Assessment of ___________________________________________
The name of your story here
Would it be a good made-for-t.v. movie? Provide at least two reasons for your
answer supported with specific examples from the story.
Your main point—answer the main question:
Reason 1
State Your Point:
Evidence and Explanation (remember to illustrate with specific information from
the story where possible.
Reason 2
State Your Point:
Evidence and Explanation (remember to illustrate with specific information from
the story where possible.
Reason 3
State Your Point:
Evidence and Explanation (remember to illustrate with specific information from
the story where possible.
Conclusion and Summary:
Overall Project Assessment: Mr. Jones’ Example using “Car”
“Car” would not be the best work to turn into a made-for-T.V. movie, not even a
short one. The biggest problem with “Car” is that it is short and not much really happens.
There are really only a couple of things that happen in the story: a family goes for a ride
in their new Porsche (about the only really spectacular thing that shows up in this story),
has ice cream at a café, comes home and then has a low-speed accident where the car
flips over and lands on a street below their apartment. A lot of material would have to be
added in order to turn this story into something that was interesting enough to keep an
audience interested for even a half-hour show.
Another problem with “Car” has to do with the car itself: the whole story hinges
on the fact that the car is a Porsche. This is a problem from a couple of directions: the
Porsche people might get upset at the suggestion that their car is depicted as unreliable—
the car stalls in front of the apartment building. Another problem is that the Porsche
people might be unhappy with the way that this movie would be an “un-advertisement”
for Porsche cars: the car ends up falling over a wall onto the street below: usually when
this happens in movies—when a car falls over a cliff, is dropped from the sky, gets in a
crash or something—the producers are careful to make sure that the car that does this is
pretty unidentifiable.
One final problem here is that, in order to make this movie, the producers would
have to wreck at least one (probably two) vintage Porsche cars. This would cost at least
half a million dollars…just for the cars. This doesn’t even cover the production crew and
the shoot.
“Car” is a cute story but it really isn’t something that we could turn into a short
movie: It is too short, not much really happens (it would need to have more material
added in order to make it worth half an hour of T.V.), and it presents problems in terms
of the way that the car is depicted. For all of these reasons we should drop this story as a
possibility for a made-for-tv movie.