Got 'Lot'?

The On The Lot site has gone live and I'm sort of surprised (naively, I'll admit) that they're only taking short films as submissions for entry and not short scripts. It's bound to be a divisive show in the aspiring filmmaker community (Aspirosphere?), and certainly owes a lot to Project Greenlight, an idea that had a compelling TV show but a horrible submissions process (really, Stolen Summer was the best script that year?). I was hoping that what will happen with this is the entries will be judged by professionals (or at least their selected appointees) and not judged by other applicants, but since they're stating in the application that submissions will be placed on the web, I'm not so sure now.

Since it says on the site that the show will air in spring 2007 and the application asks that you be available for up to four months in spring/summer 2007, I'm also supposing the show will take an 'Idol' approach and the public will vote off the loser each week.

Well, since it means I'd have to submit a film to apply, it looks like I'll be trying to plan out a short film to shoot this summer.