Emerson thesis -- Writing for film and television
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Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
Letters For Julian, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cortes_maria.pdf
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"Letters for Julian is a coming-of-age dramedy about a Boston teenager who, after a sudden death of his mother, learns that he has an older brother who was given up for an adoption at an early age. Exploring themes of family ties, the importance of friendships and human connection, the script follows one main character through his journey on discovering what true family stands for, which leads to a final realization that sometimes blood ties are not the strongest, and our home is truly where...
Dates:
2019
Light Catchers, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_roberts_jarrod.pdf
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"This project is a pilot and limited series for a run of ten episodes, revolving around a lone-wolf criminal assembling a heist team to steal a corporation's secret method of faster-than-light travel. The science fiction and heist hybrid follows the main character around a developed solar system, to recruit maladaptive experts into his team, including his distant mother figure and mentor, an ex-gang member robot, a deaf combat specialist, and a hacker addicted to existing in cyberspace." --...
Dates:
2022
Liquid gold and Maybe later, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_savini_nicole.pdf
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"Liquid Gold is a pilot that sets the background for a half-hour comedy-drama series exploring the lengths single mothers must go to survive. The work confronts toxic gender expectations and our cultural discomfort with the biological female body, in contrast to our obsession with the sexualized female body. Lisette is a recently divorced mother of a new baby and 8-year-old son. In need of income and struggling to re-enter the work force, she discovers an untapped market of bodybuilders,...
Dates:
2018
Long Island Gothic, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_spica_kathleen.pdf
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"Built upon the premise of the regional gothic, LONG ISLAND GOTHIC is a gothic horror feature. The slow-burn horror takes regional specificity under its wing and transforms it into the macabre in a story about knowing when it's time to go and choosing what is worth sacrificing for. It features a twenty-six-year-old WALTER KHAH, a sculpture artist who comes back home to suburban Long Island after running away from his problems in the city and catapults himself head-first into a new...
Dates:
2022
Madrid: A Feature, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_martus_olivia.pdf
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"Madrid follows LAURA (10), who is an average almost 5 grader who loves the Jonas Brothers and reading Goosebumps novels with her best friend SARAH (10). She thought her life would be the same forever until her father, CONRAD (40s) announces she and her family are moving halfway across the world to Madrid, Spain for his big corporate job. Now she must face a new school and adjust to a completely different world from the one she knew in her Western Pennsylvania town. She soon meets new people...
Dates:
2022
Madrona, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_mabanglo_jessica.pdf
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"Inspired by real events, MADRONA is a story of grace and purpose. Cole Scottie did not get her degree in Communications and Leadership to be tutoring fifth grade girls. However, after being let go from her job as an HR Manager, here she is. These girls are unruly and dramatic. Maybe that's just being a ten year-old. In any case, their parents are overwhelmed with having kids at home from hybrid-schooling, and they let the girls get away with things that are not okay. The overachiever that...
Dates:
2022
Making Waves, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_lee_michael.pdf
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"Making Waves is a feature length dramatic comedy that explores family, failure, and mortality through the journey of two women who just want to see the sea. Inspired by Hurricane Floyd's impact on the North Carolina coast circa 1999, the plot follows Sam Pines as she drives her terminally ill grandmother Florence 700-miles to the beach, unaware a hurricane is directly in their path. Along the way they hit numerous roadblocks, both literally and metaphorically, that force them to address the...
Dates:
2022
Meemst & The Mammoth, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_stephenson_michael
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"MEEMST & THE MAMMOTH is an animated feature film designed for theatrical release set in a fantasy world in which dragons and animals are constantly at odds, struggling to survive. As the dragon's food and water supply begin to dwindle, Meemst, an antithetical young dragon who refuses to breathe fire, embarks on an epic journey to a magical kingdom in the clouds in search of the Elder Dragoom--the one being who can ensure both the dragon's and animal's survival. In his travels, Meemst...
Dates:
2022
Meteorite Gem Show and Virgins, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_galloway_mackenzie.pdf
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"METEORITE GEM SHOW is a live-action and animated show that follows the life of Zula, an 8-year-old girl who has a knack for gems, crystals, and all things mystical. She is a super-nerd and does not engage with the likes of other puberty-stricken 8-year-olds. While other girls are concerned with makeup and viral dances, Zula is fascinated with crystals, the stars, and flowers or has her head engulfed in a YA book. Zula has a special ability. She draws unique portraits. They come to life and...
Dates:
2023
Middlewives and IRL, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_burness_taylor.pdf
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"MIDDLEWIVES is a one hour dramedy pilot about a young woman who escapes her polygamist cult and finds new family with a group of Vegas strippers. It uses themes of motherhood and freedom to explore ideas of chosen family and the necessity of discomfort for growth. IRL is a half hour comedy pilot set in 1999 about three teenage technopagans who team up with a deceased 80s heartthrob to help the spirits they've unleashed pass on. It explores the intersection of the past and future in numerous...
Dates:
2020
Midsummer, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_gillogly_allison.pdf
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"Midsummer is a romantic comedy film with a diverse ensemble of characters that explores the nature of love in its many forms – romantic, affectionate, familial, playful, obsessive, enduring, self-less, and self-love. Modernizing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by transforming the play's four lovers into love-struck teenagers, the fairies into rock and pop stars, and the rude mechanicals into hapless nerds, the film aims to be part of the rich cinematic tradition of Shakespearean...
Dates:
2019
Midway, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_mcaskill_matt.pdf
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"A man inherits his father's Midway arcade and discovers he's also inherited a massive gambling debt to the mafia which leads him to seek less than legal means to pay it off." --page 7.
Dates:
2018
Minor Progression, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_mcgroarty_kate.pdf
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"This drama feature works within the established tropes found in classical arts education narratives to investigate a lower-income woman's journey through the classical music world, misogyny as an obstacle to education, female ambition, the impacts of trauma and the tension between abuse and the pursuit of excellence." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Modern Mafia and New Game+, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_kruskal_adina.pdf
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"MODERN MAFIA is a half-hour single-camera television comedy pilot which follows an innocent programmer who must prove his loyalty to a very un-conventional Mafia in order for them to spare his life after witnessing a hit. NEW GAME+ is an hour-long television drama pilot which follows a die-hard gamer sucked inside his favorite video game who must use in-depth knowledge of the game's world and mechanics, as well as alliances with with non-player characters, to seek the game's creator and...
Dates:
2023
Mother May I?, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_blankenship_damon.pdf
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"With the current social climate of our society becoming so polarizing, I've looked at the struggles I have faced in my own family and considered how they may affect future generations. How do we handle seeing two sides to those that we love? In this story, I'm interested in exploring the themes of duality, denial of guilt, and how repressed trauma can manifest itself and spill over into our children's lives for them to be forced to ultimately resolve. Edgar is an eight-year-old boy who...
Dates:
2021
Mother Tongue, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_saavedra_stephanie.pdf
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"MOTHER TONGUE is a feature-length family drama made for streaming platforms that explores the difficulties of forgiveness as the death of a loved one looms over the heads of a broken immigrant family. It features a young, first-generation Filipino-American girl struggling to find her own identity in the culture she feels pushed away from while simultaneously trying to find her own unique voice as a painter in her young adult life. The film encapsulates the grey nature of love given by...
Dates:
2022
Native Speakers, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_szymanowski_mathew.pdf
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"Native Speakers, a psychological drama script set in Poland, tells the story of twenty-something Mark, an American expat English language teacher, and his womanizing, hedonist old highschool friend, Anthony, who unexpectedly shows up, disrupting Mark's life, eventually leading to his retaliation. Through the perspective of the main protagonist, Mark, the script examines the often contradictory way that chauvinism and shamelessness, when disguised with charm and confidence, are often...
Dates:
2019
New dawn, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_stahl_micah.pdf
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"New Dawn is a futuristic noir about a middle-aged, female private detective searching for a kidnapped little girl while experiencing delusions about her own choice not to have children. The story takes place in Miami in the year 2123 where robots have gained their independence and live side by side humans." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Noodles, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_leal_allegra.pdf
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"Twenty five year old JEANIE has struggled with mental health her entire life. Over the past year, she has tried everything she can to forget that it's her fault someone is dead. She works at an animal shelter and goes to church, but she can't escape the guilt. Flashbacks allude to a terrible tragedy in her life when she struck a jaywalking pedestrian with her car in her hometown. She now bears the responsibility of guilt and taking care of the victim's dog, Noodles. In an attempt to focus...
Dates:
2021
Ode to a Siren, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_neil_lowry.pdf
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"'Ode to a Siren' is a romantic dramedy film about a young Southern woman who loses her virginity to a married man. 'Ode to a Siren' in its purest form, is also a coming of age film that tells the story of a star-crossed and painful affair, from the "other woman's" perspective. As ELLE (21) a young Christian woman finds herself embroiled in a toxic affair that she has less control of than she realizes, Elle must find the strength within herself to reconcile her two internal “identities...
Dates:
2021