More than that, dressing your dolly up is fun… and respectful to those afeared of nekkit plastic. Alright, that was non-linear.

How many brads now?

Thank you for the inside info. It’s good to know.

First off, my post really wasn’t about the OBVIOUS stuff. If you’re somebody who can CONSISTENTLY put your screenplays in the hands of directors, producers, actors — WHATEVER — then yeah, you can pretty much submit your script on toilet paper if you want. Hell… Go ahead ahead and even use if first if you want.

I break the RULES every day… And I do mean every day… However, if I were sending my script out to someone I really didn’t know… Had no relationship with… I would DEFAULT to sending my script out in the default manner.

Why? Because this shit is a numbers game — plain and simple.

What the post was REALLY and TRULY about was what’s IN THE SCRIPT. LOL. If what you have in your script makes the reader stop more than a few times, guess what?

YOU LOSE. Again, plain and simple. If your script doesn’t keep the reading flow fast and furious… 9 times out of 10, the reader probably won’t even finish reading.

So now the POINT becomes this… If you’ve got several areas of your script that will IN FACT, stop the reader (take them out of your story for whatever reason), do you really want to take the chance on packing the script in a 3 ring binder? LOL.

Dude… Whatever. You can tell me how fucking many producers and directors read your script in a 3 ring fucking binder until the fucking cows come home and you aren’t going to convince MANY of us to do the same thing.

Is it cool for you?

I don’t give a shit. Everyone does what they want to do. But here’s the DEEPER point my friend… If we take a thousand screenplays from a thousand screenwriters and bind them all on 3 ring binders and print it out both sides of the paper and send those thousand screenplays out to all the agents, managers, and producers that are willing to read UNSOLICITED MATERIAL, what the FUCK do you HONEST TO GOD THINK THESE entities are going to do with those scripts?

I rest my case.

I know a lot of people in this business and sure, I COULD, if I wanted — send my script out to all these people in a 3 ring binder printed out on both sides of the paper and they will all read it.

But I won’t fucking do that… Why? Because it’s just UNPROFESSIONAL. It’s no different than getting your car back from an oil change and seeing your front fender smeared with oil. UNPROFESSIONAL. Sure, you’ll take the fucking car back but you’re NEVER going to take your car back to that same place to get your oil changed.

You’ll just find somebody else to change your oil.

Agents, Managers, and Producers are no different.

But again to reiterate… This post wasn’t about the packaging because packaging is a given. This is about what’s inside the screenplay that’s going to make me stop reading. You want as FEW OF THOSE sections as possible. If even more possible, you want NONE.

If you package the script unprofessionally, then you’ve already given yourself strike one.

There’s ALWAYS going to be exceptions to the rule… I am pretty sure we all know and realize that. Plus, there’s always going to be somebody who comes out of the woodwork to tell us they did it THIS WAY OR THAT WAY and the script was accepted.

Cool. It happens. Go make a movie. LOL.

Pam,

Nope… I don’t always respond to all comments because I either don’t feel like it’s worth responding to OR I just don’t feel like it OR I’m just too busy. However, you made a comment on an older post and I never even logged into the comments until today. Has nothing to do with your comments…

As for your comment about being taken OUT of the actual movie… LOL. Sure… Happens all the time these days. They can do whatever they want with your screenplay after you sell it to them. They get buyer’s remorse and get another 15 writers to fuck the story up over the course of a year or two… A lot of writers who work on original screenplays actually try to change the original vision so they can end up getting credit… Happens a lot. They want credit so they can hopefully secure future rewrites, fixes, etc. Well, when someone who wants credit takes your script and proceeds to work on it, they usually change it enough to procure that credit and by then, the original writer’s vision is not even in the ballpark.

Many producers and production companies wouldn’t know a good screenplay if it bit them on the ass… Why do you think they hire READERs? LOL.

And then a Reader (not all readers but a lot of them) are often afraid (especially in this economy) to say what they REALLY MEAN about a script. If they like it, they still play it down because if that script were to bomb as a movie, they would be worried about their job.

Then again, some readers just don’t get it… I’ve seen that time and time again.

But yeah… With all the SCHLOCK Hollywood makes today and the future SCHLOCK they keep making, expect to keep being taken out of the movie’s story.

Why does it happen? Because of the demographic that watches the SCHLOCK. Hollywood THINKS that the demographic that watches the SCHLOCK wants to keep watching similar SCHLOCK.

And based on box office numbers… THEY’RE RIGHT.

Unk

It’s mind boggling how many people spend 100+ hours writing a screenplay and 0 hours researching things like brads. Brads ain’t that hard!

Okay I see your point, only when I was starting off in screenwriting years ago.

Now, I’m at a different stage and I don’t have the connections and I’m not a social “butterfly”.

Just like the thousands of good writers in LA. They are good but have ZERO CONNECTIONS and ZERO DESIRES TO SOCIALIZE or SUPERVISE THEIR AGENTS AND MANAGERS INDIRECTLY….

So one has to lean on CREATIVE/LATERAL professional, slick, concise marketing strategies.

After winning some awards, placing at Nicholl, made some short films and tired of getting good coverages…

What’s next?

More marketing.

I will do it my way.
I will break the rules.
I will treat people with respect even if they ridicule me.
I will only fight the important battles.
I will not sweat the small stuffs.
I will have some form of success.
I will.

Hollywood is not film school.