This apparently has been on Two Adverbs for some time.
http://twoadverbs.com/sc/index.htm
A few highlights:
My wrath means a silent defeat for you, because you didn't follow a few simple rules. Rules that help me choose you out of the endless sea of screenplays that overwhelm the Hollywood screenwriting contest scene.
Nope. See, you've got fifteen pages to grab me, before your work gets heaved into the dumpster.
Oh, I can hear the curses and moans now. "I paid a fifty dollar entrance fee, you're being paid to read the entire screenplay.-
Wrong again. I am being paid to find the top three scripts out of (let's say) the eighty I have to sort through. This is a contest, not coverage. Very big difference. You are competing, not seeking feedback.
OK, so your first ten pages are smooth - in terms of presentation to the eye, otherwise known as white space. It will not go into the great screenplay graveyard, well not yet, anyway. I then flip through the script at random. I read sections of dialogue. Are people actually talking, or just exchanging pleasantries? I pick two scenes at random to read all the way through.
You can read the rest on the 2A site. The contests this reader judges are not mentioned. Been on the site for a while apparently.
http://twoadverbs.com/sc/index.htm
A few highlights:
My wrath means a silent defeat for you, because you didn't follow a few simple rules. Rules that help me choose you out of the endless sea of screenplays that overwhelm the Hollywood screenwriting contest scene.
Nope. See, you've got fifteen pages to grab me, before your work gets heaved into the dumpster.
Oh, I can hear the curses and moans now. "I paid a fifty dollar entrance fee, you're being paid to read the entire screenplay.-
Wrong again. I am being paid to find the top three scripts out of (let's say) the eighty I have to sort through. This is a contest, not coverage. Very big difference. You are competing, not seeking feedback.
OK, so your first ten pages are smooth - in terms of presentation to the eye, otherwise known as white space. It will not go into the great screenplay graveyard, well not yet, anyway. I then flip through the script at random. I read sections of dialogue. Are people actually talking, or just exchanging pleasantries? I pick two scenes at random to read all the way through.
You can read the rest on the 2A site. The contests this reader judges are not mentioned. Been on the site for a while apparently.
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