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Write just two scenes, 3-5 pages each
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Win $2,500, acclaim, and industry attention
2011 Top 3 Finalists and Top 10 Semifinalists
The Three Finalists
(average scores of all judges): |
Elisa
Graybill
Michael
Hedrick
William
Shank
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95.25
92.5
92.25 |
| How the three finalists are chosen:
first, the top 10 are the scenes scored highest by one
contest judge for each scene. Then, the entire Coverage, Ink. team
scores each of the top 10. The 3 highest average scores are the
three finalists. |
Top 10 -- The Semifinalists
(based on one judge score each): |
William Shank
Marni Cerise
Angela Gunn
Rob Lavohn
Hubert Ahn
Alan Pare
Benoit Barrette
Michael Hedrick
Don Tsuchiyama
Elisa Graybill |
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95
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94 |
Reminder
Regarding Announcements
Generally:
All
Announcements Are Made At This Web Site, Not By Email
Some contestants
are contacting us and the contest co-manager Coverage Ink asking where
the email announcement is. Please allow us to remind everyone
that Rule 4 of this contest
states:
"4. Announcements And
Notifications At Web Sites Only. All formal
Contest notifications to contestants as a group will be made solely by
posting them at these locations:
http://cyberspaceopen.com/index.html
http://creativescreenwriting.com/cyberspace.open.html
http://insideinfo.com/cyberspace.open.html"
This is a hard and fast
rule. It exists out of consideration for all contestants. We have found
that as many as 15% of all entrants do not receive or miss our
email announcements. As the rules state, email announcements, when we
send them, are a courtesy only. Please visit this web site for all
contest announcements.
If you are among
those who have written demanding to know where your email
announcement is, we beg you to please re-read the rules you agreed to
when you entered the contest. We mean no discourtesy to you; these
rules were developed out of past experience.
This
was the Round 2 Scene Premise/Prompt:
The
Premise:
Your PROTAGONIST
is desperate and mulling a risky proposition. Taking action could
result in a personal gain to the protagonist, but at great potential
cost in the form of a relationship(s). Write a scene either before or
after the decision has been made, addressing it in whatever manner you
like. You may use any number of additional characters you desire, and
again, keep in mind SUBTEXT when writing dialogue.
One other thing: your
protagonist is *crazy*.
Good
luck!
Note From Contest Management on
Round 2 Judging:
Top 10 scenes will be
determined by the score given by a single reader. The top 3 will be
based on the averaged scores of the entire Coverage Ink team.
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An email is sent as a courtesy. The official posting of the
premise is at the web sites below. However, yuou may rely on
the
information in the email as accurate.
Helpful video from Jim Cirile on how to write a great scene (very big
WMV file):
http://cyberspaceopen.com/cyberspace.open.2011.video.wmv
Or at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aedpu_n2i-o
The premise is being posted at three web pages at three hosts:
What This Unique Contest Is And
How It Works
The Cyberspace Open is a three-round on-line elimination contest:
- In Round 1, every
entrant
writes a scene over a weekend from a premise that we give you. The top
100+ ties move on to Round 2.
- In Round 2, these top
100+ semifinalists write a second scene over a weekend. From these
scenes, the top three finalists are chosen.
- In Round 3, we
videotape the
three finalists' scenes, post them on the web, and call for a vote on
the winner. To see an example: the three Spring 2010
finalists'
scenes are posted here.
How To Participate
1. Read the Rules and Release.
You must agree to the Rules and Release to participate.
2. Download the Round 1
Premise
on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 at 5 p.m. In order to balance the
traffic
load, it will be available at three web pages at three hosts:
3. Write your scene
over the weekend. Be sure that
you
have a cover page with your name, order number, and
your email address (title is optional under a recen trule change), and
that your file is named precisely as required.
See the Filename
and Cover Page Rule.
4.
Upload your
completed scene to
the FTP server by 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 21, 2011.
The upload link will be posted at or near the top of all three of the
pages above.
5. Watch for the
announcement. Survivors going to Round 2 will be
posted on these same pages on about March 21-24, 2011.
Prizes And Benefits Summary:
See the Official
Prize List for the full list of prizes.
All
entrants who provide an unblocked email address on the cover page of
the submitted scene* receive brief feedback.
We will also post feedback by order number on a web page.
There are seven cash prizes: $2,500,
$500, and $250 for first, second, and third, and four genre prizes of
$150 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. Again, you can see last year's scenes and
winners here.
- Also, we send
feedback by email to entrants who provide email addresses on
their title pages.
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.
Top 3 Winning Scenes Videotaped
And
Posted
Long-Term On The Web
In this contest,
each of the three finalists/final 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 (80,000+ writers, directors, producers, studio
execs) will be invited to vote for a winner.
- The
three winning positions (first, second third) will be on the basis of
highest score.
- The winners'
scenes are then left on the web to help promote winners' careers.
Save Your Order Number!
The Filename And Cover Page Rule
Be sure to read and follow the Filename
And Cover Page Rule. The file
containing your scene should be named for your order number
and
you first and last names:
ordernumber.firstname.lastname.ext (the "ext" is the file type, of
cours. We accept MS word (.doc), Adobe (.pdf).
Suggestion:
as soon as you get your order number, create and save the entry
filename in this format, using your order number and your name:
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
- One entrant's
email address
- Your order
number.
- Optional: a
title.
In addition, it is a good
idea to have the full address of at least one entrant on the
title/cover page.
* 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 Deadlines and Entry Links:
(All times are Pacific U.S. time)
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Extensions from this deadline are not guaranteed and would be at a
higher price.
Key Dates in The Fall-Winter
2010-2011 Cyberspace Open
(All times
are Pacific U.S. time): |
- First
premise posted on this web page
Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, 5 pm..
- Deadline
to send Round 1 scene to contest server: Mon. Feb.
21, 9 a.m.
- 100
(+ ties) Round 2 entrants announced: about March 21-24, 2011
- Round
2 premise posted Fri., April 1, 2011 at 5 p.m.
- Deadline
to send Round 2 scene to server: Mon. April 4, 2011, 9 a.m. Extended
to 10:30 a.m. due to last posting of premise
- Finalists
and genre winners named about: April 18-19, 2011
- Finalists'
scenes videotaped by mid-May 2011.
- Voting
by the writer community opens about June 4, 2011.
- Winners
announced about 2 weeks after voting begins.
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Key Changes From
Spring 2010 Contest:
1. Both
the entry fees and the prize amounts have been slightly reduced.
2. Round 2 survivors now have an entire weekend to write their
scenes rather than one day. |
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To contact us about this
contest:
customer.service@creativescreenwriting.com
Or call (323) 957-1405.
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The Cyberspace Open Is managed for Creative Screenwriting by Coverage,
Ink.:
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