In order to enter the greenlight
Contest, you will have to upload your screenplay to us using our
handy upload form. "Sole Contestants" and "Team Captains" are responsible
for the actual "uploading" of the screenplay (see How
to Participate for more information.)
Here’s how it works: you will upload your screenplay
to us in a PDF file (Adobe® Portable Document
Format), which can be no larger than 250KB.
Converting Your Screenplay to PDF
The easiest way to create a PDF is to use the
Create Adobe®
PDF Online service that the
fine folks at Adobe® provide to the public.
You go to the site, sign-up for a free trial login, and upload your
screenplay. They convert your file to a PDF, and send it back to
you. See the Create
Adobe® PDF Online site for more specific
and up-to-date information
As of this writing, you can use the Create Adobe®
PDF Online service for free three times, and if that isn’t enough,
you can buy a month of unlimited conversions for about ten bucks.
(Again, see the Create Adobe®
PDF Online site for more specific and up-to-date information.)
There are restrictions on the type and size of
file that the Create
Adobe® PDF Online service will convert,
so be sure to read the File Types section on their introduction
page. All screenplay writing and word processing files that we reviewed
were able to export an RTF (rich text format) file, which the Create Adobe® PDF Online service supports
nicely.
Uploading Your Screenplay to greenlight
| 1. |
Login to the greenlight
site. |
| 2. |
Go to the Submission
Status Page. |
| 3. |
If you haven’t already
done so, complete the Contest Application. |
| 4. |
From the Submission
Status Page, click on Screenplay Upload. |
| 5. |
On the Screenplay
Upload page, click on the Browse button and select your PDF
file (remember, the file cannot be larger than 250KB in size.) |
| 6. |
Click on the Upload
button and wait a moment while the file is transferred. |
| 7. |
Verify that your
file was uploaded correctly by clicking on the View link. Make
sure to review every page in the document. |
| 8. |
If the file was
not uploaded correctly, repeat steps 6 and 7. |
| 9. |
To complete your
upload, click on Save. Please Note: Once
you click on Save, you will not be able to upload your screenplay
again, so make sure it’s right! |
| 10. |
PLEASE
NOTE: The process of converting a screenplay file into an Adobe®
PDF file may result in the "shrinkage" or "growth"
of the screenplay in page length. After converting your screenplay
into a PDF file,
please check to make certain that the converted version satisfies
the 90-130 page length requirements (see the Official Rules
for details on
minimum and maximum page lengths). If PDF conversion "shrinkage"
or "growth" problems persist, greenlight
will not disqualify Submissions that suffer from such "shrinkage"
or "growth" if you can later demonstrate to our
satisfaction that (a) the Submission in its original industry-standard
format meets the 90-130 page requirement, and (b) any resulting
page loss or
growth is due solely to the PDF conversion process, as determined
by
greenlight. |
