house, would you still sleep in our bed?' `Of course,' he says, `it's a really comfortable and expensive bed.' Then she asked: `Would you take all of my pictures down?' He answered: `I might.' `Would you marry someone else?' She asked. `I might' he answered. `OK,' she asks, `If I died before you, and you were sleeping in our bed in our house, would you let your new wife use my golf clubs?' `No, he said. `She's left-handed.' He then told me he had been told this story by his grandfather. His movie screened in many film festivals and on Scandanavian television. Perhaps you will have a family story like this which you can adapt into a short film script. These types of stories have already passed the mar- keting test. If they didn't work orally, they wouldn't be repeated. 4. Use a song Occasionally you will find a musician with a song, for which they want a dramatic short made to illustrate their song. The British singer Robbie Williams did just this in 2006/7. On tour, he was too busy to shoot con- ventional pop promos. His record company created a competition for filmmakers to come up with short films using any one of his ten songs as a starting point. It wasn't necessary to use the entire song, just make a story surrounding the film. One of the films was fantastic. It is called Goodbye To the Normals, and has had huge numbers on YouTube. The writer was paid out of the competition budget.