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- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Tradition is allowed if it earns it. Give the cold open victim something that pays off later, even a small prop, and I will forgive it.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Slasher calendar keeper here: does 'kills someone we never meet again' apply to slasher cold opens? That is basically tradition.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Adding 'one strange rule by page five' to my wall, right next to 'why is the camera still rolling.'
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
As long as I can stay anonymous. Readers cannot have faces, it ruins the mystique.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Would you come on the podcast to talk about this? Very small show, very nice microphones.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Not a writer, but this is weirdly soothing to read. Like a cozy editorial.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Sure. Specific jobs for characters (a hearing aid technician, a school bus mechanic). A location with its own history. Dialogue that is funny without winking. And the ones I advanced were lean: 90 to …
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Any positive patterns beyond the rule by page five? I would love a list of what made a script stand out.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Critic side: point 3 is also the most common complaint in reviews, just phrased as 'the ending falls apart.' It usually falls apart on page 80, not in the edit.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Point 3 is what hurts me as a producer. If the rules change I cannot plan the effects, the schedule or the edit. Consistent rules are cheaper rules.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
I feel personally attacked and also correctly diagnosed. Cutting it tonight.
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Wrapped a round of contest reading. No names, no titles, just patterns from about sixty horror scripts. Posting because the same notes came up over and over. 1. Page one opens on a nightmare, then the…