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You can call it Jaws Of Death or Jaws Of Blood if you like. Or Little Miss Sally's Last Surf . Under Pressure. Anything you like.
I'm using Little Miss Sally's Last Surf if that's kool with DJ.
Pia, I just read the 'Them That's Dead' + 'Making Of' threads (about to watch it) and was wondering if you had some insights and/or sugestions for writers about considerations (like maybe not have the setting be at night)?
Can be shot in any medium sized bath tub. Must be able to acquire or make 1 Barbe-Like doll, named Sally. 1 plastic or paper mache shark. 1 ounce of ketchup or hot sauce. Ability to fill bath tub with water.
12 minutes of sheer terror as Sally swims, then sheds her suit and dives down deep. The fake shark soon smells her musky scent and comes Up From The Depths to attack like only a plastic Rogue shark can. What follows is a life and death dtruggle, as Sally averts the cunning shark's every advance. The last 8 1/2 minutes are rivteting, as the non existent teeth miss Sallt's subtle skin by mere inches. But in teh end, this is a cautionary tale of hooror and terror, and Sally succumbs to the great beast's advances and dies an awful, painful, excruiating death at the maw of the all mighty fish.
Serious question for DJS - can we use a different fish that may be available, like in a friend's aquarium or pond, and pretend it's a shark?
If we can use hot sauce as blood, I'm sure we can use different creaturs to play other, more feared, bigger, scarier creatures.
I got no problem with hot sauce. We, however, are the scribes. Not the props department. Your next question is why I highlighted the text.
In the guide, I said that folks can use any kind of shark they want. And they can use any other fish.creature that lives in water. I say "shark attack" but it need not be a person. . And aquariums are fine.
Yes you didn't misread that. You can hit me up on a technicality. And it's fair game. Just feed the shark some squid and...
Yeah, it is April 1st but I kid you not...
Any kind of shark
So...if you so chose... well okay...excuse the f bombs...
Yes, catsharks. A Catshark is still a shark. And Catsharks can be kept in aquariums. Not as exciting as a Mako or Hammerhead, that's true. But it is a shark. So..in theory...
INT. LIVINGROOM - DAY
CONNIE LINGUS, 20, a human vacuum, gazes up at
DIXIE NORMUS, 30, Satan's tranny, who holds
fistfulls of Connie's luxurious hair.
CONNIE
Again?
DIXIE
Again.
Dixie winces.
DIXIE
Teeth!
Connie keeps working the carpet.
Dixie moans then winces again, throws Connie to
the floor, grabs the Shark Steam Mop and brandishes
it over Connie's cowering head.
DIXIE
B!tch! If I've told
you once... !
A vicious downward strike smashes into Connie's
defensive forearms.
CONNIE
No!
DIXIE
I've told you... !
Strikes with each sylable. Connie wimpers.
CONNIE
No! Please-- !
DIXIE
a thousand goddam times!
The mop beats through Connie's broken, bloody arms and chews
into her skull.
DIXIE
NO TEETH IN THE CARPET!
Connie's blood sprays all over the hardwood floors.
Low budget shark stuff is what the Syfy channel cranks out all the time - you're not going to beat Sharknado or the many varients on that theme they've produced over the last few years.
I would hope peeps would come out with something a bit more original than a cheesy shark attack that's been done to death (pun intended) and not worry about things like budget or betting on someone producing the script.
I do now finally have an idea but it looks like Thursday night is the only free time I have to write it, so if I can churn it out I'll enter but that's me already coming up with an excuse if it's shit lol.
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I guess, everybody's sure about we "probably" can't write this one budget-friendly, whatever this exactly means.
From what I guess and I haven't got a clue of those costs exactly; I want to improve my knowledge concerning this in the future: There won't be even an "amateur company" which gives you sparsely pieces of CGI below 5k. The other way, actually engineering some effects, that sounds even more expensive.
That means most scripts will start at minimum 10k, more realistic 15-20k if the script shows "sharks or other rogue fish".
I think the interesting Point in OWC is that it can simulate work as required. To write "only" for fun, a utopian script, that is elsewhere for me; and there I want to choose my subject on my own.
So, this time the work for me is to make something from these undeniable 15k. For hope? No, training. For searching one story which is not crap. For learning how to write that story. Feature- feature is another pair of shoes. There are no borders.
Those trainings can help to bring some intensity in a script from different sides. Maybe there will be the point, even in a feature play, when the producer says: Hm, I like this free climbing sequence, but you will write that different, my friend. Then we better would have learned some techniques for making this wish possible.
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April '14 OWC is..."Jaws 19"...?
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No, Stevie.
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