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Write a 6 or less page properly formatted script on the theme of:
Take a Christmas item, whether a tree, elf, advent calendar, tree lights, snowman, toy or whatever and write your story from that item's point of view.
Genre: Open
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This isn't a contest - it's a challenge. There are no official prizes.
You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until the deadline.
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After the challenge closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit your script with your name on it.
Participants must read and comment/review in the discussion board at least 10 other scripts submitted or your work will be removed (no harm, no foul. I understand that life gets in the way.
And if you have trouble figuring out what you can do with this challenge, I highly recommend you watch this short film by Movie Poet's owner Chris Messineo. Not just a great film, but it might spur your imagination
Come on, why can't it be a zombie on the shelf? Lol.
I think I have the perfect way to depress people for the holidays. Although, I, sometimes, wonder if you guys get sick of me depressing you all the time...
What if it's a family of zombies with a zombie elf?
I'm thinking that my elf actually does move on its own and wreaks havoc throughout the house while everyone is sleeping.
Maybe a Needful Things kind of vibe where everyone starts to think everyone else is against them and they end up blowing their house up... You know... in the spirit of Christmas.
NO LIST! Geez, everything XMas related should be acceptable. Besides, some of us may have ideas already and don't want others to be mackin' on their thoughts. Let originality flow. No more parameters!
Dialogue from other characters is OK? And you VO the item? Unless you choose to express the item's "view" from actions only. Yes?
Dialogue is absolutely allowed from any character. Human or otherwise. Maybe you are doing your story from a Swedish Straw Goat's POV and it communicates with other items like a candle. Tells it to don't get too close. Just as long as you keep the story from your chosen item's POV.
And if you have trouble figuring out what you can do with this challenge, I highly recommend you watch this short film by Movie Poet's owner Chris Messineo. Not just a great film, but it might spur your imagination
Ive seen Branches. It's very Christmasy but we can't write something like that, right? That one is told by one of the friends and the way I remember it - it's about one of the friends missing the time he went hunting for Christmas trees with his other frirends.
But here, the story should be told by either a Christmas maker or a Christmas related object.]
Then again, maybe I misunderstood or forgot Branches or something.
That one is told by one of the friends and the way I remember it - it's about one of the friends missing the time he went hunting for Christmas trees with his other frirends.
Branches is told from the tree's POV or at least its story.
I really enjoyed Branches. Never seen it before so thanks for sharing. I'm not sure we'd get away with writing a story like that for this challenge. It seems to be a story about human friendship with the trees used as an allegory.
So, I'm struggling on this one. Sticking with trees, if I did a story about a Christmas Tree in a living room it's really going to be a story about the people it sees and what they do/say but in such a scenario, the exact same story could be told from the perspective of any inanimate object in the same room.
So are we supposed to write such a script and just put POV TREE in every slugline? Or are we supposed to write an animation were the tree comes to life?
I have an idea but, basically the story woukd be about people this object encounters rather than the object's perspective, unless I add VO to voice the object's thoughts, and, unlike Branches, make it obvious from the start it is the object and not the human.
Any thoughts, suggestions welcome!
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"I went to a nice family. They took a picture of me with a baby" - yes, it's from a tree's POV. And I really appreciated the writing this time, as if was seeing it for the first time. And cinematography, Chris is very good. I'm curious to see the formatting of the script.
Ok, so to Kham and Mark, and anyone else, Branches is definitely told as the Tree's story, but told with VO. So, I guess you can do it that way or in a true POV way where the camera is your POV character. Unless Don has any objections.
Ok, so to Kham and Mark, and anyone else, Branches is definitely told as the Tree's story, but told with VO. So, I guess you can do it that way or in a true POV way where the camera is your POV character. Unless Don has any objections.
You could do V.O., but surely you could alternatively have the inanimate character speaking dialogue as any character does - character name, then dialogue.
If they can't be heard by others, fine, that can be made clear, or maybe they can be heard by a select character, and that character can interact with them.
I've got an idea. Came to me pretty quick, actually. Just been distracted these past few days. But, hopefully, today is the day that I actually sit down and write!
Okay, just to clarify for other people entering, go to the link via the heading: December OWC.Theme: Copying and pasting : simplyscripts.com/owc takes you to December OWC.
The bottom link at the top of the home page does in fact direct you to the November OWC. Make sense? Hope so.
Or, just use the link I posted above until Don fixes.
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