the misconceptions? And are there real, actual benefits to winning the big prize? To help illuminate all of this, I decided to share the experiences I gathered during the two days in early January that I spent tagging along with Final Draft’s Big Break 2013 Contest Winners.įull disclosure: I am the career coach for the writers who win the Big Break contest. What are the benefits of coming in on top of a big competition? What are the realities of winning vs. While many may dream of winning, few actually know what the practical experience is actually like. And Final Draft’s Big Break, which has amassed the sort of reputation that puts it right at the top. Instead, industry executives turn their focus to screenwriting contests that produced big winners before. But industry executives don’t read winning screenplays from every contest out there, big and small. Therefore, contests provide an invaluable service to the industry: Identifying scripts and writers that industry folks should be reading. Agents, managers, producers and development executives use this as a vetting mechanism, i.e., if a screenplay makes it all the way to the top, surely it must be worth reading. That is, after all, the point of it all: To enter a high-visibility competition, and beat out thousands of screenplays for the top prize. Though many enter, only a few get to have the winning experience. The Bears begin their season a few days later against the Packers at Soldier Field.Ĭlick here to follow the Under Center Podcast.If you have been writing screenplays for film or television and trying to break into the industry for any length of time, chances are you’ve entered a screenwriting competition or two in that time. This year the Chiefs and Lions start things off in the first game of the year. It seems so far away now, but Week 1 always arrives in the blink of an eye.
The Bears don’t have anyone headed to the Hall this year, but Devin Hester was a finalist for the second year in a row. Saturday’s enshrinement is the main event, of course. There’s plenty of fanfare throughout the weekend, like a parade and a concert. This year the Jets and Browns will play each other in Canton at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium on Thursday. The league’s celebration of this year’s Hall of Fame inductees begins with a special preseason game. This is where jobs will be won and jobs will be lost. There will be a couple of preseason games sprinkled in towards the end, too. Players grind it out for nearly a month to earn a spot on the 53-man roster and practice intensity ramps up steadily. This is the meat of a team’s summer program. Last year Roquan Smith participated in a “hold in” throughout the summer, where he participated in team meetings and in the classroom but not on the practice field, and the Bears opted not to discipline him. The Bears have been lenient with fining players in the past, however. If a player skips these three days they may be subject to a fine. This is the first time every player is required to be at Halas Hall. They are allowed to go 11-on-11 if they want, but linemen can’t do anything more than “thud” each other. Since the Bears can’t feature too much contact at OTAs, they’ll run a lot of 7-on-7 drills. Will there be any surprises like that this year? JUNE 5 - 8: FINAL OTAS As it turned out, he never relinquished the job. It was around this time last year that the Bears moved Braxton Jones to left tackle to see what he could do at the position. In fact, the Bears lost an OTA last season because the league ruled they allowed too much contact early in the summer program. Only 10 days of OTAs are allowed each summer, and live contact is not permitted. They’re also strictly regulated by the NFLPA. Organized team activities, or OTAs, are purely voluntary, so teams can’t fine players for not attending. Note, NFL calendars are fluid, so some of these dates may change. Here’s what the summer has in store before Week 1. The regular season is still a ways away, and the Bears will still have one big break before training camp, but the NFL calendar is about to pick up pace. The rookies have been in the building for some time, and now more veterans will begin to join them. The Bears are starting to ramp up their offseason program, with OTAs beginning this week.
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