I looked at the BBC Radio Play format template included in FadeIn but it looked weird, stuck with normal screenplay format instead.

Quoted from AnthonyCawood I looked at the BBC Radio Play format template included in FadeIn but it looked weird, stuck with normal screenplay format instead.

I did the same, I thought it looked horrible lol

I Actually quite enjoyed this challenge despite my initial confusion. Working without visuals really makes you think and I quite like my story so far (No doubt that will change when you all read and slate it lol)

Best of luck to all, genuinely looking forward to see how others have gone about it

My software doesn’t allow for radio or audio plays, it does just about everything else including graphic novels, I too looked at the BBC website and decided against adopting that format as  it would have been to time consuming. Just stuck with the standard format and while it looked a little weird to begin with it actually looked fine by the end.

So many ways to describe a character without visuals. Is he drinking? - ice cubes hitting a glass. Exhausted? - Breathing heavy. Happy? - humming a tune? Sad? - crying.

In a sense, we’re more or less describing our character’s mood at the moment.

I looked at a podcast format at first and started out that way, and then decided it looked too clunky and I was going to have to use Word to write it in because Final Draft wouldn't really format that way.  The stage play formats in FD were also a little foreign to me so I just went with what I knew.

But I'm glad this is an open challenge because restricting it to a certain genre or having to include certain objects just wouldn't have worked, I think.

I got something started. It's gonna be... interesting. When I fall flat on my face at least no one will be able to say I played it too safe.

Quoted from MarkItZero I got something started. It's gonna be... interesting. When I fall flat on my face at least no one will be able to say I played it too safe.

I'm sure it's gonna be an absolute banger!  

SS writers have the uncanny ability to completely trash their scripts before the challenge, but then submit absolute gold and kill it in the scores.

With that being said, my script is absolute trash and you will all hate it  

Quoted from MarkItZero I got something started. It's gonna be... interesting. When I fall flat on my face at least no one will be able to say I played it too safe.

I still have fond memories of reading your short, while in a dentists waiting room, where a guy was crapping in a stall and shouted “fuck yeah!” Laugh out loud funny stuff.

Quoted from SAC I still have fond memories of reading your short, while in a dentists waiting room, where a guy was crapping in a stall and shouted “fuck yeah!” Laugh out loud funny stuff.

And you had that hilarious script with the hologram car girl farting in that guys face. Clearly we're both masters of highbrow comedy.

Quoted from irish eyes oooohhhhh Late to the party.. Maybe I'll try to come up with something. Has all the dumbass questions been asked yet? I have one to add, does the other person have to be heard?

No, the other person doesn't have to be heard.  

Quoted from ReneC Don's brilliant. He gets to throw out a challenge and sit back to let us all figure out what the challenge actually is and then pat us on the back when we come up with something that sorta works while pretending that was his intention all along.

Yes, particularly since the "I have a rock-solid challenge with no ambiguity" thing didn't work.

Quoted from StevenClark ...All one must do to realize it can work is listen to some of Bob Newhart's stand up comedy from the 60s. The guy literally defined the one-sided phone conversation gag, and to hilarious effect. IMO. And all without visuals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBMm00P3QT0

Quoted from Warren Has anyone, in their interpretation of the requirements, got any hard no's. So something you'd really mark a script down for and potentially DQ a script for?

Thus far, all the scripts fit within what I was thinking when I came up with the "bullet-proof challenge (that wasn't bullet-proof."

Quoted from Zack Here's a question. How do you introduce characters we don't see?

Like,

     JOHN
Mom? It's me, John.

or
     JOHN
Come in, Mission Control.

or
      JOHN
Fifty bucks for a beej?

And... resubmitted. Feeling pretty good about my entry.

I'm back and have just submitted my effort.  Will be interesting to see what everyone comes up with.

I’ve been able to recite The Driving Instructor by rote since I was in my late teens! Good call! He’s got a bunch of classic bits.

Quoted from Don Thus far, all the scripts fit within what I was thinking when I came up with the "bullet-proof challenge (that wasn't bullet-proof."

Considering this post was after I submitted my script, that's pretty good news to me.