By franz littinben
 A Brief Primer to Movie Script Writing
Hollywood agents and studios are always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing when it comes to screenplays and each year they are flooded with unsolicited manuscripts that never see the light of day, much less one dollar of production money. Studios, production companies and talent agencies all employ young people straight out of college or with little industry experience in jobs they call Readers. These Readers go through the giant stacks of solicited material each day and try to pick out the gems in the pile. A needle in a haystack is an appropriate metaphor for these submissions. They write a review of the script which is called coverage and then either put recommend or pass on it.
The difference between an unsolicited and solicited manuscript means the difference between being read and being thrown into the trash. If you just send your script to an address (unsolicited) without having been specifically requested to do so by someone at that company (solicited) then you are wasting your time, ink, and paper. It is |
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