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Snoring or laughter or crying might come free as special sound effects in some filmmaking/editing software. I'm not sure but that's what I always thought.
Uhhh...as to characters named or not named making noises OS...is it really something that's important to your concept/script? I don't see how it could be.
Stick to 4 maximum human characters and you're golden.
Cam, back to the real or non real creatures - I purposely said animals and creatures are allowed and don't count toward your character count.
If you're in a jungle, there will be animals. If you're underwater in an ocean, there will be fish. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, there may be a Sasquatch. If you're in a haunted house, there may be ghosts.
I don't know why any of these things would need to talk, though.
Are ghosts real? Some peeps totally believe in them.
Is Bigfoot real? Some peeps believe.
Are werewolves and vampires real? Again, some believe.
Talking animals? Well...uh...
The 4 person max parameter is meant to make you think outside the box, use settings where you don't have a ton of peeps wandering around. Thinks small, and then take it BIG!
As my auntie used to say, there's some nice tight parameters there.
I like it. Of course, I'm drawing a complete blank but I always do at the start. I'll have a think and see if the old noggin can come up with something
Oh and the questions in this thread made me lol, but they always do!
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Maximum of 4 human characters – PERIOD. This includes background or “extra” characters. Because of this stipulation, using any settings where there are a multitude of people doing whatever people do in such areas is a no-no. Any script that violates this stipulation will not be eligible for voting. You are allowed to have animals/creatures, which do not count towards the 4 maximum, however.
Cam, back to the real or non real creatures - I purposely said animals and creatures are allowed and don't count toward your character count.
If you're in a jungle, there will be animals. If you're underwater in an ocean, there will be fish. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, there may be a Sasquatch. If you're in a haunted house, there may be ghosts.
Christ on a bloody bike, still at this??
Right, simples are that if we're sticking to realism then there's as much validity in a talking wombat, blue whale or donkey as there is in a ghost or a Sasquatch (aside from the band Sasquatch, but there's three members there so you'd struggle with just the one spare character). A few others have pointed this out too, so I guess I'm not alone here.
To go back a good few posts, all I was pointing it out as to the lack of limitations on animal count, and so if the animals could talk (as we've established they apparently can if we're getting creative, or Koko makes a star appearance), then you could have multiple talking parts, and essentially re-create the Jungle Book.
Anyway, I've enjoyed the debate about wildlife, and as Stuart Little appears to have made $300 million there's clearly a market for it. I'm not using animals, but for the sake of it I may do a short Noah's ark re-creation where they all have a good singalong, and a mute Sasquatch looks on with frustration in its eyes.
Just pointing out - as usual - that not all comedy ones are pissers. These challenges can get perps confused on this when they read, as too often well written comedies are dismissed as pissers when most aren't. Funnily enough I'm not doing a comedy for this one lol.
When I read the theme criteria, the first thing that hit me when the 4 char max came up was, naturally, the Beatles. That's why I asked Jeff about the use of ghosts. I had an idea about Paul and Ringo being trapped in Abbey Road studios or the Cavern, and the ghosts of John and George appear to save them. Now, this we would be a cool story that I will prolly will write one day but I came up with a much better one and will do that.
So blame me for the ghosty debates and good luck all!
Just pointing out - as usual - that not all comedy ones are pissers. These challenges can get perps confused on this when they read, as too often well written comedies are dismissed as pissers when most aren't. Funnily enough I'm not doing a comedy for this one lol.
When I read the theme criteria, the first thing that hit me when the 4 char max came up was, naturally, the Beatles. That's why I asked Jeff about the use of ghosts. I had an idea about Paul and Ringo being trapped in Abbey Road studios or the Cavern, and the ghosts of John and George appear to save them. Now, this we would be a cool story that I will prolly will write one day but I came up with a much better one and will do that.
So blame me for the ghosty debates and good luck all!
For what it's worth - that one - at least to me - would qualify in terms of characters. Not sure about the stranger in a strange land angle. Regardless - sounds interesting
We had one of those 4 character limits before for the shark one. I had exactly 4 characters. But I had a church with a rifle aiming out of it. You couldn't see the character, and he didn't say anything. But Jeff said it was a blatant disqualification. So expect strictness on this rule. No radio or tv broadcasts, planes in the sky, fire engine sirens...make it a world with 4 people(or less). Shouldn't be that hard.
We had one of those 4 character limits before for the shark one. I had exactly 4 characters. But I had a church with a rifle aiming out of it. You couldn't see the character, and he didn't say anything. But Jeff said it was a blatant disqualification. So expect strictness on this rule. No radio or tv broadcasts, planes in the sky, fire engine sirens...make it a world with 4 people(or less). Shouldn't be that hard.
It's not hard at all.
For instance, if you want to go the very easy route, set it in a single room...or a house, apartment, structure, where there's no more than 4 peeps.
Again, what I was going for here, is to enable peeps to write a script that could be so easily shot and executed. I may not be a low budget fan, but far too often, peeps write scripts in which there are literally hundreds, or thousands in the shots, and it just doesn't have to be that way.
Enbrace this, you guys and dolls. It's not that tough.
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