A boy meets an alien. Those five words would be the beginning of my pitch. After the general concept of the story is clear, details of the story would follow. The protagonist, Elliot, would be presented as a ten-year-old living in a divorced family and who has little to no friends. Then I would describe E.T. and how by him meeting Elliot, the inciting incident, a friendship begins. Keys and the government would be the conflict in my pitch, and I would go into detail of how they search and find ET. After the protagonist, antagonist, and inciting incident have been described, I would then detail the key plot points that would appeal to my audience. One particular scene that would grab the listener’s attention is the Elliot and ET flying bike scene. By presenting the scene, it will cause the listener to become interested in seeing the scene visualized. To sum up the pitch, I would make aware that this is a package deal with Steven Spielberg and highlight how he could capture the audience’s imagination with this film.
Christopher Carullo
Questions:
1. Is it easier for you to read subtext in a screenplay and still comprehend the characters, or do you need you need no subtext to understand the characters?
2. If the person you are pitching A Boy's Life to seems uninterested in the story, how could you capture his attention?
Subtext or no subtext, it doesn't matter to me. I find script simple to read.
ReplyDeleteI liked it better to read without subtext, but that was simply because I liked to invent my own subtext to characters. If there is any way I could make a character more likable to me, I will because loving a character is one of the most important things for me.
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