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Screenplay & Film Consulting By Susan Kouguell

Category: WHERE TO SUBMIT YOUR SCRIPT

Susan’s Ten Top Tips On Marketing Your Screenplay – The Script Lab

 

Ten Top Tips On Marketing Your Screenplay

 

QUESTION: How do you capture a film executive’s attention?

ANSWER: Write a brilliant screenplay.

QUESTION: I wrote a brilliant screenplay.  Now what?

ANSWER: Gain entry past the film industry gatekeepers.  Here’s how…

1.     Only submit your screenplay to a company when it has been requested.

2.     Research companies producing in your genre and query them.

3.     Learn the company’s script submission guidelines and follow them closely.

4.     Use up-to-date resource directories. Development executives come and go; someone who is working at a company today may be gone tomorrow or may have a new position and title.

5.     Write an attention-grabbing query letter that has the executive’s name and correct spelling. Do not address your query: To Whom It May Concern.

6.     Write a scintillating one-page synopsis that accurately reflects your screenplay.

To read more go to: http://thescriptlab.com/features/screenwriting-101/2635-top-tips-on-marketing-your-screenplay

 

Ask the Screenplay Doctor: Where to Send Your Script

WHERE TO SEND YOUR SCRIPT

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When you believe you are ready to submit your screenplay for representation or to a production company, put yourself in the executives’ shoes.  Make sure that your screenplay is really ready for submission and that you are not sending it off because you think it’s good enough as is, and someone else will fix it.   Do not be lazy! Your script is your calling card.  If your script has typos, grammatical errors, copy machine marks, missing pages, sloppy mistakes, formatting errors, and so on, be warned — your script will be discarded and there is a very good chance that the company will never want to read anything else that you send them.

Read More:

http://newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2010/06/screenplay