Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
This may have been covered in the previous thread, but has the BL started to include TV pilots? I know there was a plan to do so, but I haven't seen if this has happened yet. And if you haven't allowed people do submit pilots, will you do so in the future, and when?
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Franklin,
I have a script that's currently hosted on the Black List site that isn't active.
Do I need to unsuspend it to be eligible for the Vegas lab?
Thanks,
Eric
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Originally posted by Anointed View PostFranklin, does a script have to be rated an 8 for consideration in the Lab?
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Franklin, does a script have to be rated an 8 for consideration in the Lab?
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Very excited to announce our inaugural Screenwriters Lab in downtown Las Vegas.
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Something only intended for a male audience. Say for example GROWN UPS.
EJ
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
What's a "man comedy"?
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Genres/sub genres/tags for comedy...
gross-out comedy
teen comedy
man comedy
mature comedy
grounded comedy
double hander
tripple hander
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
From Terry at Support:
"Non-unique downloads will count multiple downloads by the same member. But all other downloads are unique, meaning if a member downloaded it twice or more, it would only count once."
Josh
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Perhaps this has been covered elsewhere but what is this new "non unique download'?
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Franklin,
Having the option to have the Heist genre without Comedy would be great.
I.E. Heist/Crime or Heist/Thriller
Thanks.
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Originally posted by BillG View PostBut (and here is where Sundown was inconsistent with posts): "The reader loved my script but wouldn't recommend it because the market is too tiny because it's too dark and brutal " is a valid case for a free read.
By the way, if you haven't noticed, I think there's a possibly-top script on the site with the same name as yours
EDIT: I see the script but as a writer I can't read it and it has no ratings or reviews.Last edited by SundownInRetreat; 06-30-2013, 05:49 PM.
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
That's fair enough. If you read above, I never claimed you complained. I just suspected and asked. You didn't answer directly until this post, and as you rightly said, you don't owe me or anyone else an answer.
I haven't been on the site in awhile, but it sounds like you can put all that similar films/ratings right in the logline section now (I guess you could do that before, too), so I'd do that -- maybe you already did.
By the way, if you haven't noticed, I think there's a possibly-top script on the site with the same name as yours
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Originally posted by BillG View PostDid your reader actually say, "I love this script, but am giving it a low score because its darkness and brutality would limit the audience"? He/she probably just didn't like it, even if the sole reason was because it was too dark and brutal for his/her taste.
Crime Thrillers/Gangsters/Film Noirs these days tend to be R-rated scripts. Readers know the violence and the drug use and whatnot that these genres can entail.
you can't compare your what-might-be-an-NC-17 movie to R- rated movies and be shocked when they say it's too dark.
And you're being intentionally vague - did you or did you not complain for a free read?
I posted suggestions and Franklin can take or leave them. I don't feel the tags do enough - mine include "violence" and "hand to hand combat" but that covers The Karate Kid just as much as John Rambo. The main reasons I mentioned them was that it would cut down on complaints, free reads requests and grade-grubbing (what I've been accused of) and for the industry peeps so the guy who wants atmosphere over gore; an R rated rom-com; or a 70s-esque thriller can easily find such scripts. How providing this detail is a fault of the script is beyond me
For the record, I made my feelings known. I acknowledged tastes vary and I wouldn't mind the scores if the comments weren't contradictory and off-base. It wasn't grade-grubbing and I didn't ask for anything.
I'm perturbed by the way this has turned out. If I knew I'd get publicly dissected then I wouldn't have provided my suggestions and the last thing any service wants is a lack of customer feedback.
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Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Yup, I can definitely understand why Franklin would give free reads, even if it's not based on something that's "factually incorrect" about the script -- it's a business, after all.
"The reader didn't like my script because he/she thought it was too dark and brutal" is not a valid reason for a free read.
But (and here is where Sundown was inconsistent with posts):
"The reader loved my script but wouldn't recommend it because the market is too tiny because it's too dark and brutal " is a valid case for a free read.
Maybe the reader who loved it wouldn't recommend it to a superior because it would probably never get made from a too-tiny niche standpoint, but the Blacklist's rating system is centered around how likely that reader would recommend it to a superior OR a peer in the industry -- a peer who may not be to do anything with that script, either, but who might just be interested in reading great material.
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