Emerson thesis -- Writing for film and television
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
This Side of Rye: "Pilot", 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_brindisi_samantha.pdf
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"THIS SIDE OF RYE is a six-part episodic limited series designed for streaming platforms, mostly aligning with Amazon Studios catalogue of content. NATALIE (35) has lost her job. This wasn't just your run of the mill midthirties "it pays the bills" sort of job. No. This was Natalie's dream job. The job she had worked her entire life for. No, not a job. This was her career, her calling. Ever since she picked up Ian Flemings' Casino Royal her mind was made up. Natalie was going to be a Spy....
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2022
To the Chapel, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_beatty_marissa.pdf
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"To the Chapel is a half-hour network comedy about a young woman in Las Vegas trying to rebel against her family expectations and pursue her own dreams as she starts her photography career at an eclectic wedding chapel on the Strip. Wild Inside is an children's animated television show about an uptight boy who learns to get along with a rambuncious raccoon. Both pilots focus on the theme of finding one's own way in the face of societal pressures as well as the anxieties of starting into the...
Dates:
2019
Undecided/Shimmer, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_washburn_nicholas.pdf
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"UNDECIDED is an absurd comedy series, set in the world of college admissions, exploring whether outcasts, in an increasing categorized world, can find their own purpose. Through the lens of an admissions counselor, and outcast in his own right, the series contemplates whether the directionless can provide guidance, possibility, and hope to their community while also searching for the same. SHIMMER is a sci-fi drama series set within the toxicity of high school, examining burdgeoning [sic]...
Dates:
2021
Update My Wikipedia Page, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_shaffer_shai.pdf
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"Update My Wikipedia Page. is a feature-length screenplay telling the story of two people living in different universes. Rose and Gint meet when they begin seeing each other in reflective surfaces, only to realize they each know the other from a different fictional world. Unsettled by the endings foretold for them in the other universe, they join forces in an effort to change their fate and in the process form the closest friendship of their lives. This unconventional drama explores how we...
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2024
Urubú, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_figueiredo_isadora.pdf
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"Urubú is a feature length script that details the story of Fina, the queer prodigal daughter of the Da Silva crime family, as she returns home in order to avenge the murder of her brother, Nio. In a journey that explores themes of resilience, family, and grief, Fina must uncover Nio's past, relive her own, and confront the moment the two diverged in order to make peace with the person she could have been had she never left." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Voila, Juliette!, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_hagerdon_shelby.pdf
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"Voila, Juliette! is a feature length script designed for streaming platforms and minor theatrical release that features a feminine voice with an experimental perspective on love, jealousy, loss, and vengeance all under the guidance of the French New Wave. Set in a small Midwestern town, the script follows an obsessive young artist losing her mind as she desperately searches for understanding in art while discovering too late that this understanding did not come in the shape of art, but in...
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2023
Woman Scorned, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_edwards_kelly.pdf
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"Woman Scorned is an action romantic comedy about a highly-trained government operative who agrees to be a bridesmaid in her sister's wedding in order to finally get a shot at repairing their relationship. The script combines spy thriller and rom com elements to highlight the toxic relationship tropes that exist in films in both genres. As the lead character navigates dangerous circumstances, she's also forced to confront her part in the destruction of her relationships. Inspired by my rabid...
Dates:
2020
Working Woman, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_gamble_katherine.pdf
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"Working Woman is a feature length film about discovering one's life path. Kayla Porter, a Black woman in her late 20s and is as smart as she is beautiful. Kayla's entire life has revolved around being successful. Her motivation comes from her upbringing. With her dad absent and her mother having drug and alcohol issues, Kayla promised herself to be better than where she came from. Her Aunt, Regina made sure of it too, getting custody of Kayla when she was 10. Right after graduating college,...
Dates:
2023
Written by Neil And The Osiris Nebula, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_bourke_jake.pdf
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"WRITTEN BY NEIL is a half-hour sitcom, half live-action and half animated, that follows the creative process of imaginative yet scatterbrained grad student Neil Brooks as he embarks down the long, twisting road toward screenwriting stardom. Tasked with writing his first feature-length movie from start to finish, the pressure mounts as he finds himself unprepared and inexperienced, both as a writer and a person. Not to mention easily distracted. After all, a storyteller has no greater enemy...
Dates:
2024
You're Nothing Without Me, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_kristapsons_silvija_lara.pdf
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"You're Nothing Without Me is a drama about a young violinist who has to go up against a powerful and prestigious conservatory when her well-respected teacher sexually assaults her after a concert. This story focuses on the abuse of power that has traditionally run rampant in the classical music world and draws from elements of classical music's #MeToo reckoning. This project is part of an overall body of work that examines the effect of dysfunctional families, both traditional and...
Dates:
2020