GETTING AN AGENT!!! HOW?
- Thread starter benj09
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Yeah. Beware of the scam artists, questionable agents, etc. Unfortunately there's many of these questionable "agents" who want $600 up front to "be sure that you're serious".
Don't pay for their services. They should only earn a percentage on the back end after a deal is landed.
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/twentyworst.html
Don't pay for their services. They should only earn a percentage on the back end after a deal is landed.
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/twentyworst.html
How many feature length scripts have you written?
You aren't ready for an agent.
One very important thing to remember is agents only earn money if
they sell the script. It's a business and their livelihood.
A writer with one script isn't going to be as desirable a client as a writer
with several scripts - no matter how good it is. The first things an agent
is going to ask is, "What else do you have?" If you have a couple of
great ideas, that isn't going to be as impressive as pulling out five, really
good finished scripts.
It's a very social business - referrals are extremely important and can
make it very difficult for a new writer. The best way to get an agent is
through a recommendation from someone in the biz, preferably someone
with credits. If you’re out of the loop, you’ll have to call the agencies
and find out who might be looking for new clients.
Right now I suggest you write four more feature length scripts - scripts
that are better than anything else out there - and three television scripts.
Write several (say 5) short scripts and see if you can find a local (or even
international) filmmaker to make two or three of them. When you have
that body of work, you will come across as a serious, dedicated writer.
There are too many writers out there trying to find an agent with only
one, finished scripts. And a first script is rarely of the quality agents look for.
That's why agents aren't interested in repping a writer with only one script.
And please hit that "caps lock" on your keypad. All caps comes across
as shouting.
I don't know anything about them so I can't answer.
Again this site explains what the red flags are....
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/twentyworst.html
Have fun shelling out 6 grand. The rest of us will be shelling out nothing. If your script is so great then what do the well-established companies think of your script? If they don't accept unsolicited then why not pay only $250 for a lawyer to shop it to William Morris?