Mailing a script to producers is not the best way to sell a script.What is the best way to go about selling a script? Should I just mail it to producers?
Mailing a script to producers is not the best way to sell a script.
Read about "unsolicited material". The best way is to get a high powered
agent to send your script to producers. But you may not yet be in that
place. I've read another post of yours where you say, "I don't think making
money should be the main concern for anyone trying to get established in
this business." That might be good advice for you, too. When trying to get
established as a writer you may have to partner with a producer and raise
money yourself to get a script made. Perhaps selling a script at this stage
isn't realistic.
But you don't want to hear that, do you?
You have at least five finished screenplays, right?
Send a query letter to producers, prodCo's, agents, managers and directors.
Forget about Hollywood and agents and managers without a track record of writing stuff that has a pre-existing fan base.
You have to start off small.
Email queery letters with the log line to your script and see if someone is interested in reading your script.
Also, get an account with Inktip.com, list your script on Mandy.com, and join writers' groups.
If you are lucky, an independent producer who is as unknown as you are will pay you what they can afford for your script, which may be anything from $50 to a couple of hundred dollars. Be happy for that much and move onto your next script.
Once the script is sold, the producer / director takes over. Hopefully, they will mail you a DVD copy of the final cut down the line in a year or two.
Craigslist.
Just kidding.
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Nobody is going to read it for various reasons. You need to find an agent or third party with the right connection to even have a remote chance of it getting read by a junior member of a production team. You'll also be competing with 27.5 million other script writers.
Good luck.
http://www.sellingyourscreenplay.co...ay/how-to-sell-your-screenplay-in-a-nutshell/
http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Interviews/Laurie1/laurie1.html
http://www.writing.org/html/a_screenplay.htm
http://www.filmscriptwriting.com/sellingyourscript.html
http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2011/11/article-how-to-sell-script-in-six.html
http://inktip.com
http://www.starbucks.com/career-center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydCXhap6AI4
He believes in telepathy.
** great interview with a Hollywood reader http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2010/11/q-professional-script-reader-dc-mar.html
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You are incorrect. The writer is the first person to get "rewarded" (paid)I don't expect to make any real money because I know writers are the last person to get rewarded,
For all writers out there;
Modern Day Myth is completely wrong on this. Producers do NOT, EVER
turn down an excellent, marketable, well written script because the
writer doesn't have a "fan base". It is the writing that producer buy and
good writing is good writing.