Best place to exhibit scripts online

Chamber005

Chamber005

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Looking to put some specs online. What's the best place to store word documents (in PDF, I guess), for people to view them?

Thanks!
 
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Interesting request. How tightly do you want to safeguard your document against reproduction? There are so many avenues to acquiring content from a web page... you could possibly use a Flash viewer, but that wouldn't prevent anyone from simply screen-capturing what they see, compiling the images, and OCR'ing.

You could use a secure PDF that prevented printing and such, but you could find workarounds for that too. Ultimately, if you post something to be viewed by the public online, there are only so many safeguards you can take. If you want to maintain some semblance of privacy, it would be better to share the scripts with trusted confidants / friends.

In terms of actually just storing PDFs online, there are a plethora of filehosting sites out there. You could also post it up on Scribd. If you give us a few more details, we may be able to provide more finely tailored suggestions.
 
Basically I'm marketing animation spec scripts using facebook. It's not my most profound idea, but it's about all the time I can give to the animation writing side of things. Unlike standard television writing, animation writing (for TV cartoons, not films), is pretty straight forward. Most times you don't even need an agent. You simply take a defunct or existing show and write a spec script on that show and get it into the hands of persons producing (story editing) a new show currently in production.

Since it takes so long submitting things and hearing back and getting feedback, et cetera, I've set up a fan page that I'm going to advertise on (primarily in California). Basically the goal of the fan page will be to get my spec scripts in front of other animation writers (like Christy Marx, Boyd Kirkland, etc). For about $50 dollars a month I get 500,000 unique impressions and can usually grab 0.80% from my ads (approx 400 on entertainment, so hopefully a 1/4 of that), plus I'm going to use general word of mouth friend linkage locally.

As for someone stealing the specs, I'm going to watermark them with specific contact information just in case it gets printed out, but beyond that it's really not the end of the world if someone steals one of my spec scripts. I mean, it'd be a little strange (like stealing fan fiction or something). I just want to have some easy links where story editors, other writers or just fans of the mission statement can go to read the specs. I just have too many other things going on, but I spent a lot of time developing these specs and have made some marginal headway over the years. In the end I just want somewhere to put my specs where they have a chance of being seen, and I'd like to use the page as a sort of journal as to what exactly I'm doing and who I'm speaking with and what the different techniques are I'm utilizing to get into the cartoon writing business.

Thanks!
 
Chamber005 said:
Great site. Like how it links to FB so seamlessly. Perfect for what I'm doing. Thanks!!
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How are you presenting your scripts... in HTML style directly readable form, or PDF. And if HTML what tools are you using to format the script into a reasonable HTML form. I've been using Celtx, and although it has an HTML export format, it embeddeds CSS in the resulting HTML, and that is ignored by the wordpress blog I just set up...

I found a tool called 'emogrifier' which does do a sort of HTML+CSS to pure HTML conversion, but it is not as 'clean' as I'd like.

UPDATE:

Ok, checked it out. Apparently uses a PDF viewer in the webpage, rather than requiring the viewer to down load the PDF.
 
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sch15m said:
you can also try http://www.circalit.com or http://www.triggerstreet.com
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Not familiar with the circalit.com site, but Triggerstreet.com is not a place to 'just upload scripts' for the world to read. 1) it is a peer review site, and as such, one has to review scripts in order upload one's own scripts for review. 2) The site does not have a 'short script' section, so one must only upload 'feature' or 90+ page scripts. 3) it requires registration for both those who want to submit works for review and those that one to read them, and review.

I looked at the 'scribd.com' site mentioned above, and have been uploading my PDFs there. It allows connection to your facebook presence, and so by 'publishing there' your facebook feeds can be updated as well.

That worked out better than the wordpress.com blog I was initially working with.
 
Yeah, I think if you're trying to get your specs out to as many people in the industry as possible, Scribd looks friggin awesome (especially if you're utilizing FB to connect to those persons). Other than spec scripts, though, I'm not sure anywhere online is a good place to post completed original screenplays. That just seems dangerous IMO. I'd never post a finished novel or screenplay, even for "trusted" feedback. Best to get feedback IRL.
 
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