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Performance Description
Inside this guide:
It’s more than just saying elevator from one floor to another,
Performance “action,” that gets a movie made! to sell their story. Once funding is
Description
Producer, Joel Jenkins, reveals in secured, a production team is as-
Educational this performance that team- sembled. This group in-
Artist Bio work, inventiveness, and a cludes the director, pro-
few industry secrets are nec- ducer, and the other profes-
Vocabulary
essary to produce a movie. sionals required to shoot the
List of Resources Joel shows the audi- movie.
Post-Performance ence that every motion pic- Joel concludes the
Activities ture begins with the power performance with an explo-
of words. The screen- ration of how the film is
writer’s job is to create edited and packaged for re-
emotion in the audience lease. This process includes
Contact KCYA for through a well-written post-production, scoring,
more information on script. marketing, distribution, and
this and other The next step in the how the studio accounts fig-
programs. process is to pitch the story ure return-on-investment.
to backers in hopes of se- Though a movie re-
816-531-4022 curing financing for the pro- quires hundreds of talented
www.kcya.org ject. Joel relates how often times a and inventive people to produce,
writer will only have 30-seconds, every project begins with the power
the average time it takes to ride an of one person’s imagination.
Pitch: telling your story to a potential Talent: A general, informal term for Careers for Film Buffs
buyer. actors. & Other Hollywood Types
by Jaq Greenspon
McGraw-Hill; 2 edition
(March 26, 2003) ISBN: 0071405747
Post-Performance Activities
1. Develop two or three concepts for 2. Condense your ideas into a
movie scripts that include charac- three-to-five page synopsis.
ters, conflict, and resolution. Find Have friends, teachers, and fam-
inspiration for these concepts from ily read the synopsis. Is this a
newspaper stories, magazines, or movie they’d spend money to
other news sources. Ask these see?
questions as you research the 3. Practice pitching your story.
story: who were the characters Time yourself and see how
involved? Why were they in that quickly you can sell the concept
particular situation? How might to someone. Sometimes, you
they have resolved their situation if only have thirty-seconds to sell a
circumstances were different? producer your idea.
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