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What's New, BlueCat?
The Official Newsletter of the
BlueCat Screenplay Competition
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IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
- EARLY DEADLINE this Saturday: Best Movie Title
- How To Properly Format Your Title
- 2 Scripts: The Maltese Falcon & Short Term 12
- The 50 Best B-Movie Titles of All Time
- 1979 Interview with David Lynch
- Ask BlueCat Video: Do screenwriting how-to books work?
- Scorsese's 39 Must-See Foreign Films
- Blue's Beats #10: Dallas Buyers Club
- Denver and November Online Workshops
- Lynne Ramsay: The Poetry of Details
- BlueCat Alum's First Feature In Production With NZFC
- The Cinema of Michael Mann
- Upcoming Screenwriting Workshops
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EARLY DEADLINE: Saturday, AUG 1ST
midnight PDT
BEST MOVIE TITLE
 Every year, we choose to highlight a small, but significant, part of your screenplays: the title.
A lot of thought goes into the perfect few words and we choose to honor that creativity and effort through our annual Best Movie Title Contest.
All short and feature-length screenplay submitted by August 1st are eligible.
Three winners receive a $250 Cash Award
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How To Properly Format Your Title
In the treacherous world of screenwriting, many authors concern themselves with the occasionally obscure, often arcane practice of formatting and presenting their scripts. Industry professionals agree that the body of the work should be written in 12-point Courier font-a comfortable industry standard-but the correct formatting of the title, however, remains furiously contested.
Of the various factions perpetually at war in the battle-scarred, no-man's-land of correct title formatting, some combatants maintain that the title MUST be written in ALL CAPITALS, while others identify the exact line number (twenty-five) on which the title should be written. Another guide (which can be read here) states that on all subsequent pages, the title should be written at the top of the page, -centered-, underscored, and in ALL CAPS.
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