Most Recent Impact50 Updates
‘Be Prepared’ by Blue Tartan Films
A small team that started in the northeast of Scotland, which uses local people to produce short and public information films. ‘Be Prepared’ explores the dilemma faced by two Guide Leaders on whether to carry on camping or to tell the Guides of their impending doom, knowing that they are miles away from their families.
‘School’s Out’ by Schooldays Films
School’s Out follows the staff and pupils at St. Mark’s (a fictional secondary school) as news of the impact breaks within a normal school day. Producer James Skinner works as Media Coordinator at a school in London, supporting pupils to make short films in collaboration with pupils from another local school. He enlisted the help
Filming with animals, overseas and in the dark by Karelia Scott-Daniels
My life, like so many screenwriters, is pretty busy between making a crust, family and the added complication that most years I feel I spend more time on planes than with my feet on the ground. Added to which, I am British, I live in Britain, my biggest network is in Britain but to be
The route to making our Impact 50 film ‘Ultimate Cosplay’
Yesterday, my two-page screenplay ‘Ultimate Cosplay’ finally found its way on top of a very high tower block in Tower Hamlets to become a short film. The story is about a group of friends that like to dress up in costumes (cos-play) who on learning a meteor will bring an end to life on earth,
My Favorite Three Impact50 Scripts by Mark Williams
One of the things that has struck me – both writing and reading for this project – is how quickly we all jump to grand, sweeping gestures which may or may not be out of character – obviously we never get to see this for ourselves – but so many of the characters are looking
How Impact50 Has Helped Me Be a Better Screenwriter by Lorenzo Colonna
I have been a screenwriter for almost seven years and I didn’t go to any film school. The only way I knew to learn how to write a screenplay was to read screenwriting books and, more importantly, a lot of scripts. Impact50 has given me a chance to read beautifully written scripts and I would
The Impact50 Filmmakers Playground by Adam Harper
I’m delighted to have been asked to choose my favourite Impact 50 scripts. To make my selection I made my best effort to get into the mind-set of a director and ask myself whether the script would be fulfilling to bring to the screen. Ultimately, the one thing about all of my picks is that
Screenwriter Carmen Radtke Talks About Her Favorite Impact50 Scripts
Full disclosure: I love Create50, because they made me scale down. I’d started with novels – historical fiction at that – and then came Singularity50, which was too enticing to ignore. I’m lucky enough to be included in the anthology, but even without that, it’s such a joy to tell a complete story in a
Watch the Science Fiction Short The Jump by Create50 Filmmaker Andy Sowerby
Create50 community filmmaker Andy Sowerby has made a scifi short and I asked him to share more about it so we can all experience it and get inspired by his journey. Over to Andy… What is ‘The Jump’? An astronaut braves a pioneering solo mission into deep space, leaving behind her loving husband. Through
Impact50 Video Update… The Edit Has Begun (but you can still make a film)
Stitching together up to fifty films, shot on different formats, different resolutions, different frame rates (this is the biggie), edited on different platforms, on Mac and PC… It’s a technical challenge of global proportions, never mind one of creativity! Chris Jones www.Impact50film.com Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts…
Impact50… The Final Two Months
The screenwriting community in phase two of The Impact50 is really vibrant, with some terrific screenplays just waiting to get married to amazing filmmakers. Over the next two weeks, we are planning, prepping and building the final push for filmmakers. This will launch on the weekend of April 6th in the room at the Guerilla Filmmakers
The Screenwriters Speak… My Favorite Impact50 Scripts by Eileen Wilson
One of the best things you can do as a screenwriter is write short scripts. Trust me. One day I submitted to a micro-short festival, the next I had a Skype call, an option and a director asking for script edits! Me! The nobody who thought something up sitting on the sofa listening to a
‘Be Prepared’ by Blue Tartan Films
A small team that started in the northeast of Scotland, which uses local people to produce short and public information films. ‘Be Prepared’ explores the dilemma faced by two Guide Leaders on whether to carry on camping or to tell the Guides of their impending doom, knowing that they are miles away from their families.
‘School’s Out’ by Schooldays Films
School’s Out follows the staff and pupils at St. Mark’s (a fictional secondary school) as news of the impact breaks within a normal school day. Producer James Skinner works as Media Coordinator at a school in London, supporting pupils to make short films in collaboration with pupils from another local school. He enlisted the help
Filming with animals, overseas and in the dark by Karelia Scott-Daniels
My life, like so many screenwriters, is pretty busy between making a crust, family and the added complication that most years I feel I spend more time on planes than with my feet on the ground. Added to which, I am British, I live in Britain, my biggest network is in Britain but to be
The route to making our Impact 50 film ‘Ultimate Cosplay’
Yesterday, my two-page screenplay ‘Ultimate Cosplay’ finally found its way on top of a very high tower block in Tower Hamlets to become a short film. The story is about a group of friends that like to dress up in costumes (cos-play) who on learning a meteor will bring an end to life on earth,
My Favorite Three Impact50 Scripts by Mark Williams
One of the things that has struck me – both writing and reading for this project – is how quickly we all jump to grand, sweeping gestures which may or may not be out of character – obviously we never get to see this for ourselves – but so many of the characters are looking
How Impact50 Has Helped Me Be a Better Screenwriter by Lorenzo Colonna
I have been a screenwriter for almost seven years and I didn’t go to any film school. The only way I knew to learn how to write a screenplay was to read screenwriting books and, more importantly, a lot of scripts. Impact50 has given me a chance to read beautifully written scripts and I would
The Impact50 Filmmakers Playground by Adam Harper
I’m delighted to have been asked to choose my favourite Impact 50 scripts. To make my selection I made my best effort to get into the mind-set of a director and ask myself whether the script would be fulfilling to bring to the screen. Ultimately, the one thing about all of my picks is that
Screenwriter Carmen Radtke Talks About Her Favorite Impact50 Scripts
Full disclosure: I love Create50, because they made me scale down. I’d started with novels – historical fiction at that – and then came Singularity50, which was too enticing to ignore. I’m lucky enough to be included in the anthology, but even without that, it’s such a joy to tell a complete story in a
Watch the Science Fiction Short The Jump by Create50 Filmmaker Andy Sowerby
Create50 community filmmaker Andy Sowerby has made a scifi short and I asked him to share more about it so we can all experience it and get inspired by his journey. Over to Andy… What is ‘The Jump’? An astronaut braves a pioneering solo mission into deep space, leaving behind her loving husband. Through
Impact50 Video Update… The Edit Has Begun (but you can still make a film)
Stitching together up to fifty films, shot on different formats, different resolutions, different frame rates (this is the biggie), edited on different platforms, on Mac and PC… It’s a technical challenge of global proportions, never mind one of creativity! Chris Jones www.Impact50film.com Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts…
Impact50… The Final Two Months
The screenwriting community in phase two of The Impact50 is really vibrant, with some terrific screenplays just waiting to get married to amazing filmmakers. Over the next two weeks, we are planning, prepping and building the final push for filmmakers. This will launch on the weekend of April 6th in the room at the Guerilla Filmmakers
The Screenwriters Speak… My Favorite Impact50 Scripts by Eileen Wilson
One of the best things you can do as a screenwriter is write short scripts. Trust me. One day I submitted to a micro-short festival, the next I had a Skype call, an option and a director asking for script edits! Me! The nobody who thought something up sitting on the sofa listening to a