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Posted by: Don, September 20th, 2008, 8:13am
The Howl of the Manta by Jorge Alarcon-Swaby - Short - Two young men go biking on an advanture, but when three other guys are in the same area, something goes terible wrong. 7 pages - doc, format 8)
Posted by: jayrex, September 20th, 2008, 1:54pm; Reply: 1
Hi Jorge,
I'm guessing English is not your mother tongue. Is this story a first draft? There are alot of errors regarding your grammar, spelling and format. Some people use a free program called Celtx that will help with your formatting.
Onto your story. (SPOILERS)
I must say that I saw this coming a mile off. A car driven by drunks, two people cycling. I was wondering what the premise was. But this story could be a lot better. Change the premise. May I suggest speeding up to the crash by cutting it down to two pages and then turn it into a horror. That's what I thought it was going to be going by the title.
The cyclists are travelling up the lane to the hut, a howl can be heard along the way, a crash happens, the howl is louder. Etc...
If you do a re-write and change the premise, then I'll be happy to read it again.
All the best.
Javier
p.s.
I may have Spanish name like yourself, but I grew up in Ireland. Wished I learnt my mother tongue. Ah well.
Posted by: Jorge Alarcon Swaby, September 25th, 2008, 8:25am; Reply: 2
Thanks alot for the critizim and the advice, This was my first script ever so I expected this, I will take what you said and try to improve on my next one.
Thanks
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