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  • Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

    Without further ado, here are the results:

    Code:
                                     1st 2nd 3rd Vot Bonus Total
    Tomato Soup - Mpimentel           1   1   1   3           9
    Incident At The Lighthouse - RG55 3   1   1   3     3    18
    Little Visitor - ewtaylor             2   2   3           9
    Unravel - jmpowell7               1       1   3           7
    Beaver Creek - Shutout            1   4   2   3          16
    Halloween Morning - kowens        1   3   2              11
    The Puppy - Colin Holmes          3   2   1   3          17
    Shadow Beast - Michel                         3           3
    The Bigger the Sin - DeaconBlu                3     3     6
    Monster - MrZero                  3       1   3          13
    Hell Dame - ComicBent                     2   3           5
    Found Footage - Road Warrior                              0
    Join me in offering congrats to RG55 for winning with Incident At The Lighthouse, to Colin Holmes for scoring a close second with The Puppy, and to Shutout for a close third with Beaver Creek.

    Thanks to 14001 and ChickenScratch for taking time to read & vote, much appreciated.

    If you didn't already know, 1st place = 3 points, 2nd = 2 points, 3rd = 1 point. Alas not everyone managed to vote in time so the 3 bonus points for voting rule kicks in to even things out. The McGuffins earned 0.5 points each, it looks like only 2 entrants used these, they weren't obligatory or anything, I thought they added an extra little fun something, but maybe not. Maybe discuss this for future contests.

    If you scored lower than you would have liked, don't angst over this, you've just had practice in writing to theme and deadline, which is what these contests are about, and maybe you'll pick up some hints in the comments (which everyone is invited to post) that could strengthen your screenplay and hone your skills further. Just 'cause you didn't win, doesn't mean your script wasn't great and you're not an undiscovered genius. That's what I keep telling myself anyway.

    Shout if you find any problems with the scoring or the production of this annual epic. Thanks all for entering and voting.

    For posterity, the contest discussion thread is here and the entries thread is here. And just for fun the also-rans thread is here (entries that failed to make it into the contest for various reasons).
    Last edited by dpaterso; 11-12-2015, 02:32 AM. Reason: kant speel

  • #2
    Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

    Congratulations, RG55!
    Good job everyone!
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    • #3
      Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

      I had trouble this time picking the top three, as I thought most were done well. However, I will not be participating in future contests if pornography is allowed. People can write what they want but I don't have to be associated with it. My thoughts.

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      • #4
        Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

        Some comments to kick things off, don't take 'em too seriously, you know what they say about opinions.

        Tomato Soup

        Reads well enough and would probably be filmable, but the ending lets it down, murderer/suicide Mark easily gets into Heaven, yay for happy ending. No, sorry, that's too limp.


        An Incident At The Lighthouse

        Fun romp, entertaining read, just missed a vote.


        Little Visitor

        Creepy little ditty, I remembered it by the time I'd read all the entries and think it might make a spooky short film, gets a vote.


        Unravel

        Funny idea and a fun read, I'm not sure how it would play out as a film, and I'm not sure if I quite "got" all of it, I dunno who Yodel is, for example.


        Beaver Creek

        The light comedy turns to horror and then the twist gets revealed at the end, nicely done, gotta admit it didn't grip me and not let go, but still earns a vote.


        Halloween Morning

        I enjoyed the read, though it felt like old school Sci-Fi from the '50s rather than a Halloween outing (I appreciate they didn't have video games in the '50s).


        The Puppy

        Good horror build-up and a nice twist ending, saw it coming, but it was still nicely done, has to get a vote.


        Shadow Beast

        I liked Amy's building fear. And I liked the Twilight Zone style voice over at the end. Just squeezed out of a vote by other entries.


        The Bigger the Sin

        I thought the build-up was going great but then things took a bad turn, and that ending, we'll punish your sins with rape, urgh no.


        Monster

        This was cute and nicely done, just squeezed out of a vote by other entries, sorry.


        Hell Dame

        Good build up, I was enjoying this and wanted more of Helda and her shenanigans, but then everyone runs away and it wraps up with a couple of understated lines of dialogue, which was slightly disappointing. Came close, but missed out on a vote.


        Found Footage

        That wasn't a bad read, the only thing that wobbled for me was the leap from finding the video cassettes to realizing each was subtly different, that seemed to come too quickly, too easily. Also the reveal-this dialogue might have damaged the impact of their realizing, if you get what I mean. Edged out of a vote by other entries.

        ...Looking back through these comments, which were scribbled as I read the entries, I realize almost all of them only just missed out on a vote. Some good fun reads here.

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        • #5
          Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

          Nice job everyone!! Thanks for the votes!

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          • #6
            Re: Halloween contest 2015

            Didn't think I would be so excited to check the results.
            Congrats to all that placed I myself am crying in my coffee, thought my little ditty would do better...oh well. I enjoyed the writing.
            Looking for some light, and making things beautiful along the way.

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            • #7
              Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

              So critiquing the writing, not the writer. All notes were taken as I read them, then revised upon a second reading.

              The usual disclaimer: I'm not a pro, please don't think I am. Just some dude giving an opinion.

              Tomato Soup
              I'm not a fan of it was all dream kind of stuff so I think had this kept it's weird family vibe without the wake up it would have been in my top three. Loved the dialog and memorable characters.

              An Incident At The Lighthouse
              I liked this one but it just didn't have that extra 'umph' for me that I saw in others. Maybe it was the demon motif, I'm not sure.

              Little Visitor
              Really like this one. There's something especially creepy about a tiny sized anything running around loose. Got a vote from me.

              Unravel
              This must have been fun to write. Chaos in a courtroom of monsters. It just missed the mark for me. I think, given the cast, I was hoping for more comedy.

              Beaver Creek
              As mushroom trips go this one has a good twist. Interesting setting for sure. Might play around with the meta-story more. Not sure why this one didn't grab me either.

              Halloween Morning
              Technolo-thriller that was just a bit cliche for me. Car kills abusive dad. Turns out it was the tech-savy / hacker son. Not sure why this one didn't grab me.

              The Puppy
              Pretty good but I saw it coming and I like my werewolves scary, which it delivered, but there's something about a little girl looking at a werewolf and wanting to pet it that pulled me out of it.

              Shadow Beast
              I'm not sure where or why the monster just appears and starts to kill. It was scary enough, and did pretty well in my break down vote but something was missing. The old terror versus horror maybe.

              The Bigger the Sin
              Uhg, can we ban this guy?

              Monster
              This one got my top vote. I liked everything about it. I felt it rode the edge between cute and scary very nicely.

              Hell Dame
              I liked this one. Punchier ending would have made it into my top three.

              Found Footage
              Might be my biased thinking that film students always make films about making a film. Something happened on the way to my brain too, wasn't really sure what was going on during my first read through.

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              • #8
                Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                yeah, thanks Derek, didn't quite work huh. I did a rush-job there. I was both flinching and in turns chuckling at many of my gaffs as I tapped it out actually - eek.

                It was supposed to be a parody of the found footage type of film which seems to have run its course now, too many out there, and probably a send-up of the nature of cabin in the woods horror films, both arguably quite overworked categories by now.

                The joke being that it's getting hard to tell one film from all the others and that whilst the plots remain similar...only the characters change.

                Add to that the whole amateur filmmakers going into the woods and finding the very footage that they will eventually end up becoming part of for a bit of warped irony...

                Actually, it was way too technical and ambitious for the time I had in asking other questions I wanted to develop... such as 'who is actually holding the camera, is it a regular production crew, the teens themselves or some other "unknown" - a serial killer for example, or some combination of all three?

                Too ambitious for the space and time I had to complete it within and little symmetry or clean lines.


                Well done to our winners and thanks for the entries we received. Duty called and I was unable to do a read through and vote in time. I'll have to read these entries in the week to come in bits 'n' pieces.
                Last edited by The Road Warrior; 11-02-2015, 06:59 AM.
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                • #9
                  Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                  I took a horrible ego hit this week with a review of a full script, so I was already down, and finding out this morning I wasn't even top 5... I mean it did not really hurt as bad, because I was already gonna shoot myself anyway haha.

                  Anyway, here are my thoughts... And while reading them just remember I obviously suck at this so, if I was mean in any of them, remember I still suck, all were well meaning reviews,.

                  THIS WAS WHILE I WAS READING. SO THEY MIGHT SOUND A BIT RANDOM.

                  Tomato Soup

                  That's my joint so wont rate, but after reading the rest of the stories I thought it would have tied for 3rd, or be 4th at worst. But alas reality set in... Anyway looking forward to all feedback to see how I can improve and thanks for those that have already given some, you guys rock!


                  Incident At The Lighthouse

                  Someone crashed their car into Kate's bar and no one asks "are you o.k.?" They just jump into "why are you not wearing a costume?" Kind'a took me out of the story.

                  I "LOL'd" at the "penguin bitch" line.

                  Sort of lost me in the fighting scene, the reactions from the women who are NOT accustomed to seeing demons ect. just seemed so nonchalant. It's like seeing an alien shoot at me and a cop moves me out of my way and my reaction is "oh, great, thanks for saving my life... Off to work now... Thanks again".

                  The Trump joke missed. The end left much to be desired.

                  Writing style
                  4/10

                  characters
                  3/10

                  story
                  4/10

                  start
                  5/10

                  middle
                  3/10

                  end
                  4/10
                  ___________
                  23


                  Little Visitor

                  The trick or treater line seemed out of place...

                  Loved how the mood is established, I literally pictured her sniffling, sick...

                  The detailed description is a bit much, I do that too... But I can see why it is annoying.

                  I.e. She looks up, opens the cabinet, grabs pills, opens pill cap, takes two pills, puts it in hand,....

                  instead of "she opens the medicine cabinet and drinks down a couple of pills"...

                  I enjoyed this, the doll thing is worn out but I like the ending, made it worth it.

                  Writing style
                  6/10

                  characters
                  6/10

                  story
                  5/10

                  start
                  4/10

                  middle
                  6/10

                  end
                  7/10
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                  34

                  Unravel

                  "Odor in the court" ahAAA!!

                  OK so, the Yodel thing threw me off. Why not just say YODA? Was this a mistake or copyright thing?

                  That said, I like the creativity on this one. Those silly puns and jokes got tired real quick, and after the reveal of Lucas the story should have ended quicker, that last joke, was just too silly for me. Started off with great promise

                  but I was very let down because it had great potential, still super creative,

                  Writing style
                  7/10

                  characters
                  7/10

                  story
                  7/10

                  start
                  8/10

                  middle
                  4/10

                  end
                  6/10
                  ___________

                  39


                  Beaver Creek

                  That was, pretty darn interesting. I really don't have much to say in terms of picking it apart, its a pretty confined story that works.
                  Would want a little more from the ending, maybe make the reveal a bit more BOOM BAM end of story, but, **** man well done.


                  Writing style
                  7/10

                  characters
                  6/10

                  story
                  9/10

                  start
                  6/10

                  middle
                  7/10

                  end
                  8/10
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                  Halloween morning

                  Oh that was awesome. Started off clear as to what was going on and developed really nicely. Best story I have read thus far.
                  The end was also unexpected to me, and gives the story a more "Real" feel than say if the car was really possessed...

                  Bravo. Technically I guess would be cool for you to capitalize the characters names when you present them, but that's
                  just nit picking silliness and maybe you did it for a reason.

                  Writing style
                  7/10

                  characters
                  6/10

                  story
                  10/10

                  start
                  7/10

                  middle
                  8/10

                  end
                  9/10
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                  47

                  The puppy

                  Wow. Ok, so this is the best writing out of all of them. The story really put me there, the phone string along were good, the story connecting at the end was kind of expected after a certain point but still pretty cool. I like this very much.

                  Writing style
                  9/10

                  characters
                  7/10

                  story
                  8/10

                  start
                  8/10

                  middle
                  8/10

                  end
                  7/10
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                  47

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                  Shadow beast

                  I know you wanted to set the mood early, but man that's a lot of upfront scene description just to get into it. I read it with a "I don't wanna read all this but I have to" mind set. So I would suggest spreading those around more dialogue.

                  Alright, some small spelling mistakes and even more long long paragraphs without dialogue really got me hurting reading this..

                  You know what, I can't read this. Sorry man/woman... This is an eye sore. Since I can't finish this story I'll give no rating. Perhaps it is a great story, I'd say that much upfront action wording would put off regular readers. Sowwy

                  RATING:

                  N/a

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                  The bigger the sin

                  I think the last script really just shut my mind down because this one seems well written but a bit hard to follow as well..

                  I think I see what you are doing with the cutting from one scene to another and following sentences, but too complex for my reading mood after the last one, and I don't really like where it's going.

                  I will revisit.

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                  Monster

                  Cute story. Kids seemed more like 8-9 year olds but other than that I bought it. I liked the mystery of it, without showing too much.
                  The casualness of this worked for me as well. Nice

                  Writing style
                  6/10

                  characters
                  5/10

                  story
                  7/10

                  start
                  5/10

                  middle
                  7/10

                  end
                  6/10
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                  36

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                  Hell Dame


                  That hell line seems extremely forced, specially if it was just to insert that "clever" road to hell line...

                  Some weird dialogue in there... like "Nice house. Thanks for inviting me and Trent's other friends from work. "

                  Just stuff that is worded wrong, in ways real people would not word them.

                  I read it all, but sorry this one lost me.

                  Writing style
                  4/10

                  characters
                  3/10

                  story
                  5/10

                  start
                  6/10

                  middle
                  4/10

                  end
                  3/10

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                  found footage

                  For me this suffers from the same issues as Shadow beast... Seems like its written by the same person, Lots of descriptive writing,
                  and the dialogue there is is also long and drawn out.

                  I could not finish it.

                  Sowwy This script lost me.

                  N/A
                  Last edited by Mpimentel; 11-01-2015, 06:31 PM.
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                  Episode 2 (African commercial)
                  Episode 3 (Brenda's rescue)

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                  • #10
                    Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                    Congratulations to everyone who finished a script, and also to those who tried but had last-minute issues that prevented them from submitting something.

                    Thanks to DeaconBlu for his comment:

                    Hell Dame

                    I liked this one. Punchier ending would have made it into my top three.
                    Yeah, I think I started out strong, but then I just did not have enough allowed pages to reveal more about Helda and to develop the fact that Wally (the goblin) had become a cursed prisoner of Helda and her entourage, all of whom come to life in an extension of hell once a year. I had to keep cutting and revising to squeeze everything into eight pages.

                    "The fact that you have seen professionals write poorly is no reason for you to imitate them." - ComicBent.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                      INTERMISSION

                      Please see the Christmas/Early New Year thread in Writing Exercises.

                      Whilst you folks are around we may as well flag this:

                      A new exercise so that you/we/I may apply your enhanced skills following this exercise. I'd like some feedback on what you'd like to write, be it a "noir" which I quite fancy, or even... an open writing competition where EIGHT pages of a comedy, horror or genre-to-suit is submitted.

                      http://messageboard.donedealpro.com/...ad.php?t=79991

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                      • #12
                        Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                        Originally posted by Mpimentel View Post
                        Incident At The Lighthouse

                        Writing style
                        4/10

                        characters
                        3/10

                        story
                        4/10

                        start
                        5/10

                        middle
                        3/10

                        end
                        4/10
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                        The shittiest script won again. Nice to see the trend continuing
                        I'm never wrong. Reality is just stubborn.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                          Feedback, continuing....

                          [apologies if I don't get around to all of them, I tend to read out of order and asymmetrically. A quick-stab and a few thoughts on how the entries struck me as I read through them].

                          Little Visitor

                          I enjoyed reading this one because of the solid and naturalistic dialogue, in fact -- the first entry where I felt that the writer was comfortable with this aspect to the screenplay. Dialogue is tricky so this was immediately appealing. Oh and it worked as a nice little grim tale so may well have received my #1 VOTE.

                          Found Footage

                          Hey... who the heck is this dude? Come on pal and get your act together. . . that's a first-draft-train-wreck-going-straight-to- hell entry. Right there. Any more of that type of writing and you'll be sent to see the headmaster. Get to the back of the class buddy. Oh... and well done for at least entering BTW.


                          Tomato Soup

                          I really dig tomato soup. However, the title struck me as a little odd, so I thought, okay, so maybe it's just a little out there. This shows some the mistakes of early writing and particularly with the dialogue, however, later in, I really liked the jump and transition, I was throw and it got weird and surreal. I think at that point your writer-brain kicked in and you were in the groove, but sadly, rational man returned and the dialogue and end became clunky again.
                          This is about dialogue problems. OTN.
                          Example:

                          JOHN
                          You guys were not together. Frankly I did not know about you until you started calling my house with all those threats.


                          A bit too OTN -- he's giving the game away and in the vein of information-dump, you have to dress it up and disguise it I feel. It's not the worst example but I felt that sort of missing the mark throughout. I also saw bursts of anger or changes of mood that were too extreme, came out of nowhere. Each sounded the wrong emotional notes for me.

                          I see imagination here and just think that it is about writing and rewriting and trying to get that dialogue to flow and speak how people speak, and not say what you think they should say or produce the information the script needs to make sense at that particular juncture. Nothing that cannot be fixed IMHO. Good effort, great reality-jump later in. Well done. A writer with a feel for the surreal.
                          I still really dig tomato soup but whenever I have it may takes to looking over my shoulder from now on after that read.

                          Beaver Creek

                          Now this entry was nicely set up and lulled me in, that moon on the water, the steady progress of the boat, seduced me, I was there.... until.... I reached:

                          MIKE
                          Take a look around you college boy

                          ...and I popped out of the script as quickly as I'd been drawn into it. Not the worst line reading it as a stand-alone but go back to the script and read it in context and with the flow and it read like a wrong note on piano. That sounds mean, I don't mean it to be.

                          This is an aspect to many of the reads in the competition, I've already flicked through a few others and looked at dialogue, have read and reread that dialogue and the same impression arises: emotional notes, sudden jerks of emotion from left of field that are generally unconvincing, that don't reflect human emotion, extreme or otherwise.
                          And this is what I'd expect.... because we're not reading "professionals" here - at least not just yet anyway.
                          I'm tending not to ask what the plot or twist at the end is because I am spending all my time reading dialogue carefully to get a sense of who these people are. That said.... this is a smooth enough read and shows promise but I have to be a hard a$$ or they'd be no point.



                          Halloween Morning

                          Yeah, nice flow, clear writing but not enough punch for me, tripping between a sort of laconic prose style and the more punchy pace of screenwriting. That said, I felt there's more to give here with the writer having good control but lacking a certain x ingredient. The decision to go SF felt out of place in a competition of this sort but I was expecting great things after reading the title. It was my favourite title, why not, Halloween morning.............. but what on Halloween morning, who is up an what has the night before left us with, murders, a new world, regrets, family angst, intriguing but we weren't taken there. A good entry for a SF-paranoia competition but not my cup of pumpkin tea in this context. Damn, feel like I've been mean here but this person can write. Show me your dark side.


                          Shadow Beast

                          Nicely written set-up but wondered if you were getting yourself into timing difficulties from the outset. The amount of work put in to refine the beginning shows and it's solid and clear writing. I think you probably trailed off a bit after you got going, felt like less work and more jumpy and it SLOWED us down, the images are bunching up because the writing is dense and we can't move on. If you took that command of the language in the first two paragraphs, stripped it down, like an old car, rebooted it and gave us a beast that we could roar along in, I think we'd be there. Nice writing, plenty of promise in there.


                          The Bigger The Sin

                          You've got a lot of problems going on in here. Dialogue OTN. This struck me as some kind of rape-revenge/exploitation flick, I Spit on Your Grave. To do this I think you really have to be sure of what you are presenting.
                          I thought the pornographic elements might be a blown-up, ott mock porn show of the kind that is creeping into mainstream film. Clerks II, is one such example, a "donkey show", but with irony, wit, self-reference and was that incest at the end. Smith's non-PC humour has all those elements and a wink of the eye throughout. This seemed like porn gone looking for a plausible script. I am not convinced that we should even be displaying this kind of entry. I'm happy to hear arguments to the contrary.............. but I can't really see what might be said in defence. Hmmm, I'm not very happy about this.


                          Hell Dame

                          I really enjoyed the pared down writing of the opening... crisp writing but I got taken out of it and into trouble with the beginning of the street patois. I wasn't convinced by the dialogue. There was also a problem with a few "specifics" such as:


                          some eerie Halloween music

                          and

                          Big outside lights


                          I think that you need a specific tune or a definite type of lamp.... being really picky I'd perhaps ask what is eerie Halloween music, is it horror film music or just Taylor Swift....... just kidding. However it was structured fine and it was easy to read. I'll go out on a limb and say that maybe the dialogue isn't suited in terms of what you are comfortable with... these types of characters in this type of situation. However, a solid entry from another new entrant. I did enjoy reading through it.

                          The Incident at the Lighthouse

                          This one may have got my vote for being silly and bonkers. However, despite a nice screenplay style, clarity and crispness, it was very OTN with the nuns sounding to me like a couple of hoods, but very dim hoods at that... that was a major part of the OTN problem. I didn't believe the dialogue and before the ninja-star-crucifix fight it had lost me I'm afraid.
                          I also couldn't marry the name of the bar with the script, it seemed like a wrong footed choice to name the piece after a bar that seems to have no relevance to the flow of events. It's not even a creepy sounding bar sort of bar which threw me. There was no description of the bar.
                          There was an ease with the form here but idea and execution did not really work for me.

                          The Puppy

                          Best yet. The dialogue and the action descriptions worked, the title was grim and sick, not too sure about the puppy demands by the little devil-kid brat - sound a bit of an off note, but that's a small point. Nice writing and slick execution. However, I laughed at the end when the name tag for BRENT appeared in the werewolf/creatures mouth. That was not supposed to happen, I'm guessing. At beginning... got a bit confused by the V.O. and had to go back, that could be me. This really hung together to exactly the halfway point, it then lost me a little, the action and the outcome being nothing we haven't seen, it's strong point was on description and there was real atmosphere, hard to achieve, but it got a little over-the-top, in a way that didn't seem to suit the beginning on style and tone.


                          Monster

                          I enjoyed the set up and story, but it was bouncing at times between cutesy and sinister, the kids were evil --- the kids are just kids --- the kids are evil, that was the feelings that I got on the read-ride but it was nearly there, more work to get the tone right. I dug the way the monsters appeared everywhere even though this is an old trope, the list of monsters made laugh and for the right reasons.
                          However, even though I know these are nasty little kids, they seemed a bit too frontal lobe damaged. They sounded like adults at times, I seem to recall. The dialogue was frequently unconvincing, and it's this emotional note all over again, it just felt off.
                          However it was structured nicely and was building up to something and then.... a major deflation, I feel that it all ran down far too quickly and became an predictable trip home.... and when STEVE finaly turned up it really suffered from cliché.


                          Nb, general note to all:
                          I believe I counted three Dodge Charger classic automobiles spread out amongst those twelve scripts, is this the only car in movieland we have for hire?
                          Last edited by The Road Warrior; 11-02-2015, 06:55 AM. Reason: famished
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                          • #14
                            Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                            Originally posted by The Road Warrior View Post
                            Nb, general note to all:
                            I believe I counted three Dodge Charger classic automobiles spread out amongst those twelve scripts, is this the only car in movieland we have for hire?
                            <subtle clearing of throat>
                            Originally posted by dpaterso View Post
                            The Halloween contests tend to suggest a horror/scary/creeeepy theme in general, but earn yourself bonus points by including any of the following settings or McGuffins: a cemetery; a morgue; a lighthouse; a priest; nuns; cheerleaders; a 1968 Dodge Charger.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Results - Halloween 2015 fun short screenplay contest

                              Originally posted by dpaterso View Post
                              <subtle clearing of throat>
                              Okay, okay, so I missed the big reveal. Come on Pardner, cut me some slack!

                              I scanned that blurb at the beginning of the contest and remembered it as a "suggestions and ideas" only page, like we sometimes do, and not for points, it's a long way back you know, it's way back up-thread. I never go back up-thread as a rule, to back up-thread is to meet undesirables and hang out with the cast of Deliverance, for some reason, when you go back up-thread, you meet a bunch of hobos and bushwhackers and rednecks, it's just not that healthy to go back up-thread and check. So I take that back. I take it back I tell you, do you hear, back, back, back, back, back, what else can I do!!!! I'm a mere mortal. Swiftly falls onto knees, knees in the dirt, hands clasped in religious supplication. Arrrrrrgggggggghhhhh.

                              Hey you know... next time... how about including that nasty truck out of Spielberg's DUEL?
                              Last edited by The Road Warrior; 11-02-2015, 07:49 AM. Reason: invoking bushwhackers
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