Got a Web Video Script Lying Around? Break and Scripped.com Want It
This in from our friends at Scripped.com:
Break Media, home of Break.com, has gone on record saying they are planning on producing more than 1,000 original videos this year. And even the great Andy Signore, Sr. Producer in Break’s Creative Lab which actually comes up with most of them, is going to be tapped out of comedic gold at some point. It isn’t every day you whip up an Interactive Hot Tub Girl.
So Break decided to team up with screenwriting software site Scripped.com to launch a search for the best web video scripts, with the winning script getting greenlit into production by Break’s Creative Lab. Fast tracked into riches and fame? Not quite. The top five winning scripts will get $500 each, which is half what Break was offering for April Fools prank videos, but the cash isn’t really the point here.
Careers after all, are all about momentum, built with a string of successively greater and greater accomplishments. Online video isn’t really any different, and even the top creators in the game today can attribute their current success to some early exposure like this. Judging the script entries will be two celeb judges in the form of screenwriters (and directors) Ed Burns and Steven De Souza, both of whom are dabbling in web series the past few years.
In this Q&A I did with Scripped COO Ryan Buckley, he said point blank “We’re always looking for more ways to help writers make money.”
Can’t argue with that!
For more information on the Scripped.com / Break venture, go here.