Progress?

Man ... you guys are quick. I'm still trying to come up with a solid idea. Everything I've come up with so far I later realize is an episode of Twilight Zone, Outer Limits or from some radio drama I've heard :crybaby:
 
Larry R said:
Man ... you guys are quick. I'm still trying to come up with a solid idea. Everything I've come up with so far I later realize is an episode of Twilight Zone, Outer Limits or from some radio drama I've heard :crybaby:
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You want an idea? How about this?

A flying saucer lands in a town in the Old West. It's Alien vs. Sheriff -- or Gunslinger. How would a dusty western town deal with an alien visitor?
 
Here's another nugget that might give birth to an idea....

I heard a guy on the radio once talking about how he was selling time machines on Ebay for (I think) $350. What if some desperate person bought one? Does it really work?

Another nugget.....

I read once about a 'future investing' online scam. Send your money today via a website. According to the site, your money will be invested. When the day comes that time travel is invented, they will travel back in time to the point where you hit that button and made the investment, and they'll take you to the future to collect the huge sums of money your investment earned. So from your perspective, as soon as you give them your money, you're whisked to the future to be RICH. There's gotta be a story in that.

The world is full of ideas. :)
 
chapelgrovefilms said:
I read once about a 'future investing' online scam. Send your money today via a website. According to the site, your money will be invested. When the day comes that time travel is invented, they will travel back in time to the point where you hit that button and made the investment, and they'll take you to the future to collect the huge sums of money your investment earned. So from your perspective, as soon as you give them your money, you're whisked to the future to be RICH. There's gotta be a story in that.
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Except that you find you're whisked to Nigeria... :D
 
Cool. thanks for the ideas ... you're right the world is full of ideas, I just tend to bend them towards ideas I've seen/heard done before.

Once TimeFest wraps up I can focus more on this and then I should be able to come up with something ... though I may use one of those above to kick start me :)
 
I tell ya, the deadline is too long. I'm done the first and on the second. I think a tighter deadline would motivate people to get off their lazy butts and put pen to paper.

The added benefit is that everyone will have written more scripts, and a larger pool will be available for filming.
 
But the long deadline has given you the chance to write TWO scripts. One is bound to be better than the other. And you may even come up with yet another idea that will trump them both. I always enjoy the luxury of time.
 
chapelgrovefilms said:
But the long deadline has given you the chance to write TWO scripts. One is bound to be better than the other. And you may even come up with yet another idea that will trump them both. I always enjoy the luxury of time.
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Ah, that is a clone of my own thoughts on the issue. I wrote one piece of cliched crap, then a pretty good script and am taking a break seeing if any other ideas hit me. I am waiting to register mine and start a thread until I get the format guidelines and confirm everything.
 
I want to start a thread for 'Alien Abduction', but I'm having a hard time coming up with just the right logline.

"It's the end of the beginning...." ??? Maybe???
 
Was an hour late for work this morning because my brain finally decided to start kicking out pages for my second take on my idea around 7am. Then I looked down at the page count after typing "FADE OUT, and--crap! The last line of dialogue is at the top of page 8! :) Once I take out some of the more blatant directing-on-the-page, though, it'll probably fall in line. :D

Now the question is, is it any good?
 
I have a rough draft knocked out "The Choice" is the working title. Only comes in at 5 pages in Montage but once I beef up the dialog and make it a little more easy to read should be just about a perfect 6 pages in PDF.
 
My working title is "Synapse" and right now the plot is about as tangled as the computer cables behind my desk. I know the beginning and end, though, so it's a matter of tuning the important interactions that propel the story and throwing out the distractions.
 
I settled on one idea, got the beginning and the end. Actually, I have most of it worked out, just need some minor details thought out. One more sleepless night and I'll be ready to put it on paper.
 
Woohoo! Got my first draft done! Damn! It came in at 10 1/2 pages!
Not sure if I can cut it down to six and still get what I want. :(

So I better have a beer and think on it :beer:
 
I'm having the same six page difficulty. I really enjoyed getting to tell a more complex story with ScriptFest 1, but cest la vie. I'm still trying to determine if the story idea I'm going for will fit in six pages. If not, back to the drawing board.

Hm ... I wonder if I can fit another cliche saying into this post....
 
is the 10th of August last day to upload?

Just wondering as the 6 page spread is giving me issues - still have some cutting and splicing to do...
 
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