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The Creative
Screenwriting Cyberspace Open Spring 2010
Proudly Congratulates
Our Top Three:
Read their Winning Scenes By Clicking On Their Names Above.
Ian, Dries and Lisa,
your scenes will be performed by actors in staged readings which we
will videotape and put up on the web for everyone to vote on the
winner! We will notify everyone via e-mail or newsletter when the
scenes are online and ready to be voted on.
Honorable mention must go to Diane Lisa Johnson, whose
scene missed the top 3 by a hair (94.42.)
For
all Round 2 scores, click here
How We
Tabulated The Top Scores:
Each scene in Round 2
was read and scored by a reader from Coverage, Ink. The
top ten scoring scenes (actually 13 because of
ties) were then circulated to the entire team. Seven
readers read and gave a numerical grade to each of the scenes. The
winners were determined by averaging the scores. Because of this, in
some cases, some folks scored higher from the individual judge but
lower in the aggregate, while for others the reverse was true. But in
the end, the three scenes selected were the ones the team all agreed
were the best of the best.
Congratulations to the
remainder of our top 13 for dishing out some truly killer writing:
Tim
Harding 94.28
Philip
Schneider 94.28
Walter
Thompson 93.86
Erik
Fetler 93.71
Crystal
Ann Taylor 93.71
Marcus
Leary 93.57
Rich Frost
93.42
Kimberly
Nunley 92.85
Michael
Riccardini 92.29
Thanks again, everyone!
We hope you all had a blast participating!
P.S. Genre prize winners
(and runners up) will be hearing from us shortly with regards to how to
claim your prizes.
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Round 1 Results:
Click
Here
For The Round 1 Survivors and Genre Winners
Click Here
For All Round 1 Scores By Order Number
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The New, Improved Cyberspace Open
Spring 2010 Edition
Write just two* scenes, 3-5 pages each
...
Win $3,000 And Get Industry
Attention
What This Unique Contest Is And
How It Works
Click
For Quick Summary and Schedule
The Cyberspace Open is an on-line elimination contest in which writers
compete for three prizes of $3,000, $500, and $300, plus four
newly-announced genre prizes of $200 each. In
addition, we will give winners great industry exposure:
- We
will send 300+ producers the names and describe the achievements of the
winners.
- The written
scenes and videos of the three winning scenes will be
posted on the Web, with an explanation of the tough conditions under
which they were made.
- Also, we send
feedback by email to all entrants.
Like no other contest in the
world, this contest tests your ability to write creatively for a movie
or TV production on a tight deadline. The skills it takes are
very much like some of the key skills of a script doctor called in to
fix a script quickly, or a TV writer working on a weekly show.
The
Steps In The Elimination Contest
The Cyberspace Open is a three-stage elimination contest:
Round
1 (Completed): A Weekend To Write A Scene: 100 Survivors
In Round 1, we post a scene premise at the web site
on Friday, April
16, 2010 at or just before 5:00 p.m. You will have until
9:00 a.m. Monday, April 19 to email your finished scene to the
entry email address.
That gives you an entire weekend to conceive, write, rewrite,
and polish your first-round entry.
Round
2: Absolutely, Positively, Must Be There The Next Morning
In Round 2, the 100 finalists and ties who survive Round 1
will
receive a
new scene premise
by having it posted on this page at 10 A.M. Pacific
time on
Saturday, May
22, 2010. These 100 finalists + ties will have until 10:00
A.M. Sunday, May 23 to email it to the entry email
address.
That timetable gives finalists 24 hours to conceive, write, rewrite,
and polish second-round entries.
The
Three Winners Advance To The Live Round:
The three highest scorers among Round 2 finalists are
all
prize winners. They will advance to Audience Voting to
determine first, second, and third place.
Brand
New And Very Cool: Winning Scenes Videotaped:
In this contest, each of the three winners will have his/her second
scene
videotaped:
- Actors
will perform a reading of each of the three scenes before a
camera/cameras provided by the Contest, which will be video recorded.
- The three videos
of scenes and the scene texts will be placed on the Internet for
viewing.
- Recipients of
our CS Weekly E-Zine (approx. 80,000) will be invited to vote for a
winner.
- Voting will take
place through an online survey system. The
three winning positions (first, second third) will be on the basis of
highest score. One vote will be allowed per IP address.
Bonus
For All Entrants: Brief Feedback On Your Scene.
Feedback will be posted by order number at either the Creative
Screenwriting web site or the Expo site or some at each site.
(Instructions will be on this page.)
We will also send ONE COURTESY email with your feedback if you
provide your email address. Be sure your mail server
does
not block emails
from the servers @creativescreenwriting.com and @screenwritingexpo.com
in order to receive your score and feedback. However: email
delivery is unreliable due to spam filters. If you receive it
by
email, great. But the official posting of all Cyberspace Open
information is at or through this page. We wil NOT re-send if
an
email does not get through. Come to this page.
How
Contestants Will Receive The Premises And Announcements
To guard against the contest server bogging down, the Round 1 premise
and email addresses to send entries will be posted at 5:00 p.m. Pacific
time at the top of this page and at:
In addition, a COURTESY
email will
be sent a few minutes before the posting time with the same
information. If
you receive this courtesy email, great--please
don't rush to the server. It will have the same
information.
However, mass email proved unreliable last time. So
if you
do not receive the email by 5:00 p.m., please visit the server.
Remember: under the Rules, the email is a courtesy
aimed at
keeping the server from bogging down. It is your
responsibility
to download the premise if you do not receive the email within a few
minutes after 5:00 P.M.
All subsequent contest announcements will be posted near the top of
this page or
at links from the top of this page.
Quick
Summary Of The Steps To Enter And Win
How to
Enter:
First, register by the registration deadline. To register, click
here to place an entry into your shopping cart, and then click
here to complete the transaction.
When you complete your registration, save your shopping cart
order
number. It will appear on the
confirmation screen and also in a
confirming email that the shopping cart sends to you when you
register.
Suggestion: as soon as you get this number, create and save the entry
filename in this format:
ordernumber.firstname.lastname.ext
Next: write your entry in time to meet the entry deadline.
Save your scene in a file using using the file naming style
below.
Important: Include your order number, name, address, and email address
on the cover page.
Save Your Order Number.
You will need the order number of your shopping cart order to enter a
scene.
Change
In Entry System:
To enter: come to this page and use the FTP upload function that will
be posted above.
The file must be
in MS Word .doc or .docx format or PDF, and it must be named according
to this
naming protocol:
ordernumber.yourfirstname.yourlastname.doc
Or
ordernumber.yourfirstname.yourlastname.docx
Or
ordernumber.yourfirstname.yourlastname.pdf
depending on which file format you chose for submission.
Cover
page. The entry must have a cover page, which must
contain all of this information:
- Your name or
names if more than one writer
- The full mailing
address of at least one entrant
- One entrant
email address*
- Your order
number (yes--use it in the name of the file itself and write
it on the cover page!)
- The scene
premise name or round number (first, second, third)
* You will not receive a score and feedback if your email address is
not on your cover page. We cannot send to more than one email
address.
Cyberspace
Open Schedule (All times are Pacific U.S. time):
- Registration
Open March 5
- $12.99
low-price registration ends April 9 at Midnight
- $14.99
full-price registration closes April 11at Midnight
- (Brief
extension is possible at $16.99--but why wait to pay more?)
- First
premise posted Fri April 16, 5 P.M.
- First
scene due Mon April 19, 9 A.M.
- The 100
Round 2 finalists announced by May 17-19
- Round 2
premise posted Sat May 22 at 10 A.M.
- Round 2
scene due Sun. May 23 by 10 A.M.
- Three
winners named for 1st/2nd/3rd runoff by May 28
- Three
winners' scenes videotaped for runoffs in early June
- Voting on
1st/2nd/3rd by the community tallied by mid-June
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Cyberspace
Open Entry Fees, Deadlines, and Entry Links:
(All times are Pacific U.S. time)
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Early/On
Time
Entry Deadline |
Last
48 Hours--
Pushing It |
Extension,
If Any* At
The "Punish Me" Rate |
| Midnight
Friday, April 9 |
Midnight
Sunday, April 11 |
Uncertain--don't
wait
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| $12.99 |
$14.99 |
$16.99 |
*
An extension is NOT promised; we strongly advise against waiting.
The
high "Punish Me" price, if we were to extend, is intended to encourage
you to submit early or on time.
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By
entering, you agree to the Contest
Rules and Release
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The Cyberspace Open Is managed for Creative Screenwriting by Coverage,
Ink.:
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* There
is NO GUARANTEE that we would extend beyond Midnight April 11.
We have intentionally set the "Punish me" rate high to punish
procrastinators because late entries are a big burden on our
team. PLEASE enter by the April 11 deadline, or better, right
now!
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