For Your Consideration Junket

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:11:44 GMT

Murphy’s Law is my life.

This past Saturday was Press Day for Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration. If you’re late to the party, read my previous preview here to find out what this is all about. Anyway, my current day job has me working a shift that I haven’t quite adjusted to yet. In fact, I should have been in bed hours ago, but instead I’m blogging. And it’s this night owl lifestyle that’s just screwing me over. So, because I don’t get enough sleep througout the week, I overslept on Saturday morning. It wasn’t fatal. I still had time to make the junket since the invite said it started at 10:30 am and I was up at 8:45 am, but there was more to consider than just drive-time. There was shower-time, invitation and map printing-time, visual and audio recording prep-time, blah, blah, blah-time.

I was out the door at 9:15 am. Check-in was at 10 on the nose. From Fullerton to the Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills it’s about 45 minutes with light traffic and an hour and change in moderate traffic. Even if I got there a little late for check-in I’d be okay. I’d just miss out on the catered breakfast they usually have for Press. And they don’t skimp at these functions, let me tell you. We’re talking Mother’s Day brunch buffet over here.Read the rest of this blog entry here.

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Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:22:01 GMT

I’m still waiting on my coverage from ScriptShark. If and when I get that “Recommend” I’m looking for, it’ll now be a serious investment to go through Script P.I.M.P to shop the script around, seeing as how I have no income. In the meantime, I’m workshopping the screenplay through free websites like Script Swap and Zoetrope. The way those sites work is: I upload a script to the community of screenwriters and they review it. The catch is that I have to review so many screenplays, myself, before my script becomes “live” or before I can read reviews of my script. Script Swap is the most lenient with their requirements; they only ask for a 1:1 review/submission ratio. Other sites like Zoetrope (Coppola’s website) and TriggerStreet (Spacey’s website) ask for as much as 4:1. On the other hand, after trying both Script Swap and Zoetrope, I find that Script Swap is a really slow moving site, meaning, “Good luck getting your script reviewed.” Zoetrope, in my experience, is actually a better community. Forcing a 4:1 review/submission ratio allows for a greater number of screenplays to get reviewed. I’ve had my script up on Zoetrope for about a week and received 11 reads and 1 review as compared to 1 read and 0 reviews on Script Swap. Furthermore, Zoetrope has an awesome interface. They give you a Private Office, internal e-mail, private discussion boards, etc. It’s very cool.

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