Research Dossier
In 2016, WriteMovies
introduced a special UK Screenwriting Competition to help promote and
develop writers within the British film and television industry. For a competition
that only had its inception a few months before, we received many entries
of a high quality. To everyone who entered, thank you and well done, but
there can only be one winner…
Cash Price of £500, a year of free script
development and mentoring worth over $3,200, and potential representation
within the British industry to studios, producers, and commissioners.
The New Media Writing Prize 2019 is open
until November 22, 2029 (noon)
The competition come from Bournemouth
University and its free to enter
Prizes:
UK New Media Writing Prize: £1,000.
Unicorn Training Student Prize: £750
Dot Award: £500 and development support.
Skylab Innovation Award: £500.
Journalism Award -£tbc
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Inspiration can come from a various number
of sources. Imagination can only be stopped when you want it to so there will
always be new ideas for new films.
Many movies have been created out of pure
imagination. For example, the first rocky movie was created by Silvester
Stallone, since he loved his ideas so much, he didn’t allow anyone to buy his
ideas and he only decided to allow the creation of the movie if he stars as the
main actor. Due to the succession of the movie there was sequels created to
gain more money and to satisfy the audience. Imagination can be self-created or
in a way forced upon if the main idea was successful enough. Other movies that
create sequels due to its succession is The Avengers. Due to the variety of high
classed actors being brought together to the main screen, and the story line being
good there was plenty of The Avengers films created to satisfy the audience.
Also, The Avengers was inspired by the comic books created by Stan Lee so The Avengers
was created because of the succession of the comic books, the film was created
for both the teenagers and the older generation who grew up reading the comic books.
Also many movies and films may be inspired by historical events such as the
film Dunkirk which is clearly inspired by the battle of Dunkirk where there is
a massive rescue mission to save the allied forces in the Second World War.
Over 300,000 people were saved from being slaughtered by the Nazis.
For my screen play I would ask my mother to
help me out about learning about Dementia as she is a qualified Dementia nurse
meaning that I will be able to gather Primary information about how the person
suffering with Dementia may be affected and how they would interact with their
family when the disability is in full force on the patient.
Also, I would love to have a few similarities
with movies and TV series such as Joker and Sherlock.
Joker – The main character is obviously
going through quite a lot mentally, he is mentally broken and we can see that
from both his actions and how the actor portrays the character in his own
personal identity. There was an instance that Army Marines went to watch the
movie and they said themselves that it’s a very hard hitting movie which addresses
mental health perfectly and what may occur when some people literally turn insane
due to the disabilities they are struggling with.
Sherlock – I would use John Watson as a
primary example on how mental health may affect injuries. In the first episode,
John Watson is clearly shown walking with a limp and has declared that he has
PSTD due to war inflicted injuries, where in fact we learn that when distracted
by an activity (in this instance its running after a serial killer) he
dismisses his injures as he is shown running without the use of his cane as he
left it in the restaurant, he himself does not even realise that the cane went
missing until the man who served John and Sherlock in the restaurant returns
the cane to 221B Baker ST after the chase is complete. Here we can tell that
some injuries are just in the head of the victim and can be easily pushed away
if they are determined to leave their past behind.
