Nicholl script requests coming in...

[Poetic C]

Originally Posted by nerium

What was with the Abbot Request?

Nerium - just do a search on here for them, and you'll find out more than you need to know.

[nerium]

Roger that.

[tone737]

twelve as of today.

[LauriD]

Originally Posted by nerium

Updates on the number of read requests Nicholl QF/SF peeps have gotten thus far?

8 for SemiFi action-adventure.

[gregbeal]

Originally Posted by LauriD

8 for SemiFi action-adventure.

Just want to repeat something I've said before: we do occasionally add to or alter a script's genre.

When an entrant calls a script a "drama" and the log line begins "When a serial killer begins targeting," we may add the word "crime" or change the genre from "drama" to "thriller" depending on the remainder of the log line. When a script is identified as a "thriller" and the log line begins "After a vampire arrives in a small town," we may add the word "horror" or "vampire" to the genre.

Likewise, when the log line for an "action adventure" mentions a stage coach driver, we typically will add the word "Western." It's even easier to make that switch when the script is a previous semifinalist and has been called a Western every other time it was entered.

We make these changes mostly in our attempt to assign scripts to the best readers for that script. We don't want to give a script set in the West to a reader who loves action but doesn't want to read Westerns or period scripts.

[LauriD]

Originally Posted by gregbeal

Likewise, when the log line for an "action adventure" mentions a stage coach driver, we typically will add the word "Western." It's even easier to make that switch when the script is a previous semifinalist and has been called a Western every other time it was entered.

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Well, I think of it as an action-adventure that happens to be set in the West rather than a traditional western.... There are no cowboys, no Indians, no sheriffs, no whores (with or without hearts of gold), no evil cattle barons. I confess to the stagecoach.... Also to a few bandits.... But since "western" and "period" are the kiss of death to many producers and reps, I wanted to emphasize the action-adventure part.

Would it be possible to only make changes in the genre for the purpose of assigning readers, but use the genre as specified by the writer when sending out the list?

[jboffer]

Originally Posted by gregbeal

Just want to repeat something I've said before: we do occasionally add to or alter a script's genre.

When an entrant calls a script a "drama" and the log line begins "When a serial killer begins targeting," we may add the word "crime" or change the genre from "drama" to "thriller" depending on the remainder of the log line. When a script is identified as a "thriller" and the log line begins "After a vampire arrives in a small town," we may add the word "horror" or "vampire" to the genre.

Likewise, when the log line for an "action adventure" mentions a stage coach driver, we typically will add the word "Western." It's even easier to make that switch when the script is a previous semifinalist and has been called a Western every other time it was entered.

We make these changes mostly in our attempt to assign scripts to the best readers for that script. We don't want to give a script set in the West to a reader who loves action but doesn't want to read Westerns or period scripts.

I like that system. Seems smart.

[gregbeal]

Originally Posted by LauriD

Would it be possible to only make changes in the genre for the purpose of assigning readers, but use the genre as specified by the writer when sending out the list?

Since we change the genres of at least hundreds of entries each year, it would be no easy task to go back through and reassign them.

We're trying to have reasonably accurate genres listed, first for our reading of thousands of scripts and then for the list. Calling a thriller a drama or a Western an action adventure would not be reasonably accurate.

In the case of Whiplash, pretty sure it's listed as action adventure western.

[RGF]

BUMP.

I just gotta ask. Did anyone else have the same "Are you joking me? No. Holy ****!" experience that I had yesterday? Lucasfilm requested loglines and synopsis's for every script I've written....based on my Nicholl QF.

I'm still floating about 4 inches above my chair. Anyone else?

[AnotherCaucasianGary]

Wow. Congrats!