Hi everyone,
First time poster here. After reading various forum posts about Black List experiences I'd like to let people know about mine.
I uploaded a horror/supernatural thriller script of mine I think roughly 18 months ago onto the Black List. I got a 3 and at the time I was a bit disheartened but on reflection I don't think I was too surprised. Flash forward to now and I've worked hard at it in my spare time, uploaded it to Zoetrope twice, paid for coverage and notes and now in my opinion and others have a much superior script on my hands thanks to the twenty plus people who gave me paid and free opinions.
So, I uploaded it to the Black List paid for two evaluations. I waited for three weeks and neither were past the reader assigned stage so true to their word they offered a months free hosting. Sweet. So anyways a few days later the first reader downloaded the script and fairly swiftly submitted their evaluation, the next day I got my email notification, I logged on and......I got a 4.
So after a week of letting the Evaluation soak in I re-read it again and found factual inaccuracies in the weaknesses column. A pointed out that the reader stated there was a certain plot point that happened years before the current story being told which made things that were happening arbitrary. I pointed out on page XX that it's clearly stated by the main character that the plot point referred to happened only months earlier and not years. There were more points that I made but I won't bother going into it at this stage.
So after I sent that email the second evaluation came back before I got a response. It was 3's across the board. So I took a deep breath and read it. Yet again with factual errors and something that annoyed me more, opinion.
When I say opinion I mean someone who didn't like the content of the story, not how it was told or how it was written but the content. It read to me like it left a foul taste in their mouth and because of that my script was given poor marks.
I received back an email in regards to the first evaluation where they offered to wipe it based on one factual error I pointed out and also give me a free month of hosting. Sweet. So I sent them another email and pointed out yet another factual error in the second evaluation, amongst other things, and long story short they offered to wipe both evaluations, replace the evaluations and give me the free month of hosting. So all up I have two evaluations I'm now waiting on and all up two months of free hosting.
I'm not here to bash the Black List but to let you know of my experience so far. I haven't got the new evaluations yet and will have to see how they go but what did disappoint me was the readers weren't really reading the script, more glancing over it in my opinion and that showed in their evaluations. One "suggestion" the reader offered was already in the script and 3 pages long. I really hope this is a poor coincidence because I like the concept of the Black List just so far, not the execution. Time will tell.
First time poster here. After reading various forum posts about Black List experiences I'd like to let people know about mine.
I uploaded a horror/supernatural thriller script of mine I think roughly 18 months ago onto the Black List. I got a 3 and at the time I was a bit disheartened but on reflection I don't think I was too surprised. Flash forward to now and I've worked hard at it in my spare time, uploaded it to Zoetrope twice, paid for coverage and notes and now in my opinion and others have a much superior script on my hands thanks to the twenty plus people who gave me paid and free opinions.
So, I uploaded it to the Black List paid for two evaluations. I waited for three weeks and neither were past the reader assigned stage so true to their word they offered a months free hosting. Sweet. So anyways a few days later the first reader downloaded the script and fairly swiftly submitted their evaluation, the next day I got my email notification, I logged on and......I got a 4.
So after a week of letting the Evaluation soak in I re-read it again and found factual inaccuracies in the weaknesses column. A pointed out that the reader stated there was a certain plot point that happened years before the current story being told which made things that were happening arbitrary. I pointed out on page XX that it's clearly stated by the main character that the plot point referred to happened only months earlier and not years. There were more points that I made but I won't bother going into it at this stage.
So after I sent that email the second evaluation came back before I got a response. It was 3's across the board. So I took a deep breath and read it. Yet again with factual errors and something that annoyed me more, opinion.
When I say opinion I mean someone who didn't like the content of the story, not how it was told or how it was written but the content. It read to me like it left a foul taste in their mouth and because of that my script was given poor marks.
I received back an email in regards to the first evaluation where they offered to wipe it based on one factual error I pointed out and also give me a free month of hosting. Sweet. So I sent them another email and pointed out yet another factual error in the second evaluation, amongst other things, and long story short they offered to wipe both evaluations, replace the evaluations and give me the free month of hosting. So all up I have two evaluations I'm now waiting on and all up two months of free hosting.
I'm not here to bash the Black List but to let you know of my experience so far. I haven't got the new evaluations yet and will have to see how they go but what did disappoint me was the readers weren't really reading the script, more glancing over it in my opinion and that showed in their evaluations. One "suggestion" the reader offered was already in the script and 3 pages long. I really hope this is a poor coincidence because I like the concept of the Black List just so far, not the execution. Time will tell.
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