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- Your first block is too big. You use large twice. Reword and rework so it's tighter.
- Where did you get these names? Did you consider whether the actors could easily pronounce these names and how they would sound? I like them though.
- 'Have you seen my mommy' a Dr. Who nod, in a horror? Well that was a horror episode.
- Nice horror set up by page 3.
The extra twist might be overboard, but I'm alright with it. So the washer woman was warning him about the vampires. I think the theme of this round is water faeries and vampires.
Nicely written little short. I'm not sure how the vampires fit in with the washer woman story. I think you need more of a twist. By the time he sets out to the woods, it's a little too obvious given the information from the previous conversation how this might play out. If they were all involved it would make more sense, especially in the context of Catriona and Duncan's conversation. Why would a vampire go out that long with Duncan, just to get Lachlan?? I think you could have thrown a few 'what if' senarios in here . . . like what if Duncan was faking and was really a vampire hunter and Lachlan turned out to be the real wimp who needs to be rescued?
Overall, enjoyable. Great job on completing the OWC.
This one didn't do too much for me. It was just "ok" but probably more so because I'm getting burned out on this celtic folklore thing already. I need to go read a good comedy or rom/com. So, not the writer's fault. On a plus side, there was plenty of white space in this script. Good job on that.
Average impact * names authentic sounding to me * the campfire tale mentioned blood and the story was about blood * no excitement from exclamation marks in the narrative * title was cool for a horror type move * the wash lady’s singing while authentic sounding was hard to figure out * my favorite line
“Lachlan looks petrified, but he sprints across the woods.”
Not bad, even if the twist at the end wasn't completely unexpected. (Though I didn't suspect that Catronia was in on it, too. To lay additional groundwork, you might want to have the girls mention that Malvenia and Lachan are a new item as well...maybe introduced by Catronia?)
Nice visuals with the washing woman, and the song was a nice authentic touch. The banter at the beginning was nicely done as well - snappy.
Good on you for getting something done for the OWC. This one reads well enough but feels like an uneasy hybrid of mythologies. The old crone and the sexy vamps didn't gel for me. We don't get any creepy goods until two thirds of the script is expended. A competent effort, but it didn't make a distinct impression suitable for filming.
E.D.
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Pretty basic setup. I remember reading a bunch of "I'm not afraid" scripts for the last OWC. I definitely think you could have gone down a less traveled concept. The washer woman and the vampires were cool but I didn't get the connection. I just reread her song and I still don't get it. I like her inclusion, but for what purpose I'm not sure.
Overall I do like the mythological stuff but I don't like how they were involved. The setup has just been done so many times that it did absolutely nothing for me except for knowing what was coming; dude thinks he's tough, dude does something to prove his toughness, something happens to show dude isn't that tough after all...and then he gets bitten by a vampire which I didn't see coming but I would have liked a better route to the finale.
To echo what's already been said...didn't care for the ending. The set up was fine, and the story zipped right along. Just hoping for a more creative twist, I suppose. I'm not gonna lie, with the wilderness setting, I was hoping for one of those Fear Liath bigfoot things to make an appearance. Maybe next script.
The macho guy got scared almost a little too easily. I wish you spent more time on his growing fear and a bit less on the Washer Woman's lyrics.
But this had a direct, straight forward approach I liked. Good work for one week.
I thought the image of the washer woman was top notch. The way she looked, the speaking in an old tongue that we could not really understand, the bloody clothes.
I suspect the other parts of the story are tied in in ways I don't understand. If they are, and the explanation makes sense(in a supernatural way of course), and I can be made to understand...then I might really like this story.
Some things I need tied together: the old spirit woman, the vampires, and the scream while he was getting water. I also see the girl has been dating Lachlan for a few weeks. So they have been dating just to set up a meal? And how do they work with the woman?
They only way I could make sense was that something took over the bodies of the girls when then were in the woods, something related to the old woman. OR, maybe the old woman appears when someone is going to die? Yes! That's it. Ok, makes sense to me now. Only part that still does not was, as I said, why date someone for a couple weeks then drink his blood? So maybe this would work better if they met that night at a pub or something.
Getting tired, last story today I hope, but now that I figured this out I like it. The old lady was def cool; good writing; dialogue worked. Hmm. This could actually be today's winner! With some more work on this, this could be the best to produce. There were a couple good ones yesterday that I think might be to hard to film. This would be easy to film.
- I thought guys in their 20's camping was a myth made up by Hollywood. More over, brag about not being scared when they do it. Strange...
- Your 1st block is only 1 word too long or 10 words too short. Some would call what you have an "orphan", and they'd probably be right. But it's not unheard of to have a 4 line action brick. You just want to either
A) Make it more 4 lines than more 3.5 lines. (if you catch my drift) B) Make it interesting when you do decide to make it that long. C) Make sure you don't recycle the same words in them.
You can have a 4 lined action brick, that's fine... Just don't over do them and try to make sure you can break your actions down into as little as possible. Give us 2 or 3 things of importance for each instance and move on.
- Double space after your periods. <--Like I just did.
- There's the promise of suspense and horror, but it never really, to me, pays off. You mashed a few mythologies together, we get the creepy old haggish lady and the the vampires, but why? The whole story seems like a random event of something that'd never take place to begin with.
In fact, you could show big foot a picture of these "20 somethings" camping and even he'd question its authenticity. And that's kind of how I feel about your overall script here... I'm questioning the authenticity and worth to the genre.
A nice thrilling story. I haven't expected this twist which is good but it was almost too easy. They are at a campfire and ate each other...
It's still interesting. Very easy to read. The last scene - you showed Malvina, then Catriona in the same paragraph when they were far from each other otherwise Lanchton would have seen Duncan.
I liked the song and it sounds very eerie. Nice job, I think.