Re: Nicholl 2009
Advantages for an early entry: no burn out by readers, more likely not to react negatively at the reading of an overly familiar premise. The reread scoring line tends to be lower (i.e., it's easier to receive a second read).
Disadvantages for an early entry: some readers tend to be a little tougher early on as they get a feel for how good the overall quality is going to be. Less time to polish the script.
Advantages for a late entry: more time to polish the script. Readers tend to have a better sense of where all scripts fit into the overall scheme of things and scores tend to be a little higher overall.
Disadvantages for a late entry: As we stack up an ever increasing number of higher scoring scripts, the scoring line for rereads tends to be higher (i.e., it's harder to receive a second read).
My recommendation: enter near April 25-27. If you do so, you will be among the first 50% of all entries. Your script probably won't be among the first scripts read by any reader, but it will be read early enough that burn-out and familiarity with premises and genres probably won't be a factor.
Entering online late on May 1 or mailing media mail or from a foreign country on May 1 probably will place your script among the last few hundred read. Although we try to keep things as even as possible throughout the reading period, I would try to avoid being read at the end when there is a possibility of a crunch.
Of course, with this being the first year in which we probably will have 2000 PDF entries, it may alter all of the above slightly.
Originally posted by lordmanji
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Disadvantages for an early entry: some readers tend to be a little tougher early on as they get a feel for how good the overall quality is going to be. Less time to polish the script.
Advantages for a late entry: more time to polish the script. Readers tend to have a better sense of where all scripts fit into the overall scheme of things and scores tend to be a little higher overall.
Disadvantages for a late entry: As we stack up an ever increasing number of higher scoring scripts, the scoring line for rereads tends to be higher (i.e., it's harder to receive a second read).
My recommendation: enter near April 25-27. If you do so, you will be among the first 50% of all entries. Your script probably won't be among the first scripts read by any reader, but it will be read early enough that burn-out and familiarity with premises and genres probably won't be a factor.
Entering online late on May 1 or mailing media mail or from a foreign country on May 1 probably will place your script among the last few hundred read. Although we try to keep things as even as possible throughout the reading period, I would try to avoid being read at the end when there is a possibility of a crunch.
Of course, with this being the first year in which we probably will have 2000 PDF entries, it may alter all of the above slightly.
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