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January 2007 One Week Challenge (currently 8551 views)
dogglebe
Posted: January 5th, 2007, 8:35am
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Next Friday, January 12th, I will announce the genre and theme for the next one week challenge (wait for applause to die down).
For those of you unfamiliar with it, the OWC is a game. Imagine if a director or producer gave you one week to come up with a short based on his idea? How well could you work with such a deadline? Here, you can find out.
In the past, the challenges have included genres and theme like:
A horror short involving milk; A western short involving a general store; A comedy involving the phrase, "Why is everyone shooting at me?"
and much much more!
Next Friday morning(EST), I will announce the genre and theme. Scripts must be submitted by Friday, January 19th. Submit them as you normally would, just mention in the submission process (under comments) that it's for the OWC.
Scripts will be posted anonomously for the first week or so, so no one will play favorites by reading only their friends' work. After that time, your names will be attached and we will all have a good laugh over the matter.
Oooooh another one. Sounds cool. I wonder what the topic is gonna be. We got some pretty cool scripts out of the horror/milk stuff. I don't think any of us will be forgetting Spoiled anytime soon. I sure as heck won't.
Excellent. With Christmas and New Years over, there's at least one thing I'm excited for that's pretty close: Easter! Oh, and the OWC this month is kind of exciting too...
Next Friday morning(EST), I will announce the genre and theme. Scripts must be submitted by Friday, January 19th. Submit them as you normally would, just mention in the submission process (under comments) that it's for the OWC.
Under comments?
Shorts: I Named Him Thor Footloose, Cut Loose Tainted Milk Marshmallows Confucius & The Quest For Nessie Wondrous Presentation
When you submit a script there's a box that lets you leave Don a comment, so for this thing you should write something like "Yo, this is for the one week challenge thing, got it?"
I always wondered how he knew which scripts were for these contest things and which ones weren't. I thought maybe Don was psychic, but I guess that's a bit far out of left field. I guess now I know how.
Western is as much a setting as it is a genre. There are a few conventions, but really some of the entries we got for that one were just in a western setting while containing a conventional plot. That works too. The trick is knowing what sorts of things are expected for a particular genre. That's part of the challenge, but it's not as hard as you might think. Action: guy gets in a car. Western: guy gets on a horse. Not too complicated.
Western is as much a setting as it is a genre. There are a few conventions, but really some of the entries we got for that one were just in a western setting while containing a conventional plot. That works too. The trick is knowing what sorts of things are expected for a particular genre. That's part of the challenge, but it's not as hard as you might think. Action: guy gets in a car. Western: guy gets on a horse. Not too complicated.
And here's me thinking there were specific motifs in genre films which were recognisable and which enabled us to see them as being part of a particular genre.
When all along, a Western is simply "guy gets on a horse"... No, it's not too complicated when you look at it like this in simplistic terms..
For a more indepth explanation of genre you'll find some useful information on Wikepedia on these pages:
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