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Genre: Horror (or any subgenere thereof) Rating: Children / Young Adult / Adult Budget: Open
Retell your favorite Fairy* Tale as a horror story. Please include the source. Here is a list of fairy tales for inspiration. *Can be children's fable, myth, poem, or song.
You have seven days to write a screenplay between 6 and 10 pages. The screenplay must be properly formatted and in PDF format .
The scripts are due on Friday, October 14th at 11:59PM EST and must be submitted to: SimplyScripts.com/owc.
Timeline: October 7 at around 8 est - Theme and Genre announced. October 14th at 11:59PM EST - Scripts are due to SimplyScripts.com/owc October 16th - Scripts Posted October 21st - Writer's Choices submitted October 30th - Names and writer's choice revealed.
The Gist 6 - 10 pages, properly formatted & saved as a PDF file, Script submitted anonymously, Free to submit*, This isn't a contest. There are no prizes. One entry per person.
*Free to submit. But, you are committing to reading and ranking five scripts randomly assigned to you.
You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until the deadline.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read and comment/review on the scripts submitted.
Do not put your real name on your script. However, please use your real name when submitting your script. (After the challenge closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit with your script with your name on it.
Please put (c) 2016 on the bottom left corner of your title page.
Best of luck and I hope you guys have a lot of fun with this contest.
There will be a Writer's Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to select the three scripts he or she likes the best.
Theme is fabulous. So many possibilities. I wonder if half the ordeal won't be just picking one. In any case, I think I'm down, even just adapting something straight and milking the horror elements. Will come out my way no matter what I do.
I can't help but think of the movie Shrek when I see all of these. That doesn't help me think of horror. Crap! I bet there will be some good ones this time around as well.
My Scripts: SHORTS Bed Bugs I Got The Shaft No Clowning Around Fool's Gold Five Days for Redemption
I can't help but think of the movie Shrek when I see all of these. That doesn't help me think of horror. Crap! I bet there will be some good ones this time around as well.
As James has pointed out, you can do a straight adaptation of any one of a number of children's stories that would make someone wet his/her pants or, as Libby has pointed out, you can take something out of R.L. Stevenson and with a twist or two (or not) can be pretty scary.
As James has pointed out, you can do a straight adaptation of any one of a number of children's stories that would make someone wet his/her pants or, as Libby has pointed out, you can take something out of R.L. Stevenson and with a twist or two (or not) can be pretty scary.
Fantasy draft? fantasy draft?
- Don
Ha! No, I meant that, in Shrek, the fairy tale creatures all showed up at his swamp. That's all. The rules of the OWC are clear to me. Just thought it was funny. No, I'm good with it even though I'm not great with horror. That won't stop me though. Don't worry about me, I'm not as dumb as I look!
My Scripts: SHORTS Bed Bugs I Got The Shaft No Clowning Around Fool's Gold Five Days for Redemption