movie caption challenge
Think you're good enough to tell a story using captions alone? Then you are cordially invited to slip those creative brains into high gear and join a captioncompetition.co.uk site experiment.
On Saturday 20th June I will post the 1st and 2nd captions, containing scenes one and two of our movie. Your challenge is to dig deep into that grey matter and help keep the story moving ever forwards, using any of the site pictures..chopping and changing genres as and when you choose, but keeping it relatively coherent. Here's hoping that several of you are keen on a challenge.
Include the text #moviecaption in your caption and it'll be displayed on this page
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This challenge is open to anybody on site who thinks they can keep a story moving onwards in a follow-my-leader kind of way. The captions needn't be funny but must be fairly coherent and forward the story from the previous scene number. I have given you the first two scenes just to give you a flavour as to the layout/format to follow.I have started it off in the mystery style but you may choose to change movie genres at any time. Just keep in mind that someone has to forward the story from what you write, so try to leave a little scope.
Please only enter one caption at a time and then allow someone else to respond. I was initially going to set up a list of participants and take turns in posting the captions, but doing it that way would have been awkward for people having to be on site at certain times. So I suggest we just go with the flow and see what happens. There is no time limit to this challenge so you have plenty of time to come up with very passable efforts. I'm sure we won't come up with a literary masterpiece like Citizen Kane..but hell, I've heard that Orson Welles was lousy at funny captions. Please don't forget to add the title and subsequent scene number when posting your caption.
Ron Allan
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‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene Three
Troy took a deep breath, and winced slightly as an acrid fragrance assaulted his nostrils. Middlesville typically smelled awful, but there was decidedly something more sinister about the odour this still morning. As he continued on his way... Jin-Sun jumped the grooming queue and was about to suffer retribution, monkey style.
20/06/09 03:35pm
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‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene Four
It was at this point the script editor had unleashed a exceptionally violent sneeze and muddled together the scripts for 'An Incident at Luxburry' and 'Planet of the Apes and an Asian man'.
She quickly located scene five in which...
20/06/09 03:36pm
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‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene Five
... a mild ground tremor struck Middlesville, spilling Sally Barry's breakfast popcorn from her hands. The ground tremor was strong enough to awake most of the still sleeping inhabitants of Luxburry.
20/06/09 03:36pm
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‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene Six
Sally's house was shaking apart, it was Tim Westwoods 'Pimp my oil rig' experiment and was charging out of control, hell bent on killing young Sally. If only she knew what the machine wanted, for she only had little time before it would reach her.
20/06/09 05:03pm
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‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene 7
Troy was blowing his whistle when he saw the mechanical beast on the horizon, seeing it heading to Luxburry village Troy knew that the machine would be after the bath tub in Sally's loft, where her mother guarded it with her life. Troy was still having trouble with his engine so decided he would need to get another vehicle.
20/06/09 05:16pm
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‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene 8
Meanwhile, Sally's Mother clinged to her beloved bath tub, with a look of real concern. Would Troy make it in time before the enamel gets chipped?
20/06/09 05:24pm
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene 9 act 2
Reg thought it would be a good idea to speak with Barney, as he was very wise and knew loads of other birds. So Barney jumped on a taxi and was told to meet Reg in the yard behind the mental asylum.
21/06/09 12:09am
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene 9 act 3
It was a trap!!! Reg had hired a nut from the asylum to kill Barney.
21/06/09 12:20am
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Ten act 2
Plus a duck and a Dalek who just happened to be the World Ice Dance Champions.
21/06/09 01:12am
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Ten act 3
After the funeral Reg needed some new direction. He went to his local pub "The Human and Alien" for a swift half. Here he bumped into his old sparing partner Ted.
Seeing Reg in this state had Ted worried. He sat him down and been the sage he was he offered the following advice.
24/06/09 10:04am
Joe T
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....The Long Journey.
Reg listened with great interest at what Ted had to say....
'You must travel to the Mythical Tibetan Temple Of Great Enlightenment and there you must converse with High Priest 'Barry'. Make a single donation of a small plastic duck for his left shoulder and Barry will guide you towards your ultimate destiny'
Although Reg wondered just where Ted got his crazy info from...and realised that he was probably talking absolute cobblers, he thanked him and left the pup.
Outside, and with no other options available to him, Reg knew that (wild goose chase or not) his next move was to find a suitable duck and then purchase his ticket to Tibet.
25/06/09 02:13pm
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....Act 2 - Personal Shopper.
Reg's luck was beginning to run out. He made it to Tibet without issue but when he arrived he discovered to his horror that all the Sherpa guides in the country were on a 5 day unofficial strike to support their campaign for a better work life balance.
Reg needed to get to higher slopes where High Priest 'Barry' lived.
He went into a nearby camping store to get kitted out. He was greeted by Betty, Tibet’s one and only cross dressing "camp" personal shopper.
As they talked Betty learned of Reg's quest. Betty agreed to accompany Reg on his voyage as he/she to needed to see High Priest 'Barry'.
The secret Betty had about High Priest 'Barry' was getting to hard to carry alone.
26/06/09 03:57pm
Joe T
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....Act 3 - The road to Barry.
It was going to be a dangerous journey, they had to somehow get through 'No mans land' which was controlled by the elite S.S division (Sniper Squirrels). They were a crackshot, barbaric, bunch of mercenary rodents who killed for fun. Taking no chances Betty decided he would have to call in 'that favour' from Major Tom.....
27/06/09 12:14am
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....Act 4 - The road to Barry.
Major Tom turned up at the double with Private Dancer as back up. After an epic battle the Sniper Squirrels were finally captured, tortured and slaughtered. Reg and Betty could continue safely on their way, getting ever closer to the almighty high priest Barry. They started to get a move on because Reg was dying for a crap.
27/06/09 12:26am
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....Act 5 - The road to Barry.
Reg lucked out again. the only toilet in the moutains had a queue a mile long of pissed up cats. the cats all belonged to the local university and they had just finised their finals that day and had been drinking for most of the day.
Reg crossed his legs and got in line.
27/06/09 03:11pm
Joe T
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....Act 6 - The road to Barry.
Much to his dismay and annoyance…on leaving the convenience, Reg was approached by what he thought was the Tibetan ‘It’s A Knock-Out’ team…but it turned out to be local Councillors awarding him with a cheque for half a Million Euros for being the 63rd person to use the toilets.
Reg accepted his award graciously, but he and Betty had bigger fish to fry…they had to find a small duck and then seek out High Priest Barry before darkness fell over the mountain.
27/06/09 04:50pm
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‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’
Scene Eleven....Act 7 - Calm Down Barry.
half a Million Euros in Tibet is a lot of money. it could feed a half a million Tibetans for a year. personal shopper Betty knew what shops were open late. Within the hour they had purchased a laptop with a wireless network card. 2 minutes on twitter had secured Barry's location. Barry was at his Teach English as a Foreign language course. The community center was only 2 donkey stops away. They had enough time to stop off at "Ducks or Us" and buy the top of the range duck 2000.
Reg named the duck Chuck. He hoped A) that Barry would like Chuck the Duck and B) Barry had a shoulder capable of taking Chuck.
They arrived at the community center and entered with trepidation.
27/06/09 09:28pm
Joe T