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I had an idea to take a simple one page script and document the entire process of making a movie out of it, and thought that would make a good basis to start from, so here's the first step: the script.  I'm adding one more element to the mix: science fiction, so that I can include cgi and makeup to the process.
I had an idea to take a simple one page script and document the entire process of making a movie out of it, and thought that would make a good basis to start from, so here's the first step: the script.  I'm adding one more element to the mix: science fiction, so that I can include cgi and makeup to the process.


<screenplay>
# [[Script]]
<title>The Case of the Pregnant Prince</title>
<author>Alan Batie</author>
</screenplay>
 
<scene ext space>The Royal space yacht Prince Whezinsky</scene>
 
A graceful flyby of the spacefaring equivalent of a 100' royal yacht; as it passes by, we zoom in through a porthole to...
 
<scene int day>Prince Whezinsky's cabin</scene>
 
An Arkturian prince stands in a royal stateroom.  It is roomy for a spaceship cabin, but still only one room, with everything designed to cope with zerogee when needed --- a builtin bed on one side, builtin desk and drawers on the other.  The prince looks roughly human, actually rather handsome, albeit a rather bright shade of yellow.  The ebony black antlers set off the yellow rather nicely.  He is dressed in a grass-green dinner jacket, with dark reddish-brown dress pants.  He scans himself with a handheld device, as a display in the wall shows a news program [[TALKING HEAD]].  The display is silent, but shows the prince at a ball, with a large number of human dignitaries in attendance.  The prince himself has a scantily, but elegantly, beautiful woman on his right, and a matching man on his left.  In the room, he stares at the results of the scan.
 
;Prince
:My god, I'm pregnant!  I wonder whodunnit?
 
<trans>Fade out</trans>

Revision as of 16:34, 22 February 2009

Back in high school, I heard what was probably even then an old joke, about the teacher assigning busy work to students: "Write me a story including religion, royalty, sex and mystery", but a crafty student immediately came back with '"My god!" said the princess, "I'm pregnant! I wonder whodunnit?"'

I had an idea to take a simple one page script and document the entire process of making a movie out of it, and thought that would make a good basis to start from, so here's the first step: the script. I'm adding one more element to the mix: science fiction, so that I can include cgi and makeup to the process.

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