Hello everyone,
I'm a bit nervous here, have you actually received payments/script from me?
Script is uploaded and I paid my paypal thing, but I've had no acknowledgements or anything and I just want to be sure it's in the misx and I haven't ballsed something up in the submission process.
Thanks
Neil
I've written my first draft, then found out that you have to put it in three acts, is this true? Yeah I know there has to be a start, middle, and an end, but my first draft was in one room for the entire 15 pages, to save on sets, because there are none it seems. If I make any sense please let me know.
I've noticed some formatting issues too, but like Indigo I figured it was down to the Kindle-for-PC software.
Quote: swerytd @ January 16 2012, 2:35 PM GMT...I haven't yet started writing anything with 15 days left to deadline...
Dan
Sir! Sir! Dan hasn't done his homework! But I've had mine in for over a week! And I heard he's been kissing girls!
@Nick P:
On the one hand, completely untrue. There's nothing anywhere saying sitcommission entries have to be in three acts.
You may have heard someone talking about a 'three act structure', which is a classic way of looking at story structure. A story can have a 'three act structure' but still be set in one room in one continuous take (see the Psychoville 'Rope' episode for example. Or indeed, 'Rope').
On the other hand - I personally wouldn't recommend one 15 minute scene in one room as it's likely to seem a bit static and probably 'talky'. If the writing is brilliant, you may overcome this, but you're not making it easy for yourself. Having said that, IIRC "one room, one scene" applied to last year's finalists 'Eye Captain', 'The Box' and 'Up on Bricks'.
Quote: Trinder @ January 16 2012, 8:04 PM GMTHello everyone,
I'm a bit nervous here, have you actually received payments/script from me?Script is uploaded and I paid my paypal thing, but I've had no acknowledgements or anything and I just want to be sure it's in the misx and I haven't ballsed something up in the submission process.
Thanks
Neil
Hi Neil
Don't be nervous, we're a friendly bunch.
Which one was your sitcom? Your PayPal receipt acts as a confirmation, but I'll check for you.
Although, if we get 1200+ entries like last year, I won't be doing this for everyone.
Quote: Declan @ January 16 2012, 10:03 PM GMTHi Neil
Don't be nervous, we're a friendly bunch.
Which one was your sitcom? Your PayPal receipt acts as a confirmation, but I'll check for you.
Although, if we get 1200+ entries like last year, I won't be doing this for everyone.
Result! Appreciate it.
the title is 'The Offy'
Paranoid and don't trust internet things
Thanks
Neil
Quote: Trinder @ January 17 2012, 1:47 PM GMTResult! Appreciate it.
the title is 'The Offy'
Paranoid and don't trust internet things
Thanks
Neil
Yes, received, cheers.
Quote: andyblacksheep @ January 16 2012, 9:43 PM GMT@Nick P:
On the other hand - I personally wouldn't recommend one 15 minute scene in one room as it's likely to seem a bit static and probably 'talky'. If the writing is brilliant, you may overcome this, but you're not making it easy for yourself. Having said that, IIRC "one room, one scene" applied to last year's finalists 'Eye Captain', 'The Box' and 'Up on Bricks'.
Keeping the number of sets down is commendable, but we can't all write the brilliant Smoking Room. I agree with Andy, there is definitely a danger of ending up with something static and 'talky'.
As you write for us, keep asking yourself: 'is this moving forward?' If the answer is 'no' then you need to get some momentum going.
As Linehan says: 'make things happen.'
Hi.
I have a question about Rule 11:
11. In return for the assistance provided to the writer by Every 1's A Critic Ltd, the writer agrees to pay to Every 1's A Critic Ltd a fee calculated as 12.5% gross of any money received by the writer for the Script in respect of script development, script production or pilot production of any kind by any producer, broadcaster, production company or production financier without limitation. This agreement will expire on the date 18 months from the date of the show's first performance as part of a Sitcom Mission knock-out stage showcase.
Can I assume this means if a writer gets an option, production, development, whatever of the entered sitcom as a direct result of it being staged by Sitcom Mission?
As opposed to a production company taking on the sitcom with no connection to Sitcom Mission.
Thank you for replies, I have already changed it to three different locations that hopefully moves the plot on, as we all have less than 15 days to complete it. I must get off here and write!!
Hi Mikey
If a producer comes along to the Sitcom Mission shows, sees a sitcom and signs it up, then we get 12.5% of the development money.
If you send it to a production company and they don't come along to see the shows and sign it up, we get nothing (they've signed it up irrespective of our work on it).
Hope that helps
Cheers, Declan
Quote: Declan @ January 17 2012, 11:47 PM GMTHi Mikey
If a producer comes along to the Sitcom Mission shows, sees a sitcom and signs it up, then we get 12.5% of the development money.
If you send it to a production company and they don't come along to see the shows and sign it up, we get nothing (they've signed it up irrespective of our work on it).
Hope that helps
Cheers, Declan
Okay, Declan, that sounds fair enough. 
Hey Declan,
Thanks for being in touch with writers submitting on here
Can I ask how big are submission numbers at present?
Thanks!
Hi John
Thanks, it's great to know that you guys are out there!
Any particular reason you want to know? If you've written something brilliant, you don't need to worry about the opposition.
And last year, 75% of the entries turned up in the last week, with 400 entries on the closing date.
We'll be interested to know if having an entry fee affects the entry numbers this year.
Cheers, Declan
Quote: simon wright @ January 17 2012, 5:54 PM GMTKeeping the number of sets down is commendable, but we can't all write the brilliant Smoking Room.
The Smoking Room was a great show, but if Channel 4 had made it, it would have been bounced to a midnight slot halfway through the first series, and never recommissioned for a second.