Emerson thesis -- Writing for film and television
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Salt & Pepper, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_clayton_maisy.pdf
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"This half-hour children's animated series invites young, eager minds into the delicious and magical world of food and the culinary arts. Combining educational television with uplifting adventure, each episode of the series explores a new ingredient, where it's found in nature, how it's sourced, and how it can be used in various forms of cooking. This series aims to get children into the kitchen, and to be excited and inquisitive about the food that they eat. The work I've created throughout...
Dates:
2019
Santa's Rookie Report, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_sainvil_deion.pdf
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"This feature film is a comedy/fantasy that takes place around Christmastime. It is about an Elf who aspires to become a licensed Santa Claus, which would make him the first Elf in the history of the North Pole to achieve this feat. In order to do so he must get a passing evaluation score on his rookie assignment. Parallel to this, the protagonist's estranged sister is a youth leader at a South Florida church that is putting together a play based on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' One of the...
Dates:
2020
Seedlings, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_eglitis_gerard.pdf
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"Seedlings is a feature-length children's animated film made for theatrical release. Set in the present day, Seedlings follows a young seed and her new human friend's exploration of what is on the other side of life as they know it. The film heavily focuses on the concepts of death and family, both chosen and biological. Although the feature is entertaining, Seedlings educates children and families on life cycles and reinforces the idea that change is inevitable and natural." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
So Extra, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_hutchins_derek.pdf
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"So Extra is a feature length comedy drama about a man who moves to Hollywood in pursuit of his dream: becoming an actor. However, this is easier said than done, and he is forced to find work as a background actor to make ends meet, where he gets to know several other dreamers who help him along the way. The script seeks to explore what it takes to "make it" in Los Angeles and how to cope with the frustrations of constant rejection when all the soul wants is to create, suggesting through use...
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2019
Somali Blend, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_sellwood_peter.pdf
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"Jake Mars is a widower that will do anything to fight to keep his Minneapolis urban neighborhood from changing. Jake owns a greasy spoon diner that is famous for their world class cinnamon rolls. The diner hasn't been forced to change since the doors opened in the 1950's. A Somali woman opens up a wildly successful Somali cafe in the same neighborhood which forces Jake to fight for his cafe or run the risk of it going out of business. Jake will stop at nothing to save his cafe. His wife,...
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2021
Songs My Mother Taught Me, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_collins_rance.pdf
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"In this gay-themed romantic comedy, Brett and Carlos meet as plus-ones at a party that ends up being an orgy neither wishes to participate in. Outside the "action," they hit it off through their mutual love of word games, 1990s sitcoms and bad puns. Brett's not on social, so they exchange numbers and get coffee... but then discover that they have seemingly incompatible lives. Brett is a reverend at an inclusive Methodist church. Carlos is a porn star of some notoriety... and a recovering...
Dates:
2024
& sons / And sons, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_eckard_robert.pdf
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"This half-hour comedy works within the established tropes of family sitcoms to investigate a lower-income family in America's South, LGBT identity development within youth, and the socioeconomic structures shaping current society. Themes around family, the Southern experience, and LGBT characters are present in the majority of my work in the program." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Space Cub & Neuro-Tap, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_wachowski_joseph.pdf
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"SPACE CUB is a half-hour animated series designed for streaming services with a target audience of children 10 and up. The story follows the journey of a young boy named Cub and his adventure to retrieve his kidnapped mother. Cub is the son of Captain Austin, the strict and competent leader of an asteroid mining expedition and the captain of her space vessel the Deltron. Our Journey begins when the Deltron's crew is ambushed by Captain Psyche and her mercenary space bandits. NEURO-TAP is an...
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2023
Starhopper, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_carter_tayler.pdf
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"This animated half-hour pilot blends comedy and science fiction, following the adventures of human twins, Cassie and Leo, and their alien friend, Sid, as they travel the galaxies to aid beings in need. Exploring coming-of-age themes, family and community dynamics, and LGBTQIA+ representation is present throughout my work, both within this thesis collection and moving forward." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Stocks & Gallows / Forever 99, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_perkins_nicholas.pdf
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"Half Hour Pilot, Title: FOREVER 99, Logline: A former teen-star turned cult leader deals with the consequences of her successful suicide pact when those who took part are permanently stuck in 1999. Synopsis: CORA (27) was a popular teen actress until she aged out of her roles. She started a cult called the Eveites to feel the love of followers again, but when most of the cult goes through with a group suicide on New Years Eve 1999, something goes wrong. The Eveites are stuck on Earth as...
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2022
Stupid Voices from the Future (a feature film), 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_ehrlich_cj.pdf
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"What if the future called, but it was the wrong number? Stupid Voices from the Future is a comedy/sci fi feature with the theme that even a hero needs to be part of a team. When Marissa, a humble artist, is contacted by the Future, she's thrilled when they explain that she's the One, the only one, who can change the course of history and save the world. She's not so thrilled when they tell her she's also the one who destroyed it in the first place. But when she realizes they meant to call...
Dates:
2021
Swamp Pizza, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_reine_kelsey.pdf
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"Concrete's cooking in Opelousas, Louisiana and JOSELINE (16) desperately wants to forget about her troubles at home with a negligent mother and have the best Summer of her life with her two best-friends RODGER (15) and MIRACLE JOY (15). After what seems like a typical day at work cooking pizzas and selling beer to the trashy locals at the “great value” amusement park, the three friends get an alert that the park is on lockdown. Through the walkie talkie communication system they are alerted...
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2022
Sweetener, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_thomas_brianna.pdf
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"SWEETENER is an hour-long limited series that focuses on themes of self-awareness, familial bonds, and corruption. This story blends the darkness of its deadly subject matter with humor to create an irreverent and cheeky take on the popular crime-solving genre. Taking inspiration from many of today's procedural dramas, legal thrillers, and women-led comedies, this script combines elements from all of those genres and wraps them into a comedic murder-mystery." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Taking Back Magic, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_heatherington_patricia.pdf
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"'Taking Back Magic' is a supernatural drama that uses corrupted witch hunters to examine how far both jealousy and hatred of the misunderstood can go, and that by partnering with the "other" can work through these issues. After learning about a group of witch hunters taking witches' magic for their own personal use, one witch hunter seeks out a witch to help stop them. Magic provides a visual way to tell this story and brings back a reminder of past witch hunts, that have come to mean an...
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2021
Talk of The Town "Pilot" and First Gens "Pilot", 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_assaf_bianca.pdf
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"For my MFA Thesis project, I have submitted two pilots. Talk of the Town is a 60-minute dramedy set in the fictional town Hillborn in 1840's Hampshire, England. Adeline Thompson is a thief and con artist posing as the long-lost relative of a great lord. However, the arrival of an old friend risks her exposure. However, Oliver Wright, an unsophisticated young man on the verges of society who aspires to be a serious journalist, may just shift her fortune. Together they will pen an anonymous...
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2021
Tapped Out, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_herr_melody.pdf
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"Inspired by real-life events, TAPPED OUT, is a drama series designed for cable or streaming platforms. About navigating the seasons of our lives with grace and humor, it explores themes common to my body of work, including family, mental illness, and suicide. With a diverse cast, it dives into the often-overlooked effects on family members after a loved one's suicide attempt, and illuminates the chaos that ensues. TAPPED OUT is a human perspective about living with and navigating mental...
Dates:
2022
Tara, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_silver_julia.pdf
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"TARA is a feature-length film designed for streaming platforms that tells the story of a young woman who will do anything to get back into the limelight. Set in the year 2010, this Coming-of-Age Comedy follows self-centered Tara, who has recently been kicked off a reality television show after committing a horrendous act. Forced to move back home with her sympathetic but overbearing stepmother, Tara sets her sights on making over a lonely, unwitting teenager in the hopes of becoming the...
Dates:
2023
Teen Nun and Shady Heights, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_ortiz_edlin.pdf
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"Thirteen-year-old Betty Garcia has just moved to Anaheim, CA. It's Betty's first day at the local Catholic school, to Betty's chagrin -- she's Agnostic. Betty is determined to dislike everything about school, but when she meets and quickly develops a crush on ultra-cool Roxana, things start looking up. After Roxana almost catches Betty staring at her, Betty hides behind her textbook and reads about Sor Juana De La Cruz, a 17th century nun who defied the church clergy in her teens. Soon...
Dates:
2021
Tender, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_versyp_tandy.pdf
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"This feature-length dark comedy uses the tropes of the thriller genre to both satirize and honor the institution of marriage. The script also uses elements of melodrama and camp to speak directly to a queer audience, providing catharsis for emotional trauma specific to the LGBT community. This project is the culmination of a larger body of work aimed at transforming my episodic, autobiographical writing style into marketable, highly structured screenwriting—without losing my voice or...
Dates:
2020
That's Amor/e & Pretty Grotesque, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_settineri_alessandra.pdf
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"That's Amor/e and Pretty Grotesque are two pilots steeped in immigrant culture as it operates within the U.S., particularly Latine culture. The pilots – all my scripts –also explore the significance of memory and how our past traumas and resulting perspectives play out in the present. The pilot of That's Amor/e shows a promising beginning for two young immigrants – Cuban and Italian – who meet at a low point in their lives, but find inspiration in each other to start a new lease on life....
Dates:
2022