Excellent point Stevie and Pia.

Writing to meet the challange is the central goal in a OWC.

Finding a subject everyone likes tends to help as well.

Shawn.....><

I liked the idea of the Star Trek challenge and considered trying it, but in the end it was difficult to justify investing the time.

I’d suggest a future challenge that asks us to write a spec of any TV show we choose. That would give us a chance to produce something we could use as a work sample.

It doesn’t matter if reviewers are familiar with the shows because when you submit sample work you don’t know if the person reading it will know the show or not. I’ve heard it suggested that it’s better if they don’t, since that way they can’t pick holes in what you’ve done!

So if OWC goes back to TV I'd suggest leaving the choice of show open and having the challenge be to produce spec sample that's ready to send to TV producers.

Quoted from stevie Good point Pia.   Not sure how many other UK producers like Rick are out there looking for Celtic horror shorts.

I know a few. Send me your contact info and I'll pass it along. They are using a private Facebook group to manage everything. No guarantees.

If I had a say I would suggest making the theme something that can be produced. A Star Trek thing might be cool, but ultimately a waste of time.

Quoted from pwhitcroft I’d suggest a future challenge that asks us to write a spec of any TV show we choose. That would give us a chance to produce something we could use as a work sample.

If this is what you want, then I strongly recommend the Disney/ABC Television Writing Program.


Phil

I'm with Pia too on this.

OWC's let us exercise our "short skills" and leave us with something which can be eventually produced.... Plus there are only 12 pages or so, which means more entries and more reads...

Quoted from keaton01 I know a few. Send me your contact info and I'll pass it along. They are using a private Facebook group to manage everything. No guarantees.

       Steve McDonell    steve-abbey@hotmail.com

Quoted from keaton01 I know a few. Send me your contact info and I'll pass it along. They are using a private Facebook group to manage everything. No guarantees.

Harley Wolfe     E-Mail: Wolfesaint8@aol.com

Quoted from keaton01 I know a few. Send me your contact info and I'll pass it along. They are using a private Facebook group to manage everything. No guarantees.

Just point them here.

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1299380237/

Getting back to OWC diiscussion, my first one here was in January 2009, when we did a collab challenge. with a sci-fi/future scenario challenge.

Now, I know some people here look upon the word 'collab' with the same distaste as 'genital rot', but I thought this was a great challenge.

I didn't really know that many SS people, conversation wise, and i was paired with the man himself...JEFF BUSH!!! We had a ball, emailing ideas and stuff, and we got to know each other better. And the stuff I learned was invaluable, as I was still green in scrrenwriting.

Another challenge similair to this would be cool; if we set some parameters, so it, maybe a 25 pages script in 2 weeks, and have 15 teams of two, I dunno, whatever.

The pairing can be random to make it more interesting - if anyone wasn't happy they could pull out, as happens in any OWC - and I feel the quality of these scripts would be pretty special.

Anyway, just some thoughts

Cheers stevie

Quoted from keaton01 I know a few. Send me your contact info and I'll pass it along. They are using a private Facebook group to manage everything. No guarantees.

khamanna@hotmail.com

Thanks Chris!