April 2017 OWC

As promised, a new and original format!

Timeline: challenge announced 4/14, 10 PM EST

Scripts Due: 4/21 midnight

“Winner” of the challenge announced 2 weeks later

For those new around here: there’s no entrance free, no prizes...this is an exercise.

There will be 3 levels to the scoring:

Title and logline
Reader polling
A professional writer

Those 3 components will have equal weight.

Title and logline:

This scoring will be determined by special guest evaluator Carson Reeves, the scriptshadow. He will score each logline. This is not just about constructing a good logline...this is about coming up with a title and a concept that stands out, which is crucial to getting your project noticed.

Reader polling:

Each participant will get to score the other scripts: Poor  Fair  Good  Very Good  Excellent

Special judge:

A mystery professional writer has promised to read all of the scripts and give scorecards.

Everyone who enters should understand that it’s expected that they read as many scripts as they can and provide honest notes. We’re all in this together...quid pro quo



Now go get those Chinese keyboards before the stores run out!!!  

Woohoo!!!!  Love it!

Sounds great, Pia!

Loglines are not my bestest friend, but I'll sure make an effort on this one.

Looking forward to it.

Sweet! I can't wait for this.

~Zack~

A week to finish what I'm on with and clear the decks... bring it!

Wow. So this is very exciting!

Let's guess the genre and challenge!

Here's my humble guess.

Genre- Dance (i.e. Footloose, Dirty Dancing)
Challenge- An aging spy takes one last job.

Pure gold!

~Zack~

My first OWC!! I joined at a really perfect time, this seems like a mini nanowrimo for screenplays so there's a chance I'll actually finish this!

My guess...

Genre - Back to School

Challenge - A Mexican learns Chinese and falls in love with an Aussie

Best of luck HeyDaddy, these are a lot of fun.

Will take part in this one for sure.

Woah, you've got contacts, Pia! Maybe Matias is our pro-reader... it's exciting to guess even

Awesome! Thanks for doing this, Pia!

Looks like I'm finally gonna have to learn how to write a logline.

Aga! I got it - Pia is doing this OWC and James scarefest club. Only why is there 3 s (as in SSSC) as opposed to 4. It is SimplyScripts Scarefest Script Club. I see 4. Maybe SimplyScripts is being counted as one word or something.

Innovative approach here - sounds interesting

Cool

I have this feeling this could have a large entry...boom boom.

Exciting stuff