Next Script Fest

RodThompson said:
INSPIRATION FEST!!!

They require we listen to a song, then write a script based on what the song inspires. Nothing stupid like DeVo...but like Clint Mansell's Requiem Suite.:beer:
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What, I'm sure everyone wants to read the script based on Whip-It. But bring it on. I have a ton of Siouxsie and the Banshees songs dying to be used.
 
Chris_Keaton said:
I had some really good scripts for that one. Ok, one really, really good one, but showed up late for the dance. Maybe next time.

Jamie, I wasn't trying to bag on girls. I write plenty of Fantasy stuff, I was just saying the audience drawn to Fantasies are more female than male.
I do really like your idea of a theme, instead of a genre. It would definitely give us some variety when it comes to reading.
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i know you weren't. i wasn't offended in anyway. ;)

as far as fantasies being more for females or males... i think it depends on the fantasy... if it's more like fairy tale fantasy, then i would agree... probably females... if it's like lord of the rings or harry potter, probably pretty even... i love all of it. :beer:
 
Maybe if it allowed the entrant to pick their own song - and it was cited with their script entry - that would allow the reviewer to compare the song and script - (not that it should effect what mark its awarded) but just for added insight and interest.

I think its probably too abstract myself but it is a novel idea.
 
Not only that, I can see potential copyright violations, much as if you adapted your story from ANY other medium.
 
Caper Fest. Could also be called Heist Fest, but Caper just sounds cooler. Maybe open it up a bit to a broader spectrum, something along the lines of Crime Fest. Anything that deals with criminals or illegal activities.
 
Nice list Krestofre....self sacrifice, madness, ambition, a lot of different themes that revolve around loved ones or kin. Some are fairly broad , but could be the seeds for some interesting scripts.
 
RodThompson said:
I endorse CAPERFEST
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Chris_Keaton said:
Really?
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I think he's talking about these...
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Blaine said:
Not only that, I can see potential copyright violations, much as if you adapted your story from ANY other medium.
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But we aren't profiting off our work. You can do anything you want based on other mediums as long as you don't sell it, which we aren't.
 
Ezekiel667 said:
But we aren't profiting off our work. You can do anything you want based on other mediums as long as you don't sell it, which we aren't.
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I don't see it as a problem anyway. It's not like a song is something you can 'adapt' at most you can claim to have been 'inspired' by the song. So there is no copyright claim on inspiration, hell you can even use the title of the song.
 
Ezekiel667 said:
But we aren't profiting off our work. You can do anything you want based on other mediums as long as you don't sell it, which we aren't.
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A copyright violation is a copyright violation regardless of whether money is involved or not. Let me put it to you this way: if somebody were to take your script from this past fest and enter it under their name in a similar contest on another website, would you be OK that with that? Even if they weren't selling it or getting any sort of cash prize if they won? (Just for the record, I realize that this is not exactly the same situation as what's being proposed as a potential fest, I use it as an example simply to point out the fallacy in the oft-repeated mantra that it can't be a copyright violation if there's no money involved.)

And I would point out that a film was disqualified from LossFest because it was "inspired by" a script by another author, so I would very much doubt that this is a road that the mods and admins would want to go down.
 
I have a solution..(ha-ha)...we have to write a script based on the lyrics of a song we write. (As if writing a script weren't hard enough for me!) We post the lyrics of the song before the scriptfest (like the way you guys do with your posters)

Okay, I won't post any more of my great ideas...though it would be fun to write a song and get someone to write the music for it.
 
In relation to SONGFEST or LYRICFEST or whatever that type of script fest would be called where adapting a song would be the theme, how about instead of a song we would have to find a piece of poetry or a piece of writing that is in the public domain or so old that copyright would have never been an issue? For example: poetry, mythology, legends, fables, ghost stories, etc....

It could just be ADAPTFEST. We would have to say in our thread what the source material was.
 
That's a very interesting idea, and I'd be up for it, but I fear by the 40th adaptation attention spans may start to wane.
 
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