Disclaimer: The follow is a work of fiction for the purposes of the July/August 2007 One Week Challenge on simplyscripts.com.  This is a fictitious email to set the theme and genre of the one week challenge.  In no way should anyone infer from this email that the script submitted will be produced or made into a movie.

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Subject:     I need a script.
From:          ta.g@@xxxxxxxx.com
Date:          Sat, July 28, 2007 11:59 pm
To:          webmaster@simplyscripts.com
Priority:      High


Don:

I need a short script and I need it in a week.  I have an investor who is willing to put up a sum of money and property to film.  The constriants are:

It needs to be a Thriller (It can be a thriller in the broadest sense of the word, so I'm open to crime stories, supernatural/noir/scifi/comedic/romcom elements.  But, it has got to be a Thriller.  I need to be thrilled.  Also, very important, below find a picture of the set.  I got a boat.  The boat floats and can be moved.  Best yet, we can do anything we want to the boat.  Anything .



As you know, a magnesium flare went off in my face a few weeks ago.  I can't see anything.  I haven't seen the boat, yet, so I'm going to have to rely on the script to give me an idea of what I'm dealing with.  I've asked...

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Can you help me out?

Thanks,

Ta

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There you have it folks.  Write a 15 page or less script (in proper screenplay format).  It has to be a thriller and has to incorporate the boat.  Please submit your scripts no later than Saturday, 11:59 pm August 4th, 2007.  This is a free contest and as a result, you have no chance of winning anything at all.  One script will be selected to be performed by iScript.com.  - Don

LOL! Does Movie Magic or FD have a braille module?

interesting...

My sympathies for Ta about the burn in the face...(silent chuckle).

Gabe

FADE IN:

MICHAEL JACKSON belts out THRILLER as he skillfully moonwalks around flopping catfish on the deck of a Lousianna white-trash houseboat

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p.s. all rights reserved for the terms "white trash houseboat, white-trash houseboat, white trash house boat, whitetrashhouseboat, white-trash house-boat, whitetrash house-boat, whitetrash house boat"

lol. Cool. I have a kick-ass idea for this setting, at least I think it is. I will start writing immediately.

--Julio

Since we are bound to have many new participants this go round, let me toss out a few things gleaned from challenges past:

*  Scripts are anonymous during the initial week or so.  Do not put your name on the script.

*  Scripts are anonymous during the initial week or so.  Do not post that you are playing or not.  You will be enthusiastic, and will want to say, "I just submitted my script!", but you will look silly.

*  You may also want to post, "It only took me 2 hours to write!" But nobody will be impressed with your speed.  Not here, anyway.  Impress us with quality.

*  If you play, READ SOME OF THE SUBMITTED SCRIPTS.  Nothing makes you look like more of a Jerk around here than submitting a script and getting lots of comments on your work without returning the favor to other players.  That is Jerk with a capital J.  Don't be that guy.

*  If you have no clue about proper script format, brush up on it.  Don will not read these before they go up, but he often peeks at format, and if it ain’t even close, he may kick it back to you.  Particularly during contest time.

*  Have a killer logline.  Spend some real time on it.  There will be lots of scripts, and the ones that will get read are the ones that sound intriguing.  A script with a blah logline gets buried and ignored.  Having a typo in your logline will make you look retarded, and people will assume your script has been proofread in a similar fashion.

Sounds great, except the theme part - there isn't one.

Yeah, we have the genre and a houseboat, but not a theme. So we get to make up our own?

Why mention one when it's never really mentioned?

Quoted from ABennettWriter we have the genre and a houseboat, but not a theme.

Quoted from Don Write a 15 page or less script (in proper screenplay format).  It has to be a thriller and has to incorporate the boat.

The boat is the theme.


Breanne

Well, guess that's that, then.

Good luck, participants!


Matt.

Yeah. I wanna wish good luck to everyone as well. I've already written my intro . Hopefully I'll be finished by Tuesday so I can re-write it before the deadline.

Question?

Can the boat be located anywhere or does it have to be located in a similar setting to the one in the photo?

Well, the boat can be moved and anything can be done with it.  

I'm guessing you can move the boat anywhere you want, as long as it's there.

I just wonder how many are gonna be like the climax of cape fear.

Looks like I may have to get my hands dirty this time around... or maybe not...

~Zack~

A boat isn't a theme.

A theme is a statement that best describes the moral of your story.

So, a boat can't be a theme.