StoryBoard Tv

Some of you received messages from rachel@storyboardtv.com this weekend that turned out to be spam. Apparently, a very smart robot claiming to be a woman named Dora Tru figured out how to hack into our system and how to email members who opted into the “let others email me” function on our site. If you were one of the unlucky receivers of this email, please accept my sincere apology for the annoyance.

As of this morning, we have updated the email system with a new security measure. Now, if you want to send an email through the site, you will be asked to type in a computer generated password. The recipient of any email you send will still be receiving this email from MY address (another privacy measure), but if he/she clicks respond, YOUR address will appear in the address line. This should solve the problem.

Thanks for your patience.

First of all, WOW. 86 scripts. We are both excited and humbled by your participation in the first Storyboard TV competition. We are currently reading (and re-reading) all of your scripts and will narrow down the field to ten semi-finalists by the end of this month. We just wanted to send you all a quick email with some information about what happens now.

So here are the NEXT STEPS:

1. Storyboard TV will inform the ten semi-finalist scriptwriters of their status by the last week in April, and we’ll make a general announcement on our website on April 30.
2. These ten scripts will be sent to our industry panel on May 1, which will in turn narrow down the field to three.
3. The three finalist scripts will receive an industry reading in NYC on June 7 (more details TBA closer to date).
4. These three scripts (cleaner, re-written drafts) will also be posted on the website in June for member voting. Any Storyboard TV member can vote for the winner of the $5,000 prize.

That’s it in a nutshell. Meanwhile, HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS for things you can do during the month of April while waiting for results:

1. READ: We hope you’ll take the time to read scripts on the site and offer comments to your fellow writers. Not only is it a good deed (I’ve already heard from a few writers who say they are extremely grateful for the feedback), but your comment on someone else’s work is more likely to garner some feedback for your own. So – offer comments, read your own comments, and think about incorporating these notes into future drafts of your script. Which leads me to…

2. RE-WRITE: Before we pass the semi-finalist scripts onto the industry panel in May, we will give each of these writers the opportunity to supply us with a new draft. Yes, this means that the semi-finalists will have the opportunity to fix typos, move scenes around, kill of characters, etc. BEFORE their work gets into the hands of agents, managers, and other execs. We suggest that everyone go through their script during the month of April and punch it up. Have a trusted friend read it slowly and point out grammar mistakes, misspellings, and confusing syntax. Even if you are not picked as a semi-finalist, your script will thank you for cleaning it up!