A Producer’s Advice To Screenwriters Who Are Pitching Their Scripts by Jay Silverman
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2018
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In this Film Courage video interview, director/producer/photographer Jay Silverman (OFF THE MENU, GIRL ON THE EDGE) talks about screenwriters who are pitching their scripts. He shares how a writer's attitude and flexibility considerably influences which director/producer may want to work with them and other tips for a good screenwriter/filmmaker collaboration.
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The advice is found inbetween the lines.
So this guy here, a producer, got pitched a great story up until the screenwriter said "...but I direct." Our producer admits directing/writing is a nonstarter for him yet he almost got hooked anyway and then turns and says "Dont do what he did to me because I would have never listened!" It almost worked and more importantly the guy got you to hear out his whole pitch.
Second point, so what about the actual shooting of the script. Who cares? The script is already sold by this point. Screenwriter job accomplished. Our producer is missing the plot. He produces and writes yet so much irony.
Leads me to my third point, and what you get from alot of these uploads: When asked a question about the letter B, person responds with anecdotes about the number 5.
I pitched a script. I spoke as if I was talking about a close friend of mine who has a crazy life.
This is really smart!
Never pitched, but the biggest mistake I see is telling the events of the story from beginning to end. No one cares. You get them to care by talking about the character. So talk about the character, and how the story affects them. Also, a pitch should be 1-2 minutes tops. You should have a script already written, in case they want to read it. Don't ask anyone to read your script. If you pitch it well, and they're interested, they'll ask you. That's all there is to it.
I've always figured that without a script to pitch, what's the point???
That said, even a work that's "done but not quite polished" is better than no product at all...
Might also consider reference to things like the "plot summary" entries in sites like Wiki-pedia... Like the video said, "If it's not on the page, it's not part of the pitch"... SO a reasonable summary is the hard thing to define. Taking the time to scour through the various old TV episodes, movies, plays, whatever and by what category you find interesting can substantially display what kind of written work probably should be involved in the sales-ish portion of a "hand out"... and let's just face it, most of the time, it seems there's going to be a brief sort of explanation of what you want to pitch, and then interest entirely falls to the hand-out material, even for "later reference" or "perusal".
As you point out, if they're interested in the short "hand-out" version, they can always ask for the script... Then depending on your confidence in the product as it is "in hand" you can follow-up with whatever exposition you feel appropriate...
It's worth mention that sales and "pitching" go hand in hand, and come from very much the same sort of performance place. Communication skills are a must, BUT the part they don't tell you is that those skills ALSO involve being able to "read" people for body language, attention, or that glassy-eyed expression they suddenly don after asking, "How's it going?" and you respond with a deep ragged sigh, and "Well... god... Let me tell you..." ;o)
just here to say a 2 min pitch is literally just the logline
I love Film Courage, made perfect sense. Thanks for the post.
Makes total sense to me.
Love Film courage , wow! great advice!
ONE OF THE BEST!
I've been asking myself on wheather do you have to approach a production while you already completed a script or not?If not then how could you have delt with a copyright of incomplete script?do you have to register and copyright your idea and script even if you're not sure if wheather would it sell or be accepted by a particular production?
Would it be better for Jan to ask to be involved in hiring the director?
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How i get Producer for my first film???
I have written script I'd like to be utilized
Any advice on how public to make a script without losing certain rights to it?
Hi Michael. Copyright your script. Then don't be precious about it. You have to get it out there, for people to find it. Think of it like this .... Why would you wear a condom/rubber if you're alone? Copyright it and get it our there. Good luck.
@@tonywatkins586 There was a website that claimed they would distribute your script to hundreds of industry people, agents etc. for a few. Worth the money or is there a list somewhere that I could do it myself?
@@michaeljude yeh don't pay for those. Scam. The way in... Is a lot of networking. It's so frustrating, but that's the way the industry is setup. Try and meet people in the industry. Cold calling wont work.
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Again this producer admits that the screenplay was brought to him by someone. Without that someone to literally introduced the script to someone who can make the movie it will never be read confirming that screenwriters might as well pitch their screenplay to a brick wall without insider representation.
i disliked. where do the person explains the skills?
Was the title changed? If you want advice, maybe begin with subject/verb agreement.