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This document recounts the development of my feature length horror screenplay “Woodwork,” from the conception of the idea through the completion of three separate drafts. It attempts to inform the reader of the choices made that led to the subsequent changes in each draft, as well as examining elements of the story (or backstory) that remain absent in the final draft. It also describes the evolution of myself as a writer over the nearly two-year period between first picking up this idea and finalizing a third draft for presentation to graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting. / text

CHUTZPAH is a romantic movie set in Manhattan. The events surrounding the death of a wealthy eccentric cumulate into a farcical search for the old man's fortune when it is stolen shortly after his funeral. Ellen, the protagonist, hires a detective to find out who stole her grandfather's money (a substantial sum of which was willed to her). As Mark, the detective, works on the case, a relationship between him and Ellen develops, and the search for the money becomes secondary. Ellen's charm and her relationship with her zany Yiddish relatives endear her to Mark while they together find chutzpah in disaster.

Hench, by being set in the espionage genre, and following the henchman of an evil villain, offers a commentary on the modern working world by serving as a metaphor for the corporate workplace. The film follows a lowly henchman, Hank, who learns to challenge this corporate structure by achieving self-respect, thanks to an unlikely friendship with a James-Bond-esque agent. This creative explication explains how Hench achieves commentary on how large corporate structures operate to maintain control over employees, and the effects this has on individuals. It further highlights the tools and techniques used to formulate Hench into a fully realised feature screenplay.

Screenplay for animated feature film. Story and characters are based on a short novel, The Adventures of Hank the Cowdog. first in a series. This adaptation aims to translate the humor and unique dog-centered perspective of the original source into the medium of film. Hank the Cowdog, head of security on an isolated ranch, works undercover inside a pack of coyotes to solve a series of chicken murders. To solve the case, Hank defends his ranch, sheep and chickens from a devious and powerful coyote leader, Scraunch. With help from a variety of friends and a change in attitude, Hank saves the ranch. Screenplay places detective film conventions in an action-adventure cartoon format. Thesis includes notes on adaptation process.

Disturbing the Peace is a short, 16mm sync-sound fiction film. Alone one stormy night, a woman must contend with an intruder breaking into her home. The intruder turns out to be a teenage boy. He claims to have broken in only to retrieve a family heirloom he hid there when he and his parents lived in the same house years ago. When the boy finds the heirloom, the woman begins to believe his story, and soon realizes he doesn't have a good home life. The boy asks permission to stay until the storm breaks. She agrees. Should the boy be trusted, or is he telling one lie after another? The police arrive to witness the outcome of the story.

The following report details the process of writing the feature screenplay "Cheer Up, Charlie," from inspiration and conception through outline, first draft, and rewrite. I will examine these steps in order to better understand the creative decisions made between the birth of the idea and the current screenplay draft, and reconcile the differences. / text

This screenplay dramatizes the controversial career of German film maker Leni Riefenstahl during ten years of her association with the Nazi Party. Beginning with the premiere of her first film in 1932, this account chronicles her rise as a film director of such films as Triumph of the Will and Olympia to her arrest after World War II on charges that she had been a Nazi sympathizer. Besides delineating the character and talents of Leni Riefenstahl, this screenplay addresses the difficult question of the relationship between politics and art.

Orientador: Antonio Fernando da Conceição Passos / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T10:01:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Doria_LilianMariaFleury_D.pdf: 5513665 bytes, checksum: 09e243869a94ef5b799a0230730349f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta tese é o resultado de um processo de pesquisa e criação de um roteiro cinematográfico autoral a partir do diálogo com a literatura de Fiódor Mikháilovitch Dostoiévski (1821-1881) e na perspectiva da proposta de transcrição da literatura para o cinema. Reflexões estéticas e teóricas sobre o roteiro, as especificidades da dramaturgia audiovisual e a abordagem da literatura pelo roteirista no processo de transcrição são alguns dos temas pesquisados. O roteiro O Homem da Cela 1846 é livremente inspirado nas novelas A Senhoria (1846) e Memórias do Subsolo (1864) e transpõe os personagens dostoievskianos para o século XXI, numa grande metrópole. A narrativa ficcional foi construída numa estrutura de contrapontos, em que cenas realistas se misturam com sonhos, delírios e fragmentos caóticos de lembranças. O roteiro se estrutura num arco do tempo no qual vemos, simultaneamente, o escritor preso e o jovem sonhador em suas lembranças de juventude / Abstract: This thesis is the result of a research and creation process of a copyrighted screenplay from the dialogue with the works of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) and within the proposed transcreation from literature to film. Aesthetic and theoretical reflections on the screenplay, the specificities of the drama and the visual approach of the literature by the screenwriter in the process of transcreation are some of the researched topics. The script The Man of 1846 Cell is freely inspired by the novels The Landlady (1846) and Notes from Underground Man (1864) and transposes the Dostoevskian characters for the twenty-first century, in a great metropolis. The fictional narrative was built on a counterpoint structure, where realistic scenes are mixed with dreams, delusions and chaotic fragments of memories. The screenplay is structured in an arc of time where we see both the stuck writer and the young dreamer in their memories of youth / Doutorado / Multimeios / Doutor em Multimeios

Depuis quelques décennies, les études sur le scénario de film n'ont cessé d'augmenter. Pourtant, très peu de théoriciens et d'historiens se sont intéressés à la publication de scénarios. Le but de ce mémoire est de bien comprendre comment s'articule et se développe le phénomène de l'édition de scénarios cinématographiques dans l'espace éditorial québécois. Par « édition de scénarios cinématographiques », nous entendons tous textes ayant été écrits en vue d'une réalisation filmique et possédant un code ISBN. Dans le but de dresser un meilleur portrait du phénomène de cette édition, nous traiterons aussi de publications qui se rattachent de près ou de loin à l'édition de scénarios cinématographiques, comme la novellisation et la transcription de film. De manière à n'omettre aucune publication et à bien identifier chacune d'elles, nous avons élaboré une typologie qui se compose de quatre types de publication : la novellisation, la transcription du film, le scénario cinématographique publié et le scénario fictif. / During the last two decades, studies on the screenplay have increased greatly. However, very few theoreticians and historians studied the process of publication of screenplays. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how the publication of screenplays has developed in Quebec in the last hundred years and write it’s history. By « publication of screenplays », we mean all texts written with the intention of permitting a film. The texts studied here have to have a ISBN code. Considering a relatively small number of screenplays have been published, this dissertation also includes an inventory and analysis of publications that are written in relationship to a film such as novelizations and transcriptions of films. The different types of texts have been identified and classified according to a typology which is made up of four types of publications : the novelization, the transcription of the film, the published screenplay and the fictitious screenplay.