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Can I throw in an idea I've had for a couple of years?
I'd like to see a challenge where we have ONE theme, then the genres are randomly selected and distributed to say, 8-10 of us.
The different takes on it would be very interesting to read, and a very good challenge. Especially if you drew a genre you had never done before!
Anyway, back to you, MC...
thats a good idea... you can assign genres based on your post count at the time... for example: if your post count ends in 1 or 2 you get Horror. 3 or 4 you get comedy... 5 or 6 sci fi.. etc etc and change it every time.
it challenges the writer... and it breaks up the monotony for the readers who are going through 10-20 scripts of the same thing
In college I ran a series of competitions where the group would decide on a certain number of genres, characters, and lines of dialogue. At the beginning of the competition, each team would draw a genre, a character, and two lines out of a hat and have to make a film based on those guidelines. It was a lot of fun and forced people to think outside the box. Something like that would be interesting in a script challenge.
'Artist' is not a term you should use to refer to yourself. Let others, and your work, do it for you.
In college I ran a series of competitions where the group would decide on a certain number of genres, characters, and lines of dialogue. At the beginning of the competition, each team would draw a genre, a character, and two lines out of a hat and have to make a film based on those guidelines. It was a lot of fun and forced people to think outside the box. Something like that would be interesting in a script challenge.
I had something similar in film school. I had to pull out a plot, characters and location and pitch it within 5 minutes. I think I pulled out nuns, a brothel in trouble (or something), Vietnam POW camp.
Only 5 minutes? You're way ahead of the curve, IMO...at least way ahead of me. I spend days, if not longer on character names...when I can, that is.
Days? Really? Why do you take so long? I'm genuinely curious because even though I only take a few minutes, the names usually have some meaning or connection to the story/theme/moral. For example, there's a cat in my vampire script, his name is Ozzy. I'm sure you can figure out the connection there.
I don't know why I take so long, but I'm a very detail oriented person in literally everything I do. Again, if I have the time. Names help me with characteristics and visualizing who the characters are.
Hey, I'm weird, as you all know, but for me, it's always been important to have characters who have names that reflect who they are, to me at least.
Most of you don't think my characters even have character, so maybe I'm doing something wrong right from the get-go. Who knows...
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