IT'S ALL IN A SONG

Write a 2-5 page script based on a song title. It can be a literal adaptation of the song's meaning or just based on how the song makes you feel or if it triggers a memory or something.

It can even be just a well crafted scene.

Open genre.

That is probably the shortest description of a OWC challenge I have seen  

I feel like this part "...or something" is up for a lot of interpretation lol

Love the low page count though.


Ahhh and now I have just realized your clue in the other thread
"Have a little... "Patience" (whistles)"

Same rules apply as all other OWCs.

I love this! Gonna start brainstorming now!

Wow. That is WIDE open. Cool. Haven't had one that would generate such varied scripts in a long time. Love it.

Agreed on all counts! Like this one a lot.

When are scripts due?

An idea just struck me!!!

Scripts will be due Friday the 8th by midnight EST.
Submit anonymously, as usual.
Glad to hear that people seem to like this so far.

That 2-5 page limit is brutal. Lol. But I suppose it wouldn't be fun if it were easy.

Quoted from Zack That 2-5 page limit is brutal. Lol. But I suppose it wouldn't be fun if it were easy.

You can always expand on it later.

Cool.

This kind of feels like an old Movie Poet challenge.

Exciting!

Quoted from Arundel You can always expand on it later.

So, it effectively could have a cliffhanger of an ending?

Anyway, based on a song title, inspired by...
Just don't replicate lyrics for your story, right?

https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-screenwrite/m-1182665711/

https://screencraft.org/blog/can-you-include-song-lyrics-in-your-screenplay/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scree.....ed_to_write_a_scene/

Finally I would imagine we write on our title page the name of the song  that inspired us?

Yes, it can have a cliffhanger as an ending.

Based on the song title or inspired by is the main idea. I would just say not to quote the song or the lyrics just like you shouldn't in any other screenplay.

Finally, the idea is that the song title should also be the title of the script.

“What Should I Do?”  “I Love Rock n Roll” but...”I’m A Little More Country Than That”.
“I Have Nothing” but I do have “High Hopes” that “I’ll Think Of Something”.

Feeling “Sorry” for myself.  So I might as well go on down to
“Margaritaville” because “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” and “Tears In My Beer” is better than “Nothing In My Head",  but “Tomorrow’s Another Day”. “I Hope You Understand”.

“Sincerely”,

“Your Truly”



P.S.  Sorry, “I Couldn’t Help Myself”