Quote: Slush Puppy @ September 3, 2007, 12:41 PMI submitted my entry on Friday, got a confirmation reply email immediately, then this morning there's a delivery failure message in my inbox saying that the recepient's inbox (i.e Red Planet) is full.
I didn't submit so I haven't seen the mail headers. Maybe their Mail Server sent a confirmation and then (re)tried sending it to the the relevant mailbox for a few days before giving up.
Quote: JohnnyD @ September 4, 2007, 12:33 PMI didn't submit so I haven't seen the mail headers. Maybe their Mail Server sent a confirmation and then (re)tried sending it to the the relevant mailbox for a few days before giving up.
That's what I'm beginning to think. Very annoyed if they don't receive it - considering I sent it in within the deadline (Friday).
Slaggs and Chipolata - when did you submit your entries?
At this rate everyone will get one of these messages a few days after they sent their entries.
I sent mine Saturday night (at the movies) (not really) so yeah, I'll have to wait an see.
Quote: Rosco @ September 4, 2007, 12:20 PMMaybe somewhere there's a parallel world that only has Saturdays and the competition will never close!
My point is they said all weekend and that on Monday the email address goes and no more entries are accepted.
Quote: Slush Puppy @ September 4, 2007, 1:23 PMAt this rate everyone will get one of these messages a few days after they sent their entries.
Not if they increase the inbox size or start reading/deleting entries!
In your situation, I would send it again to one of the contact addresses on their site - with suitable explanation.
hmmmm.
Say 450 people entered (they probably received ~900 entries, but say on average two submissions per person),
6 workshop places
22 people from this site entered,
Therefore 450/6 = 75
75/22 = 3.4
100/3.4 = 29
So there's a 29% chance someone from BSG will be in the workshop.
(Oops, forgot to take into account sod's law:
29/29 - 1 = 0
Leaves 0% chance.)
I submitted a comedy drama and a LOM style fantasy thriller.
I submitted at 11:30 in the morning on Friday and got a email back saying
Thank you,
Red Planet has your competition entry, good luck.
Red Planet Pictures Ltd
Thats all I got. Fingers crossed that they know about the email problems and will include all the valid entries
Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 4, 2007, 3:18 AMHave people mostly written hour long, light drama scripts?
I don't know... I'll let you know when I've finished it.
Yep, I submitted them on thursday and friday and had them bounce back on tuesday. I'm almost sure the website mentioned a closing date of 31st of August or 1st of September when I read through it. So that would be Saturday. Unless the weekend was for postal entries. I know some competition sites have different closing dates for email and postal entries.
We sent 4 x 30 minute pilots for sitcoms and one 90 minute screenplay
God, you guys have been busy! Multiple entries. What inspired everyone so much. Was it the judges, or the money or the commission or the representation on offer?
Incidentally, 'The Scriptwriter' (thescriptwriter.co.uk) is one of the 900+ entries, but he's got no chance, so i don't know why i mentioned it.
What inspired me was the (unusual) fact that you didn't have to pay to enter.
That's always got on my tits, and I never enter those competitions.
Pay to enter? Pah! What's the point of that? I can buy the little trophy myself.
Quote: zooo @ September 4, 2007, 7:11 PMWhat inspired me was the (unusual) fact that you didn't have to pay to enter.
That's always got on my tits, and I never enter those competitions.
Yeah.
The worse one is the Arvon poetry competition, organised by 'the Arvon Foundation' a registered charity that charges for writing courses.
Entry is £15 per poem. Too bad that it's the premier poetry competition in the UK.
Red Planet is the kind of production company I'd really like to work for. With Tony Jordan at the top it'll have a lot of respect with broadcasters and they'll also look out for the writers.
It was Tony Jordan's name that snagged it for me too.
I've never entered any competition where I've had to pay. They should pay the contributors for giving them ideas to steal.