https://www.facebook.com/NichollFellowships/photos/a.10150948641102603.4... Here's a checklist for you to use with any script you think may be a worthy contender for the Fellowship prize. They only problem is that most people can not be objective enough about their own script. Someone else needs to check those boxes for you. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
Screenwriting : Academy Nicholl Fellowship -- Reader Category Guidelines by Lisa Scott
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Funny how there are no questions on there about screenwriting software.
you mean formatting. but that's not funny. anyone who is a serious contender doesn't need to be told that their script needs to be properly formatted no matter what software you use. these are READER guidelines, not writer guidelines.
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James, here's the Nicoll format guide. Presentation is possibly more critical in screenplay competitions than anywhere else. For example, in PAGE, it's worth 10% of the script's overall score. One of the reasons I say my ass out of competitions: http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/scriptsample.pdf
that's a good link, CJ. the screenwriters' bible in a nutshell.
Thank you, I've got the one for PAGE as well but sadly it's not free to share.
I've posted that script sample several times in this forum. It's the model I always use.
Anyway, thanks for posting that Lisa. It is helpful to see what criteria the readers are supposed to be using in evaluating scripts.
My apologies, James! I should have remembered you posted it originally.
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No need to apologize CJ. It was some time ago!
The script sample is a good reminder + a funny read...
The best part of the Nicholl thingy is the last two sentences. The rest is, of course, what one would expect them to look for. My screenplay Miracle Workers is under consideration at CAA and Casarotto/Ramsey (UK). placed semi-final in Screenplay Festival and entered in this year's Beverly Hills and Page contests. All us writers can do is write the most unique story we can and hope we don't get that one odd-ball reader that stops it in it's tracks. I've come to learn that a "professional reader" can be a college intern who's never written anything much less a screenplay and on the day they read your script, they just didn't feel like reading every page. Good luck all!