The scripts should have either 'short' or 'feature' on the end of the log, near
pdf.

I put for mine: Comedy, feature, 10 pages, pdf, from memory. But i don't think that appeared on the script thread.


Yeah, just checked - it says pdf, format.  No mention of whether its a short of feature.

Okay, so I think I’ve read them all now and was extremely impressed with the standard on show. I personally thought that every single one had something about them worth pursuing, whether it be a short or feature.

It was interesting to see everyone’s take on the genre and on the whole, think it was tackled well.

Also it was good to see so many different styles and techniques in writing, shows that while there is a standard format to follow, people have different ways of portraying it on the page. I also learnt a few new techniques which I would like to practice in my own work.

A big congratulations to everyone who took part and I was thrilled to be involved in my first ever OWC even if my entry was awful...I have no excuses but to say I’ve learnt that you should never leave it so late to start and don’t enter something unless you’ve proofread it more than once. Suffice to say that I’ve learnt my lesson and won’t make the same mistake again.

(On that note, is it okay to critique your own work because I did, thought it would look funny to leave feedback on all but one. Anyway, if it’s not I’ll just delete it, I can do that right?)

Again, a big well done to everyone. It’s been a great experience and I’m really looking forward to find out who wrote what? I have my ideas...

Steve

Quoted from CoopBazinga (On that note, is it okay to critique your own work because I did, thought it would look funny to leave feedback on all but one. Anyway, if it’s not I’ll just delete it, I can do that right?)

Hell yes, it's OK!  Sometimes, this is the best feedback and funniest.  Peeps used to always do this to throw others off the track by bashing their own script.

I sometimes comment on my own as well, but it depends how fast I read them. If I take a week to read them all then I skip commenting on my own.

Quoted from Dreamscale Hell yes, it's OK!  Sometimes, this is the best feedback and funniest.  Peeps used to always do this to throw others off the track by bashing their own script.

Damn!!! I went too easy on myself! I really wanted to bash mine...it deserves it(so many schoolboy errors) but thought it would look really harsh to do so.

Next time...

I think it would be funnier to go to your own script and praise it like the writer is the next big thing. Then again, some people might read reviews before reading a script and let their thoughts be influenced by what you wrote.

Quoted from Felipe I think it would be funnier to go to your own script and praise it like the writer is the next big thing. Then again, some people might read reviews before reading a script and let their thoughts be influenced by what you wrote.

I'm sure that's been done before -- And, in these anonymous gigs, it's probably best to do that.  Throw people off.  Praise it or bash it, one of the two.

EDIT:  Jeff outlined exactly what I was talking about.  Should'a read the thread.

Finished them. Nice not to have 40 to go through, yet a decent number to have variety.

It seems worthwhile, to me, to discuss Titles and Loglines. These are not normally discussed in detail on SS, i think, yet if you want to push your script in the real world, they are important tools.

I have commented that many are tag lines, IMO, but i hasten to add i am no expert. Yet, for most, this was a feature challenge so i feel the title and log lines importance were elevated.

Happy to discuss (tomorrow when i wake up)

Maybe useful after the OWC for us to help each other fine tune the loglines as an experience in itself.

I will wait until later in the week before discussing which i thought were the stronger candidates. Maybe a new thread for this would be sensible?

Finished 'em all.  

High quality for such a hard challenge IMO.  

I'll be putting together a list of my favorites.  I also have a few guesses as to who wrote what but I'll wait for the appropriate time.

Nice job everyone!

Greg

Quoted from Felipe I think it would be funnier to go to your own script and praise it like the writer is the next big thing. Then again, some people might read reviews before reading a script and let their thoughts be influenced by what you wrote.

I kinda trashed my last OWC script while it was all still anonymous.
Maybe that's why Cornetto took the fall for my toilet shenanigans!

E.D.

Actually managed to finish them all...

Don't know how some people got through them all so quick -- hefty piece of work.

Standard, overall IMO, was pretty high.

So is anyone putting up lists of their favs???

I thought the writing was generally good. A funny thing, though. There were several that were written well, in the pure sense, with strong writing and formatting, but where the story didn't work well for me, or was hard to follow. And there were others where the writing was full of grammar mistakes and sloppiness, but the story was pretty enjoyable.

I'm a fan of originality, so I appreciated some of the different takes on things. We had a cop witch on a bike, witches hunted by Nazis, and dust bowl witches of the Depression.

And my favorite line: "He FARTS, quietly but it lasts awhile."

That still makes me laugh!

I quite liked the "hair combed with a live chicken", even if it was a bit out of place.

Also, i remember the scene where a man craped his skin and turned into a slug. I didn't feel it was that appropriate but i certainly remember it!

Oh, the mouse in the mouth was good as well.

It seems to me this one is a bit more open than the last OWC.  Even the most favoured scripts seem to split readers. It will be interesting to see. Also we don't know how Don will do the voting.

One thing that i remember every now and then, shortly after a bout of beating myself up, is that, for me, the script was considered, outlined, and written in six days. Every time i leave a script for a few days and pick it up its amazing what you see that you had missed before. This "challenge" doesn't allow you that.

These scripts are particularly good for that reason.

I don't consider myself one of those natural writers so i need time to fine tune. A two week challenge would be much kinder, but less fun.

There does appear to be a few useful topics being raised in this OWC from techniques used/applied, loglines, etc which so far have divided readers.

No doubt the debates will kick off soon.

I wrote mine the day after it began, but didn't intend to enter it. I came up with an idea for a feature that I really wanted to try. But it involved researching something, and I just couldn't get it together in time. So I sent the thing I had written Saturday.

Maybe I'll use the other one for the 7WC. It's up to about 18pgs. Maybe.

Quoted from leitskev I wrote mine the day after it began, but didn't intend to enter it. I came up with an idea for a feature that I really wanted to try. But it involved researching something, and I just couldn't get it together in time. So I sent the thing I had written Saturday. Maybe I'll use the other one for the 7WC. It's up to about 18pgs. Maybe.

One day! I spent most of that day trying to work out what the hell i was going to write about. That came to me late saturday, i think. What time i had on sunday went into planning, research etc

I really tried to think of this as a feature, build characters and where their arc was to go, give it a theme, start to assemble the back story, but with only 10 to play with, out was tricky to know what to include and what not to.

Good experience though.