SUBMISSION FORM - Scribbled Loose: The Game Show
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Scribbled Loose Show: The Game Show
Guess the film. Or get lost in what it means
The Scribbled Loose Show is a film-based game show about interpretation first, identification second. It explores how people construct meaning through deeply personal readings of movies and how those meanings can obscure as much as they reveal.
Participants submit bold, original claims about a film’s deeper significance, structured across four escalating rounds, building up to a multiple choice round:
Round 1: Story Interpretation (includes one or more of the following, depending on how revealing or elusive each provided claim is)
Culture/Theme — the film’s core meaning/critique through a cultural lens
World — the film's constructed reality: world, system, society
Characters — insight into 1–2 key figures and the role they play (emotionally, culturally, psychologically etc)
*NEW* Craft — thoughts on a moment of visual, performance or stylistic impact that achieved a certain effect for you
Round 2: Plot Reconstruction
Plot — an abstract but accurate narrative arc
Round 3: Key Quote
Line — a single line from the movie
Round 4: Multiple Choice
Five probable movie picks, one correct
With a group of 2–3 players per episode, the Host curates these submissions, moderating their integration into the game, facilitating play, and withholding the film’s identity from the players until the final reveal.
How It Works
Players and special guests are presented these interpretations without context. They engage with each claim as a standalone cultural argument, attempting to identify the hidden film as new layers are revealed.
During any stage prior to the final round, Players may privately or publicly lock in a guess with the Host.
Earlier guesses earn more points.
Players may revise (un-lock) their guesses later as play continues on, but doing so forfeits the maximum score from earlier rounds.
All private lock-in guesses are revealed to viewers on screen.
In the final round, all Players must state their answers aloud.
The Point of It All
The hope behind this show is simple: to get people talking about movies the way they actually experience them, messy, passionate, contradictory, personal, and in doing so spark comedically chaotic discussions about the parts of movies that can make them such powerful cultural conduits: shared human experience through authentic attachment to meaning. Through that process, conversations about film start to become not just debates over quality or taste but dope opportunities to engage more deeply with the ideas, values, and human experiences behind artistic expression (or “art objects” to put it less romantically, which I believe is an especially crucial practice to recognize the inventive voices in the margins that resist the dominant, capital-driven logic of commercially washed media.
But for that to really work, it needs to reach a lot of people with strong, varied perspectives.
So if this idea resonates with you, please share the link with anyone who loves movies, debates movies, or can’t stop thinking about them after the credits roll.
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