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SimplyScripts Screenwriting Discussion Board    Writers' Tournaments    The 2019 Writers' Tournament  ›  Round 1 Topic & Discussion Thread. Moderators: Mr. Blonde
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Mr. Blonde
Posted: May 31st, 2019, 11:59pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Welcome to Round 1. At this moment, you are all equal. Now, comes the fun part. Keep in mind that the location and object should be integral to your script (the script can't exist without them), but that doesn't mean your entire script has to take place in that location or that object has to appear in every scene.

For this round, there's a little extra trick to make things harder on all of you.

Genre: Fusion.

Location: Psychiatrist's Office.

Object: Bobblehead Doll.


Now, what does "fusion" mean in this case? There are four genres which will appear in rounds 2-5: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi. Your task, in round 1, is to fuse two (only two) of those together for this script.

To avoid questions regarding this topic, I made this list:

Horror-Comedy - Shaun of the Dead
Horror-Action - Aliens
Horror-Sci-Fi - Alien
Action-Comedy - Beverly Hills Cop
Action-Sci-Fi - The Matrix
Sci-Fi-Comedy - Men in Black

Good luck.

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Warren
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Wow, okay thinking cap on.


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PKCardinal
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I see we’re taking it easy this year. (Projects false of confidence as he panics already.)


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Ashes - Semi-contained psychological horror thriller/Feature
The Hand of God - Low budget, semi-contained thriller/Feature
Wait Till Next Year - Disney-style family sports comedy/Feature

Many shorts available for production: comedy, thriller, drama, light horror
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Scar Tissue Films
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Good topic.
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Dreamscale
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Ohhhh...glad I stumbled into my office.

Funny, cuz I had no clue it was starting right now.  HA!
OK< I'm buzzed, and I have nothing but time...no kids, no commitments, free free =, set me free.

I'll get something in that Warren is going to love!  
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Scar Tissue Films
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Vomit draft complete.
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Warren
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Got a fully formed story scribbled down in my notebook. Quite happy with it at the moment. Will see how it looks when I turn it into a script on Monday.

Now I can spend the next day and a bit massaging the story in my head.

Thought I was going to struggle a bit more with the criteria but something came to me pretty quickly. I'm not saying it's great but it will definitely do for this round.


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Quoted from Dreamscale
Ohhhh...glad I stumbled into my office.

Funny, cuz I had no clue it was starting right now.  HA!
OK< I'm buzzed, and I have nothing but time...no kids, no commitments, free free =, set me free.

I'll get something in that Warren is going to love!  


You should shit this challenge in bro  I hear you’ve had lots of experience and action with realistic bobble head dolls.  And I imagine the video of it is bordering on horror/comedy  



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Zack
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Holy crap, this is tough! I'll just bang my face against my keyboard and see what happens.


I like my stories Simple. Straightforward. A to B. No C.



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Man, Im just seeing this! Havent realized it was going up yesterday. Oh well
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Gary in Houston
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What’s the page count this round? Sorry if I missed that.


Some of my scripts:

Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly
I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner
The Gambler (short) - OWC winner
Skip (short) - filmed
Country Road 12 (short) - filmed
The Family Man (short) - filmed
The Journeyers (feature) - optioned

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Very creative, well-thought-out challenge. Hope I can think of something worthy.



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Mr. Blonde
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Quoted from Gary in Houston
What’s the page count this round? Sorry if I missed that.


1-5 pages, all rounds.


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khamanna
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So, all of it has to happen in the psychiatrist office? Or the major part of it?
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Scar Tissue Films
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It has to play a key role, so that the script wouldn't work without it, but doesn't have to be exclusively in the office.
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