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  • TOUCH OF NOIR 2: NEO-NOIR (Contest guidelines)

    TOUCH OF NOIR is our noir short script contest. If you're interested in entering, read or print this post.

    For those unfamiliar with film noir and exactly what it is, please refer daily, to my signature.

    CONTEST GUIDELINES:
    Page limit is set at (8) pages maximum.
    Submission time frame is between APRIL 4-MAY 12.
    Writers may submit (2) entries into the contest.
    Anyone who enters must vote. Additional judges will also participate
    Results will be posted on MAY 6.
    PM all submissions to me!



    POOL OF NOIR THEMES:
    (The following is a list of typical Places and Players found within film noir, it is UP TO YOU to decide what your noir story will be, but these may be of some help)

    DIMLY LIT APARTMENT-Shadows dominate, furniture is spare, thin walls tell secrets.

    DARK ALLEY-Wet asphalt, turned over trash cans, barking dogs, the echo of footsteps.

    DESERTED CAFÉ-Makes Hopper’s Nighthawks look like Time Square on New Year’s Eve. A past-her-time waitress mops up while the short order cook broods behind the greasy counter.

    LONELY BAR-Weathered barkeep pours himself one for every two he pours his only customer. Smoke curls around their heads and the sound of wet tires on asphalt can be heard as cars pass by outside.

    ABANDONED WAREHOUSE-Broken windows, a maze of stacked crates teeter ominously, exposed pipes drip unknown liquid, only one way in or out.

    LOW-BUDGET HOTEL-Long, dark hallways and stairwells lead to spare, claustrophobic rooms. Flashing neon visible through Venetian blinds, ratty bedspread and tattered rugs adorn.

    Use your imagination...you can set your story anywhere, really.


    (PLAYERS):

    THE DOOMED HERO
    THE PRIVATE DICK
    THE AGING GANGSTER
    THE FEMME FATALE
    THE DOORMAT
    THE SECRET KEEPER
    THE LOW-LIFE
    THE ORDINARY JOE
    THE ANTI-HERO
    THE WRONG MAN
    THE CROOKED COP
    THE MIND READER
    THE FALL GUY
    THE GOVERNMENT AGENT
    THE AMNESIAC
    THE INDEPENDENT WOMAN
    Last edited by Adam Isaac; 04-30-2010, 06:34 PM.
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    CLICK ME ALSO!
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      I can pay the winner $50 and a bottle of good Pinot Noir

      2nd place will be $25 and a bottle of good Pinot Noir


      Third prize is: You're Fired!
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        Lames...guess I'll have to post mine first.
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          ...there's still a couple of weeks to go... I don't start typing until the last day! Early entries are for... whatever that word is...

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            Originally posted by Adam Isaac View Post
            Lames...guess I'll have to post mine first.
            It was dark, lonely and quiet - just the way I had planned it. My 'substitute wife in a bottle' was going to be nagging me like Hell tomorrow, but tonight we were enjoying ourselves - like there was no tomorrow - just the past.

            The streetlight projected my rain-soaked office windows onto the wall opposite. I sat there, mesmorised by the cascading rippled patterns, smiling at the irony of how well these images metaphorically represented my life.

            Suddenly my self-serving solitude was shattered. The ripples seemed to leap from the wall as the door was flung open.

            Adam 'Knuckles' Isaac, a big lug of man, entered, not too pleased to see me drinking.

            "Where's the script?" he growled.

            "I've still got two weeks" I countered.

            "Yeah? Well just remember, there's a reason why they call it a deadline."

            Knuckles was right. It was time to knuckle down.
            Last edited by Mad Mat; 04-19-2010, 02:18 PM.
            I'm a product of everything I've ever experienced ... I need to get out more!

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                Did I see something somewhere about limiting flashbacks?

                Not that I'm gonna use flashbacks! Flashbacks are for punks!

                -Derek

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                  Originally posted by dpaterso View Post
                  Flashbacks are for punks!

                  -Derek
                  Dammit, Dp.

                  I swear, if you had typed in punk b1tches instead of just punks, I would've given you your first ever 1 out of 5 Dereks.

                  Corona
                  I love you, Reyna . . .

                  Brown-Balled by the Hollywood Clika

                  Latino Heart Project's MEXICAN HEART...ATTACK!
                  I ain't no punk b1tch...

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                    Originally posted by dpaterso View Post
                    Did I see something somewhere about limiting flashbacks?

                    Not that I'm gonna use flashbacks! Flashbacks are for punks!

                    -Derek

                    At this point...f*ck it.
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                      Originally posted by Jcorona View Post
                      Dammit, Dp.
                      I swear, if you had typed in punk b1tches instead of just punks, I would've given you your first ever 1 out of 5 Dereks.
                      How sad is my life, that this actually matters to me. I'm sobbin' into my pillow.

                      Originally posted by Adam Isaac View Post
                      At this point...f*ck it.
                      So noted! Tho' you'll probably change your mind once you receive 40+ entries, riddled with hard-to-reformat flashbacks.

                      -Derek

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                        Originally posted by dpaterso View Post
                        How sad is my life, that this actually matters to me. I'm sobbin' into my pillow.

                        -Derek
                        1 out of 5 Dereks!

                        You touched my heart after you tried to touch my you-know-what.

                        Corona
                        I love you, Reyna . . .

                        Brown-Balled by the Hollywood Clika

                        Latino Heart Project's MEXICAN HEART...ATTACK!
                        I ain't no punk b1tch...

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                          I'm feeling pretty good about winning this year... I'm already up to 40 flasbacks in 8 pages. Pretty hot stuff uh? You know it.

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                            I thought my epic entries in the Feb '08 Touch of Noir contest were winners, but no one agreed! That fateful night, I took my anger out into the streets. They're still turning up the bodies. But they'll never find the faces.

                            -Derek

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                              Re: TOUCH OF NOIR 2: NEO-NOIR (Contest guidelines)

                              Originally posted by dpaterso View Post
                              I thought my epic entries in the Feb '08 Touch of Noir contest were winners, but no one agreed! That fateful night, I took my anger out into the streets. They're still turning up the bodies. But they'll never find the faces.

                              -Derek
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                              Corona
                              I love you, Reyna . . .

                              Brown-Balled by the Hollywood Clika

                              Latino Heart Project's MEXICAN HEART...ATTACK!
                              I ain't no punk b1tch...

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