screenplay contest winner announced
Winner of unofficial Paranormal Activity screenplay challenge announced.
Well, we’ve struggled with some technical issues (why oh why do hackers think we want a flaming skull on our homepage?) but we’ve finally got control of the site back, and we can announce the (belated) winner of our second screenplay writing challenge: The End.
As a reminder, we asked you to submit your best shot at rewriting the ending of 2009′s most successful horror film, Paranormal Activity. Our referee was the awesome Denise Gossett, scream queen and founder of the Shriekfest Film Festival.
So who took the prize? Read more 
Challenge Two – the end.
UPDATE: Winner announced!
** SPOILERS ** This screenplay contest assumes the entrant has seen the film Paranormal Activity, and knows how it ends. Virgins tread no further lest the cherry be popped.
Is it too soon for this?
As you may know from my review of Paranormal Activity, I’m a fan of 98% of the film. The last 3o seconds, however? Not so much.
And I’m not alone. The film has developed into quite a phenomenon, and so has the heated discussion around the supposed “studio imposed” ending. This thread at Roger Really has information about two other alleged endings, and the comments section makes for good reading on the variety of reactions to all the alternatives. Likewise the IMDB forums for the film. Or HorrorSquad. Read more
Screenplay Challenge One: Subtext – the results are in…
The first Write Club Screenwriting Challenge contest results announced – “Subtext”.
See the original challenge (and read the entries) here…
The envelope please…
Thanks to all those who submitted to the subtext challenge. Knowing how to avoid gratuitous exposition and on-the-nose dialogue is so critical to developing characters that have depth and motivations that resonate.
How often as a teen did you catch grief over your tone of voice? “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it” was a common refrain in my household. Read more
Business of Show Institute and Sony Creative Software support Write Club
BOSI and SONY ROCK!
We are thrilled to announce that Marvin Acuna’s Business of Show Institute (BOSI) and Sony Creative Software are supporting our efforts to challenge the screenwriting community by providing the prize for our first challenge!
The winner of the first Write Club Screenplay Challenge on “Subtext” will receive a boxed copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack!
Now remember, boys and girls, Write Club doesn’t always offer prizes for our challenges but it only seems right that our inaugural launch be as celebratory as possible. So when BOSI and Sony stepped up and volunteered, we said what any smart guy is gonna say… Yes!
We are very excited to be able to offer this great prize, and can’t express enough gratitude to Marvin, BOSI and Sony for their support.
Now get out there and write!
Challenge One: Subtext
09/01/09 – SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED – See results here!
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.
The gauntlet has been thrown.
John Rainey has stepped up and volunteered to referee our first challenge. It goes without saying that all of our challenges share a few requirements… among them proper format, spelling, and punctuation. Otherwise, we leave it up to each referee to define their challenge, and to decide just how stringent they plan to be on issues of compliance. We can promise you John has extremely high expectations.
JOHN’S CHALLENGE REQUIREMENTS (READ CAREFULLY):
From John’s site: “An objective is the character’s subtext in a scene. Rarely do characters say what their objective is. They speak around it in an effort to persuade the other character to give him/her what he/she wants. A guy on a date would never say ‘Let’s go to my place and have sex.’ … To say that would be ‘on-the-nose.’” …more Read more
