Sega Seeks Fresh Script-Writing Talent, Backs The Short Film Consortium

As flourishing word-generating verbalists and self-proclaimed guardians of all things video and game, SPOnG’s area of specialist knowledge is easy enough to distinguish. Today, however, the flurry of virtual quills, as they weave their digital inky ways through newly forming sentences, has taken on a fresh pertinence. Sega, as part of a larger media group – the Short Film Consortium, is hosting a script writing competition. If you’ve ever thought that Shinobi, for instance, deserves a richer literary heritage: now is the chance to contrive one.

Unfortunately, it’s a Japanese-only thing: which will likely deny any feasible opportunity for budding British monolinguists. The scheme is set-up to unearth the best of unrecognised Japanese film-maker talent: offering everything needed to make a film script a reality for the lucky winner. With further support from the Digital Content Association of Japan, the victorious author will enjoy an ideal position with which to expose his/her talents to the wider creative industries.

References to video-gaming aren’t a pre-requisite for entry, but clearly the judging panel would have an appreciative understanding of influences from the high-art of joypad thrashing. And once the prize-scooping script becomes a film, it would surely be only a matter of time before a game-of-the-movie follows: perhaps to be chased up by a movie of the game of the movie, maybe even a full West End musical production. The possibilities are, literally, endless.