Post by Fray on Mar 20, 2009 8:05:55 GMT -5
CONTEST QUESTION:
You are a top 5 artist/writer at Fright Night Comics, the world's largest [fictional] horror comic book company. The Big Cheese (me) has just informed you that the company has acquired the rights to every horror movie ever made. It's your job to pick a movie title (it can be anything from Frankenstein to Freddy vs Jason to Critters to Creepshow, etc., etc.) and create a 6-issue miniseries of that title.
THE RULES
OBJECTIVE: Name the movie you've picked and write a detailed synopsis/summary of what the miniseries will be about. Include a beginning, middle and end, list who your characters (main and supporting) are and why they're in the story and explain who your main movie character(s) is and what he/she/they will be doing in the series. (Be sure to include any new ideas that you may have to make the movie character more interesting. For example, maybe you chose to do The Exorcist and you'd like to see Regan in another environment other than her bedroom. How would people react if she walked around her neighborhood? Yeah. Stuff like that. You have TOTAL control.)
JUDGING: The synopsis/summary can be as long (or short) as you like, but please note that I will be choosing the winner based on the most creative proposal. You artists out there can include drawings of characters or even scenes from a possible storyline if you want—just keep in mind that doesn't mean that you'll have an advantage over people, of course. The synopsis/summary will be the key element here. So be creative and come up with an interesting story! FYI: If, by chance, there is a tie I will hold a voting poll on the message board and let the members decide who wins (to make it fair, the contestants being voted on cannot vote.)
DEADLINE: You have two months (starting the day of the episode's posting) to come up with something. NO submissions will be taken after the deadline! Late submissions will not be reviewed! Private Message (PM) your submission to me (not Satan) here at this message board. If that, for some reason, doesn't work then let me know by PMing me and I will send you my personal e-mail addy.
CONTESTANTS: Only people living in the U.S. (including the hosts of TMHS) are eligible--apologies, Dusty, and any other foreign listeners out there, but oversea shipping is a bitch. Due to the nature of the prize (i.e. comic books with adult content such as sex, gore, drug use, cussing and/or nudity) you must be 18 years or older to enter. If you are younger please do not even respond to this thread.
THE PRIZE: As mentioned on the show the prize will be 24 issues of horror movie licensed comic books. A complete list of the comics (along with links) will be posted here in this thread very soon.
UPDATES
1.) Minion ODB asked the following:
"If I were to give you an address in the good old USA to ship to should I be considered for my submission, would that be a way to circumvent the overseas shipping problem?"
The answer is "YES". If any of our oversea minions can do this then please feel free to submit a story! Just don't lie about it because if you are the one chosen and you ask me to ship overseas then you will be disqualified and I will pick the second best story.
2.) Speaking of second best, I might give out a small prize to the runner up, but I'm still debating on that b/c the grand prize is already going to cost me a lot to ship. If I do it the second place prize would be a single comic book of my choosing.
3.) If you are having trouble figuring out how to plot your story maybe www.ehow.com/how_2102625_comic-book-script-plot-style.html can help you. If not, try a web search for samples!
You are a top 5 artist/writer at Fright Night Comics, the world's largest [fictional] horror comic book company. The Big Cheese (me) has just informed you that the company has acquired the rights to every horror movie ever made. It's your job to pick a movie title (it can be anything from Frankenstein to Freddy vs Jason to Critters to Creepshow, etc., etc.) and create a 6-issue miniseries of that title.
THE RULES
OBJECTIVE: Name the movie you've picked and write a detailed synopsis/summary of what the miniseries will be about. Include a beginning, middle and end, list who your characters (main and supporting) are and why they're in the story and explain who your main movie character(s) is and what he/she/they will be doing in the series. (Be sure to include any new ideas that you may have to make the movie character more interesting. For example, maybe you chose to do The Exorcist and you'd like to see Regan in another environment other than her bedroom. How would people react if she walked around her neighborhood? Yeah. Stuff like that. You have TOTAL control.)
JUDGING: The synopsis/summary can be as long (or short) as you like, but please note that I will be choosing the winner based on the most creative proposal. You artists out there can include drawings of characters or even scenes from a possible storyline if you want—just keep in mind that doesn't mean that you'll have an advantage over people, of course. The synopsis/summary will be the key element here. So be creative and come up with an interesting story! FYI: If, by chance, there is a tie I will hold a voting poll on the message board and let the members decide who wins (to make it fair, the contestants being voted on cannot vote.)
DEADLINE: You have two months (starting the day of the episode's posting) to come up with something. NO submissions will be taken after the deadline! Late submissions will not be reviewed! Private Message (PM) your submission to me (not Satan) here at this message board. If that, for some reason, doesn't work then let me know by PMing me and I will send you my personal e-mail addy.
CONTESTANTS: Only people living in the U.S. (including the hosts of TMHS) are eligible--apologies, Dusty, and any other foreign listeners out there, but oversea shipping is a bitch. Due to the nature of the prize (i.e. comic books with adult content such as sex, gore, drug use, cussing and/or nudity) you must be 18 years or older to enter. If you are younger please do not even respond to this thread.
THE PRIZE: As mentioned on the show the prize will be 24 issues of horror movie licensed comic books. A complete list of the comics (along with links) will be posted here in this thread very soon.
UPDATES
1.) Minion ODB asked the following:
"If I were to give you an address in the good old USA to ship to should I be considered for my submission, would that be a way to circumvent the overseas shipping problem?"
The answer is "YES". If any of our oversea minions can do this then please feel free to submit a story! Just don't lie about it because if you are the one chosen and you ask me to ship overseas then you will be disqualified and I will pick the second best story.
2.) Speaking of second best, I might give out a small prize to the runner up, but I'm still debating on that b/c the grand prize is already going to cost me a lot to ship. If I do it the second place prize would be a single comic book of my choosing.
3.) If you are having trouble figuring out how to plot your story maybe www.ehow.com/how_2102625_comic-book-script-plot-style.html can help you. If not, try a web search for samples!