Emerson thesis -- Writing for film and television
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
Dorothy, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_legrow_molly.pdf
Overview
"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
Overview
"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
Overview
"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
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
Fine Optics: A Feature Film, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_horgan_peter.pdf
Overview
"Sterling Ryder (40) is a Court Officer at the Boston Municipal Court, respected by inmates and the court staff. Sterling privately struggles with depression ever since his son was killed. Jeremy Hawkins (16) is a protégée gang member that finds himself at the BMC. Jeremy recognizes Sterling and decides to put him through hell. Sterling is suspended from work after he's served a restraining order from a woman he has never met. As Sterling waits at home for justice, the stories being spread...
Dates:
2022
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
Overview
"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
Imposter "Pilot", 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_savage_austin.pdf
Overview
"'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
Johanna Van Gogh, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_griffith_patrick.pdf
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"JOHANNA VAN GOGH is a TV Pilot inspired by the true story of the woman who saved Vincent van Gogh's legacy – the story behind the story of the two brothers. Primarily set in Paris in 1891, following the tragic death of Theo only six-months after Vincent, this historical drama follows his grief-stricken widow Johanna and one-year-old son; the sole heirs to hundreds of Vincent's paintings. Designed for streaming platforms as a limited series, JOHANNA VAN GOGH attempts to reveal the events...
Dates:
2023
Kevin's Declassified Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_krauth_daniel.pdf
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"A dysfunctional bunch of high school students must work together to survive a zombie outbreak that infiltrates their high school. Kevin is an insecure nerd. The main perpetrator of this ridicule is Brendan, a cocky jerk. Kevin has a big crush on Hannah, a theatre girl. Kevin’s best friend is Alex, a laid back stoner and skater. Emily, the overachieving class president, has been going around the school warning everybody about the toxic chemical spill at the dump behind the school. She...
Dates:
2022
La Bodega, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_garcia_koby.pdf
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"La Bodega is a feature length screenplay that tells the story of the Brisas family, a Cuban American multigenerational family who own a bodega in a predominately Hispanic town just outside of New York City that is in the midst of gentrification. A teenager Martin, his mother Ana, and his grandfather El Viejo have differing opinions on the future of the family and their bodega as they each navigate their own lives. This family drama also serves as a coming of age story for the characters and...
Dates:
2023
Labouka, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_west_robert_alton.pdf
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"'Labouka' is a show that aims to bring both political intrigues mixed with the adventurous antics of shonen manga/anime and young adult novels. It centers around Tora II of the Laboukaian royal family who is born right before the takeover and occupation of his country by the Trios, a country to the northeast of his central and landlocked homeland. The show focuses on themes of family, duty, sacrifice, resistance, and challenging the world order. History of the continent of Rhodelia heavily...
Dates:
2020
Land of flint, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_shatraw_justin.pdf
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"Land of Flint is a crime drama with science fiction elements about a troubled FBI agent who struggles to solve a bizarre murder, hoping to quell her inner crisis and expose a technological threat in Mohawk territory." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Last Dream in Town, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_castillon_alejandro.pdf
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"Last Dream In Town is a feature-length screenplay about the role that art plays in the lives of people in rural United States and society at large. This independent drama follows a young grieving bartender who has abandoned her passions, supporting herself financially after the sudden death of her best friend. Eccentrics abound in her small Texas town, and soon she becomes immersed in the lives of radical, anti-technology artists seeking to change the world. Egos clash, music is made, and...
Dates:
2023
Last Looks, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_schwegler_ashley.pdf
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"LAST LOOKS is a dramedy limited series that is developed for streaming platforms. A recent college grad takes a job at a funeral home where she faces oppposition when she wants to modernize the establishment to cater to the twenty-first century." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Let's Go Kill Your Father, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_rodriguez_isabella.pdf
Overview
"LET'S GO KILL YOUR FATHER is a dark comedy and drama centered around a mother-daughter road trip that explores the complicated gravity of grief and guilt. Sprinkled with comedic levity, the film's emotional arc is tethered between the creation of one life and the ending of another. A young Cuban woman completing in vitro fertilization is suddenly jolted into a mission of the opposite nature when her estranged, sickly father asks her to travel from Miami to Portland to euthanize him. She...
Dates:
2021