Twelve Hours To Final Deadline

Twelve Hours To Final Deadline

What's New, BlueCat?
The Official Newsletter of the
Bluecat Screenplay Competition

November 15th, 2012

Writing For A Deadline

Crunch time! As you may have guessed from the subject line of this email, there's now less than twelve hours left until the final submission deadline for the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Where does the time go? It feels like only yesterday that the deadline was months off, giving us all the time in the world to tinker with our characters, dialogue, and car chases until everything was just right.

Is your script perhaps a little less finished - or even a little less started - than you'd like it to be? If so, don't sweat it. If you put your nose to the grindstone, twelve hours is more than enough time to not only finish your script, but to learn some valuable lessons about writing for a deadline. It's not necessarily pleasant, but it's something that every writer has to do from time to time, and in the end it can do nothing but make you stronger - and maybe make your script stronger, too!

Put on a pot of coffee and get settled in your favorite writing chair, because today's edition of What's New, BlueCat? is all about knocking out a great script on a tight schedule.

Now get to work!

-The Bluecat Team

FINAL DEADLINE
Midnight PST

PRIZES
$10,000 Grand Prize
$2000 Four Finalists
$1000 Best Screenplay from UK
$1000 Best Screenplay from outside USA, UK and Canada

Script Analyses
We provide each writer who enters BlueCat two written analyses, ensuring each entry is reviewed by two readers, while supporting screenwriters of all levels and stages of development with the constructive feedback all writers require.

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Quotes
The Pros Sound Off

"The faster I go, the better it is."
John Hughes
(Finished Weird Science in two days, The Breakfast Club in three, National Lampoon's Vacation in four.)

"Without deadlines and restrictions, I just tend to become preoccupied with other things."
Val Kilmer

"The show doesn't go on because it's ready, it goes on because it's 11:30." Lorne Michaels

Interview with past Grand Prize Winner, Andy Pagana.

Interview with Grand Prize Winner, Andy Pagana
(recently sold his BlueCat winning screenplay)

Andy Pagana talks about how his professional career began with BlueCat.

His winning script, MAN IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR, went on to become a 2004 Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and was named winner of the 2006 Austin Film Festival Heart of Film Screenplay Competition.

In May of 2012, the script was sold to Latitude Prods. and Lascaux Films. Read the Variety report here: Latitude, Lascaux look into 'Rearview Mirror'

In Action - Swingers and Rocky
Great Scripts, Written Quickly

Think there's no way you can finish your script by the deadline? Hollywood legends beg to differ. Jon Favreau wrote the script for Swingers in two weeks, while Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in three days after watching the Chuck Wepner-Muhammad Ali fight in 1975. Take look at the scripts and see if you can tell they were in a hurry.

How to win BlueCat
by Gordy Hoffman

Are you preparing to send in your screenplay to the BlueCat Screenplay Competition before the deadline? What can you do before you enter to increase your chances of advancing, placing and perhaps winning BlueCat?

Well, if you think you've gone over it a hundred times, and you're ready to submit, Gordy has provided a list of a few things to consider.

Read Gordy's full letter here!

BlueCat Script Analysis

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Every entrant will be read and reviewed by two readers and provided two analyses of their screenplay, but what exactly do these analyses look like? Check out BlueCat sample analyses here!

Sample Script Analysis

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