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Paynesgrey:
Sounds like they're building a sort of "interim" slush pile to draw from as clients come shopping for scripts, as opposed to getting ready to make a movie themselves. Makes a lot of sense.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I'd not expect much in the way of speedy action on submissions beyond an initial review. I wouldn't see any harm in submitting to them, but I'd find out if submisisons become there exclusive property, or if you can still submit that script elsewhere in the meantime. (If it's a script that was just gathering dust anyway, no harm.)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Snowleopard on January 31, 2012, 08:45:36 PM ---...You have to be ready to pitch a couple of other ideas if they don't like the first one if you get a chance to pitch.
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So you'd need a complete and perfect script for each idea you pitch. That would assure that you know what you are doing and not trying a quick single punch at it. Expounding on that and given that medium's climate for brainstorming an entire array of ideas, let's see, 10 minute pitch... a clever fast thinking agent could get you rattling off, what five per minute or maybe 30 total, leaving four minutes for expansion of ones the agent likes? That would mean you're showing a wide range and depth of scripts in your docket, which would be massively impressive. Plus you'd get a real feel for what the market might be trending toward as well. Speed dating at its best with the minimum of financial investment.
So has anyone tried a massive elevator session with a lit agent? I suspect the script agent would love it; the lit agent might cringe. LOL
Snowleopard:
--- Quote from: Kristine on February 02, 2012, 06:08:35 AM ---Why do you think this?
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Well, you've heard that line - every cockroach in Hollywood has a script. While being somewhat nasty, it is in essence correct. There are many thousands of scripts in Hollywood, maybe a couple of hundred will get a look over, and less than 100 will be optioned, and not all of those will be made.
Darkshore also has it right. It costs a whole LOT less to do a novel than a script.
Re: Pitching ideas. No Meg, you don't need a complete script for every idea you pitch. You do need a complete script for the idea they want to talk to you about, first. (They want to see that you CAN complete a script.) If you see that they sort of like your initial idea but maybe want to go in a different direction - you have to be flexible enough to say. "Well, how about if we have the hero/heroine do this instead. Change it to a PI story." While doing your own thing you do need to be aware of what the trends are in Hollywood and things that will tend to make them leary.
Kristine:
--- Quote from: Snowleopard on February 02, 2012, 08:58:41 PM ---Well, you've heard that line - every cockroach in Hollywood has a script. While being somewhat nasty, it is in essence correct. There are many thousands of scripts in Hollywood, maybe a couple of hundred will get a look over, and less than 100 will be optioned, and not all of those will be made.
Darkshore also has it right. It costs a whole LOT less to do a novel than a script.
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While it's true that any kind of artistic endeavor has boatloads of competition (there is another line about every failed writer having a draft of the 'Great American Novel' secreted away in their desk drawer) - I would think because script writing IS so formulary and you DO have to be open to changes if your new - that it would be less enticing to do made-to-order stuff...Maybe it's because I'm here in LA that I see the 'independent movie' crowd making real crap scripts that I think it might be easier than novels - lol.
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Snowleopard:
Crap scripts might be easier to write but are far harder, I think, to sell.
And because they are formulaic and, somewhat, easier to write than a novel there are far, far, far more of them than novels written.
Everybody seems to think they can write a script. (They can't but that doesn't stop them.)
Having read my share of REALLY bad scripts. Also having watched the resulting mess (CAN WE SAY SCIFY) on TV.
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