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 Which Script Do You Prefer?
...Shall Be Infringed. (12 votes)
54.55%
Control. (10 votes)
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22 Votes Total
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Mr. Blonde
Posted: April 30th, 2018, 3:16pm Report to Moderator
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Control by 0 - Short, Thriller - A CIA agent with a questionable past is called in to help his soon-to-be-president wife through an election night threat. 11 pages - pdf, format

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...Shall Be Infringed by 0 - Short, Drama, Thriller - The story behind the repeal of the second amendment.  18 pages - pdf, format

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The Parameters


Who: Hitman.
What: Has to keep a Presidential candidate, his estranged wife, alive.
Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
When: Tuesday, November 7th, 2028 (election day).
Why: A hit has been put out on her to stop gun control legislation she intends to pass.



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I am lost.

1. Do we just click one or the other?

2. What happened to posting the parameters?


My Scripts can all be seen here:

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Dave - top left, there's a Voting window, or did you mean something else?


Anthony Cawood - Award winning screenwriter
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Quoted from AnthonyCawood
Dave - top left, there's a Voting window, or did you mean something else?


Thought they were posting the script criteria


My Scripts can all be seen here:

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Yeah, think people ought to know the parameters before voting.


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So no excellent, very good, etc.  just which script did you like better?


Some of my scripts:

Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly
I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner
The Gambler (short) - OWC winner
Skip (short) - filmed
Country Road 12 (short) - filmed
The Family Man (short) - filmed
The Journeyers (feature) - optioned

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How long do people have to vote?


PaulKWrites.com

60 Feet Under - Low budget, contained thriller/Feature
The Hand of God - Low budget, semi-contained thriller/Feature
Wait Till Next Year - Disney-style family sports comedy/Feature

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Quoted from PKCardinal
Yeah, think people ought to know the parameters before voting.


Agree. I thought they should have been posted earlier. I lost that argument because  they were going to be posted before the vote.  Totally lost here.  Oh well - good luck Paul


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Good luck to you, too, Dave.


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60 Feet Under - Low budget, contained thriller/Feature
The Hand of God - Low budget, semi-contained thriller/Feature
Wait Till Next Year - Disney-style family sports comedy/Feature

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Can someone post the parameters?


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Quoted from LC
Can someone post the parameters?


I'd like to, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes.


PaulKWrites.com

60 Feet Under - Low budget, contained thriller/Feature
The Hand of God - Low budget, semi-contained thriller/Feature
Wait Till Next Year - Disney-style family sports comedy/Feature

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Quoted from LC
Can someone post the parameters?


Libby - this was the response when I asked about posting the parameters before the reads:


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No, the readers shouldn't know what the topic is before reading. If it wouldn't have been a nightmare beforehand, I would have stuck with this rule for the entire tournament. The idea is that I want people to read the script for content, first and foremost. Then, they can judge it on how it followed the rules. The most important thing should always be script quality.


So, I assumed "judge" meant vote - ergo peeps would know the parameters before voting. That is obviously not the case and, being in the thing, I'm not really in a position to post the criteria since I can only assume now that they wanted the readers to vote without knowing the parameters (I think). I certainly will post it once the voting closes if it isn't posted before hand.


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"The parameters are obvious and both of you stuck to the parameters real well."

Am I wrong here?
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Quoted from khamanna
"The parameters are obvious and both of you stuck to the parameters real well."

Am I wrong here?


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HOW: Up to the writer


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Quoted from eldave1
Libby - this was the response when I asked about posting the parameters before the reads:
So, I assumed "judge" meant vote - ergo peeps would know the parameters before voting.

That is obviously not the case and, being in the thing, I'm not really in a position to post the criteria since I can only assume now that they wanted the readers to vote without knowing the parameters (I think). I certainly will post it once the voting closes if it isn't posted before hand.

Hmm, yep, that's what I thought too. Know the parameters before voting. And yes, we've been able to guess a lot but I would have liked to have seen them before casting my vote - which I'm yet to do. Not wanting to complain, just would have been interesting.

I'm gonna hold off for a bit.
Thanks Dave.

P.S. I note Sean's comment on script quality being the most important criteria for voting.
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