Thursday 3 June 2010, 17:10
We've had a fantastic response to our quick-turnaround competition - 226 entries! And here are the winning three scripts by Joel Slack-Smith, Rebecca Walker and Jonathan Appleton - well done to them for sending in ideas that we really enjoyed reading. We loved the intensity of Joel's world, the overlapping margins of Rebecca's and the quiet but funny POV in Jonathan's.
We also wanted to make an honourable mention to some other writers whose scripts made it through to the final shortlist conversation with our brilliant and generous judge, the writer Al Smith:
Martin McNamara
Sally Brockway
Matt Zandstra
James O'Brien
Christian O'Reilly
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Comment number 1.
Anders423rd June 2010 - 19:51
To the 218 people who, like me, did not receive even an honourable mention, do not be deterred. Some of these are already writers and our time will come too.
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johnof1233rd June 2010 - 21:57
Well done all!!!
John
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Graham Barker3rd June 2010 - 22:03
Hmm... Don't rate any of the winners. One wonders... And Rebecca's is twelve pages long, when I thought the limit was ten.
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Paul Ashton4th June 2010 - 6:42
Anders42 - yes indeed, there will be other times - though to be fair we had no idea of experience when judging them...
Graham Barker - many entrants had the problem that their 10 page Final Draft script became longer when converted to Word - so we allowed a bit of leeway rather than punish them for technical gremlins. and 'one wonders' - what, exactly...? cheer up, why not allow the winners a moment of satisfaction rather than instantly throw a dampener on their work? we genuinely enjoyed their scripts, and there was little development time to perfect them so I think the standard is impressive
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Aunty_Bellum4th June 2010 - 8:12
It is right to congratulate the winners as they have produced something that has hit the judges' buttons although, as with Graham, they came nowhere near hitting mine. Here's an idea. Why not put them all on the website? There are only another 223 @ 10 pages each = ca. 2,000 pages. A trivial number, and there can be no objection as all entrants accepted their offering could be posted up. Can't be as much web space as half an episode of 'Eastenders'. Then we bloggers could see what the Writersroom readers reject as 'bad' as well as what they declare is 'good'. The resulting good-natured 'bloggery' could be challenging and uncomfortable, but very revealing.
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