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Posted: October 18th, 2009, 11:39am Report to Moderator
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Mayor Vamp by Ike Ann Dhoo - Short, Family Horror - A boy who's know to tell a lie or two tries to convince his two friends that their mayor is really a vampire. Is he telling the truth or is a simple case of boy cries wolf? 7 pages - pdf, format


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Posted: October 18th, 2009, 12:56pm Report to Moderator
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This was a cute little tale.  It wasn't scary, but it wasn't meant to be.  My only problem with it was a number of misspellings in the script. The story, itself, was a fun read and the ending couldn't gone either way, which I liked.


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The writing and the format was off at times, but  it was a decent story. I will say the ending for me was...Meh!
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I am assuming you wrote this last minute so you forgot to proofread and provide us with a real ending? Basically the entire script is the setup to a greater story. Since this is just the setup, there isn't much horror until the last few sentences.

I hope you can trim down the treehouse scene a bit and replace scenes that show the Mayor might be a real vampire. Because right now, there is no suspense at all. Peter just runs up to the Mayor and accuses him as a vampire.

The Mayor's dialogue can sound more adult. Those "Beat it!" and "Knock it off!" sound childish to me.

I do applaud you for finishing this script in one week though. Good effort.


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Found this rather juvenile. I assume the references to 1984 and the Ghostbusters character names were supposed to summon up a feeling of those films that we saw when younger (though in my case, that would have been the 70s!).

Aside from formatting and spelling/grammatical errors, which were of putting, it didn't seem particularly well structured. We spend too long with the boys in the tree house, and then they are proven right about the Mayor - the belief that he is a Vampire being based on nothing much as far as I could see! - and that's it! The End.

Really it needed a better reason for why the boys thought he was a vampire, and more concentration on the revelation that they were right. I realise it is difficult within 12 pages, but obviously, as SS proves all the time, it can be done - and so did really feel this story was a let down.

Maybe when the OWC is over you can develop it more - it does have the makings of an interesting little family horror story in there somewhere!
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Meh. I didn't much care for this one. Not a complete failure. It would've been a complete failure if the mayor hadn't been a vampire. Still, it doesn't seem like Peter has much to go on to do what he does. He just seems like some dumb kid with a lotta nerve. Some people like these kinds of characters. I don't. I also think you should've used your other 4 pages to do something. I think you could've still killed off the vampire (or had him live?) in that time. Overall, a decent premise poorly executed.


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This one needs some work. Formatting and storytelling. It had an interesting premise but needed more than just a reveal at the end.

This was a difficult OWC they all are. I'd say mission completed but with missed opportunities.

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I personally thought it was a nice story that a lot of kids would enjoy. Reading through i did think that you need to proofread time and time again since there are a lot of problems with formating.

I did want more though, which is often the case with 12 pagers...but i think it can be done! So in the end of it all - NICE STORY in need of some more polishing and thought in the ending.

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Too many speeling errors suggest a last minute job and unfortunately the same can be said about the story.  The idea's not bad but I felt it could have been done a whole lot better.  

The opening dialogue seems redundent until Peter's doubts over the Mayor, I did like the end though.  I got a strange 'Lost Boys' feel with this.

Also were the character names picked randomly or was it your intention to have a 'Ray' and a 'Winston'?


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I assumed, as it had a Ray, a Peter and a Winston - all character names from "Ghostbusters", that it was a deliberate nod towards films from that period (I'd forgotten "Lost Boys" - very definite Frog Brothers overtones here).
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James, please edit your comment to include a spoiler space.  Thank you.


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I think I would have enjoyed this one a bit more if I weren't distracted by the spelling and grammatical errors. With me being a perfectionist, I couldn't get over them, so it distracted me from what really matters: the story. Which has been done dozens of times, but those ideas are still always fun, so I don't want to complain too much. It was odd that it started out with Peter already assuming that the mayor is a vampire, so the suspense was kind of missing. At least have Peter have more evidence to suggest that the mayor is a vampire besides the fact that "Tiny" said he's never gone in sunlight before. It did seem rushed, which I guess is the reason why it's under 12 pages and that there are many misspellings here, but this was a hard challenge apparently.

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Yeah, I'm guessing you raced to get this one in under the wire.  Grammar, punctuation and capitalization problems throughout.  A not bad idea for a story, though.  As another poster said, however, this one feels like a missed opportunity.  Maybe if you had a couple more weeks to dwell on this one, you could have fleshed out the story and the characters much more and provided a more satisfying ending.  I had no idea this was based in 1984 until I read that dialogue toward the end.  You should have made us aware of that fact at the beginning.


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I've read through 6 of these OWC scripts now and realize why I like to stay away from them... They all lack quality and depth. You people look at 12 pages as if it's gotta be paper thin and have no substance it seems.

This is yet another flawed attempt... The ad wizards are running crazy here.
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This script was so riddled with bad grammer, misspelled words and punctuation it made it hard for me to read....so much so that I didn't even care to finish it. Way tedious...

Sorry to who ever wrote this.

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