Screenwriting : Screenplay genres by Michael Arscott

I did my first children's movie, 'Roots of Magic' in January. It was my 7th screenplay. It's on my loglines page if you want to take a peek - I'm really hungry for peer feed-back on this one (happy to do 'script swaps' too). I've done a post-apocalyptic western (set in the Canadian winter), a political-action, an art-house 'fantasy/apocalypse', an action movie, two historical fiction, and two horror (shorts). I haven't had anything optioned/produced (yet!). What was the genre of your last complete screenplay, Michael?

God help me, I wrote a supernatural horror script and completed it just a couple of months ago. I wanted to bring some life to this legend of The Sack Man. He turned out to be more like the Bogeyman, but I wanted to squeeze more out of the story than what I've seen of this type of genre before.

I wrote a 66 page TV Pilot in 25 days in the end of the world apocalypse genre. Last one before that was a Fantasy adventure script.

I wrote my last 3 stories as THRILLERS according to classes I take with John Truby. With two of the stories, the opening beat, or the crime of the adversary, didn't fit. So I took it out, and got coverage from THE HAPPY WRITERS/THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY. Their genre description for my story style is: UNUSUAL DRAMAS.

Action thriller

1-hour TV Drama..

Historic epic

Supernatural adventure

I've put on my sci-fi helmet and written a TV Pilot for a deep space mission to save humanity. I also wrote a quirky drama about the ghost of a dog, and an action piece with a female assassin. Now, onto the western I wanted to write. :)

Medical Conspiracy

Sci-fi

Scifi thriller

Comedy/sci-fi. Just about everything I do is a comedy though.

Comedy. I'm much like Cherie. Comedy is a flexible genre.

Nudist western.

@William That sounds interesting. What's the plot?

When bounty hunter Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered and most of the townsfolk are at each other's throats... and want Rocklin to to get out of town by sundown. Just a typical western, but without clothes.

Historical drama set in 1963 about a self-righteous woman who campaigns against premarital sex until her illegitimate granddaughter appears on her doorstep. Set in a small town so few locations and can be done with a smaller budget than most period pieces.

@William. That sounds cool. Is it comedic or a straight western?

It was a joke.

My script is the grittiest with going over the top. Plz do yourself myself and your production company. The opportunity for GOLD.Don't just take my word for it take a quick look.

Dru, I noticed you have posted the same comment within several threads -- that is considered spamming and is not tolerated on this site. Please delete your comments or be reported for spamming. Thanks.

Biopic.

@William Martell: That's a shame. It could've been an amusing absurd comedy.

Drama.

Horror

Action

Historical.

Crime

Paranormal comedy.

comedy

Dramedy. Onward and upward.

A feel-good drama, which is not my usual.

Scifi-Horror . . . for kids!

Every Genre - that's right, I went there.

TV hour-long dramady.