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Here the writers are revealed. Shortly I will update the individual posts with the writer's names.
The Contest by Andrew Ruch - Short, Drama - One contestent finds he might lose more then his apetite after entering a eating contest. - pdf, format
Mythos by Cameron Mitchell (Cam17) - Short, Drama - In the year 2047, the space station Mythos orbits two hundred miles above the earth. The two astronauts on board receive the horrifying news that an unstoppable virus is ravaging the planet. They must confront the possibility that they may be the last two humans left alive. - pdf, format
(H)eat of Wartime by Diogo Figueira (Fdiogo) - Short, Drama - Among the survivals of a war, one man must overcome his food philosophies in order to save a seven year old vegan girl. - pdf, format
Living the Lie by George Willson (tubkas) - Short, Drama - A man reels from the discovery of a wife's long hidden secret. - pdf, format
Farm Girl by George Willson (tubkas) - Short, Drama - A daughter deals with her father's chastisement by shooting her food. - pdf, format
City of Carnivores by Herman Chow (coding) - Short, Drama - A teenager attempts to save a vegan from being capture in the City of Carnivores. - pdf, format
In the Grip of Winter by James McClung - Short, Drama - Two brothers lost in the woods must do the unthinkable to survive. - pdf, format
Peacemaker by James McClung - Short, Drama - A vegan and a carnivore find common ground. - pdf, format
Wolves at the Door by Jeff Bush (dreamscale) - Short, Drama - The epic tale is finally told...who is the carnivore? Who is the vegen, and who is the wolf? - pdf, format
No Meat by Jeff Bush (dreamscale) - Short, Drama - Ronald and Katherine are carnivores. Abigail is a vegan. What does a backyard BBQ have to do with an eggplant? - doc, format
Of Cannibals and Cabins by Jeff Bush (dreamscale) - Short, Drama - Ian and Dr. Smith try an convince a carnivore to come over to the light of the vegans. - doc, format
In The Flesh by Jordan Wiebe (theboywhocouldfly) - Short, Drama - A man and a woman have a discussion about their dietary differences and things go from bad to worse to eww. - pdf, format
A Dog eats Dog World by Michel J. Duthin (michel) - Short, Drama - A priest tries to convince a young man to stop eating a dog… - pdf, format
Dumb Animals by Philip Whitcroft - Short, Drama - A corporate representative conflicts with the farmer and makes some disturbing discoveries when she inspects a distinctive farm. - pdf, format
Dinner Serves by R.E. McManus (rendevous) - Short, Drama - Dogglebe decided two people eat. I created them. Hope you enjoy their dinner. - html, format
Red Vs Green by Ramiz Sinanaj - Short, Drama - no logline - pdf, format
A Few Moments of Your Time by Ryan Lee (ryan1) - Short, Drama - A census taker knocks on a man's door. What follows is an unexpected battle of wits. - pdf, format
Takes Two by Shawn Davis (ledbetter) - Short, Drama - A weekend planned, a couple in love, a trip turned bad. What are the lines between cow and carrot and at what point do they really matter? - pdf, format
Warren's Choice by Simon Colligan (SiColl007) - Short, Drama - A vegan and and a carnivore argue over their dietary philosophies... - pdf, format
The Butcher's Daughter by Stephen Brown (stebrown) - Short, Drama - A butcher's daughter falls in love with a vegan. - pdf, format
Food For Thought by Steve McDonell (stevie) - Short, Drama - A native tribe comes to grips with social upheaval - pdf, format
Bleeding Green by T. Joe Fraser (Blakkwolfe) - Short, Drama - High School student Heather Kent becomes part of the "IN" crowd, but at a very dangerous price. - pdf, format
Chinese Take Out by T. Joe Fraser (Blakkwolfe) - Short, Drama - Looking for a good time? A Vegas call girl meets up with a cannibalistic john, or so he thinks. - pdf, format
The Lambshank Redemption by Tim Ratcliffe (trojan) - Short, Drama - With a vegeterian diet unwillingly thrust upon him, a convicted felon is inspired to bust out of prison and seek freedom. - pdf, format
Food For Thought by Will Goodwin - Short, Drama - Two older men, one a vegan and the other a carnivore, argue over which dietary plan is superior. But no matter the preference of diet, the end result is all the same. - pdf, format
Vegan Fiction by Zeke Obreogn (Erobreg) - Short, Drama - A man discusses his decision to change from carnivore to vegan. - pdf, format
Taste Buddies by Fiona McLaren - Short, Drama - no logline - pdf, format
Whoa, 6 authors submitted multiple entries. Good work guys.
But really, I think we should limit 2 entries (or maybe even 1) per author. The quality of the second script really suffers even if the first one is brilliant.
FEATURE:
Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
I was typing up a comment as Don locked the thread.
So this is to Phil's question. Yes, it was the worst one ever IMO. I'm fine with one or maybe even two joke entries, but when they are near 50% out of 34 it' gets quite irritating. I promised to read them all and I did. Except for the Cabin one and that was on principle since it states clearly in the rules that Courier font is a must.
Your choice of assignment is also to blame for the boring reads. Sure, no one has to write a script that takes place in a restaurant or some other dinner situation, but that's what we ended up with. Serious and non serious scripts alike ended up being talking heads type scripts. It got very tiresome near the end and I felt bad for not being able to write better reviews for those who deserved it, but I was really tired of this by the time I reached the end.
There were some good scripts in this one. The one that stood out for me was Dumb Animals. Great work there Cam.
As for my own, PETA, I wanted to write something that didn't scream "me" and I think I succeeded. Except for Rick. I'm curious what gave me away.
Greg, didn't write anything, nor did Sandra and some other readers. I want to thank you all for reading through these. That's really great of you. And to those of you who entered and didn't read any in return....fuck you! If you guys don't read anything by Sunday I will delete my comments on your scripts.
I'm glad I couldn't bring myself to comment on No Meat, Of Canniblah and Cabins, and Wolves At the Door. Wasting time like that... There were many serious entries and there were many great entries - that means that the theme was not that hard. Or bad.
So many thought that the joke entries were entertaining? I didn't find them entertaining. The Lambshank Redemption was entertaining. And a real entry!
On behalf of my defense, Redskin, Ill and A Dangerous Job, were not intended to be pi**takes, although I did kinda say screw the theme and just try to write interesting stories. And yes, I wrote them all in one week, which accounts for the typos and what-not.
My personal favorites: (not necessarily in this order)
The Butcher's Daughter Better Mythos Bleeding Green A Few Moments of Your Time Dumb Animals PETA Lambshank Redemption
My first time at the OWC and enjoyed it very much -- there was an unexpected feeling of freedom, writing "on demand" and not just waiting for inspiration / looking at a blank page all day and night. Congratulations to all who participated and great thanks to SS.
Great thanks to all who read my three scripts (Crudites, Better, I'm Hungry). They were all serious efforts, intended to interest and entertain the reader. Your comments were much appreciated.
Dumb Animals was easily the best, both in the writing and in context of the theme. so well done Pjwithcroft.
I also liked PETA, Mythos and A Dog Eats Dog as serious entries. Most of the funny ones were good, so at least we were entertained.
Maybe the next OWC genre could be comedy? Wonder if there's be any serious pisstakes?!!
On a note to Cam, I have to confess miine had the cleveland ref in it. Actually my last four or five scripts have 'hung shit' on Cleveland at some stage! I think jwent said something disparing about living there last year and I sort of adopted it as a trademark.
Khamanna, WTF's up with that statement about my 3 amazing scripts? You didn't enjoy them? Too damn, bad, bitch. I enjoyed writing them very much, and I also enjoyed reading the various feedback from "terrible" to "funny".
Pia, sorry, bud. I do apologize to you, because I can tell you were not happy with what went down here. I hope you understand it was all in good fun...at least it was meant to be.
Maybe the next OWC genre could be comedy? Wonder if there's be any serious pisstakes?!!
Usually, people bitch and moan the loudest when the genre is comedy yet, in this OWC, half the scripts were comedies. What a bunch of hypocritical bitches and moaners.
And another thing about multiple submissions: If a filmmaker gave you a week to write a specific script, would you crank out three scripts? Or spend the whole week perfecting one?
On a note to Cam, I have to confess miine had the cleveland ref in it. Actually my last four or five scripts have 'hung shit' on Cleveland at some stage! I think jwent said something disparing about living there last year and I sort of adopted it as a trademark.
Khamanna, WTF's up with that statement about my 3 amazing scripts? You didn't enjoy them? Too damn, bad, bitch. I enjoyed writing them very much, and I also enjoyed reading the various feedback from "terrible" to "funny".
Pia, sorry, bud. I do apologize to you, because I can tell you were not happy with what went down here. I hope you understand it was all in good fun...at least it was meant to be.
So you apologize to Pia but then call Khamanna a bitch over the exact same subject? And after all the bitching and moaning you did after the last OWC. Nice.
Best of the bunch IMO was In the Grip of Winter. I was pretty critical about it, but it got the biggest reaction out of me and the most memorable because of its conflict. So, good job, James. One pisstake and one of the better conflicts
And another thing about multiple submissions: If a filmmaker gave you a week to write a specific script, would you crank out three scripts? Or spend the whole week perfecting one?
Phil
Phil, I think most people have forgotten that we pretend we are writing a script for a producer.... which is when we start getting people writing more than one script, and non serious ones.
I think the next OWC should cover that again.... There is a producer who wants to make a film. He is going to ask a bunch of people to write him a script on s epcific genre and theme, and then he is going to pick one of them to shoot. With that mindset, the OWC could be a lot better.
Well done to everyone who entered. It was not an easy challenge this time around, and the quality of the scripts overall probably reflects that. I think Mythos and Dumb Animals were probably my two favourites, and there were 3 or 4 other pretty good ones also.
As for the joke entries, some of them were entertaining but would like to see less of them next time around. Part of the problem became thinking pretty average scripts were meant to be jokes when in reality they were just poorly written. I was sure that script Taste Buddies was done as a joke but the writer doesn't appear to be a member so I guess it was just unintentionally horrible. She's not going to read this anyway so fuck her. Apologies to anybody else that I may have accused of taking the piss that was actually supposed to be a serious entry.
Would've thought all of the board members who submitted scripts would have at least attempted to comment on SOME scripts, but apparently that's not the case. Pretty weak effort IMO.
Thanks to everyone who commented on my script Lambshank. I'll be honest, it was not a serious attempt to meet the challenge criteria. Any story that I thought of to meet the challenge as a drama sounded dull and unoriginal so I didn't bother with them. In the end I decided I'd rather write a story that very loosely meets the challenge but is interesting to read, than one that sticks to it rigidly but is boring. Hopefully a few people got a couple of laughs out of it.
Tim's wasn't a "pisser". He wrote a serious entry which can't be a contender (he thinks) because it's more of a comedy than drama. That's what "not serious attempt" means...in some cases.
Khamanna...well...you are just really dumb and stupid...and...like dumb.
Dude, fuck you. What the Fuck are you even talking about? Tim's a great writer...pisser or not. Pisstakes can be great. Pisstakes come in all sizes and shapes, all colors, all styles.
He knows what I'm talking about. You obviously are clueless.
I thought Tommy's suggestion for a future OWC was very good.
And i have one too: we do the paired one which we did last in January 09. If we have a deadline of 24 hours to nominate for the challenge, then we get, say, 30 or so people entering. After the deadline, no one can be in it. Then, we randomly pair up people, announce the theme and genre and go for it. If we have a time of maybe 10 days to do it in, it should be ok. This way, there'll be only 15 or 20 scripts to read instead of 40. And the results should be really interesting. I enjoyed that challenge last year(even though my buddy Jeff didn't like being paired with me!). The opportunity to wriite something under pressure with Pia, Sandra, Sniper, Cam or any of the SS people, would be awesome. Ande being paired with a 'newbie' would be a good experience too.
Tim's wasn't a "pisser". He wrote a serious entry which can't be a contender (he thinks) because it's more of a comedy than drama. That's what "not serious attempt" means...in some cases.
Hey don't worry mate I understood what Jeff was saying and he didn't mean anything negative by it. I think there is some confusion amongst different people as to the actual meaning of the word pisser or pisstake or whatever. It's generally Aussie slang and pisser means something that is funny. A pisstake is more of a sendup, like Stevie mentioned before. So you could say my script was a pisstake of the movie Shawshank, but using that word is not saying whether or not it was a serious entry.
Cheers Jeff, glad you liked it. I'd love to see Wolves at the Door filmed someday, I wonder if Christopher Lee would be up for it?!
Tim.
P.S. I like Stevie's suggestion about the next OWC, sounds good.
In my defense, I was also accused of not taking the challenge seriously, and yet I actually did. I tried to avoid the obligatory talking heads discussion about the same things we were inevitably going to hear a hundred times, and just start after the fact. Both of mine were very similar and I prefer Farm Girl over Living the Lie, since it was written second. Neither are terrible, but neither are very good either.
Hey don't worry mate I understood what Jeff was saying and he didn't mean anything negative by it. I think there is some confusion amongst different people as to the actual meaning of the word pisser or pisstake or whatever. It's generally Aussie slang and pisser means something that is funny. A pisstake is more of a sendup, like Stevie mentioned before. So you could say my script was a pisstake of the movie Shawshank, but using that word is not saying whether or not it was a serious entry.
Cheers Jeff, glad you liked it. I'd love to see Wolves at the Door filmed someday, I wonder if Christopher Lee would be up for it?!
Tim.
P.S. I like Stevie's suggestion about the next OWC, sounds good.
Oh, yeah, the Queen parties here and I disturbed her (talking about Dreamscale)
The rule of thumb here to test if it's a pisstake or not - your entry could be filmed, when his is snickering at the theme and the genre.
And yet I did like one joke entry (I'd imagine this one was to goof around too) - the one with two dinning people who plopped their faces in their plates and died. But I noticed not many did and for the ending. All I'm saying is - pisstakes are generally a waste of readers time. I know some of you are friends who don't mind the pisstakes but I wouldn't waste time on an entry if I was sure it's just a joke. I don't want to read something that was intended for a trash basket.
Whoa, whoa! You need to scale things back a bit, Jeff.
There are numerous arguments on various threads this OWC, and no, you did not start everything -- but you seem to be inserting yourself into all of them.
There are people who do not like the way this OWC went down...at all.
You wrote 3 scripts and admit that all three were [insert my new favorite word here].
And that is fine.
But you need to accept the alternate opinions that it is not fine with some other members -- and you need to stop defending your own position with profanity.
And it is not just Jeff. Many of you need to step back -- take a breath -- and remember it is just a message board.
Lots of you are showing your asses this time around. Time to cover them back up.
I liked City of Carnivores best. But there were so many good ones - really enjoyed the entries ( serious entries)
Thanks for the compliment! Wished more people had read it though.
FEATURE:
Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
Finally finished reading all of them, these are the ones that I considered good (in terms of meeting the challenge, story - *drama*, and what not):
Mythos In the Grip of Winter In the Flesh A Dangerous Job Dumb Animals A Few Moments of Your Time The Butcher's Daughter Bleeding Green PETA, and... City of Carnivores (Yes, what can I say? I considered my own script good).
Anyway, congrats to those who finished a script in one week or less.
FEATURE:
Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
Usually, people bitch and moan the loudest when the genre is comedy yet, in this OWC, half the scripts were comedies. What a bunch of hypocritical bitches and moaners.
And another thing about multiple submissions: If a filmmaker gave you a week to write a specific script, would you crank out three scripts? Or spend the whole week perfecting one?
Phil
Some interesting points there.
Er, to those who comment on those who appear to not have done any reading lately I offer this comment.
Some of us have demands on out time and attention. Some also read and don't comment. Some will get round to reading eventually. I hope no one in a massive rush. It's the summer. Long days.
Now, where is my trowel? It isn't beside my keys. They are on the shelf. Oh dear.