Movie Proposal Project

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

~ Orson Welles

You will be creating your own movie project to pitch to Hollywood. OK, maybe not Hollywood but how about East AmwellWood... You will use a website to give you some random combinations to get your brain juices going. Below you can view all the requirements you will need for this project.

Required Slides:


  1. Title Slide

    • First & Last Name

    • Grade

    • Trimester

    • Movie poster image (see below for making & website options)

2. Plot

    • Written paragraph (5-10 sentences) that sells the main idea of your story.

    • Tell me what your 3 characters are going to do in your movie, and how the setting and time period will affect them. What will be there biggest challenge/ conflict for your characters…

    • What Genre is your movie?

    • Include a driving factor or tell us is there some sort of conflict amount characters.

    • Think of movies you have seen before, what makes you invested in the story & the characters?

    • Required- Full size image background (add to works cited)

3. Setting

    • Environment: Description of the land, location, time of day, season, etc.

    • Time Period: When does this take place

    • Location: Country, City, State, Town, etc and why (real or created)

    • This should be in paragraph form and is meant to entice the audience to want to enter the world of your movie.

    • You must also include an image as a background for your setting & cite it.

4. Characters - 4 Slides (first slide is just stating your 3 characters, 3 following are individual details)

    • Create first & last name

    • What is the role of your character (protagonist, antagonist, supporting...)

    • 3 facts about your character and how that relates to your story and plot in complete sentences.

    • Ideas can be inspired by random character generator

    • What famous actor would you cast in this role?

    • Created image of your character (links below)

5. Works Cited

    • 3 citations required:

      • Your photo you used for setting slide background

      • Website(s) you used to create character images.

      • Website you used to create movie poster image.

    • Addition citations

      • If you use any other images in your project

      • If you used icon buttons found on the internet


Helpful Website Links:

Hyperlink Requirements:

These links are required on all slides (other than their own)

    • Title Slide Link

    • Plot

    • Setting

    • Works Cited

    • Characters

  • Character Slides

    • Characters 1-3 will need forward and back arrows that will Cycle through each character slide.

  • Extra links

    • External Link- somewhere in your project you must include a hyperlink that will take you to an outside website that relates to your topic/idea. (ex: www.nfl.com)

    • Classmates Project- You will also need to figure out how to connect a part of your project to another classmates project. The class will share their ideas and project hyperlinks via my Google Classroom.

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Inserting Hyperlinks in Google Slides