Next Script Fest

Chris_Keaton

Chris_Keaton

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So when is it? I'm eager to make that top-3, I'll do it, damn it.

Please NO rom-com fest. Please, please, please!
 
Well i think after pulp and western fest it would be good to have something lending itself to less 'bad guys in cheap suits' or bandits 1, 2 and 3 :p

I personally dont think pulpfest worked so well cos it was so vague (in the end...) western fest did much better because at least we got the idea :p

I'll join in regardless! Not easy picking a fest theme!
 
Yes, I tend to agree with Lawrie on that. Even though I have little experience watching Westerns I still found writing for it easier that Pulp Fest, as Pulp Fest was such a vague genre!

Hmmmm what should be the next Fest... Magician Fest? Telltale Fest? Under the Influence Fest? Documentary Fest? Christmas Fest(Holidays Fest for those whome Christmas is wrong)? The Worst Job Fest? Cops and Robbers Fest? Fat Men in Tight Clothing Fest?
No Idea Fest!
 
I didn't get the chance to enter PulpFest, so I cant comment on how vague it was or anything, but I know I enjoyed how WestFest gave us that structured, direct theme to write around. Made everything much easier, so whatever you guys come up with, make it like WestFest and I'll be all good.
 
EroticFest - theres a theme that has been among the greatest influences among of literature, poetry and even film... (er and i don't mean soft core porn like Basic Instinct albeit i love the music score.) - and michael douglas ass in the moon beam shot... er thats a worry!

I'd like something that is a bit more challenging. We have these good broad genre themes - but within them we're seeing and probably will see - most use them as an easy board of writing and a few attempt something sensational with it. (like the winners of this fest - and a few other underreated imo gems :p)

Eroticism is a huge challenge to one's intellect and maturity - it would be controversial and interesting especially for our more Puritanical writers (who find it easier to describe a man getting shot between the eyes than a poignancy within ecstacy as it were)
 
I'm down for whatever, if it'll stretch my abilities all the better.

but Lawrie, you just want Eroticfest so you can have an excuse to parade all those pictures of yourself. :grin:
 
Well... so long as I have you... I don't need to flaunt my pictures to anyone else :p Especially if you can stretch your abilities further ;)
 
Yeah well i dont think westerns were too narrow a thematic choice for the fest - i mean the results speak for themselves imo. Where as in pulp fest lets face it - we had occult thrillers like yours Chris - to noir drama's like mine, ww2 comic book action. Personally i found it a bit bewildering and the lack of direction left me out in the cold compared to the direction others took (and im sure others too were a bit kinda lost on their way a little.)

Fantasy Fest conjures mythology... with the odd fantasy contemp set comedy peeping in :p

Not a bad suggestion actually but it is again very guy orientated :p Meaty action heroes etc (unless we're writing the tale of the bisexual elf - hey... that would fit eroticfest too!)
 
Exactly ;) hehe

I too am overwhelmed by all the girls one sees in the pictures taken at fantasy film/literature conventions. Ugh damn girls... I blame Red Sonja!
 
i don't think any genre is more guy or girl oriented...

as a writer, i do not feel limited by my gender in any way. i could have easily written a character who was a burly, mean, tobacco-chewing, gun-slinging alpha male... i went with the scarred, delusional, hatchet-wielding, religious extremist psychopath this time... but my first script had an insane goblin in love and my second script had an escaped mental patient with no luck... hmmm.... just noticed i have a propensity for flawed characters with serious psychological issues...wonder if that means something... haha

i actually really liked pulp/noir fest, but i agree there were a lot more of the private eye stories of the noir style than there were tarantino-style pulps... did get a little repetitive.

and i like fantasy... but script fest II was actually sci. fi/fantasy... so... ?

i do not think i would care for a rom-com either... but i'm up for anything, so, if it came down to that, i would still enter... i like mystery, suspense, psychological thrillers, dark comedies... and erotic could be... umm.. exciting...lol ;)
 
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also... i didn't mind having a genre this time, but a theme would give us all a chance to choose our own genre preferences...

i still think isolation was a great theme... or maybe resurrection or discovery or... idk... memories... just throwing stuff out there.

what do you think? are they too vague? it would definitely give us variety and unique stories...
 
Good for you Jamie, and of course you should definately not feel limited by gender. I am admittedly a little sexist probably - at least in so much that i imagine men and women bringing different things to the table (presuming that occurence.) I'd say most guys do... however I also romanticise somewhat (though you entry certainly supported my notion) that female authors can bring to the table certain 'qualities' (forgive my ambiguity here) that more often than the 'majority' of male script writers wouldnt (here anwyay.)

I mean take your script for example it was like 4 billion light years ahead in terms of psychological and emotional maturity than say 99% of adolescent male created entries :p

Of course ive er read some (female written script drivel)... but not much, perhaps because of the lack of female script writers. While im joking a little with Eroticfest hehe, i think it would probably become a kind of UNFORGETTABLY traumatising experience for every guy under 21 (who likes to see shi* blow up... *ahem*) to read what in general.... more sexually and sensually mature women would have to say on the subject of eroticism and its life consequences.

In a way Lossfest did this too - it really spun the mirror around (most cruelly) on the creator - no gimmicks or easy one liners to hid behind. Either you create work of purpose, merit and poignancy or you make emulative rubbish.

(Nb. I should add the no1 and 2 winners of Lossfest imo were not reflective of that idea, but the sheer volume of 'problematic' films that struggled to deal with the issues of loss, proved its need for extra examination among filmmakers, such as with my recommended topic)
 
lawriejaffa said:
Good for you Jamie, and of course you should definately not feel limited by gender. I am admittedly a little sexist probably - at least in so much that i imagine men and women bringing different things to the table (presuming that occurence.) I'd say most guys do... however I also romanticise somewhat (though you entry certainly supported my notion) that female authors can bring to the table certain 'qualities' (forgive my ambiguity here) that more often than the 'majority' of male script writers wouldnt (here anwyay.)

I mean take your script for example it was like 4 billion light years ahead in terms of psychological and emotional maturity than say 99% of adolescent male created entries :p

Of course ive er read some (female written script drivel)... but not much, perhaps because of the lack of female script writers. While im joking a little with Eroticfest hehe, i think it would probably become a kind of UNFORGETTABLY traumatising experience for every guy under 21 (who likes to see shi* blow up... *ahem*) to read what in general.... more sexually and sensually mature women would have to say on the subject of eroticism and its life consequences.

In a way Lossfest did this too - it really spun the mirror around (most cruelly) on the creator - no gimmicks or easy one liners to hid behind. Either you create work of purpose, merit and poignancy or you make emulative rubbish.

(Nb. I should add the no1 and 2 winners of Lossfest imo were not reflective of that idea, but the sheer volume of 'problematic' films that struggled to deal with the issues of loss, proved its need for extra examination among filmmakers, such as with my recommended topic)
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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.
 
Chris_Keaton said:
I always think of Fantasy as a girl thing, but that might just be me.
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When we got Fantasy for the 48 Film fest, I immediately thought Warcraft. Chris Curl and Matt Burchfield, the team leaders reminded me that not all fantasy is elves and wizards.

Think Del Toro and fantasy becomes gnarly.
 
I do like Fantasy, but since Sci-Fi/Fantasy has already been done I don't think it'll happen. I do like the idea of a theme instead of a genre, if anything, nothing would be repetitive.

This idea probably wont be met with approval, but I think it would be cool to have to write a script based off the lyrics of a song. I get most of my good ideas while listening to certain songs, or artists. Plus everyone takes lyrics in a different way, so you may hear the song they're writing about and think of something completely different than what's being written.
 
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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