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Write just two scenes, 3-5 pages each
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Win $2,500, acclaim, and industry attention
Semifinalists:
Here Is Your Round 2 Scene Premise/Prompt
(Our apologies for our tardiness --
Deadline Extended 90 Minutes--
It is now 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 4)
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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The Upload Form:
Be sure that your file has your identifying information on the cover
page and that it is named properly according to the file
name and cover page rule.
Enter the email address you signed up with. Then
click "Browse" to go to to your scene file(s) and select
it/them in the upload fields. Click "Upload Files."
You should then see a screen indicating that the upload is proceeding,
followed by a page with a big blue "YES" in
it.
That page means we received your file.
Congratulations!
Optional
And Recommended:
After a successful upload, also email the file to submit@cyberspaceopen.com.
Do not
call us on Monday morning to ask if we received the file.
There will be time in the next few days to sort out issues
with timely submissions.
In
Case Of Upload Failure:
If you do not receive that "YES"
confirmation page, follow these steps:
1. Don't panic.
2. Go to one of the other two upload pages and
repeat this process. The three upload pages including this
one are:
3.
Whether that works or not, email the file to submit@cyberspaceopen.com
4. If you have an upload failure, email customer.service@creativescreenwriting.com to say you had an
upload failure and resubmitted.
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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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