnated with an alien baby, but it looks very human, the FBI comes after her, some other stuff happens with the aliens people from it's home planet etc. I've started writing premises for short tv shows (like a 10 minute version of the Twilight Zone) and TV movies.

ABlairican Pie · 04-08-2003, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by webuster
Cool Premise ABlairica, a few months ago I wrote a few pages for a premise of a film- It involved the FBI mixing up some glasses after breaking into some places, and a womanreceiving IVF treatment is impregnated with an alien baby, but it looks very human, the FBI comes after her, some other stuff happens with the aliens people from it's home planet etc. I've started writing premises for short tv shows (like a 10 minute version of the Twilight Zone) and TV movies.

That sounds cool, I hope my idea sounds original enough to be put into a motion picture...WITHOUT jumping on other people's ideas!! But I'll just have to see...

TJL · 04-09-2003, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by webuster
tjl, have you got your 70's shopr script posted anywhere online?

Sorry, I don't post my scripts anywhere.
Unless you know the e-mail address of an agent...

Warm & Fuzzy · 04-09-2003, 06:21 PM

I have never personally... but my English teacher is a playwright.

( Can you imagine how harsh he grades our essays?

)

webuster · 04-11-2003, 05:48 PM

I came up with a tv series Idea, it's like Outer Limits and Tales From The Crypt. I write these scripts, some can last an hour some half hour, if I write half hour, then it's two stories to an episode. Anyway, they have sometimes horror, sometimes sci-fi, I'm currently writing the first episode, which looks like it maybe an hour. I'm halfway thorugh episode 1. Anyway, I wanna do these ten minute short stories two, like sometimes when I have a weird dream, make it into a short (dreams don't usually have words, so It'll need to be very artistic, freaky and well edited) or just think of a SHORT story that could be done in 10 minutes like a mini Twilight Zone. The shorts and show could be shown on regular time-slot, instead of popping the short ones in anywhere. I also want to start looking at good books, and trying to write a script. Lately, some films I see I keep imagining as a stage play, and how it could be done (I want to adapt Shock Treatment on stage, since it's very unknown in the UK, i could probably pass it off as my own, without being sued over rights, and fooling some people into doing a production) Bye for now. Everyone keep updating on their scripts.

webuster · 05-09-2003, 05:02 PM

It's confusing to write scripts at the moment- cos during it I get tonnes of ideas to do, and wanna get them wrote. Anyway- I wrote a new idea- inspired partially by the recent SARS outbreak, Dr. Strangelove and Deep Impact.

Anyway- some scientist goes behind his companies will to experiment with medical chemicals, creating a virus which spreads to workers of the company, so the man destroys his many samples of the virus, but the factory catches fire in the furnace, creating a huge poisonous gas cloud spreading the virus. The virus spreads over huge cities, and begins making it's way abroad. Anyway- the government decide to qurantine the affected in 'concentration camps' but are secretly killing them off slowly to save money. The feds come to take some guys daughter away- but he pretends he's the one with the disease to spare his daughter- when he finds whats happening he escapes, and they try hunting him down. Anyway- the governemtn along with a leader scientist decide to take some people underground and put a timelock of fifty years on a giant underground city to begin again. When they're undergorund, all people look exactly the same- the scientists are trying to purfy humans, then the new civilization is in turmoil, and some people rebel and destroy the city, breaking out after 15 years, to discover earth better than before, when it had been destroyed by looters and panickers and soldiers- and the guy who broke out of the camp is leading the whole new better world, which now has stopped the disease.

Adamantium · 05-09-2003, 05:21 PM

I wrote a 60 page pilot for a science fiction show. Of course, I didn't do anything with it. It was just for fun. I tried writing a sitcom, but found out that I'm just not funny.

webuster · 05-09-2003, 05:45 PM

The BBC is the big cheese of networks in the UK for regular broadcast; though it's been going downhill due to the lack of sitcoms: there's only soaps, dramas, news and variety, some kids tv shows but no sitcoms. Anyway- BBC bends the rules farther for anyone looking to get involved. First- the ongoing competitions of BBC talent were you enter a catergoy (comedian, singer, radio personality) and if you win, you get on tv/radio. Also- the BBC has an address for unsolicited ideas- in fact a few addresses, but it has a lot of rules- you can only submit a pilot, not an entire series, unless they're gonna like it, stuff like that, and sitcoms can't be more than 30 minutes, neither can dramas unless given special consideration- stuff like that. Anyway- I'm gonna send away a pilot sitcom, once I write it, and a 'horror/sci-fi' show pilot. There's another address just to sumbit ideas. A few years ago, still now- the stars we loved were America's biggest stars, and the stars that we had ourselves, just stayed within the country, except Catherine Zeta- so we basically depended on america, if the U.S didn't like a sitcom, it affected us- cos 99% of sitcoms here are US- but cos there aired like 6 months after US, the us network doesn't take into account UK ratings. Anyway- I wanna get bbc better, it's a shame- it gets so much funding but wastes it, and loses out in reality tv to younger networks.

harper · 05-30-2003, 11:41 AM

I cannot imagine what it would be like to write a whole Script with scene detail and Camera Point of view as fast as writers do,You have to have great patients to do so. What Kind of Script Writing do you do?.Have you sold any spect scripts to any studio,I heard it was easy-Good luck

webuster · 05-30-2003, 03:08 PM

I write mainly comedy scripts- A year ago I wrote a kinda adult variety show- and all the characters, celebrity guests and all are made of clay models, and the presenters who are presenting small sketches are very rude kinda- Santa Claus, Satan, A Leprechaun and some other people presenting. I haven't sold a spec script- I'm looking for scriptwriting comps that don't cost a fortune to enter- and I've found the ideal place to sell a sitcom pilot to once I write it. I always come up with movie ideas- I always want to write a book, but for now every story I come up with I want it as a script. Some are dramas too. I most recently typed up an idea, one I WILL use- it's nothing like this daddy day care thing. Anyway I wrote long and intricate storylines, notes- for instance I think of a joke for the end of the film, and jot it down so as not to forget. Anyway the film is about a parcel delivery guy who is fired, goes through a few jobs before becoming a MALE midwife, and all this funny stuff happens to him, before he forms a relationship with one of the pregnant women, the head nurse tries to get him fired, court case- woman's meddling mother interferes, he keeps job and they live happily ever after kinda. I know- sounds like a typical romantic Adam Sandler/ Rob Schneider flic- but I don't wanna give away much details. I'm coming up with kinda a british version of veronica's closet/ Just Shoot Me- answer me this- was Veronica's Closet based around a fashion designers, or a magazine too?

ABlairican Pie · 05-30-2003, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by harper
I cannot imagine what it would be like to write a whole Script with scene detail and Camera Point of view as fast as writers do,You have to have great patients to do so. What Kind of Script Writing do you do?.Have you sold any spect scripts to any studio,I heard it was easy-Good luck

Actually, it is not recommended that you add camera angles in your script, that is the job of a director. I learned in my course that you're not supposed to. It makes it look unprofessional. About scene detail, you don't necessarily have to go into total specific detail. But yes, it takes some patience.

04-06-2003, 06:30 PM	#16
David mcphee. Forum Superstar Join Date: Jan 30, 2003 Location: jacksonville, FL. Posts: 28,115	i do... i've written 14 for the same show, but I plan to keep them to myself.... lol.. but, i had to change some because sometimes I end up using THree's Company/8 Simple Rules jokes
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04-07-2003, 04:21 PM	#17
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	TJL tjl, have you got your 70's shopr script posted anywhere online? I don't use script software- I don't see wy scripts have to be so complicated to lay our, if you can read it, spaced out, and camera and character actions included, I call it a script. (My camera and character actions are in the same brackets usually)

04-07-2003, 05:14 PM	#18
Born2HaveOwnSitcom Me and Jimmy Fallon Occasional Poster Join Date: Apr 21, 2001 Location: England Posts: 66	I write sitcoms and have wanted to since I was in my teens, I sent a Family Guy spec and my bad luck that it got cancelled a few months after but I got a reply saying they would keep me in mind and how they enjoyed it.
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04-07-2003, 10:22 PM	#19
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,619	re: my script Okay, I wanted to keep the suprise about my story, but I'll be more specific: What if you found out your newborn baby.... ...was switched with an ALIEN CREATURE??
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04-08-2003, 03:54 PM	#20
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	cool Cool Premise ABlairica, a few months ago I wrote a few pages for a premise of a film- It involved the FBI mixing up some glasses after breaking into some places, and a womanreceiving IVF treatment is impregnated with an alien baby, but it looks very human, the FBI comes after her, some other stuff happens with the aliens people from it's home planet etc. I've started writing premises for short tv shows (like a 10 minute version of the Twilight Zone) and TV movies.

04-09-2003, 06:21 PM	#23
Warm & Fuzzy Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 02, 2001 Posts: 10,254	I have never personally... but my English teacher is a playwright. ( Can you imagine how harsh he grades our essays? )
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04-11-2003, 05:48 PM	#24
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	new idea I came up with a tv series Idea, it's like Outer Limits and Tales From The Crypt. I write these scripts, some can last an hour some half hour, if I write half hour, then it's two stories to an episode. Anyway, they have sometimes horror, sometimes sci-fi, I'm currently writing the first episode, which looks like it maybe an hour. I'm halfway thorugh episode 1. Anyway, I wanna do these ten minute short stories two, like sometimes when I have a weird dream, make it into a short (dreams don't usually have words, so It'll need to be very artistic, freaky and well edited) or just think of a SHORT story that could be done in 10 minutes like a mini Twilight Zone. The shorts and show could be shown on regular time-slot, instead of popping the short ones in anywhere. I also want to start looking at good books, and trying to write a script. Lately, some films I see I keep imagining as a stage play, and how it could be done (I want to adapt Shock Treatment on stage, since it's very unknown in the UK, i could probably pass it off as my own, without being sued over rights, and fooling some people into doing a production) Bye for now. Everyone keep updating on their scripts.

05-09-2003, 05:02 PM	#25
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	new ideas It's confusing to write scripts at the moment- cos during it I get tonnes of ideas to do, and wanna get them wrote. Anyway- I wrote a new idea- inspired partially by the recent SARS outbreak, Dr. Strangelove and Deep Impact. Anyway- some scientist goes behind his companies will to experiment with medical chemicals, creating a virus which spreads to workers of the company, so the man destroys his many samples of the virus, but the factory catches fire in the furnace, creating a huge poisonous gas cloud spreading the virus. The virus spreads over huge cities, and begins making it's way abroad. Anyway- the government decide to qurantine the affected in 'concentration camps' but are secretly killing them off slowly to save money. The feds come to take some guys daughter away- but he pretends he's the one with the disease to spare his daughter- when he finds whats happening he escapes, and they try hunting him down. Anyway- the governemtn along with a leader scientist decide to take some people underground and put a timelock of fifty years on a giant underground city to begin again. When they're undergorund, all people look exactly the same- the scientists are trying to purfy humans, then the new civilization is in turmoil, and some people rebel and destroy the city, breaking out after 15 years, to discover earth better than before, when it had been destroyed by looters and panickers and soldiers- and the guy who broke out of the camp is leading the whole new better world, which now has stopped the disease.

05-09-2003, 05:21 PM	#26
Adamantium TVAdam No More Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 11, 2002 Location: Springfield, Ohio Posts: 7,839	I wrote a 60 page pilot for a science fiction show. Of course, I didn't do anything with it. It was just for fun. I tried writing a sitcom, but found out that I'm just not funny.

05-09-2003, 05:45 PM	#27
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	BBC The BBC is the big cheese of networks in the UK for regular broadcast; though it's been going downhill due to the lack of sitcoms: there's only soaps, dramas, news and variety, some kids tv shows but no sitcoms. Anyway- BBC bends the rules farther for anyone looking to get involved. First- the ongoing competitions of BBC talent were you enter a catergoy (comedian, singer, radio personality) and if you win, you get on tv/radio. Also- the BBC has an address for unsolicited ideas- in fact a few addresses, but it has a lot of rules- you can only submit a pilot, not an entire series, unless they're gonna like it, stuff like that, and sitcoms can't be more than 30 minutes, neither can dramas unless given special consideration- stuff like that. Anyway- I'm gonna send away a pilot sitcom, once I write it, and a 'horror/sci-fi' show pilot. There's another address just to sumbit ideas. A few years ago, still now- the stars we loved were America's biggest stars, and the stars that we had ourselves, just stayed within the country, except Catherine Zeta- so we basically depended on america, if the U.S didn't like a sitcom, it affected us- cos 99% of sitcoms here are US- but cos there aired like 6 months after US, the us network doesn't take into account UK ratings. Anyway- I wanna get bbc better, it's a shame- it gets so much funding but wastes it, and loses out in reality tv to younger networks.

05-30-2003, 11:41 AM	#28
harper gentlegiant Frequent Poster Join Date: Mar 04, 2003 Location: Towson,Maryland Posts: 130	Screen writing is hard I cannot imagine what it would be like to write a whole Script with scene detail and Camera Point of view as fast as writers do,You have to have great patients to do so. What Kind of Script Writing do you do?.Have you sold any spect scripts to any studio,I heard it was easy-Good luck
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05-30-2003, 03:08 PM	#29
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	w I write mainly comedy scripts- A year ago I wrote a kinda adult variety show- and all the characters, celebrity guests and all are made of clay models, and the presenters who are presenting small sketches are very rude kinda- Santa Claus, Satan, A Leprechaun and some other people presenting. I haven't sold a spec script- I'm looking for scriptwriting comps that don't cost a fortune to enter- and I've found the ideal place to sell a sitcom pilot to once I write it. I always come up with movie ideas- I always want to write a book, but for now every story I come up with I want it as a script. Some are dramas too. I most recently typed up an idea, one I WILL use- it's nothing like this daddy day care thing. Anyway I wrote long and intricate storylines, notes- for instance I think of a joke for the end of the film, and jot it down so as not to forget. Anyway the film is about a parcel delivery guy who is fired, goes through a few jobs before becoming a MALE midwife, and all this funny stuff happens to him, before he forms a relationship with one of the pregnant women, the head nurse tries to get him fired, court case- woman's meddling mother interferes, he keeps job and they live happily ever after kinda. I know- sounds like a typical romantic Adam Sandler/ Rob Schneider flic- but I don't wanna give away much details. I'm coming up with kinda a british version of veronica's closet/ Just Shoot Me- answer me this- was Veronica's Closet based around a fashion designers, or a magazine too?