Vicky L. Neal Wins Script Contest

Vicky Neal wins super 8mm short scipt contest.

(PRWEB) July 16, 2005 -- Vicky L. Neal, of Middletown, Ohio, wins Low Plains Productions' short screenplay contest with her script titled "Ghastly Ghouls and Boys."
   
Low Plains Productions is a start-up production house located in Columbus, Mississippi. They launched the super 8mm short script contest in late March of this year.
   
What's the winning story about?
   
"Briefly, it's about 4 classic monsters living together on Halloween. As different trick-or-treaters arrive at the door the monsters become excited with the ghastly costumes of the children. However, when a little prince and princess show up at the door the monsters have a different reaction than the ones they had with the ghastly children... It looks to be a really fun picture," says director Kelly Tippett.
   
Operating special effects for the project is Rick Baldwin. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he served 6 years in the Air Force preparing moulage dummies and dressing wounds on field training victims. "We've already acquired the coffin mentioned in the script. That was one of the main props we thought might be a problem, then I remembered some contacts I made while working in haunted house attractions a few years ago. It needs a little painting and some trim, but we got it," states Baldwin.
   
With some help from hair and make-up artist Mollie Carnathan, Rick Baldwin will also be doing the special effects make-up on the story's four monsters living together. One is a werewolf, another is a mummy, then vampire, and a gothic lady named Darcia. In the short script "Ghastly Ghouls and Boys" Darcia's character is described as being beautiful and Gothic and "an Elvira or Morticia type" writes Vicky L. Neal.
   
Where most script contests require an entrance fee Low Plains Productions gives the winner $25.00, writers credit, and a copy of production. According to Tippett "the story will be shot with a Yashica super 8mm camera running at 24 frames a second. The projected running time looks to be about 6 minutes, but it's early in preproduction so that running time may change."

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