Emerson thesis -- Writing for film and television
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Devilment, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_larocca_eric.pdf
Overview
"Devilment is a horror-thriller with dark fantasy elements about a videogame designer who finds her and her younger brother's life forever changed after they encounter an infamous video game with gruesomely metamorphic properties. Examining themes of abandonment, transformation, and the inability to love, the film concentrates on a young woman involuntarily thrust into a role of motherhood as she begins to suspect her brother is experiencing a grotesque metamorphosis after he plays a rare...
Dates:
2019
Doctor Underground, Too Much Blood Phuckette Park, Magnolia, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_lopez_ricardo.pdf
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"This project contains two scripts. DOCTOR UNDERGROUND is a hour-long medical drama that follows the women's health crisis in current day Nicaragua by navigating the dark world that is the health care system: power, money, greed, privilege, religion, and politics — nothing's off-limits. When Dr. Micheala Galiano, a highly skilled gynecologist, and woman's rights activist, finds herself stuck after trying to change the corrupt system from the inside, she goes on a journey to expose the...
Dates:
2021
Dorothy, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_legrow_molly.pdf
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"This masters' thesis contains both written artist statements as well as a full-length feature screenplay titled Dorothy. Through this project, I was able to explore familial dynamics and reunions in the face of extreme grief. This thesis project studies grief through its power to unite as well as completely tear apart. In my screenplay, the two main characters, Sadie and Rose, are estranged sisters who suddenly lose their mother, Dottie. They are forced to work through their deep seated...
Dates:
2022
D.O.S.E., 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_jean-francois_castel.pdf
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"This hour pilot sews together fantasy and drama to explore the concept of true happiness and how to obtain it. Avery Goodwin reunites with her estranged magical family to solve a brewing mystery that exploits the desires of humans for personal gain. Fairy Godmothers are at the center of this series because I view them as the most selfless creatures in fiction. Their whole role is to cater to the needs of mortals. The main theme that echoes in all of my work is the pursuit of happiness and...
Dates:
2020
Double Negative, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_thompson_gregory.pdf
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"Double Negative is an LGBTQ psychological thriller about a voyueristic and truecrime obsessed photography student who takes on the identity of her recent lover after witnessing the one night stand's accidental death. The film follows our protagonist as she frames another woman for the crime, only to find her intended victim is a more formiddible match than she intially anticipated. Intertwining elements of black comedy, surrealism, and the potential for an unreliable narrator, Double...
Dates:
2020
Duppy and the Dybbuk, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_brown_aaron.pdf
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"Duppy and the Dybbuk is a romantic comedy about a young mixed race couple whose love is tested by the supernatural opposition of the ghosts of the lovers' grandmothers. The story deals with themes of assimilation, xenophobia, and the fraught nature of cultural inheritance in modern day America. As the grandmother ghosts attempt to break up the young couple, the lovers must figure out what is going on and grow into better versions of themselves, learning not to entirely discard the past in...
Dates:
2019
Fairfield & Assistance, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_day_jack-henry.pdf
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"Fairfield and Assistance are two original television pilots, an hour-long drama and half-hour comedy respectively. Fairfield follows the triumphs and woes of the Fallcrest brothers, Damien, a twenty-four-year-old college dropout, and Cameron, a bright but timid fifteen-year-old, in the wake of their father's untimely passing and abandonment issues from their erratic and absent mother. While Assistance puts generational differences to the test when a middle-aged and prolific talent agent,...
Dates:
2024
Fall of a God, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_grant_jacqueline.pdf
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"FALL OF A GOD is a feature-length film that explores the concept of what society deems a "good person" and a "bad person" through a cast of questionable characters in a horror-inducing dream world. It aims to challenge society's assumptions of the relationships and power dynamics between various types of people. This horror film follows an anti-hero protagonist who attempts to regain control of herself from a volatile god in a modern-day retelling of the story of Hades and Persephone with a...
Dates:
2023
Falling Underground, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_zurbrick_alexandra.pdf
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"In this fantasy feature film, Charlotte is killed on Hell Night as a pledge of a sorority, she has no idea that her real life is just beginning. She wakes up in a new world called Temple Gates and discovers her true identity as a warrior angel. A year later, she has trained hard and found confidence in her new life, but not purpose. She proposes to the Gods of the world, her parents, to use magic to return to Tate University and get revenge on her killer. Something that seems like a simple...
Dates:
2024
Father Rahm, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_vera_gregorio.pdf
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"Inspired by a true story, this coming-of-age film follows Miguel and Jose, two teen best friends, through their struggle in surviving a crime-stricken neighborhood, oppressed by rival gangs during 1960 in El Paso, Texas. It was also the peak era of pachucos: classy set of gangsters impeccably dressed in zoot suits with drape pants, fedora hats, long chains and two-tone shoes. In this world, Miguel and Jose, both raised without father figures, try avoiding gang conflict. However, after a...
Dates:
2024
Found, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_riggs-davis_seren.pdf
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"Found is a feature length animated musical based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The film follows a starry-eyed frog who sets out from the comfort of his hometown and life as a tailor's son in pursuit of fulfilling his dream of becoming a renowned stage actor. Set in a reimagined 1920s America with singing and dancing anthropomorphic animals, the songs and world within this coming-of-age fantasy are intentionally reminiscent of musicals of the Jazz Age and reflective of the opulence and...
Dates:
2024
Future Hacked , 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cusick_william.pdf
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"Future Hacked is a near future conspiracy thriller prototype for interactive virtual reality play as a narrative game. The player controls the choices of a greenhorn FBI agent assigned to interview a suspected mole in the NSA. In a series of interactive dialogue scenarios, the player investigates and pursues different possibilities based on what they choose to believe. The game moves forward without any fail states or restarts as the player's choices build up statistics to impact the narr...
Dates:
2019
Grand prospects, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_dier_lindsey.pdf
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2018
Green, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_lumumba_menelek.pdf
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"BYRON "BRICK" WILSON (Black, 40s) has just been released from a nine-year prison sentence for selling Marijuana. His best friend, ALLEN "A-TEE" THOMPSON, (Black, 40s) waits for Brick at the prison gates. As A-Tee drives Brick home, he is pulled over by Narcotics Detective DOUG SMITH (Black, 40s). Doug welcomes Brick home and provides a coded warning against going back on the street. Brick discovers his mother, TINA, (Black, 60s) has breast cancer. Tina dies the next day. Brick decides to...
Dates:
2021
Hairdryer Treatment, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_franklin_austin.pdf
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"HAIRDRYER TREATMENT is a feature length film designed for streaming platforms that features a diverse ensemble cast, exploring the concept of team as family. Set in 1982, the first year that the NCAA recognized women's sports championships, this comedy follows a fictional collegiate soccer program in their first year of competition. While there are numerous team-sport comedies that follow men, the amount that have women as the focus pale in comparison. HAIRDRYER TREATMENT attempts to change...
Dates:
2022
Have You Seen Me?, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_tate_maron.pdf
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"Lucy Brownstein is beautiful and mysterious, but we already knew that, because like all stories about women like Lucy, she disappears. The only thing she leaves behind is security footage from the laundromat a Sunday morning in which she can be seen folding laundry, taking a phone call, and then leaving it all behind. John Doherty, who knows Lucy from spending mornings together at her bus stop, told her a dark secret of his own the morning of her disappearance. When John starts digging into...
Dates:
2021
Heads, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_diem_nguyen.pdf
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"Ever since he could hold a crayon, Robbie has drawn the people around him in a peculiar way - they appear more as misshapen, macabre supernatural creatures rather than human. Although unsettled, Robbie's father David dismisses everything as Robbie's childish imagination. These drawings are no real sources of concern, that is, until Robbie's grade school class has a new homeroom teacher, Mr. Percy. Robbie starts making drawings of a man with children's heads growing out of his back. Shortly...
Dates:
2024
Hell Yeah The Champion, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_jones_colin.pdf
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"Ward Foster, a 21-year-old perpetual loser is on his way to a date (his first in years) when he is flattened by a semi-truck. He wakes up in the purgatory waiting room, and when his name is called to ascend to the pearly gates, he accepts his lot and makes his way to the afterlife. However, stairs can be tricky. One wrong step leads to him plummeting straight down to the doors of Hell and abandoning all hope. That is, until he meets Caydes DeMonium, a centuries-old demon slacker. Caydes...
Dates:
2024
I Found God at the Vince Lombardi Service Stop, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_eisenberg_kayla.pdf
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"A cadre of strangers pass through the Vince Lombardi Service Stop in Ridgefield, New Jersey - an eternal monument to family road trips and fast food fantasies - in search of milkshakes and immortality: the kind of enduring legacy that can only be formed through the stories they tell one another and people they pretend to become beneath the fluorescent, flickering lights of Curly Diana's Diner. Over the course of the year following the fifteenth anniversary of her son's death, Janice the...
Dates:
2024
Imposter "Pilot", 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_savage_austin.pdf
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"'IMPOSTER' is an eight episode limited series designed for streaming platforms that features a a [sic] diverse ensemble cast and explores the concepts of identity and power through a fictionalized retelling of real-life events. Loosely inspired by "Dr. V's Magical Putter" by Caleb Hannan, the series reframes the events of the 'Grantland' article and creates whole new characters to delve fully into the events of a journalistic investigation that ended up leading to the tragic suicide of the...
Dates:
2021