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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: Kristine on January 06, 2012, 02:07:52 AM
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So I thought it would be nice to have some place to look and dream ... I belong to an info group that is for the media types here in SoCal and every once in a while I get one of these that I think is interesting... Feel free to post any thing/place else you find a writing gig that might pay...
FAMILY FRIENDLY TIME TRAVEL SCRIPTS WANTED
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State and Cabrillo - Family Time Travel Paradox
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We are looking for completed feature-length family friendly time travel paradox scripts - i.e., material in the vein of "Back to the Future."
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
Budget will not exceed $10 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Boxboarders!" and "You May Not Kiss The Bride."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: ytn3smczx8
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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Willing to bet you need to have full polished script to back up your proposal, right? LOL
My 2nd book of my completed 1st book YA is all time travel...but I stopped working on it until someone bites on the first, as in 3/4 rough draft done. Plus I've not idea how to write a script. It's on my to do list, but I think I'd better get the writing novel thing down. Although, one of my classmates in class where I wrote the 1st is married to a Disney producer type.... She like the story, but I'd better find an agent first...
My completed paranormal has only snippets, and I'm sure they want more time travel in it.
Still, I hope someone on this forum goes for it. Keep us posted on future postings?
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Willing to bet that you are right Meg.
Re: Script writing. I took a script writing class from D.C.Fontana.
In script writing you strive for showing something rather than saying it and being economical
with your words. Rule of thumb - excluding action scenes - one page equals one minute of screen time.
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Rule of thumb - excluding action scenes - one page equals one minute of screen time.
So scripts are actually shorter to write but far more structured...
TWEEN SCRIPTS WANTED
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Daniel L. Paulson Productions - Tween Lead, Features
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We are looking for tween scripts with a male or female tween lead (protagonist is 8-13 years old). This should be about kids having fun, wish fulfillment. No heavy lesson learning stories. It should be "clean" and fairly wholesome. The target audience would be tweens and family.
Budget is relatively low. Both WGA and Non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Gone" (Lifetime) and "Battle of the Bulbs" (Hallmark Channel).
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: 1ekwz7mju6
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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You got it, Kristine.
Scripts have a specific layout and there's far less writing than a short story or a novel.
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HORROR SCRIPTS WANTED
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Heitmann Entertainment - Seeking Psych Horror Screenplays
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We are looking for completed feature-length horror and psychological horror scripts. We really just need material that is smart and concept driven, NOT relying on gore or torture, i.e. material in the vein of "The Strangers" or "Insidious."
Budget will be between $1million and $5million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "The Sensei" and "Monsterpocalypse."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: dpzx0m6c65
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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You're going to get me to take a script class rather than my character class this summer at IA Writer's Festival? Shameful person. It would be fun though to explore new directions and spark my brain cells.
Honestly, isn't marketing a script far more unlikely to meet success than a novel? What is the talk on the west coast?
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You're going to get me to take a script class rather than my character class this summer at IA Writer's Festival? Shameful person. It would be fun through to explore new directions and spark my brain cells.
Honestly though, isn't marketing a script far more unlikely to meet success than a novel? What is the talk on the west coast?
Yes, you stand a much better chance of marketing a novel than a script no matter where you are.
And a lot of companies want you to have some sort of track record.
You also need, if you're a newbie, to have your script done completely and done perfectly.
Of course with the new script writing programs that's not too hard.
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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Yes, you stand a much better chance of marketing a novel than a script no matter where you are.
Why do you think this?
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For one. Novels cost a lot less to produce and are therefore much less risky for publishers, than say a feature film.
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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.)
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...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.
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
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Why do you think this?
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.
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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.
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.
HIGH-CONCEPT THRILLER SCRIPTS WANTED
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Softcelluoid Films - High Concept Thriller Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length high concept thriller scripts, i.e. stories in the vein of "Looper," "Memento," or "The Divide." Please note that, if you can't pitch your script in a single sentence, it isn't high concept.
Budget will not exceed $2 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include the multiple award winning film "Intelligence," and we are repped by a major studio management company.
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: 9gyn7zsu26
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
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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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That is not, by chance, an unkind reference to fine offerings such as Swamp Volcano or Ice Road Terror by any chance, is it?
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I would personally direct that towards things such as Dino-croc vs. Supergator.
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I liked the one where the fragment of the brown dwarf magnetized the moon, so things like people and hay bales would just randomly float up into the sky...
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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.
Yes but the REALLY Really bad ones actually MAKE it that far - I've read some truly horrible slush pile submissions that NO one would ever thinking about letting see the published light of day - scripts on the other hand DO seem to, more often make it to someone with equally bad taste who just happens to know somebody, who knows somebody...
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That is not, by chance, an unkind reference to fine offerings such as Swamp Volcano or Ice Road Terror by any chance, is it?
Frankly most anything made specifically for the SyFy network.
Pterodactyl.
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A lot of scripts there days are set up as Lowest common denomanator -- hot women/hunky guys, explosions, bad guys with capital B and G, and a plot that might hold together if you tilted your head to the right and squinted....
Quaility or originaity are not in most filmakers lexicon. For every original idea, there are a dozen rip-offs that try to cash in. And the accounting practices a lot of studios use would make most people's head spin.
I'll stick with story writing for now.
Craig
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SCRIPTS WANTED THAT FEATURE ONLY TWO MAIN CHARACTERS
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Sarke - Seeking Scripts With Only Two Main Characters
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We are looking for completed feature-length scripts that feature only two main cast members and few (if any) extras. We prefer horror or thriller submissions, but we are open to any genre as long as there are no more than two main characters in the story.
Budget will not exceed $1 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "247º", which was written by a writer we met through InkTip.
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: jkv8nucstd
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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HIRING WRITER TO WRITE SHORTS FOR ONLINE PRODUCTION COMPANY
Academy-Award winning producer seeks experienced writer for inspirational new media company, SpiritClips.com.
Primary responsibility will be writing short, inspirational scripts. Must possess a mature perspective and be able to work in house.
Pay is negotiable.
TO SUBMIT:
Be sure to mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com, and email ALL the information requested below to:
nare@spiritclips.com
Be sure to include:
1. Please take a look at our content at www.SpiritClips.com and write a COVER LETTER that describes why you are a good fit.
2. Include one short writing sample (5 pages or less)
3. Let us know your professional writing experience. Please have at least one professional writer gig under your belt (does not have to be feature film).
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SCRIPTS WANTED THAT FEATURE SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL THEMES
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Cosmotoons Inc. - Seeking Scripts with Science Education
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We are looking for completed scripts or extended treatments with a science-based educational core, i.e. something in the vein of "What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?" or "Cosmic Quantum Ray"(Animated TV series on HUB). We are NOT looking for submissions in the vein of Star Trek or some other sci-fi story.
Please only submit if you are familiar with the above two titles. We are open to features, series, documentaries or animated projects, as long as they have a clear scientific theme and preferably based on existing book, comics, game or a toy.
Budget has yet to be determined. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Rift."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: rhjq0u9br4
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
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NOVELS WANTED FOR PUBLICATION
POST-APOCOLYPTIC THEMES, MYTHOLOGICAL ADVENTURES, AND UNDERDOG COMEDIES
Parkside Press has entered into a global distribution deal with a major US publisher and is seeking completed NOVELS in the following genres:
1. Novels that feature a Post-Apocalyptic and/or Dystopian Theme (ala The Hunger Games) for immediate publication. MUST be for YOUNG ADULT age range (12 and up).
2. Novels that are Mythological Adventures (such as Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus). MUST be for KIDS or YOUNG ADULT age range.
3. Novels that are Underdog Comedies (such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries). MUST be for KIDS or YOUNG ADULT age range.
Books that are chosen receive up to a $5,000 advance for publishing rights.
We want high concept novels with strong central characters, great antagonists, and skillfully crafted tension. Manuscripts must be professionally edited, print-ready and no greater than 70,000 words.
All writers are welcome to submit. Our publishing credits include The Galactic Adventures of Jaedyn G. and the upcoming graphic novel House of Heroes.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits the above description.
TO SUBMIT:
Be sure to mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com, and email ALL the information requested below to:
rmullen@parksidepress.com
Be sure to include:
1. Your name (first and last)
2. Contact phone number
3. A LOGLINE and SHORT synopsis (1 page max) as TEXT within the body of the email (No attachments)
4. The subject line should read "Last Name + Book Title - Referred by Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com"
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SCRIPTS WANTED - MINDBENDING THRILLER/MYSTERY/DRAMA
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Cinemonger - Seeking Low-Budget, Mindbending, Indie Sensibility Screenplays
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We are looking for completed feature-length low-budget psychological suspense/thriller/mystery/drama scripts - trippy, mindbending scripts - with reality shifts, mental instability, ticking clock mechanisms. In other words, scripts in the vein of "Donnie Darko," "Birth," "Martha Marcy May Marlene," "Tell No One," etc. Sometimes disturbing, with a foreboding atmosphere of suspense, danger and that the world is not as it seems.
We are NOT interested in straight-up horror scripts, action/thrillers or crime scripts without the story elements mentioned above. In other words, though we like the film "Se7en;" it would not fit the above criteria since it is an edgy, dark mainstream crime film but without the mindbending elements. We are not interested in "traditional" detective or Lifetime-types of thrillers unless they contain the fears, paranoia and story devices of the titles mentioned above. The story can contain metaphysical concerns (such as in "Donnie Darko,"), but the scale should not be of "The Matrix," since this is a lower-budget film. Please look at the above titles to get an indication of the sensibility and taste.
Budget will not exceed $1 million. Both WGA and Non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Roshambo Apocalypse."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: uf3w7cbd03
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
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NOVELS WANTED FOR PUBLICATION
POST-APOCOLYPTIC THEMES, MYTHOLOGICAL ADVENTURES, AND UNDERDOG COMEDIES
I have a post apocolyptic book currently in the planning stages, but there isn't much of it written yet. I noticed to submit though all you have to do is the one page synopsis and logline you mentioned. How far into the writing do you think they'd expect you to be? I know some publishers want full manuscripts, and some(like scholastic did with the hunger games) will sign you on based on your synopsis and everything you have planned out so far. I'd love to write up a synopsis and submit it but if they would be interested and expect me to have something immediately ready for publication I don't think that would be possible.
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If you're starting out the more you have done the better.
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Write for yourself and your audience. Get published later, if it works.
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If you're starting out the more you have done the better.
I'd have to agree with this.
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IGH CONCEPT COMEDY SCRIPTS WANTED
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Street Justice Films - Seeking Unique High Concept Comedy Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length comedy scripts that start out with comedy on the first page and are completely out of the box. Submissions must be for high concept material that can be pitched in a sentence or less, and must be completely non-derivative, i.e., as insane as possible, preferably R-rated, and in the vein of nothing you've seen in a comedy movie before. Target audience is the 18-35 demo.
Budget will not exceed $1 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include “FDR: American Badass."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: wxhche1gvc
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
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Being a huge Buffy fan, I have the scripts for all 7 seasons. It is interesting to read the script then watch the actual product. I have them and would post/send but I have no idea what the legalities for distrubuting them would be. Anyone?
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I've no idea about the legality of posting them, but I don't think they'd fall under the category of "bootlegs" or anything like that. I'll check with the Gr'Up Mods and see what they say. Might be ok just to email them to interested parties rather than post here. I'll get back to ya.
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Being a huge Buffy fan, I have the scripts for all 7 seasons. It is interesting to read the script then watch the actual product. I have them and would post/send but I have no idea what the legalities for distrubuting them would be. Anyone?
You have them in digital form?
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I have consulted with My Superiors, and they don't see a problem with providing a link scripts or simply saying "Hey, can you email me blahblahblah" here on the forums, we just can't actually post the scripts themselves here.
By the way, Kristine, I've gotta tip my hat to you for keeping this thread updated with opportunities for our members. I think this thread could provide some people with great opportunities. Got a fiction piece percolating myself which I might fire off when it's done.
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no problem - I would be very happy if someone could get a gig out of the things I post. I was kinda hoping other people would post any for-pay writing jobs they find too but...meh, I'll be the only one if need be.
The e-mails that I get these from did make me want to learn how to write scripts too....lol.
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Writing scripts is a skill you can learn.
I can give you some pointers if you want.
My teacher was D.C.Fontana.
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And once more I bow before your Awesome. And quietly stew in jealousy. And then watch Journey to Babel, because for me that episode is the essence of Star Trek.
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Writing scripts is a skill you can learn.
I can give you some pointers if you want.
My teacher was D.C.Fontana.
I'd be starting from scratch - any books in particular you would recommend?
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We didn't have a text book in our script writing class but since then I've found or
heard of these others.
The Complete Book of Scriptwriting by Michael Strazynski - that's a good one.
Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Creating Unforgettable characters by Linda Seger
Making a good script great by Linda Seger
A Martian Wouldn't say that - this one is just for giggles to show how incredibly silly
a major network can be.
There's a whole raft load of others out there. If you can borrow a copy from the library then you can
check them out and see which one works for you.
Basic rule of thumb - one page equals one minute of screen time. Action shots may be different but you figure on the basic rule. So a two hour script should be 120 pages more or less.
Basic difference between script and prose. You want to show it in script not say it. Talking heads (excluding Bob) rarely ever work in scripts. You can't get wordy like you do
in prose. Even scene descriptions and people descriptions must be short and sweet.
What works in prose often does not work in a script. IE: A character's speech in a book
comes across on screen as too wordy or too stilted. Learn to listen to how your characters talk
in your head. And listen to how people talk around you.
However like prose - you need a good story and characters people can identify with.
DO NOT USE SPECIAL EFFECTS UNLESS YOU NEED THEM. THEY CANNOT MAKE A SO SO MOVIE GREAT!
DO NOT CREATE ALL SORTS OF FANCY VISUAL SHOTS - THAT'S FOR THE DIRECTOR AND THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TO DO.
Try to get ahold of actual scripts to see how they're laid out and how scenes are written.
I believe that Josh Whedon has a book on some of the Buffy scripts which will show you what the original writing was like and what it looks like on the air.
Luckily you no longer need to number your scenes as you once had to - makes life a whole lot easier.
You need a good script writing software if you intend to do this a lot - it's a heck of a lot easier than just setting up tabs and the like on your computer. I understand Final Draft is one of the better, industry wide
ones.
As I can think up more I'll add to this or if you've got a question PM me. If I don't know it, I know who I can ask.
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And once more I bow before your Awesome. And quietly stew in jealousy. And then watch Journey to Babel, because for me that episode is the essence of Star Trek.
I'm not that awesome, PG, I just got lucky.
I like Journey also. D.C. has a way with characters.
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"FOUND FOOTAGE" SCRIPTS WANTED
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Scorpio Studios - Seeking Unique Found Footage Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length completely unique found footage scripts, i.e. material where the story appears to be assembled from footage (like "Cloverfield", "Chronicle" or "Quarantine"), but with stories that are non-derivative and completely different from the premises of the mentioned films.
Please submit through this form even if you're an agent; no phone calls please.
Budget will not exceed $1 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include 'The Derby Stallion' starring Zac Efron.
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: kednkv749c
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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If you're looking to write scripts for either movies or TV the following
should be enormously helpful.
It's the Writer's Guild website. There's one for the West Coast and one for the East Coast.
Anyway - you can go online at http://www.wga.org/ and the website will come up.
If you check under Writer's Resources and/or Writing Tools you can find all sorts of cool
information and websites. Accordingly you don't have to be a member of the Writer's Guild
to download some of the stuff - or at most they'll ask for a low fee.
Under Writing Tools - I found - Ask the Expert - which had listings - email and the like for finding info
on subjects for your script or a story - like the military, or government, or medical. I even saw one for dinosaurs. Very cool.
A treasury of FYI info - all out in the open.
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ACTION SCRIPTS WANTED - CHARACTER DRIVEN
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Special Order Films - Seeking Character Driven Action Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length action/drama scripts with really strong, developed protagonists.
Submissions need be for contemporary material that does not require large amounts of FX or large scenes with crowds, i.e. something in the vein of "Blood Simple."
Budget will be between $1million and $2million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Tripping Forward."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: g4ru0mcfuu
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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Stumbled across this from Michael Stackpole's Twitter feed....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/international-radio-playwrighting-comp-2012 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/international-radio-playwrighting-comp-2012)
Craig
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FEMALE ENSEMBLE ACTION SCRIPTS WANTED
ALA FEMALE "EXPENDABLES"
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Eclectic Pictures - Seeking Female Ensemble Action Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length female ensemble action script, i.e. a female "Expendables."
Budget has yet to be determined. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Trust" with Clive Owen, the upcoming "Playing the Field" with Gerard Butler, and "Lovelace" with Amanda Seyfried.
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: qyae7tqt63
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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HEIST SCRIPTS WANTED
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Envision - Seeking Heist Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length heist scripts, i.e. material in the vein of "Inside Man" or "Ocean's 11."
Budget will not exceed $2 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our feature film credits include "Basic," "Pathfinder, "Janie Jones" and the upcoming films "Waco" and "Chained."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: dhu2xfkrr7
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
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FOUND FOOTAGE SCRIPTS WANTED
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1) Film Harvest - Seeking "Found Footage" Scripts
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We are looking for completed feature-length found footage scripts. We are especially interested in any new takes or angles on the found footage genre.
Budget will not exceed $1 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "The Hammer," among others.
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: 2e4xkbb6wj
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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I'm a member of Writer'sDigest.com and I found this notification
on one of my many, frequent emails. I don't have specifics but you can
probably suss them out. Good luck.
3 BOOK PUBLISHERS OPEN TO NOVELS
WritersMarket.com lists hundreds of book publishers for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, and more. Here are three looking for novel submissions:
DAW Books, Inc. is one of the rare imprints of Penguin that does not require an agent to make submissions on behalf of writers. The editorial focus at DAW is science fiction and fantasy novels. The editors caution that nearly all their novels are more than 80,000 words long.
Milkweed Editions is a literary press based in Minnesota. In addition to novels, this press also publishes nonfiction and poetry. They're currently open to submissions through the end of September. After that, they'll re-open to submissions in January.
Grey Gecko Press is a small publisher that accepts about everything—except extreme horror, erotica, and religious fiction. If you're writing in those genres, this isn't the press for you. For everyone else, it might be a good fit. Prospective authors should submit a synopsis and the first three chapters.
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Thank you Snow - that IS cool
ANIMATION SCRIPTS WANTED
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Centrala - Seeking Animation Scripts with Poetic Style
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We are looking for completed feature-length animation scripts intended for a children's audience, i.e. ages approximately 7-12, but with a certain sensibility: The type of animation style we like is "Up" and the Hayao Miyazaki films. We are NOT looking for a fast-paced, lighthearted comedy like "Kung Fu Panda," "Megamind" or even "The Incredibles." Rather, the tone and pace should be more poetic, introspective and mature while still targeted for a young audience.
We are not afraid of difficult subjects in the story. Also, we prefer stories that allow for more fantastical journeys or worlds.
Budget is open. Both WGA and Non-WGA writers may submit.
Our credits include "Ve stinu."
TO SUBMIT:
1. Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads
2. Enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip's newsletter - FREE!)
3. Copy/Paste this code: 2hx9hwkq96
4. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT: Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.
If you aren't sure if your submission fits, please ask InkTip first. Please mention you heard about this from Jeff Gund at INFOLIST.com and please email any questions to:
jerrol@inktip.com
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Writing contests listed at WritersMarket.com.
3 OCTOBER WRITING CONTESTS
WritersMarket.com lists hundreds of contests for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, and more. Here are three with October deadlines:
Art Affair Annual Writing Contest offers three different categories: poetry, Western short stories, and any other genre short stories. Entries must be postmarked by October 1.
Indiana Review Fiction Contest is offered for the best unpublished short story. The prize is $1,000, plus publication in Indiana Review. Deadline: October 31.
The Kinereth Gensler Awards is for a previously unpublished, book-length collection of poetry. The winner receives $2,000, plus publication of the book. Open only to residents of New York, New Jersey, and New England. Deadline: October 1 postmark.
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BookBaby is offering a 10,000 dollar publishing prize
for Independent writers.
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Another 3 writer's contests from WritersMarket.com
3 NOVEMBER WRITING CONTESTS
WritersMarket.com lists hundreds of contests for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, and more. Here are three with November deadlines:
Brick Road Poetry Book Contest is offered for the best unpublished book-length collection of poetry. The winning entry receives publication, $1,000, and 25 copies of the printed book. Deadline: November 1.
Hackney Literary Awards are offered for the best unpublished short stories and poetry. There are $5,000 in prizes available. Deadline: November 30.
One Act Play Contest is offered annually as part of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival for the best unpublished/unproduced one act play. The winner receives $1,500, publication, and more. Deadline: November 1.
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Another 3 writer's contests from WritersMarket.com
3 NOVEMBER WRITING CONTESTS
WritersMarket.com lists hundreds of contests for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, and more. Here are three with November deadlines:
Brick Road Poetry Book Contest is offered for the best unpublished book-length collection of poetry. The winning entry receives publication, $1,000, and 25 copies of the printed book. Deadline: November 1.
Hackney Literary Awards are offered for the best unpublished short stories and poetry. There are $5,000 in prizes available. Deadline: November 30.
One Act Play Contest is offered annually as part of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival for the best unpublished/unproduced one act play. The winner receives $1,500, publication, and more. Deadline: November 1.
geez I didn't think anyone paid for poetry anymore...
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geez I didn't think anyone paid for poetry anymore...
What!!! There has to be something to torture future generations of English Lit classes with. ::) ::) ::) ::)