Cleveland City: The Pitch, The Treatment & The Poster


A lot of development on the Cleveland City script treatment. 

 We have a logline.
We have a tagline.
We have a poster.

And the first sequential 13 scenes - ie Act 1 - is now damn near close.

Once Jacob and I nail this sequence, truly the backstory of this dark, dark tale, that's when the rest of the scenes can flow. We will have our structure.

Next? Getting all 52 down on paper and then resequencing them in the order we want the story to unfold.
The way we want to audience to make their discoveries. 
And not one reveal more.

We gotta keep y'all in the dark. Because it's Noir.

 

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