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Thanks, but I just used my own experience as prrof that filmmakers do seem to go there. I think it's very hard to get traffic to any new website and CJ seem to have managed to attract filmmakers, not just writers, is IMO, a great achievement and hopefully, the word will spread.
Gotta say, CJ. Your website has come a long way in a short time. Great work. Especially how it focuses on the writer as well as the scripts.
Thanks for all the hard work.
Tony.
I concur with Dave's concur. Which is a double concur! If anyone is procrastinating because they think it'll take too long to get scripts up... the whole thing takes seconds not minutes.
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Also like that we get an email when someone downloads our scripts or follow us. Although I find the latter a bit creepy.
It would be less creepy if I had more than one follower. It feels like it might be a stalker.
I was a bit curious about who my 'followers' - yes I think I have two - were as well. I think it's good it's anon though. It's a nice compliment and doesn't become a popularity contest.
And the reviews work too. I had notifications of tons of downloads on Route 89, and a query, no option yet.
My prob is I have to learn to write low budget shorts. Anyway, focussing on features mainly now.
It's not difficult to upload scripts to SR and I love the inbuilt feature of adding a pic easily to 'sell' the story's vibe. Good on ya CJ. Works as a great adjunct to my fav SS.
Tony, Dave, Pia, James, Libby, thanks so much for the kind words.
A lot of this is thanks to Don who was kind enough to put out a front page post about ScriptRev along with adding the banner. I'm have no doubt that led to a surge of interest from filmmakers and writers alike, helping create the critical mass needed.
I can't tell you the anxiety inducing effects of launching a site like this and having to white knuckle your way to seeing some results. Let's just say I've been losing a lot of sleep worrying that I've been misleading writers or doing the wrong thing.
One of the biggest stresses has been implementing the system to track downloads. I'm so glad writers can finally feel reassured their works is being read. I'm also hoping that, with the follow function writers will feel there's already an eager audience out there when they upload new material. We can't continue to have this system where everyone seemingly has to start from scratch when marketing their scripts.
Also, just to put the numbers in perspective here. As of this morning, Script Revolution has 777 scripts uploaded and had 1,979 script downloads last month. If every script were hosted on InkTip, that would be costing those writers $11,655 per month to host them. If every script were hosted on The Black List, that number would be $19,425. That's two services that do not offer the same range of features or broad scope of exposure yet I'm able to fund it as one individual. Yes, many of those scripts would not be on ScriptRev if it wasn't free to upload but that's the whole point - every script we have to offer counts and could be the one that makes or breaks us. Just consider how many aspiring screenwriters there are in the world, from poor backgrounds or poor countries who are priced out of any exposure. It makes me sick just thinking about it. Just think about how many screenwriters financially burn out and cannot afford to continue buying exposure, be it via pseudo-advertising, competition lotteries, or evaluation roulette. Also contemplate how many filmmakers cannot pass the mystery selection process needed to access these services.
Simply Scripts and Script Revolution are the future. They have to be. The currently system isn't just grossly biased toward the affluent it's also built on this fallacy that there is an ample Hollywood marketplace - there isn't. Nobody in tinsel town is buying specs, they are only buying IP. The only real 'opportunities' are hooking up with a manager-producer where writers end up endlessly re-writing their specs for free to suit someone else's artistic vision. The only real jobs are being the 34th uncredited writer on some development-soup nightmare.
Our whole industry needs a massive shake-up and realisation that we have to start looking outside of the Hollywood system and start thinking globally. Trying to break into Hollywood via commercial services is not a hill we should chose to die on, yet so many of us do. The global film market is set to explode. There's now nothing stopping a small budget feature made in a developing country find a massive audience on Netflix and Amazon.
The industry is being broken up from the status Q. Technology (video) and social media presents boundless opportunities for the amateur screenplay writer/filmmaker. Hollywood can't control it. And, they can't be very happy about it either.
The industry is being broken up from the status Q. Technology (video) and social media presents boundless opportunities for the amateur screenplay writer/filmmaker. Hollywood can't control it. And, they can't be very happy about it either.
It's quite glorious!
Absolutely. Imagine you're one city that dominates the industry on a global level, and since you are so huge you can pretty much do as you please. Then imagine that power network shrinks to the size of just a few corporate buildings that are struggling to meet consumer demands.
Now imagine you are someone who makes a living selling access to Hollywood. You really think any screenwriting competition, directory database, or listing service is going to tell writers there is no promised land? Or do you think they are just going to keep selling tickets while driving people round in circles?
There is so much at stake here and it completely hangs on keeping the image of Hollywood burning in amateur screenwriter's minds.
I recently put some scripts up there and I found it easy and snazzy to do so. The notice email about the scripts being downloaded is nice, it lets you know someone is at least looking. I must admit not knowing who is looking is quite frustrating but I can understand why you can't reveal this information. If it were just production companies like on Inktip, then yes, but this is people's personal accounts.
I did wonder about the syncing between Shootin' the Shorts and Script Revolution. Some scripts appear on both sites while others don't. Is that deliberate or a bug? I do admit I mention it out of selfish reasons, as my script The Enchanted Quill did appear on Shootin' the Shorts but not on the Shootin' the Shorts section of Script Revolution.
Great work though, it's nice to see the site go from strength to strength!
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Six month update: 378 members with 906 scripts uploaded. Over 108,000 page views and 7,128 script downloads. Lots of changes and improvements. From tomorrow the site will require registration to download scripts and writers will be notified who's downloading them.
I recently put some scripts up there and I found it easy and snazzy to do so. The notice email about the scripts being downloaded is nice, it lets you know someone is at least looking. I must admit not knowing who is looking is quite frustrating but I can understand why you can't reveal this information. If it were just production companies like on Inktip, then yes, but this is people's personal accounts.
I did wonder about the syncing between Shootin' the Shorts and Script Revolution. Some scripts appear on both sites while others don't. Is that deliberate or a bug? I do admit I mention it out of selfish reasons, as my script The Enchanted Quill did appear on Shootin' the Shorts but not on the Shootin' the Shorts section of Script Revolution.
Great work though, it's nice to see the site go from strength to strength!
Sorry I missed your comment back in December. From next month, you are going to know who's downloaded your scripts and people will have to be registered to download them. We'll have to see how it goes. It's a feature that's been continually requested by writers.
Things are a little messy with the existing Shootin' The Shorts website and the section on Script Revolution at the moment. Basically, a script has to be uploaded to Script Revolution and both the writer and reviewer signed up to be featured within that section. This way readers get to see the writers latest bio and their other scripts. We tried hard to correlate what was already uploaded and notify writers of the changes but this wasn't easy as it was a massive job with a lot of logistics involved. Eventually the existing site will close and everything will be on Script Revolution.
Just a quick update. Script Revolution hit a milestone this month. Over 1000 scripts now uploaded to the database. Thanks to all who have joined up so far.
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