The Hook is aka “a logline” and sometimes aka “a query”. It’s what you see on TV when they pitch producers with two things that aren’t really alike, hoping to spark intrigue that the two will actually be pretty good together (like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup). For instance: “A man is stranded on a [...]
I continue to recieve enquiries for Big Box, so that’s encouraging. I’d say I have about 12-15 “bona fides” (agents, producers, managers) looking at the script right now. Yesterday I finished my third screenplay “Venture”. It’s a little different. It goes like this: “Seven survivors of a doomed deep space freighter realize that every choice [...]
Six degrees of separation isn’t a myth, it’s a fact. On average, you are only 6 people away from the person you are trying to get to. So I need your help. I am trying to get to an agent or a producer. You are step one. That means that I am only 5 steps [...]
One week down. With script finally in its “done” from (no more major editing, just minor grammatical type changes) I’ve set about my marketing tasks. What good is a killer screen play if no one reads it, right? The problem to solve now is how can I draw attention to the script and hope I [...]