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Don
Posted: October 20th, 2012, 7:46am Report to Moderator
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ExtraTERRORestrial by Anonymous Becky - Short - As a hurricane rages, an alien bent on revenge must fight two other enemy space travellers, who have chosen an abandoned motel on Earth as their battleground. - pdf, format


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That font on the title page zaps my eyes wife awake. Please, pretty please, 12point courier and don't BOLD TERROR. It gives me a bad feeling before I read. But that said----

Moving on...

Speaking of boldface, I don't mind the Bold header trend so much, but be aware not everyone worships that style. It has some uses, and advantages. I haven't warmed up to it much myself. At least you didn't go Blue.

I got something bold of my own. Here it is:

I wish I wrote this. This is outstanding work.

My favorite of the OWC thus far. No question. Take no prisoners kind of a script. Hits all requirements. Really, really nice. Probably from one of the Soulshadows alum.

Nothing really bad to say here, except that I'm not into characters crying. Even with a name like Pandora.
To be filmed sometime next week, I'm sure...


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Yeah, should be 12pt Courier on the title page.

This was very good. Easily one of my favorites.

Fix the blank page at the end. Otherwise, I don't really have anything to say about this.

Great job completing the OWC.
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Page 1. I really dug this 1st page. Nice visuals. Funny, I had the motel owner in the lobby on the iPad as well. Very funny with the dialogue too. You look exactly like that dude in the Bible.

Page 2. He stares into the dark night… I thought you said it was dusk?

Page 3. A mime-ish face? This must be written by a board member. LOL!

Page 6. You doing very well so far. I was not crazy however, about Pandora's line " how do you know?". Well it is a motel. Why else would someone come in if they were not looking for a room?

Page 8. I did not quite get why Devin punches the wall. Did I miss something?

Why would Devin tosss the picture if he still wanted it? I was also wondering why he did not take the picture with him when he left. Anyway, of the scripts I have read so far, this is my favorite. You managed to have aliens in this script and still keep it low budget and interesting characters as well. Congratulations! Well done!


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Congrats on finishing the OWC!

I agree with Darren.  This script kicks serious butt.

Mostly action if you can believe that.  

The formatting, descriptions, and dialogue are the work of a pro.

This is the best of the first batch of ten.  And IMO will be hard to beat.

Excellent work!
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Well, well.  Good job.

Slick style, interesting descriptors, reads very well.

Alot going on here, including alot I don't realy follow, but the way it's written makes it seem like more than it probably is, but for a week's time, it's impressive.

There's alot about the storm, but in reality, there really isn't a hurricane that I can see, nor is there a choice between good and evil, really, but maybe I'm just not quite getting everything.

BUT, again, for a week's time, it's heads and shoulders above everythign else so far.

I'm impressed.  Thank you...I needed a good effort after slogging through 8 very poor efforts and 1 decent one.
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This concept is very similar to the Matthew Reilly novel 'Contest'!

Very well written and visual but no chance of being low budget. And the motel/ hurricane scenario are merely background.

A lot of effort obviously put in - and a different genre look about it - but it doesn't exude much atmosphere pertaining to the challeng requirements

Cheers stevie



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Mime-ish face And we have a mime already!

Everything has already been mentioned above ...not much to complain about.

Extra points for the mime imo ...

GREAT job!
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Good story, hit all of the requirements nicely.

Some stuff I'm not sure I completely got because there's a lot packed in here and at times I think even felt overwritten.  Less exposition could help.  Also impressive that this wasn't two-talking heads, which I think most of these scripts are going to be.

Nice job overall.

Greg


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I thought this was well-written (if not slightly over-written) cyber-steam-punky sci-fi.  Unfortunately, I don't think it hit the mark on micro-budget and I don't think it would survive a cut down to size.  

Good job though.  
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This was well written. And it seems as though I am on an island here, but I didn't really like it. The dialogue seemed very comic bookish. Especially Pandora's rhyming chant and the whole destruction of the world thingy.

Why was devin a martyr for his people if he did not die? Where was the super natural events in these characters past?

Good job entering the owc.

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Quoted from mcornetto
I thought this was well-written (if not slightly over-written) cyber-steam-punky sci-fi.  Unfortunately, I don't think it hit the mark on micro-budget and I don't think it would survive a cut down to size.  

What makes it too expensive?  


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This was definitely good overall, although there was most certainly some exposition that could go. That said, I'm more than guilty of that so who am I to be complaining?

I kind of got lost at the very end. I mean, I get that they're alien creatures but, seriously, what was up with the last half a page? To be honest, whether I understood it or not, the score isn't likely to improve because I was along for the ride anyway.

One small side note: iPad would be written that way, as it's a proper noun.

B+.


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What makes it too expensive?  


To many specifics in the prop department and things like people on roofs and footsteps that drip water from the ceiling.
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