Concept for a Film on Corbett National Park Part-iv
FILM TYPE: DOCUMENTARY
FILM DURATION: ABOUT 45-60 minutes
TREATMENT: HIGH END TECHNICALS
EMPHASIS ON VISUAL SPECTACLE WITH NARRATIVE
VOICE-OVERS
THEME: CORBETT AS A NATURE LOVERS’ PARADISE
BACKGROUND
Corbett National park is undoubtedly the most fascinating Nature Reserve of India. Named after the famous tiger-hunter-turned-conservationist, Jim Corbett, the park, situated near Ramnagar in Uttranchal, is a rare gift for any nature lover.
Having a total area of over 1200 square kilometers the entire Corbett Tiger Reserve area (the National Park as well as peripheral forest areas) boasts of one of the finest flora, fauna and avi-fauna in the world.
Corbett has all the elements that would truly entice any nature worshipper but ALAS
At present the USP of Corbett is TIGER-SIGHTING
IT ACTUALLY SHOULD BE SPLENDOUROFNATURE-
CORBETT has it all:
Mountain Ridges
Vast Grasslands (CHAURS)
Rivers
Jungle Trails
Exotic plants
Exciting Wild life
Picturesque Landscapes etc.
Yet visitors go there merely to have a tiger sighting and more than often, come back disappointed tiger sighting is rare!
What happens, in the bargain, is that the rare and spectacular beauty of the park, inadvertently, goes un-noticed it is not the fault of visitors it is the unrealistic build-up and promotional peg an obsession with the king of the jungle!
This film proposes to correct just this! It aims at putting a spot-light on the natural beauty/splendor of Corbett National Park!
It can be argued that a film is the most appropriate medium to inculcate a ‘bias’ – a certain mindset.
Various programs of the Government of India as well as the Private Sector initiatives have not “corrected” this unwarranted USP!
This write-up is a call to all nature lovers, all
Across the globe to contact this author if they are also equally concerned to redefine the splendor of Corbett!
THE PROPOSAL
To produce a documentary film of about 45 minutes duration on the spectacular beauty of Corbett.
Technical details can be worked out if the proposal, in principle, is acceptable. However, the production values desirable would be high-end to do justice to the theme and subject of the film.
Film with a narrative (or even an anchor) would take the viewers through the breath-taking spectacles of this jungle through the mountain ridges through the hypnotizing landscapes through the fascinating herds of elephants & Cheetal deer through the amazing flora and fauna etc.
Educational inputs and informational nuggets would be occasionally sprinkled on this delicious platter of visual delight!
Film would be scripted, directed and produced by experts.
It is proposed to complete the on-site shoots over a period of 4-5 months, starting from the forthcoming DEC-JAN in order to capture the different seasons with their varied hues, shades and colors
Time Frame: It is expected that from conception till preparation of the final print(s), a time period of about 30-35 weeks would be necessary.
About the author:
I have worked on an ECO TOURISM project in the Corbett National Park.
The study was about ascertaining the Tourism Carrying capacity of this Park. The parameters under study were things like:
Park flora/fauna and its vulnerability to tourist traffic
Tourism dos and don’ts
A plan for smooth and ‘desirable’ interface between park biodiversity and the development of tourism infrastructure.
While working in this splendid nature reserve, I was hit by this painful realization that tourists are “conditioned” by the media hype etc. to visit Corbett only for Tiger sightings.
In the process, the most wonderful bounty of nature goes virtually without notice!!!
Hence this idea of a documentary film. This film would not only clear many misconceptions about Corbett National Park, it would also instill a sense of ECO SENSITIVITY in the visitors!
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Are you interested in getting your movie ideas discovered not only by producers of films, but also by the movie going public? Then you have to stop thinking about creating movies and start writing your movie ideas on paper. The only way they are going to get your movie ideas from your head to the screen is if you really put a bit of work to the ideas of the film.
When was the last time you went to the movies and think to yourself "I can do better than that!" If you have been going recently, you probably said to himself very often. And you can probably do better than what's in theaters now. It seems that Hollywood has run out of ideas and just have to hash up plots ever. If you have something better, you owe it to the public to put it on paper and have discovered so that they can do in a movie. Who knows - may be to accept the Oscar at the next Academy Awards presentation.
So how do you get your ideas from your head and the head of any producer to be built in a movie? Here are some tried and true methods:
Contact a producer or his representative
Pick up the phone and find an agent or producer who is agreed to meet with you. You may have to blow your own horn a bit to try to get this to happen, but once you establish a meeting of producers all the time, one step ahead, your idea to the producer. If he likes, he might want to know more. If not, you do not hear from him again, despite his promises tone.
The drawback of this method is that it costs money to producers to take lunch and can also be very frustrating trying to get a producer agree to have a meeting with a stranger. Be very persistent and not let rejection bother.
Write your own script
You know how to write a script? You can do this by getting a book on how to write a script and following the examples in the book. A script is about 120 pages and tells the story mostly in the dialogue. The script is basically an idea for a movie, but not the movie script itself. The film are exposed for director and screenwriter for them to add more dialogue. You must be familiar with film and terminology in order to write an effective script. Then you have to treat either for yourself or field to get an agent to launch it for you. The problem of getting an agent is that you can not get one if you have nothing sold and will struggle to get anything sold without an agent.
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Get your movie ideas really out there in a movie idea website. You can find a website with the idea of film that will allow you to publish your ideas and even get feedback movie of other writers. Some sites will actually work with producers to reach an agreement if their ideas are intriguing enough film to be converted into a movie. The best aspect of using a movie site to post their ideas movie is that you can get instant feedback as to how the film is received and a chance to get discovered by a producer.
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When you watch a scary film, there will be many different parts that will determine its success. The first obvious key point is that a scary film must be scary. This may sound ridiculously simple, but attempting to cash in on the success of Japanese horror films, the American remakes lack any of the tension, drama or fear of the originals.
To make a scary film is a very difficult task. The music must be good, acting is important (to an extent), and the setting is probably one of the key components to a really scary film. The scariest films base fear on tension and unease, rather than obvious and gratuitous violence and horror.
To succeed as a scary film, the viewer must be drawn into the film's world and feel a certain level of worry as they watch. This concept was explored brilliantly by The Blair Witch Project (1999). The film uses viewer interpretation to increase suspense during several important parts of the plot, including the finale.
The film is shot using a handheld camera, mixing colour with black and white, making the film seem more realistic and documentary-like. The characters seem like genuine people, with the low-budget also helping the film to be as unsettling as possible. Viewers will find themselves sympathetic to the plight of the film's characters, and feeling the fear and horror as the story unfolds.
Possibly the most important scary film of all time was released in 1973 when William Friedkin directed The Exorcist. Based on the novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist would go on gross over four hundred million dollars amidst a blaze of publicity and controversy.
The film arrived with stories of on-set incidents and the movie being cursed, further fueling the controversy. With several injuries suffered to actors and film-staff, the film also suffered at the hands of the British censors when it was withdrawn from video release in the 1980s.
The Exorcist is an extreme film with every part of it testing the audience's resolve. The plot is unforgiving, as is the language and the music, forcing a reaction that can range from disgust to panic. A resounding success as a horror film and one of the scariest movies ever made.
Isolation and hopelessness can make a film as scary as the obvious fear attached to more conventional horror films. Where some people find slasher films scary, the atmosphere and tension associated with slower-paced psychological films can be far more devastating to watch.
The most impressive psychological chiller to grace the silver screen is the Stanley Kubrick directed The Shining. Based, very loosely, on the novel by Stephen King, The Shining avoids becoming sloppy, cheesy nonsense - a fate that many King adaptations seem destined to achieve.
A father, mother and son spend the winter in a secluded snowbound hotel so that the father can concentrate on writing a novel. The haunting music and beautiful scenery contrast dramatically, as does the performance of Jack Nicholson as the disturbed and manic father with the solitude and calm of the location.
Kubrick works masterfully with the movie, even more-so if you watch the King-endorsed 1997 TV movie. King didn't enjoy the 1980 classic, probably a good thing as most horror fans will appreciate his work as a writer but note his ventures into movies are generally weak and diluted.
There are many films that can be considered as scary, including the classic movies The Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho. These all deserve a mention, as do slasher movies such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 13th. With such a selection of fantastic films to choose from, it's hard to narrow the most influential down to just a few.
It's summertime in Australia and summertime in Australia means one thing - cricket! And if there ever was a "mental" sport, it's cricket. I was watching a test match last week and one of Australia's greatest ever players, and captains, passed the comment that once you get to state level cricket (the step beneath playing for the national team) the game is played almost entirely in the mind. That is, a player's success or failure depends less on his physical talent with the bat or ball, than on their mental strength, attitude and aptitude for the highest level of the game.
This is not the first time I have heard this. I have heard it said that all sport played at the highest level is more than 90% a mental game. This means that what goes on inside the competitor's head largely determines their success or failure.
Over the years I have studied the great storytellers, in an attempt to ascertain what sets them apart from others and sees their books sell in the millions, while tens of thousands of manuscripts never see the light of day. After hearing Ian Chappell's comments on the cricket, I asked myself the question: What if writing too is a mind game?
In an attempt to find an answer to this question I turned to one of the pioneers of thinking, Edward de Bono, and found that his seminal work on the Six Thinking Hats® applies perfectly to the art and craft of writing. So here is my version of the Six Writing Hats.
White Hat - Facts and Figures
This is particularly important if you are writing articles or non-fiction of any sort. You must first do your research, collect all your data and organise the facts. For the fiction writer this is where you do your research on anything from location to the ins and out of different professions, to the history or biography of a person, people or place. I read once that Robert Ludlum studiously researched all his locations, drew maps and noted landmarks and interesting features of all the settings for his novels. This leant a sense of authenticity to all his work, and makes reading his books similar to watching, say Sex and the City (where New York was dubbed "the fifth lady"), or Sound of Music, where the landmarks of Salzburg featured so prominently you can still go to Austria and take the Sound of Music Tour. If you have based your novel in Paris or New York, or your main character is a lawyer or a stockbroker, it is imperative you get these details correct. Otherwise you will lose your reader before they've even started reading your story.
Red Hat - Emotions and Feelings
The most critical factor in reaching your readers is the ability to engage their emotions. When writing fiction, I advocate feeling the feelings of your characters while you write, as this brings the feelings through in your images; images your readers will identify and resonate with. A similar approach applies to writing articles. Are you wanting to make your readers laugh or cry? Are you seeking to evoke empathy for a cause or a person, or are you trying to scare your readers into taking some action, or jolt them into awareness of a problem? Emotions are the universal language. We all feel the same emotions - whether your spoken language is English, Greek, German or Spanish is irrelevant. Smiles are smiles and tears are tears. A great example of this is one of the stories in the movie Love Actually where an English man goes to Portugal to write a novel and his maid does not speak a word of English. They end up falling in love, and the only language they use throughout their courtship is the language of emotion. So when you write, I encourage you to write with emotion, whether it's outrage or love, anger or joy, passion or resentment, it will come through to your readers. Emotional intelligence is something every writer must develop in themselves.
Black Hat - Cautious and Careful
The black hat is the tricky hat. It is absolutely essential, but it must be used very consciously and precisely and must be firmly tucked back into the cupboard once you've finished with it. I like to think of the black hat as the editor's hat, quality control or the "voice of reason". When you've brainstormed some great scenes, or come up with a fresh angle on your article, put on your black hat and ask: Does this really work? Better you ask yourself that before you go to all the trouble of creating, crafting and honing a piece of writing, submitting it and then being rejected. You can do that yourself. When you have your black hat on, step out of your creative self, and look at your work from the perspective of an editor or a publisher. Look for the holes in your work, look for the breaks in logic or flow. When writing a story you need to your black hat on after planning and before you start writing. Story has a logic to it. Don your black hat and you'll save yourself a stack of time. Just remember to tuck your black hat away again before you start writing. Otherwise your inner critic will destroy anything you try to do.
Yellow Hat - Speculative and Positive
This is the very best hat to have on in your planning stages. When writing fiction your yellow hat will create those larger than life characters that are the centre of all good novels, simply by pushing them beyond all accepted limits. Remember it's not what we would do when we are bound by the strictures of polite behaviour that creates great stories. It's what we would do in our wildest fantasies that creates dynamic fiction. This hat also helps with developing strong premises and major ordeals, massive story climaxes and earth-shattering revelations. Don't ever be afraid to push your story right out there. Always come up with three alternative scenarios for any given situation, pushing your character further and further every time. Then go for one more. The most outrageous, the furthest out option is usually the one you'll end up using. If not, you can always pull it back in the editing. For the non-fiction writer, this is where you go for your fresh angle, look for new outcomes, raise new opinions and get your readers really thinking about your writing. Why would they want to read an opinion or an article identical to someone else's? Really push your own opinions out onto a limb. That's where you'll get noticed.
Green Hat - Creativity
Ah! The mother ship of all creative writers. To let your creative imagination run free, you must write with your green hat on. The words and images come up for you in your own unique way and you owe it to yourself to write them down just as they are, completely uncensored. You can don your black hat when it's editing time. When you are writing, you are just writing, so allow all the research, the planning and ideas you've had to sink into your subconscious and just watch the magic emerge. If it happens to be a three headed pink monster with legs like a chicken, then so be it. Even if you've set out to write a serious crime/thriller. Your creative imagination knows best. Trust it.
Blue Hat - Control
I liken the blue hat to the planning process in writing. If the blue hat is the "ringmaster" in Edward de Bono's model, then it is the story or article structure in writing. All good stories have an outline, at the very least a beginning, middle and end, as do all articles. And it's well known that the best way to write a non-fiction book is to write out all your chapter headings, then your sub-headings and a short synopsis for each, then "fill in the blanks". So the function of the blue hat in writing is to plan your work before you begin, and keep your eye on your plan as you go. If you begin to deviate from the plan, that's fine, it's simply time for a new plan. But always have your blue hat nearby to plonk on your head to keep control of where you are and where you're going with your writing project.
It's important to remember that as a writer you are not just a creative artist. You are also a project manager, an editor, a researcher, an analyst, a cheerleader and a daredevil. Keep your Six Writing Hats by your side and switch effortlessly from one role to the next to guarantee the success of your next writing project.
It can take quite a leap to get from the written word to a movie screen. A screenplay, for all its clear descriptions of where characters are and what they say, has to work hard to meet the dramatic immediacy that we expect from films. 1. Stick To The Present Tense Writing in the present tense helps, keeping the text direct and different from the prose you’ll find in most novels or short stories. 2. Add Sound Effects Sound effects can be effectively replicated on the page, using onomatopoeia such as BANGS for gunshots and SCREAMS of characters in danger. 3. Keep It Tight Keeping the whole script tight is one of the best ways to capture the in-your-face nature of a modern movie. Concise dialogue and snappy scene descriptions will help you to avoid a novel’s tone. 4. Write Pictures Thinking visually is the most important part of the process. Writers are not always inclined to ‘talk in pictures’, creating images on the page. By cultivating a visual eye, you can create a script that’s written to be SEEN, not just read. Just as in any form of writing, those images will jump out at the readers and stay in their minds. Screenplays just happen to be the most image-driven of all forms of writing. Start looking, recording dreams, taking notes. Get hold of a camera - still, video, film, whatever you can get your hands on - and look through the viewfinder. You don’t have to stop loving words to start thinking in pictures, so get in the habit of finding appropriate pictures. When you’re writing your script, take every opportunity you can to tell your story using those kind of images, ones that resonate with you and your characters. If they’re relevant and contain an element that hasn’t been seen before, they’ll resonate with your readers. After all, movies aren’t referred to as "Pictures" for nothing.
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I have been following an interesting topic of conversation in a written forum: a debate on whether or not the practice fanfiction writing is good for an aspiring writer.
By definition: "Fan Fiction" are stories with characters from a TV series or a movie, written by fans and usually printed in underground magazines or online for other fans to enjoy. This concept is especially popular among fans program of science fiction, and writers of all levels participate. For the serious fan fiction writer, there are even conventions of science fiction that present an award annually to the best prose written. The stories can range from stories that explain the deficiencies in a particular television program fee (for example, which has the cast of House been doing between seasons one and two?) instead of silly letters "Once found on the internet a story of Star Trek, where all the characters had been replaced by the cast Desperate Housewives!
Is fan fiction a healthy exercise? On the one hand, is not technically a legal practice, as all the characters film and television are protected by copyright. As fan fiction is essentially a nonprofit company, however, most production companies tend to turn a blind eye to the activity. Rene Balcer, executive producer of Law and Order, once told a fan e-zine did not mind fan fiction based on his show, and this seems to be the general consensus so long as a writer is not about selling their work.
After writing fiction stories in the past, I can say that the practice as a writing exercise has its pros and cons:
PRO - During my heaviest battles with writer's block, writing a story on a familiar character helped to loosen the faucet. Once I wondered what would happen if Dr. Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap traveled back in time to drive M * A * S 4077th * H, and the result was a story of 20,000 words.
CON - fan fiction may be addicting, and if you spend too much time to exercise you can find the creation of original work hard. If you post stories to the Internet and attract a fan base, you may find yourself writing more please this small faction people, and it will take away from his true vocation.
PRO - Writing fanfiction found my ability to write dialogue flow better.
CON - I also realized that I tended to use my best "bits" of such a story, leaving the dry well when it came time to write something more serious.
PRO - With the publication of my fan fiction to the Internet, I was able to attract readers who in turn took my web site and information about my book. A fan even wrote to say he had bought my book after reading my fan fiction.
CON - I'm not trying to stereotype fan fiction readers, but if you've ever visited an online repository of fan fiction can be seen most stories not only represent people like to see in scenes your favorite programs, but even scenes from HBO will not show after eleven at night. Some may argue in writing fan fiction is not good for the ego of the writer, but reading some of what is posted is certainly not good if you're at work and the boss see you! I do not write romance is hot, but there are lines even I will cross.
If you write fiction stories as a writing exercise? Some years may have defended their importance, but now I would suggest alternative exercises in writing, to improve their writing skills and help you be less dependent situations in the ready-made. If pull to write a story about agents Mulder and Scully be too strong, however, why not take the opportunity to introduce their own characters? We Mulder, Scully, Dr. House, and all your favorite characters to inspire what I write, but make sure the final product is all yours.
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Kathryn Lively
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Film/video Distributors and Producers: Make Sure you Know These Nine SEO Recommendations
When most people talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) they tend to talk about getting more traffic to their website. Everyone wants more traffic. Right?
If you are like most film and video distributors, you care less about volume of traffic and much more about quality of traffic. The goal is to get the right people visiting your site. Can SEO do that for you?
Search Engine Optimization is about helping people who want to find your site, find your site. Optimize your site properly, target keywords intimately related to your business, and the high quality traffic will come.
By making a few technical improvements to your site right now, you can help search engines like Google and Yahoo understand and 'respect' what your site offers and then pass the good word on to the thousands of film and video license buyers who use search engines every business day.
Maybe a buyer only remembers a few words about a title they saw on the back of one of your sell sheets. Good SEO practice makes it possible for license buyers to find you using even the sketchiest keywords.
We've put together a checklist of nine very basic things you can do today to make sure your website is search engine friendly. Give your site an SEO tune-up, work hard posting keyword rich content, and you will be amazed how fast you can 'own' a set of keywords related to a film/video content category or genre. This means that whenever, or wherever, a buyer searches for content related to your business, they'll find their way to your website.
This checklist is just as essential for film and video distributors as it is for indie producers and film festivals wanting to boost their exposure. Everyone can benefit from these best practices.
9. Have you announced your site to the major search engines?
Search engines can't find you if they don't know about you. The first thing you need to do (once you finish reading this article) is to make sure your website is submitted to the major search engines.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you do this manually. We don't recommend that you use auto-submitter websites that promise to do this for you. Get off on the right SEO foot and do the submitting yourself.
Check out the IPEX TV blog for an article about submitting your site to search engines.
8. Did you add your sitemap?
A sitemap is a simple document placed at the root directory of your site and informs search engines which pages on your site are available for searching. It's like one of those big maps you see at audiovisual content tradeshows: but this one is for your website, and search engines love it.
7. Do all of your web pages have titles?
At the top of your browser window (on the same level as the close, maximize, and minimize buttons) you will find the title of the page you are viewing. This is some of the most valuable real estate on your site. If the only thing in this space is your company name (or worse, it just says "Untitled"), you're wasting a great opportunity. Use this space to attract search engine attention to specific keywords by writing unique page titles for every page on your site. The trick is to write a page title that is keyword loaded, but still seems natural to your actual visitors. Don't make these titles too long, but do make sure that the keywords you use in the title appear again in the body of the page. You'll be amazed at what an improvement this can make to your search engine results.
6. Do you have your 'alt' attributes defined?
When a programmer adds an image to a website, he or she uses an HTML code called the 'img' tag.
The 'alt' attribute (sometimes, mistakenly, called an 'alt' tag) allows you to specify some text that the browser will display in case your image is missing. In this example, an image of a sell sheet is 'tagged' with some words describing it (alt="Sell Sheet, one sheet, cinefiche"). This may not seem like a big deal, but these 'alternate' labels are necessary to help search engines understand the content of your page. Search engines cannot read images, so it's important that you help them out by specifying in the 'alt' attribute what the image contains.
5. Have you gotten your link out there?
Are you a contributing member of Wikipedia and/or the IMDb? Find places on these sites where it is appropriate to submit links. If these links make sense within the community, they offer better exposure than money can buy.
Add some of your best pages (not just your site) to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, ma.gnolia.com, and myYahoo.
Get your friends involved. Link to their best pages, and ask them to link back to you.
4. Do you have any content?
Wooops. So, by now you should have a site that's pretty well technically optimized and search engine friendly. But do you actually have content people are searching for? For film and video distributors, getting your catalogue titles and old sell sheets on your site is an excellent step to getting keyword-rich content online that will be relevant to a wide variety of film and video content license buyers googling for new titles.
3. Have you prepared a list of keywords you like?
Put yourself in the shoes of your audience for a moment, and imagine sitting down to your favourite search engine. What are the search terms your audience is most likely going to use? Will these search words lead them to your site? Now, imagine the search terms they might use to find your competitor's web site. Make a master list of all these keywords, and decide which keywords you want to 'own'. This list is going to be your guide to the search engine friendly content you create.
2. Do you have a blog?
Getting your catalogue titles online is great, but it's very important to have a site that is up-to-date. A lot of people in the film and video distribution industry see a corporate blog as more of a hassle than a help. But blogs are quite simply the easiest way to keep your site fresh, get lots of sexy text for search engines to search, and interact with your clients. Indie producers and film festivals have been quick to understand their valuelearn from their example. The best blogs are an appealing mix of industry news and personal observations. Use your blog to keep your clients up to date on your company, showcase new titles, and share interesting ideas.
1. Have you started already?
The good news about SEO is that it's never too early or too late to start. Don't for a minute think that you need a checkmark beside all 9 of these items before you can release your site to the public. And there is no need to do them in order.
The web is dynamic and flexible. Try some things out, and check the results. Try Googling your site and see what comes up. Try again, and adjust as needed. A little bit at a time is all it takes to make big improvements. Consistency counts.
About the Author
Daniel Lafleche is the COO of IPEX TV, the leading multiplatform B2B Film and Video online marketplace. IPEX TV specializes in helping film and video distributors take advantage of the web and reach out to international license buyers. You can learn more at http://www.ipextv.tv
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