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screenrider
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 12:27pm Report to Moderator
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Has this ever been done here?

We could nominate a panel of judges.  Maybe three or four.   Each month a new panel of judges would be nominated so as to avoid burnout.

Then three to five scripts or whatever, are nominated to be voted on.  Could be scripts from the past or present.   Voting would be determined based on a "30 points system".  

Originality: 1-10 points
Format: 1-10 points.
Overall Story: 1-10 points
Points are totalled and the script with the highest points wins the shiny trophy.

There could be three categories.
1- Best full-length feature.
2- Best short.
3- One script that gets an "honorable mention" but no shiny trophy.

Something like this could really up the ante around here, inspire creativity, as well as a little friendly competition.   And of course this idea would be contingent upon Don's approaval.

Any thoughts?

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Baltis.
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 12:41pm Report to Moderator
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I remember when we had like a star rating by our names or something... It's been so long.  People could vote on you as a whole, maybe?  I forget now, but it was something to that degree.  I also remember having a cool 63.4% through much of the tenure too.  Strange I remember the percent but not exactly what the rating system was. "ha"  I was also a bit more aggressive and stand-offish then too, though.

But I've got a big enough ego and enough security to be perfectly fine with something like you're trying to lay out Mike.  I don't need to be on top to know how good or bad I am.  I don't write movies for others... I write the movies I want to see, really.  This is also why I've never taken the business too seriously.  If I actually wanted to make it, like really, really make it outside of selling a script here and there, I'd be selling to a larger audience rather than myself and a select demograph who believes in my talent and work as a whole.

But, yeah, I'm all for something like this... It'd be easier for new writers to come into the site and see what "WE" think is the monthly bar for formatting and story, that's for sure.
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screenrider
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 12:44pm Report to Moderator
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Cool.  So, if Don permits -- I'd be willing to be a November's judge, and it looks like Baltis is game to be a judge...

Anybody else?

Probably need 5 judges, to read maybe 3 nominated screenplays.    Of course there's other details to work out.  Like who nominates the scripts and whatever.  
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This has been tried many times in the past and it never works. I'd recommend the Simply Recommended Scripts thread. If you like a script, let people know about it there.


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I WAS WRONG.
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screenrider
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 12:49pm Report to Moderator
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Quoted from Nixon
This has been tried many times and never works. I'd recommend the Simply Recommended Scripts thread. If you like a script, let people know about it there.


Never say never.    Besides, it's all about winning the shiny trophy.   And finding the best of the best.
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Quoted from screenrider
Never say never.  


This is never going to happen. Seriously...


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I've seen many of those tried here too. It always ends up bad...real bad...


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screenrider
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 12:57pm Report to Moderator
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Alright, I'm just gonna keep it simple.  With DON's permission this is how it will work.

1- Each month there will be 3 new judges.

2- You can volunteer to be a judge.

3- Each judge will pick a script they feel is a winner.  (One full-length feature, one short, and one they feel deserves an honorable mention -- but no trophy.

4- The three judges will each read the above mentioned scripts and vote based on a point system.

5- At the end of each month the scripts are announced.  

It's easy as apple pie.   No harm, no foul.   Don, I'm awaitng your thumb's up or thumb's down.

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Posted: October 29th, 2010, 1:21pm Report to Moderator
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I think doing this on a monthly basis might be bad.  It seemed to work, a few years ago, when people just listed their favorite scripts by genre.


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I think doing this on a monthly basis might be bad.  


It might be bad, but not necessarily entirely bad.   Which means there's still hope.  

Honestly though, I fail to see the harm.   It might just give some of us the added inspiration we need to reach for a higher plateau.    After-all, who doesn't want to be the best of the best?  That's what this is all about.   Finding those diamonds in the rough.

If it goes haywire I'll take the blame.
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It always ended up with hurt feelings for those who were not chosen. And those who were voted best already knew they were and so did everyone else.


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Quoted from screenrider
Could be scripts from the past or present.  


That's why the Simply Recommended thread is here.  

Circalit is also here for that kind of thing, but we don't need to lower ourselves to that.


Be excellent to each other
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screenrider
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 2:00pm Report to Moderator
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Pia, Greg, you gotta be kidding.  Just to be nominated would be a privilege in itself.   I fail to see how this is lowering ourselves to anything.  If anything it's raising the bar.   If you don't like the idea then don't participate.   There's already enough naysayers around here.  Yeesh!
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All we're saying is that we've seen it many times here before and it has always ended badly. You want to do it. Go ahead...I wish you the best of luck. I really do.


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This idea -- or a variation on it -- has cropped up a few times even in the two years I've been here. I'm completely against it. I try to write good scripts, and there are plenty of people here I respect and try to learn from, but what exactly would an 'SS Script of the Month' award mean in the real world? Nothing.

Also, as Don very perceptively pointed out in a podcast a while back, you introduce competition and people' motives shift when the review. And not necessarily for the better.

But hey! That's just my opinion.


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