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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 1:23pm Report to Moderator
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While most of you have probably stopped reading it by now, an actual, workable idea has emerged from the bloated and overblown "breaking the rules" thread.

Something akin to a book club -- where anyone who is interested would read a selected script during some given week -- then gather on a specific thread to discuss the relative merits and shortcomings of that story with the rest of those who have read the script.

It would be chattier than the normal review thread, and seems to hold a lot of potential to generate some interesting discussions.

It also sounds instructive, and would certainly be valuable to the author.

Would anybody be interested in a trial version of this?

I am not sure how the script will be selected, but I would recommend an active member who deserves more return reads than they have been getting.

I have a short list of about 2-3 authors I would float out there for consideration if  this seems to be something people would be interested in trying.


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Yeah, that monstrous thread got old faster than a kid with progeria.

The idea of a "script club" sound doable but how exactly will it differ from a "standard" review? Will there be certain rules on topics that has to be touched upon when reviewing the script or anything like that?


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The only way I can see it being different is that there will be an increased influx of reviews on one certain script for that week, and people will then proceed to argue their opinions against someone else's.  

Pretty much like the "Rules" thread, but every week and always around a different piece of work.

A question was posed in the other thread about reading produced vs. unproduced work.  Unproduced is a necessity. The whole point of it is to help other writers.


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I think it would be interesting to hear why some people would say why a script is filmable or not. Written like a Hollywood script or not. Style vs story and so on. A discussion rather than just a review.


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Quoted from Shelton
Unproduced is a necessity. The whole point of it is to help other writers.

Have you seen AvP:R? Shane Salerno needs all the help he can get


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I think it would be interesting to hear why some people would say why a script is filmable or not. Written like a Hollywood script or not. Style vs story and so on. A discussion rather than just a review.

I get what you're saying, Pia, but isn't there a danger of the discussion - very quickly -turning into the same back and forth banter that happened in the other thread? I mean, writing - and especially reviewing - is very very subjective. There is no right or wrong answer (to a certain extent), there are opinons and we either agree or we don't.


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the first rule of "script club" NO ONE talks about "script club"

I think this is a cool idea.  I know a few authors that deserve some reads.  I just hope this is for features though, this place seems to be over run by shorts and they get enough reads as it is.


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I just hope this is for features though

I second that.




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I think features would be a good way to go for the text based discussions, while shorts would be better suited for the voice chat.

After all, with a small handful of people talking/arguing in real time about the merits of a scene or certain piece of dialogue, a simple sentence could end up being discussed for half an hour.


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**** that means I have to write a feature if anything of mine should be discussed!


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**** that means I have to write a feature if anything of mine should be discussed!



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I think features would be a good way to go for the text based discussions, while shorts would be better suited for the voice chat.


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the first rule of "script club" NO ONE talks about "script club"


That is probably the funniest thing you have said in about six months, Jordan.  Good laugh off of that.

Yes, I am talking about features.  A discussion -- not so much a review -- about a feature from some deserving author.

Assigned one week, discussed over the next week or two, then locked until the next script is selected.  Provided it works at all and is worth repeating.

I would also suggest that the author not be allowed to participate in the discussion for the first week or so.  See where the discussion leads without them, you know?  The author will probably get more from the conversation if they do not interfere.

That last one is just a thought.  Chime in if you would participate, and if we get 7 "I'm in" votes (my completely arbitrary cut-off), those seven can debate which script they want to argue about.

I'll give the first yes.  Are there at least six more?


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I was joking. Forgot to add a smiley.

I'll second your yes bert.  


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I'm in.


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the first rule of "script club" NO ONE talks about "script club"


I think we all know what the second rule would be.

Anyway, so am I to understand this would essentially be a subjective discussion of a script's story elements with less of an emphasis on actual screenwriting? What I've heard so far sounds good to me so count me in, I guess. I really think this would work better if it were limited strictly to features. A book club usually denotes some kind of effort on the part of its members so a script club should naturally be the same. It takes little effort to read shorts, unless you have no attention span whatsoever.

Also, how exactly would we go about choosing the scripts to be read?

My two cents.


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I'm not sure if I could schedule a text feature a week but I'm definitely in on the voice short.

If you like, I'd be willing to set up a database that randomly picks the script to be read.  Let me know.

  
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