Short Film Scripts I made for school

Bishop vs King
Written circa 2018
Synopsis: A family of four is possessed by a competitive race of alien creatures but none of them know which members are brainwashed or not.

Content warnings:
Violence, firearms, death, brief ableism

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lu0SLWZxLQch7gqeSvWZBeA6pZq1amtL/view?usp=drive_link

 

Those Weird Kids at School
Written circa 2017
Synopsis: A scene where two children with superpowers discuss their powers and why they have to hide them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQ2P-D6FlrC8xxhTpjZGXORDtc8QIpto/view?usp=drive_link

 

The Gospel of Jay
Written circa 2018
Synopsis: A college student named Jay is being monitored by authority figures at the school after displaying biblical powers.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE43jO9grtOOOiI342hX7ZpqPHw_qpB2/view?usp=drive_link

 

Minnie's Graduation Bash (UNFINISHED)
Written circa 2019, revised 2022-2023
Synopsis: The daughter of a war hero declared dead trains to go on a galactic quest to finish her late father's mission.

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f6k1nP6Y8s8qq3tQSUhPoV-XY8OYTk4Y/view?usp=drive_link

Author's Notes:

So all of these were made as separate assignments in various classes from my time going to school for bachelor's degree. Each of them had their own set of stipulations and rules for the assignments, most of which I do not remember everything about. So if they seem kind of awful in certain aspects, I probably feel the same way but portfolio is portfolio. Proof that I can work within the means of an employer or client with strict rules is better than having no portfolio at all.

The assignment for Bishop vs King was basically to write a short-film that would last like 11 minutes at the longest. My draft that I turned in was 12 minutes long but it was one of the script assignments that I got the most consistently positive feedback on (except for Minnie's Graduation Bash). Personally, I think the story was just nihilist enough to work for my tastes back then but not so much now.

Those Weird Kids at School was never meant to build into a full series. I just came up with a cool idea of a small family of people with superpowers. Jack's powers were meant with the most negative critique. Most complained that it was hard to understand what Jack's powers were, the point being that Jack doesn't get it either. The assignment was also to be able to write a script within a time limit, so this script would be large-scene-sized versus short film or episode-sized. I reached out to the instructor to ask if it was okay for the scene to lead into something that would probably never exist as long as it worked as a scene. The instructor said it was not an issue as long as it was formatted correctly. The instructor let that slide but was also confused about Jack's ambiguous powers. The powers from the adolescent boy who has strange powers that he doesn't know how to control because they don't make sense to him either. Either way, let go of any expectations of me developing these characters. Jack's power will be a mystery forever.

The assignment of The Gospel of Jay I remember being a real nightmare but I do not remember why. Someone I was with at the time gave me the idea of making a story about Jesus if he was a teenager. I turned it into the idea of the bible being a prophecy instead of supposed folklore or documentation of the past. It was kind of frat boy comedy movie mixed with high-concept modern fantasy. Most of my peer-reviewers complained about it being corny and they are right. That is a very justifiable criticism of The Gospel of Jay. I remember this being a project we had to touch on and come back to then turn in different versions of it over time. I remember being really distraught with stipulations added to one of the overall edits I had to make. Again, I would be more specific but I genuinely do not remember. I spruced things up a bit to make the script a little more bearable but it is still a college student's attempt at a genre-bending project made for a grade before it was made for an audience. I hope you enjoy it, even if it is ironic.

The final screenwriting course had me writing the first two acts of a full film script. The entire course revolved around this one project. The instructor for this class was very open, specific, and seemed taken with a lot of the ideas I had. He was very good at critiquing carefully and pinpointing what I really wanted out of my script along with what might be more appealing to the audience. This script was Minnie's Graduation Bash, a script about a bunch of space furries all psychologically damaged by an interplanetary war. I am surprised to say that this is still the script I am the proudest of out of all the ones I wrote for school. I definitely wrote more than 4, one of which I wouldn't mind posting but cannot find. The rest can stay buried. I was never really interested in writing a full-length screenplay but Minnie's Graduation Bash kind of kicked me into the direction of at least trying it before knocking it. There is an appeal here but not one I think I want to dive into as much as I do comic scripts or teleplay.