Three things to do today:
1. Please review for your exam:
3. Write a 1-2 page film pitch for a talking film (to be completed either Wednesday or Friday this week in class, depending on class participation). Choose a genre popular in the 1930's or 1940's for ideas. Select one and consider characters, settings, and plot elements that might be found in your selected genre. Design a story.
1. Please review for your exam:
Film trends in the 1930's2. Read the article on 1940's film and begin answering questions (to be completed in class Wednesday).
Sound in film
The Jazz Singer
Joseph P. MaxfieldTechnicolorRKO studiosWalt Disney Studios: Flowers & Trees, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The 3 Little Pigs, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck films from the 1930's, other Disney animationThe Wizard of Oz & Judy GarlandGone With the Wind & Clark GableIt Happened One NightBecky SharpThe 1930's Star SystemStan Laurel & Oliver HardyBoris Karloff & Bela LegosiCary GrantThe Marx BrothersGreta Garbo & Marlene DietrichJean Harlow, and Johnny WeissmullerJoan Crawford & Bette DavisShirley Temple & Mickey RooneySpenser Tracy & Katherine HepburnFred Astaire & Ginger RogersPopeye the SailorHal Roach & The Little RascalsDavid Selznick & Samuel GoldwynIrving Thalberg & Erich Von StroheimJoseph Von Sternberg & Fritz LangFrank Capra & George CukorPeter Lorre, Fritz Lang & MGene Autry & John Wayne (& Westerns)1930's Musicals1930's Literary Films1930's Horror Films1930's Screwball comedies1930's Gangster Films
3. Write a 1-2 page film pitch for a talking film (to be completed either Wednesday or Friday this week in class, depending on class participation). Choose a genre popular in the 1930's or 1940's for ideas. Select one and consider characters, settings, and plot elements that might be found in your selected genre. Design a story.
What is a Film Treatment, as opposed to a Film Pitch?What Should Be in the Pitch?
A pitch is used to convince a film company to produce your film. The pitch is usually a one page summary of the main action, characters, and setting of the film. Essentially it deals with the idea.
The film treatment is usually a 3-20 page document that tells the whole story focusing on the highlights. It is more detailed than a pitch. It can include a scene by scene breakdown of a script. It is used BEFORE writing the real script so the author can plan his/her project.
How To Write a Pitch
The pitch, like a treatment, should read like a short story and be written in the present tense. It should present the entire story including the ending, and use some key scenes and dialogue from the screenplay it is based on. Usually a pitch also suggests similarities to other films and actors.
1. A Working titleHOMEWORK: Please read the article on Orson Welles and study for the quiz on 1930's films.
2. The writer's name
3. Introduction to key characters
4. Who, what, when, why and where.
5. Act 1 in one to three paragraphs. Set the scene, dramatize the main conflicts.
6. Act 2 in two to six paragraphs. Should dramatize how the conflicts introduced in Act 1 lead to a crisis.
7. Act 3 in one to three paragraphs. Dramatize the final conflict and resolution.
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