Screenwriters/Playwrights

2009 BlueCat Screenplay Contest CALL FOR ENTRIES!

bluecat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:45:31 -0700

The 2009 BLUECAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION is now open for submission of feature length screenplays!

*Winner receives $10,000

*Four finalists receive $1500

*Every writer who submits to BlueCat receives a written script analysis of their screenplay
Entry fee $50

EARLY BIRD SCRIPT ANALYSIS:
EARLY DEADLINE: December 1, 2008
*Screenplays submitted by Dec 1 will receive their analysis by Jan 5

REGULARE DEADLINE: March 2, 2009
LATE DEADLINE: April 1, 2009 ($60 Entry Fee)

SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY: http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/submis … ntries.php

BlueCat Screenplay Competition
http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com
http://www.myspace.com/bluecatscreenplay

New Chicago based scripts

Tatuuk — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:07:29 -0700

I have recently finished two Chicago based scripts. I would really like Chicago based input on them. I was born and raised in the city and find it easy to use the city and its locations for some of my scripts.

Scriptcloud Screenplay Analytics

Dustin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:42:54 -0700

Has anyone ever used this program? Is really worth the trouble?

http://scriptcloud.screenplayanalytics.com/

Here is part of an article about it:

“Whatin Heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?” embittered hero
RickBlaine (Humphrey Bogart) is asked early on in the movie. The same
mightbe asked of the millions of people who continue to watch Casablanca more
than 60 years after its first release — the movie is consistentlyranked
in the top ten in lists of greatest films, to the astonishmentof those
involved in its production.
So what made Casablanca such
a success? The answer could be revealed by script-reading
softwaredesigned to help writers create blockbusters rather than flops.
Suchsoftware is in hot demand in Hollywood, and over the past few
yearscompanies have been developing tools to help producers
predictbox-office takings, given a script and casting and budget
information.
Now,a team at Royal Holloway, University of London,
UK, has developed analgorithm to keep scriptwriters ahead of the game.
The algorithmassesses how good a script is as it is being bashed out on
the keyboard(F. Murtagh, A. Ganz & S. McKie Pattern Recognit. ;in
the press). Computer scientists Fionn Murtagh and Stewart McKieteamed
up with screenwriter Adam Ganz to find an objective way tocompare new
scripts with successful ones in their genre. They analyseda selection
of scripts from films deemed successful by critics to findcommon
patterns.
“On the crudest level, we could distinguish action films, such as Die Hard , from a drama such as Casablanca just
on the frequency of verbs compared with character names,” saysGanz. “We
wanted to see if we could find a more sophisticated way touncover
deeper structural patterns.”