Competitions
The Blue Cat screenplay
competition- Applying to a
competition is slightly riskier as there can only be one winner and hundreds
and thousands of entries, whilst some can be shortlisted and others can be
runner ups, it’s like applying for a job knowing thousands of others with
different levels of experience are also applying for, however there can be
producers and more who see these competitions, as well as search at festivals
to see if they can find budding talent. One of the winners of the 2021 BlueCat
competitions was Beverly Chukwu, with her screenplay called Prince of Lavendale
Street.
https://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/competition/rules-guidelines/ October 2022
studio 21 competition- Studio 21 works with top level industry
executives and leading showrunners to discover the best up and coming writers
in a global market. They support their writers with bespoke strategies for
their best development. Providing support financially, writers room support and
consultancy. They aim to develop fresh ideas and promote writers' portfolios on
an international level through the parent company C21 Media’s products. It
appears that each year Studio 21 runs a competition which is open for new
writers to submit their work. This can be a variety of genre and previous
winners are now in the process of having their project developed with leading
producers. Their website also has email contact details, but it is unclear if
this can be used for submissions. Some of their competition’s winners are Jan
Smith creator of Parasomnia, Alister Mc Dermott creator of Bakersfield and
Grace Link creator of Crack of Dawn. The winner of their competition is given
£10,000 to help develop their works as well as a chance to connect with the
global drama business through C21Media’s Content London in December.
https://www.studio21.com/ October
2022
Commissioning body
The BBC offer a chance for work
to be seen though their writing room, so pitching to a corporation. Each year
the BBC partner with around 10-15 writers, through independent production
companies, when they are conditioned, they attend masterclasses, and workshops
with more experienced writers throughout the year whilst continuing to help
those who have agreed to develop their script with developing the script. The
aim is for that script and series idea will be taken up by the BBC. Once the
writer has sold their script, although it may not actually be used, they are
not allowed to sell it to another corporation. An example of a TV series that
the BBC has produced is His Dark Materials, this was originally a book by
Phillip Pullman.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/our-groups/tv-drama-writers-programme/
Some examples of Sources that you could use to get
inspiration from for writing or planning a screenplay include books, novels are
good inspiration for writers, whether fiction or not, they can give information
on a subject that the reader isn’t particularly knowledgeable on, or just
inspire different story ideas.
They could also base their scrip on a certain book they
like, or think would make a good movie or Tv show, for example The lord of the
rings, written by J.R.R. Tolkien was adapted into several movies. Another
example could include movies and Tv shows, a pending writer could watch many
movies and Tv series for, story world, plot ideas and character concepts.
They could also reference older movies in their scrip to
draw in a bigger audience, for example they series stranger things uses many
references particularly in the first episode to E.T. Another way writers get
inspiration from talking to those around them, whether other writers or not,
sometimes it can mean writers form a group to inspire one another with their
scripts or a writer could ask for opinions online, if not either of those I
could just be a writer discussing and bouncing ideas of their friends.
Finally, they could get inspiration from real life events,
whether historical or current for example they could write their script on a
tragic historical even like titanic or a real inspirational story like dolphin
tail, these tend to be movies and usually at the end credits the movie states
that it is based on real events.
It is good for writers to use different sources to widen their database that they use to create their ideas, the more they read, watch and hear the bigger that database is.
Internet, books and people can be used as source of information for a script, it could be easier to contact people online.
I listened to the ideas that the people in my class had, after spending some time watching as many movies as I could stand between reading a couple of books I had not read in a long time. After hearing others’ ideas, I remembered part of a horror story a friends older sister told me one nigh in the wood, I cant remember the original story I was told although I remember the rough idea and fill in the blanks from inspiration from what others told me of their ideas and stories they heard.
The internet is useful for quickly looking up anything you don’t have a working understanding off, and a library has many books focusing on specific topics going into great depth. And it is not too difficult to ask those around you who have studied or just have a general knowledge. If reading the information or watching videos online aren’t an option, it is also possible to talk to people who have a working knowledge of the information you require.
Talking to people has been the most useful source of
inspiration to me.
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