AUTHOR BIO:
S.W. Wilcox, aka DJ Scott, was born and raised in California. He earned a BA in English in Pa. in 2004. An animated short version of "Bards of Fantasia" was made in 2007, for schools. And since 2009, in Utah, he’s been scoring the full script, playing live, and DJ-ing.
FANTASY SCREENPLAY:
I have a 1-sheet I’d love to send agents & producers with the synopsis, pitches, illustration samples, etc. Heck, I published the script as an illustrated novel for a quick view and advance-buzz, here:
Quick pitch? "Harry Potter" meets "Highlander." Full-color storyboards with illustrations in the YA Brit fantasy tradition of The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, How to Train your Dragon, etc., but much more detailed thanks to technology like Photoshop.
Indeed, along with my original guitar-driven soundtrack, I envision the FULLY PREVIS'D screenplay not as animated but live action in the Brit tradition of Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling.
Unique traits: Cutting-edge rock producer, writer, and fantasy illustrator. Pen-pal with Michael Moorcock when I was a teen.
BARDS OF FANTASIA: A Poem for Britain (logline 5) Budget: $30M+ | Comedy Where there be magic, myth and music -- there be monsters.
BARDS OF FANTASIA: A Poem for Britain (logline 4) Romance Romance among teens unfairly thrust into adulthood at the end of the world return to the world's--and the gods'--birth to set things right. But the gods are as naive about love as the time-voyagers! With over 200 pics, color kindle ed. is a free Matchbook with $3.99 b+w paperback: https://www.amazon.com/BARDS-F...
BARDS OF FANTASIA: A Poem for Britain (logline 3) Musical A Brit prof, teen heartthrob, and his girlfriend/bodyguard timetrek to reverse a UK nuclear winter by reasoning with, tricking, or downright fighting their land's ancient gods.
BARDS OF FANTASIA: A Poem for Britain (logline 2) Fantasy History can be a lonely place for a cynical college girl -- when your boyfriend's a time-trekking rock star, war buff, and demon hunter!
BARDS OF FANTASIA: A Poem for Britain (logline 1) Sci-fi A post-apocalyptic duo quest to the past, testing their emotions and concepts of justice and fate. But history can be a lonely place.
"Serve & Protect" 10th Anniv. 4k Lyric Video, USA
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by HGR Records
Writer/Director/Producer To be premiered at 2025 film fests... Directors: Scott (S.W.) Wilcox and Epic Muntzir. Words & Music by Jans Ahumada. Vocals by Rick Clay. Bass/Drums and Production by Scott Wilcox. Already selected for eight film fests and a bronze-medal winner for Animation from Athens IMA Film Fest!
Description
In the future, justice is no longer blind. --Or even human. The year is 2162. Mankind is still reeling from a cataclysmic crash from the greatest technological heights it has ever known. Advances in time travel and medicine were made, but at the price of faster advances in weaponry. The worst fears of the nuclear age were realized and the world was plunged into Atomic War. Now, there are only small pockets of humanity left. In one such city, cyborg police track a resistance fighter, speeding first through a neon city that gasps for energy-remnants and then into a desert showdown. The stunning 4k futuristic animation is achieved through expertise in Adobe After Effects. It details spinning tires, smoky streets and windblown hair to the finest detail, with song lyrics included as a final touch.
Director Statement
Brief artist statement? Even those with law degrees are subject to human weaknesses. So no need to rant this is too controversial or disrespectful. Just cue the track in your car stereo and floor it! (Just kidding.)
To me, music is a healthy type of chaos, a full three steps away from a destructive kind. Using lyrical phrases, music best introduces a topic for a constructive discussion. One step away from negativity lies the full-sentence novel, dangerously over-descriptive and voyeuristic. Before that though, there's narrative film, and some music videos: and all three, music, video, and book, rely heavily and healthily on symbolism.... (More to be posted on the full video page, including the lyrics.)
BARDS OF FANTASIA: A Poem for Britain (100 min. Previs)
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(Fantasy, Sci-Fi, History and Musical)
Writer, Composer, Art & Voice Director, Sound Engineer A Brit prof, teen heartthrob, and his girlfriend/bodyguard timetrek to reverse a UK nuclear winter by reasoning with, tricking, or downright fighting their land's ancient gods. (100 min.color, animated previs.)
Decade Escapades: A Utah Metal Video Saga, 51 min.
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by HGR Records (Crime, Mystery, Musical and Film-Noir)
Writer/Director The "story" starts in the opening credits with the evil video game, and all the videos are at www.reverbnation.com/deathzone12 . DECADE ESCAPADES plot: In 1985, two students are trapped in a video game by the hero's jealous ex--and her video minions. An homage to 20th-century-film history, the couple are immersed in a 1940s Army hangar (Ritual of Terror), 1920s gangster-casino (American Hitmen), 1960s freak out-seance (Sonic Prophecy), 1970s car race (Arsenic Addiction), 1930s train-robbery (Deny Your Faith), and 1990s cyber-ninja-zombie graveyard (Reveeler). 3 "official" videos round out the cable TV pilot to exactly 51min. PG-13.
Bards of Fantasia: Tour Musical, Mythical Britain in 39 Animated Minutes
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Writer/Director/Voice Actor Two music students, well-versed in physics, launch their adventure in post-modern England, moving on through ancient Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and north Britain, as it was becoming England. The trick to surviving both the physical challenge of meeting barbaric tribes and the supernatural challenge of overcoming mysterious - even wrathful - gods and other creatures of myth, is the peaceful use of physics. The two students have mastered the physics (and metaphysics) of guitar and vocal sound-waves, while their drummer-companion has mastered the mechanics of magnetic and temporal locomotion (a magnetic time tower). So relax and enjoy the 13 short, hard-rock songs and hundreds of digital paintings of mythic times, as the story-elements are so densely-packed, you'll need a dozen views to catch most of them! Written by S.W. Wilcox
Rock 'n' Roll Film Fest (Nairobi Kenya) Official Selection, Dec.
(2024)
Athens IMA Film Fest (Athens Greece) Animation Win: 3rd Place Honors, Dec.
(2024)
Silver Wings IFF (West Bengal India) Music Video Win: 4th Place, Outstanding Achievement, Dec.
(2024)
Art published at "It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns" web-blog.
(2016)
Art & Voiceover work published at RSR Trip Radio and Bakersfield Cymbals (BMC).
(2016)
Graduated Cum Laude, BA in English
(2004)
Lebanon Valley College
(2002-2004)