Quoted from Zack This challenge reminds me of the classic holiday short film, Treevenge! That should inspire some peeps.

This is funny!

Dialogue from other characters is OK?  And you VO the item?  Unless you choose to express the item's "view" from actions only. Yes?

Quoted from JakeJon Dialogue from other characters is OK?  And you VO the item?  Unless you choose to express the item's "view" from actions only. Yes?

Dialogue is absolutely allowed from any character. Human or otherwise. Maybe you are doing your story from a Swedish Straw Goat's POV and it communicates with other items like a candle. Tells it to don't get too close. Just as long as you keep the story from your chosen item's POV.

Quoted from Zack Can we get a list of acceptable Christmas items?

Zack,

No.  We'll tell you if your item is acceptable after submissions close...

- Don

Quoted from Don Zack, No.  We'll tell you if your item is acceptable after submissions close... - Don

Sounds fair. Going to run with my X-mas gimp suit idea...

Quoted from Zack ...Going to run with my X-mas gimp suit idea...

There goes my idea.

Back to the drawing board for me.

Quoted from Nomad There goes my idea. Back to the drawing board for me.

Quoted from Grandma Bear And if you have trouble figuring out what you can do with this challenge, I highly recommend you watch this short film by Movie Poet's owner Chris Messineo. Not just a great film, but it might spur your imagination Branches from NJ Film School on Vimeo.

This is Rick Hansberry's story, filmed by Chris, narrated by the dude from The Wonder Years. I watch it every Christmas 🎄

Quoted from Don Zack, No.  We'll tell you if your item is acceptable after submissions close... - Don

Shwetty balls?

Quoted from mmmarnie This is Rick Hansberry's story, filmed by Chris, narrated by the dude from The Wonder Years. I watch it every Christmas

I have two DVDs. Not sure why I have two, but...  

Quoted from Nomad I feel like I need to write a horror story about those damned elves on the shelf. Talk about the bane of my existence throughout December.

I covered that in one of the OWC'S, can't remember which one.

Don, love the red and green font colours used in the OWC announcement.

Loved Branches, and noticed Marnie's name on the credits for special thanks.

Treevenge is another story altogether.
Did love the line: you're going to scare the saplings.  

Ive seen Branches. It's very Christmasy but we can't write something like that, right?
That one is told by one of the friends and the way I remember it - it's about one of the friends missing the time he went hunting for Christmas trees with his other frirends.

But here, the story should be told by either a Christmas maker or a Christmas related object.]

Then again, maybe I misunderstood or forgot Branches or something.

Quoted from khamanna That one is told by one of the friends and the way I remember it - it's about one of the friends missing the time he went hunting for Christmas trees with his other frirends.

Branches is told from the tree's POV or at least its story.

I really enjoyed Branches. Never seen it before so thanks for sharing. I'm not sure we'd get away with writing a story like that for this challenge. It seems to be a story about human friendship with the trees used as an allegory.

So, I'm struggling on this one. Sticking with trees, if I did a story about a Christmas Tree in a living room it's really going to be a story about the people it sees and what they do/say but in such a scenario, the exact same story could be told from the perspective of any inanimate object in the same room.

So are we supposed to write such a script and just put POV TREE in every slugline?
Or are we supposed to write an animation were the tree comes to life?

I have an idea but, basically the story woukd be about people this object encounters rather than the object's perspective, unless I add VO to voice the object's thoughts, and, unlike Branches, make it obvious from the start it is the object and not the human.

Any thoughts, suggestions welcome!