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I'm a bit unsure of this one. I usually do quite well given a set of parameters and can come up with a unique story for me. This one seems so open, anyone can pick any of their existing short scripts that's in their genre and just change all the characters to be the opposite of their own gender.
I won't do that of course, I'm just saying anyone could. I find when a challenge is too open, I struggle.
It's like if you said, write a sci-fi script - ANY sci-fi script. I'd be sat here drawing a blank all week. But if you said write a sci-fi script, 10 pages long where your character encounters an A.I. that's just achieved sentience. Well, then my mind would be off like a shot.
With this...I'm really drawing a complete blank, but I'll have a think.
If you'd like, I can give you (specifically) an additional parameter...
Just finding out now about this as I work Satdy arve/night.
Am happy with the random way the genre as been assigned - Blondie, that is actually an idea of mine for an OWC that I've brought up a few times!! Thanks in advance for the acknowledgement lol.
But i'm with Mark R on this re more criteria. The beauty of the OWCs of the past has been the unique parameters set. I am no fan of the open ones and this is one of the those apart from the gender thing (just a reminder that there are only 2 genders in this world lol).
If you can give me more criteria to make the theme more and specific and much more interesting then hit me with some.
I'm a bit unsure of this one. I usually do quite well given a set of parameters and can come up with a unique story for me. This one seems so open, anyone can pick any of their existing short scripts that's in their genre and just change all the characters to be the opposite of their own gender.
I won't do that of course, I'm just saying anyone could. I find when a challenge is too open, I struggle.
It's like if you said, write a sci-fi script - ANY sci-fi script. I'd be sat here drawing a blank all week. But if you said write a sci-fi script, 10 pages long where your character encounters an A.I. that's just achieved sentience. Well, then my mind would be off like a shot.
With this...I'm really drawing a complete blank, but I'll have a think.
Mark, your comment is interesting. Some time ago, I was openly annoyed about the tight regulations of the taxi challenge and people then called me out, said I'm a non-creative person and stated it's a sign of lacking creativity when not finding inspiration within close margins. I took that to heart…
To me, the topic is more than great because I only reach sentience if you let me out go play :-)
Anyway, I hope you walk through and enter... think about meaning perhaps... what specific abilities women got or what their impact on the world is... what fucks you up about them or what you think they succeed with.
Just to confirm: There can't be ANY instances of the other sex in the script?Like a dead body, or just a shot of city street where other people are walking by. There will literally be only the one sex on screen at any time?
Rick, I draw your attention to this below when I queried if an opposite sex character could be dead, in other words, there in the scene with obviously no dialogue.
Libby, you're making me feel guilty, but no, not even if they're dead. The challenge is going to come from pretending as though half the population may as well not even exist.
Can I get some feedback on what people would accept as Sports genre. Obviously, there has to be some sort of sporting activity featured prominently, but must it have a "team needs to win the big game" element?
For example, I'd say Point Break fits in the sports genre even though it's mainly a crime/thriller. Even The Descent I feel like could be classified as sports.
Here's what I was thinking with sports, Mark, if you're not going to do a standard sports story: The Running Man, Death Race 2000, BASEketball. Anything can be turned into a sport, if you get creative.
Sports genre is hard, or it seems so straight off. I wouldn't have known what to do with that.
Thinking though...
Simplify it.
All the obvious U.S movies come to mind like: Bull Durham, Jerry Maguire, Rocky etc. The central story is about sport. But there's a lot more going on underneath. They were clever weaving the love story 'you complete me' around a sports story that otherwise probably would have bored the pants off me with JM.
Considering this a short I personally would choose kids or adolescent females, perhaps a competitive plot, moral to the story, about winning and losing, perhaps bullying, or that sport is typically a more male domain. And comedy if you lean towards that.
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