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DustinBowcot
Posted: October 18th, 2014, 9:27am Report to Moderator
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well... to sound even cockier, I've started on a new feature too. I've never written an xmas script. Got an idea today and I'm running with it.
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I have this trumpet. I'm not sure how to blow it. Can anyone give me a hand?

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Quoted from Grandma Bear
I'vr seen plenty of horror films that were funny too. Just make sure you don't write a comedy with some horror.  

That makes sense - thanks Pia!
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Think I have an idea.. Gonna start writing tomorrow hopefully.

Another couple of noob questions.. Why does the title have to be in capitals?
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Why do we not put our name as the writer on the title page?


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Quoted from IamGlenn
Why do we not put our name as the writer on the title page?

Well that's the fun part, Glenn. It's anonymous - least for the first week of reviewing. As a result reviews are done without prejudice - unless of course you can pick somebody's writing style.

Nobody knows who wrote what until the big reveal.  


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Don
Posted: October 18th, 2014, 10:01am Report to Moderator
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Quoted from IamGlenn
Think I have an idea.. Gonna start writing tomorrow hopefully.

Another couple of noob questions.. Why does the title have to be in capitals?




Title in caps is just a screenwriting convention.  I'm not going to toss a script just because the title isn't in caps.  (I will toss the script if it begins with "We see...")


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And...
Why do we not put our name as the writer on the title page?


This is so we can play, "Guess who wrote what," wherein writers try to guess who wrote what script.  This is also why a number of writers will publicly declare that they will not be participating and then turn around and write a script.  

However, when you submit, please use your real name and real email address. (If the email address bounces, I have to delete the script.  That is because if a BIG NAME producer with a WAD of CASH and a MOUND of cocaine wanted to make YOUR script and I couldn't get in touch with you that would be a shame (and a waste of a mound of coke).

Don



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(and a waste of a mound of coke).

Don



Personally I prefer Pepsi.

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I will not be participating this time.  Sorry.

Or...maybe I will be participating this time.  Sorry, as well.
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What about The Witches of Eastwick? It's a horror fantasy. And a comedy.

I'd prefer to hear from Don if comedies are out of the question


What Pia said.  Namely,...


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I've seen plenty of horror films that were funny too. Just make sure you don't write a comedy with some horror.  




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I see..
So I, and everyone else, will be totally anonymous until a week in?

Sounds like fun


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Sounds good.  interested to see how folks work around the dialogue issue.  Time to put on the thinking hat and dig out the drinking boots...


My short scripts can be found here on my new & improved budget website:


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To reiterate, for those who missed it earlier (and deletions may occur, as have a few this morning):


Quoted from Don
I want to censor this as I want everyone to come up with his/her own interpretation...



Quoted from bert
If your ideas are that good, then write them.

Throwing out random ideas kind of "spoils" that idea for anyone else.  


Discussion is great, but if you wish to impress with your cleverness, show us in your script....not here.


Hey, it's my tiny, little IMDb!
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Personally, I interpret the topic's outline, as if there has to be a thematically reason why living terrestrial humans can meet characters who are not (whatever those are). So, the doorway is just a point that connects those parties. The doorway could be anything, a dream, a curse or sth. Still the events have to happen between sundown October 31st to sunrise on November 1st. Also it's legit to play at one of those sides only, otherworld or our world.

If I'm wrong with some or all points, and have to take the topic word for word, please correct me.


Anyway, when it comes to Horror, my problem is the ending. Horror, similar to the Action genre, works with very little meaning or message out of pure live-impression, entertainment, and art of course. I usually go with a kind of - after the script(film) experience, something we think about and take with us, sth. that works on a different level within the script.

To me, it's a very straight genre and the hardest with regards to endings. You just have tension, tension, tension; there's no other way to finish. Even irony at the end doesn't work so well.

I hope to serve something this time.

Good luck and have fun everybody.



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DustinBowcot
Posted: October 18th, 2014, 12:40pm Report to Moderator
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While you lot have spent all this time yapping about writing, I've written one short and am 5 pages into a new feature.
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PrussianMosby
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So, should I say write on

or join, or nothing because you don't want to yap

I've written my short this morning. But the ending sucks. I think I take one scene from the outline...



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