Scriptwriting & Funding

Today I'm researching scriptwriting and funding. Writing a feature spec script or even the script for a short film can seem overwhelming, but it’s manageable if you break it down into methodical steps. Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating your movie script:

1. Scene setting: Also known as a slug line, a scene heading appears at the top of each new scene and includes the following information: “EXT.” or “INT.” (abbreviations for “exterior” and “interior”), the location, and the time of day. For example: “INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE - NIGHT”
2. Action line: Action lines describe what a character is doing in a scene. 
3. Character: Characters name to know who is in the shot.
4. Parenthetical: A parenthetical is a small direction included before a character’s line that suggests how the line should be delivered. 
5. Dialogue: Whatever the character will say in that shot
6. Transition: “FADE IN” precedes the very first line of your script. “FADE OUT” marks the end. Other transitions, like “DISSOLVE TO” or “MATCH CUT TO,” may be used throughout your script. 
7. Camera angle: Though typically avoided by writers, camera angles can be noted in a screenplay if they’re essential to the way a scene unfolds, perhaps enabling the delivery of a joke or big reveal.

This is a picture of my script me and my group are working on. It includes a little girl and her older step sister hanging out in a park. Then the little girl gets kidnapped and her older sister is too focused on her phone she doesn't realize her sister has been kidnapped. We include the conventions of a thriller film such as lowkey lighting, a kidnapper, flashback, suspense, etc.

This picture above is a script of a thriller movie called "Thirteen Ghosts". The script talks about it being dark and there is suspense. The script also has a graveyard as a location. All of these are conventions of a thriller film. thirteen_ghosts.pdf (dailyscript.com)

A film similar to our project story is called "Kidnap". Its a thriller film and a story about a child kidnapped in a park. It was filmed in 2017. A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for the mother. The kidnappers snatch her young son Frankie while playing a game in the park. With no cellphone and no time to wait for police, the mom jumps into her car to follow the vehicle that holds Frankie. As the pursuit turns into a frantic, high-speed chase, the mom must risk everything and push herself to the limit to save her beloved child. The film's targeted audience are teenagers or college student in the age of 14-23 and woman since the movie is about a woman.  http://us213candidate4293.blogspot.com/2019/02/hush.html  The production budget for this film was $21,000,000.