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One example of a screenwriting competition is Bluecat screenplay contest. if you enter a screenplay into the competition you will get an analysis of your screenplay complementary . if you are a winner living outside the USA you will be automatically eligible for the Fellini award, this is given to the best international contestant. The winner of this award will be given $1000. They also have 3 different other categories that you could be a winner of such as the pilot category, the feature screenplay category and the short film screenplay category. they will each win $2000. The grand prize winner will receive $5000 all categories are eligible. The script you enter should be brand new and not have won any competitions in the past, if it isn't new or has won a competition in the past it will be disqualified and unable to win any of the categories. When entering the Bulecat competition they have a rule that all entries must be in English, the feature screenplay must be between 65-125 pages in length. The first part of the screen play is called the Pilot as it is the first thing that is being aired. When writing this part of the script it must be between 20-75 pages long and the short screenplay must be between 1-29 pages in Length. Bluecat will accept many features such as, episode pilots and short film script. Each submission must have one complimentary written analysis, the script they have sent in must be a PDF file and must have a properly formatted film with the same of of the script and who the script was written by. They do not have any title page requirements. When going through the process they have to commission content, when doing this they have a number of things to look out for, some of their strategic priorities include the following.

- To maintain a range of supply in the UK enabling smaller producers to survive and grow 

- To strengthen production ecologies, talent and the creative pipeline outside of London 

- To strengthen progress on diversity and representation both on and off screen 

- To strengthen progress towards environmentally sustainable production in the UK 

Another example of a screenwriting competition is The Titan International screenwriting awards. In this in the final round the judges will pick out the top 3 contestants after this the three winners will then have to read their work personally out to the judges showing emotion and meeting the correct criteria for the work. After they have done this they will be ranked by "the titans" who will exclusively determine their overall ranking, for example first, second and third place. The price for winning this is £500000 cash, lifetime access to all IS online courses and many more amazing screenwriting opportunities. However this is a good competition when you enter there is a £20 entry fee. The same rules of many apply to this for example, the work has to be your own, it has to be a new entry and you cant use work that you have already used and it has to fit the minimum of 100 pages long. 

A time when a writer took inspiration from a life event and wrote a film was the 2020 movie "I still believe".  In the film you see two people when they were young and fell in love for the first time, then one becomes very ill and at around the middle of the film they sadly pass away. The movie has two main focuses, Jeremy wants to pursue his music carrier but due to his partners illness he also wants to focus his attention on her to try and help her as much as possible. When they find out she has cancer Jeremy tries to balance both caring for his partner and his music career however this did not go to plan when she passed away as he lost his way. Towards the end of the movie we see Jeremy getting back to his normal way and honour her at the same time. This film is based on a true story that happened in 1999 and named after a song he wrote in 1998 and because of the powering message and meaning they actually used the song and had an actor sing it. "I still believe" is the second music biopic by Erwin brothers.

Another example of when a writer has used a true story to be able to film a movie is Charlie st cloud. This movie starts off as just a normal movie when the 2 brothers go out for a drive when the mum has gone out, about 5 minutes into the movie is when the story starts to shape up, the car that the 2 brothers where in gets hit by a car at the traffic lights because the other car was being driven by a drunk driver and ran the lights, this crash caused the younger brother to die and the older brother still seeing him in ghost form, since this has happened he has also been able to see him ex best friend who went off to war but because he could see his dead brother this also allowed him to see his friend walking around and spoke to him at the grave. Throughout the movie it shows Charlie's progression about getting over the death of his brother. Towards the end of the movie he has to chose between staying with the girl he has fell in love with or going to the same spot he and his brother used to practice baseball. The peoples story that this is based on wanted to remain anonymous but the writer had permission to make the movie without it being related to the real life events, this means that the writer has made some drastic changes to the story to make the movie more enjoyable. The director of the of this movie is Burr Seers, it was published in 2010 and was one of the biggest movies that Burr had directed. 

One primary resource that I can use when creating my screen play is a questionnaire about how lockdown affected peoples day to day lives. Another primary resource is a focus group about how people feel about Covid. 

The advantages of a questionnaire is that you get answers straight from each person. the disadvantages of this are that they may not have the option to answer how they want if its multiple choice. advantages of a focus group is that you get lots of opinions all at once. the disadvantages for this is that people in the group could influence on  others answers.

One secondary resource i can use when creating my screen play is the news, this will have peoples opinions in it. another secondary resource for creating my screenplay is a forum as this will also show peoples opinions on lockdown.

The advantages of the news as a secondary resource is that it is straight out of the governments mouth and this means it is factual. the disadvantages of this is that its not straight from the public about their struggles. The advantages of a forum is that anyone can post on it about how they are feeling about lockdown. A disadvantage of this is that it may not be 100% the truth about that person. 

The news was the most helpful when creating my screen play, this is because it helped me create my pm character.