Oh, the one-page treatment is in addition to the script. Work-shy fop that I am, I thought I wouldn't have to write the script.
Collabor8te Short film opp. Page 2
Are people writing this from scratch? Or submitting stuff that's been sitting in the draw of dashed dreams and unfounded optimism?
Does anyone know how competitions decide the time between announcing and deadline? Would be good to have longer than a couple of months to come up with an idea and write and polish it, amongst everything else we're working on and losing at mahjong titans
I've got a couple of pieces that I've given a bit of a revamp...
I asked about the £10,000 budget and I got a 'how long is a piece of string?' type answer...
At least it's free, and you can submit more than one piece...
Enter and be damned..!
Quote: RedZed333 @ August 26 2011, 6:59 AM BSTI've got a couple of pieces that I've given a bit of a revamp...
I asked about the £10,000 budget and I got a 'how long is a piece of string?' type answer...
At least it's free, and you can submit more than one piece...
Enter and be damned..!
That's the spirit! 
Whoo, finished! Think I'll have a celebratory gigantic cookie, maybe two since I worked out how to save in PDF
Anyone else entering this? The deadline is looming!
I'm about three pages away from completing my first draft so I decided to take the evening off to write my writers CV (it didn't take long!). And my one-sheet synopsis... which is actually just a photo-shopped picture of Salma Hayek. I wish I was joking!
Quote: ShoePie @ August 3 2011, 12:25 PM BST*shrug*, but why take the risk?
Hark at this Nobhead! Anyone would think after saying that he wouldn't then go and write a script requiring loads of Post production work! 
I know I wrote that I'd finished, but I have no recollection of actually entering. Or what I might have entered. Puzzled, but loving my ready-made excuses for failure
I got mine in a month ago *buffs nails*
After some googling this morning for "short film cliches" I found that I've successfully hit quite a few of them! 
1) Someone in bed at the start of the film and the alarm bell goes off.
2) People seeing themselves die.
3) Time-Elapse Montages
Now I feel stupid! Just glad I didn't have a shot of someone casually walking away from an explosion.
Quote: ShoePie @ October 3 2011, 12:13 PM BSTAfter some googling this morning for "short film cliches" I found that I've successfully hit quite a few of them!
1) Someone in bed at the start of the film and the alarm bell goes off.
2) People seeing themselves die.
3) Time-Elapse MontagesNow I feel stupid! Just glad I didn't have a shot of someone casually walking away from an explosion.
Oh. Now I remember what I entered 
Quote: ShoePie @ October 3 2011, 12:13 PM BST1) Someone in bed at the start of the film and the alarm bell goes off.
Of course, before the alarm goes off the camera should pan around the room to show various character defining possessions...
Quote: David Bussell @ October 3 2011, 1:31 PM BSTOf course, before the alarm goes off the camera should pan around the room to show various character defining possessions...
Such as a photo of a lover with the glass smashed, yes? 
Quote: AJGO @ October 3 2011, 2:10 PM BSTSuch as a photo of a lover with the glass smashed, yes?
And a sporting trophy or two, plus a newspaper clipping of their dead partner's murder.
Poor guy. No wonder we see all those empty beer and wine bottles
Quote: AJGO @ October 3 2011, 2:19 PM BSTPoor guy. No wonder we see all those empty beer and wine bottles
Just as well his faithful mutt's there to bring him his apsirin...