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Don
Posted: July 26th, 2020, 11:09pm Report to Moderator
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So, what are you writing?

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Quoted from LC
Sadly out this round. Duty called and round 4 script is only partly done.

Will read and comment as usual, and looking forward to all the bad guy scripts.

Hopefully I'll be in for the final round.


Roger that.  Stand by for posting.





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Love me some Pogues.  
Thanks, Don!

P.S. Sorry if I held up proceedings.




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Don
Posted: July 26th, 2020, 11:39pm Report to Moderator
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Quoted from LC
Love me some Pogues.  
Thanks, Don!

P.S. Sorry if I held up proceedings.




You never need to apologize.

Thank you for taking it in the spirit in which it was intended.  Eric Bogle was robbed.

Week 4 is up. Voting pony and full list will be out in the am (edt).

- Don



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Quoted from Don
  Eric Bogle was robbed.
- Don

Yep, he was a bit. I didn't realise he was a Scot.
Anyway, still love The Pogues.
Fairytale of New York hits the spot. In the blood and also married to an English Irishman, so there you go.  

Anyway, down to some reading and reviewing...


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I have discovered the surest way to spot typos in your work: submit it  


Feature-length scripts:
Who Wants to Be a Princess? (Family)
Glass House (Horror anthology)

TV pilots:
"Kord" (Fantasy)
"Mal Suerte" (Superhero)

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ajr
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I think stories about straight-up villains are not what Sean was going for, but we'll see...

Btw, there are a fair amount of scripts last round and this round that didn't FADE OUT. I get the page count restriction makes it difficult... but technically the actors are still there, waiting for the writer to drop the curtain, ala THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO...

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AnthonyCawood
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To quote SeaN, he said... "have your protagonist be the villain."

I think that allows for straight up villains, anti-heroes, protags that appear to be good and then are revealed not to be, etc etc... I'll only think it's offside if the main character is not in some way the villain or villainous.


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Quoted from ajr
I think stories about straight-up villains are not what Sean was going for, but we'll see...

Btw, there are a fair amount of scripts last round and this round that didn't FADE OUT. I get the page count restriction makes it difficult... but technically the actors are still there, waiting for the writer to drop the curtain, ala THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO...

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AJR


Yeah I was a guilty party of that last round. I noticed others doing the same, no FADE OUT mostly due to the five page limit, and pushing it  as far as it can go. I'm rather loose with it though in the challenge. If  it's there it's there and that's good. If it isn't, it isn't and I'm okay with it given time and page limit.





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AJR, that's very funny about the characters being stuck in limbo on the page.  

I agree on the theme not being met in the sense Blondie hoped for too. Least, I imagine... The most popular story will win out, regardless of that.

It's no easy challenge... I didn't manage one this week so not wanting to be too critical.


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Fade In and Fade Out are implied by the script starting after the Title page and finishing abruptly - imho


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Quoted from AnthonyCawood
Fade In and Fade Out are implied by the script starting after the Title page and finishing abruptly - imho


Obviously, I was making a joke about them being frozen in time...

In scripts we submit to prospective directors, producers, etc., it's necessary so that the reader doesn't think there are pages missing. In this contest we pretty much know the story ends at page 5.

On the other hand, it's a cheat for space, given that space is so precious with the page limit.

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Quoted from ajr


Obviously, I was making a joke about them being frozen in time...

In scripts we submit to prospective directors, producers, etc., it's necessary so that the reader doesn't think there are pages missing. In this contest we pretty much know the story ends at page 5.

On the other hand, it's a cheat for space, given that space is so precious with the page limit.

AJR


Hey, at least no one is using 9-point fonts or setting their paper to legal size.

The best one I ever heard of was a word-count limit, and since the staff were using software word counts, one guy got the idea to put in a page-sized image of about four paragraphs of text.


Feature-length scripts:
Who Wants to Be a Princess? (Family)
Glass House (Horror anthology)

TV pilots:
"Kord" (Fantasy)
"Mal Suerte" (Superhero)

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I actually asked Sean on p 2 of this thread
This is quoted from me "I like moreof this type of stories, where the villain is not so obvious yet he's a villain"

And Sean's asnwer is:

Quoted from Mr. Blonde


Not all villains are twirling their mustaches, petting their cats and spinning their world domination globes...


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My guy is very bad though. I can't disclose anything about moustache as you may get too interested in the story and start guessing which one mine is.

Obviously to read it first.
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Kham... don't listen to Sean, his only joy in life is torturing us!


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