what's your story? south africa (one page outline)
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The One Page Outline of a Documentary Project that's in Development at Cignalhill Pty Ltd, entitled: What's Your Story, South Africa. For More Information visit: www.development.cignalhill.comTRANSCRIPT
A Rhino’s best Friend
What’s Your Story ? South Africa Everyone has a story.
PRODUCER: Brigid Olen South African Film Producer with more than 30 years Film & TV Experience
Writer. Director: Warrick Grier Writer & Actor; Dredd, The Bone Snatcher, Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Writer. Director: Rowen Smith Creative Director: The Shores Season II, Photographer & Writer
CO-PRODUCTION: DO Productions & Cignalhill
DO Productions (Pty) Ltd Cignalhill (Pty) Ltd
ww.doproductions.com www.cignalhill.com
Cell: +27(0) 82 372 2502 Cell: +27(0) 82 372 2502
E: [email protected] E: [email protected]
Skype: Brigidolen Skype: Rowen Smith@Cignalhill
Creative Direction
THEMES: The Challenges of the modern screenwriter trying to make a living, while writing the story, in an ever adapting Media Sector with a lack of Financing and no room for story
development.
SETTING: South Africa
CHARACTERS/CAST: South African Producers, Film Investors, Media Agencies, Screenwriters, Funding Bodies, Directors, Actors, Broadcasters, Production Companies;
Lead Presenters: Warrick Grier & Rowen Smith
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Verite, Hand-Held, Video-Journalist, Video Diary-Style
ART DEPARTMENTEDIT/DESIGN: Art-house, Creatively Free, Textured & Modernist Illustrative
SOUND/MUSIC: Independently Composed Sound Design & Music Score
PROJECT SUMMARY
SYNOPSIS: Everyone has a concept for a movie & Everyone thinks is easy to shoot,direct, produce, write, edit and sell a movie. Everyone has an opinion on about a film
and it’s audience, but few know the dynamics of translating the story onto screen
and the challenges of the modern screenwriter.
BACKSTORY: In 2015, I embarked on a journey of independent filmmaking andproduced quite a few projects, and I attended the Los Angeles Story Expo in
September 2015, with the hope to sell my screenplays to producers in California, but I
was totally destroyed when I realised that the Hollywood Industry was not what I
imagined it would be when I was still a film student and it drove me to a point of
absolute poverty in pursuit to produce my screenplays, and I decided to produce this
documentary with the quest to discover and expose the art of screenwriting and the
challenges the writer faces in a world where the Investor is alienated from the Film
Producer. The two parties lack insight, understanding and long lasting trust with only
the screenwriter to suffer; The struggling artist at the beginning of Story & Content
Development.